Against The Law

October 2nd

Sorry - Halsey

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP-
"I'll murder you" I say to the alarm clock as I hit it a little to hard.

I decide to just get up.
No complaining.

"321 up" I say in a rush.

I do my usual routine.
Shower.
Get ready.
Cover up bruises.
Eat.
Think.
Leave.

"Good morning Andra" Maria says, as usual.

"Morning" I say, extra tired.

"Wait.. someone came in here today, and dropped of this for you" She says as she reaches under her desk.

"Today?" I ask confused as it's literally 7AM.

"Yeah" She says and hands it over to me.
It's a letter.
Old school paper envelope, coffee colored and a red stamp, with my name, written in ink.

"Thank you" I say to her, feeling a shiver going through me.

I walk up to my office, get my coffee, and sit down.
I take out the letter and get ready to open it.

Knock knock

I get kinda spooked before I say:
"Ehm.. come in!"

The door opens and Jack comes in.
"Morning Valdez" He says in a happy voice, and I do not like it.

"Good morning Sir" I say to him as I quickly put the letter away.

"What you got there?" He asks, expecting an answer.

"A letter from my mom" I lie.

"Letter?" He continues.

"She's Russian and old school" I say, not sure why I mentioned ethnicity.

"Ok... anyways... I have a case for you" He says.

"I already have 3 cases this month, 2 of those are in court, I can't take more" I say.

"This one is small" He says.
I don't like where this is going.

"Introduce it to me then" I say, even though I'm going to say no.

"It's a simple case... really easy" He says.
Ok, it's definitely not easy then.

"Just tell me" I say, getting impatient.

"It's an old lady who is suing Spiderman for destroying her car... it's really simple. You are just going to make a deal with the lady to settle for 4,000$" He says.

"You know I don't deal with the Avengers cases, ok. It's nearly impossible to win. And if she is suing, she probably won't settle for less than insurance money, she has insurance right?"

"No"

"What? Then there is no point of even trying. The Avengers have special rights. Let me look at the file" I say, wanting to see how the car got destroyed.
I just skim through it.

"Jake... this car got wrecked by Kraven, not Spiderman. Spiderman has rights, she doesn't have insurance, and Kraven is in S.H.I.E.L.D custody. There is no way she is getting money. She will just lose more money if she buys a lawyer and goes to trial" I say.

"Exactly! Perfect case for easy money!" He says.
I feel a shiver down my spine from all that disgust.

"No. I'm not taking advantage of an old lady. I can talk to her, but then I will tell her to leave it" I say, pretty annoyed.

"I'm trying to help you" He says in almost a threatening voice.

"I have a great salary already. And I do this because I want to help people, not set them up for failure" I say, done with this asshole.