IC INBOX (MASKORMENACE)

[notdaredevil]

"You've reached Matt Murdock, Attorney at Law. I'm not available right now, but if you leave a message, I'll get back to you at the earliest possible moment I can. And please, no texts."

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voice;

[shutterbugged]

[ However a true, no-holds-barred battle between them would turn out, in this fight Matt's struck a hard blow. Peter's flinch is almost audible.]

Don't. Don't use them like that, don't you dare --

[ Because they're at the center of all this, aren't they. The two people he loves most are far beyond his reach, and for three years he consoled himself that as far as they're concerned he's never left; however much he misses them, they're safe, protected.

Then a universe died, and all it did was reset the clock. He's gotten used to being an explainer, to identifying as an imPort the same way he does being a New Yorker or a man or a superhero. To looking after kids when he'd felt barely more than a child himself. How much longer can he stay here, and how much more can he change before going home and resetting isn't a return to normal, but a kind of death?

With all that percolating in the back of his mind, Matt's news was the last bit of comfort stripped away. A complete betrayal, not by his friend but apparently by himself. He's completely unmoored; he can't trust in anything, any more.]

voice;

[notdaredevil]

Then think about what the hell you're saying. Think about the consequences of what you're trying to ask me, and pull yourself together, Peter.

[Matt doesn't understand, because Matt doesn't remember. But if anybody's an expert in the sort of rampant self-destruction and ruin that inflicts untold casualties, it's Matt Murdock. And at his most self-pitying, at his lowest point...maybe he would have wanted that, too. Maybe it's the understanding that makes him so vehemently opposed now, when it's somebody else's life on the line. He wouldn't wish that feeling on anybody. And he refuses to allow Peter to go through it, if he can help it.]

voice;

[shutterbugged]

[ His response is immediate, sharp and biting. ]

Which self am I supposed to pull together? The one here that's going to cease to exist when I go home, whenever that is, or the one that apparently just killed someone?

voice;

[notdaredevil]

Both. Either. As long as the one I'm talking to can hold it together long enough to think things through.