Bound by Law (Matt Murdock x Reader)

10. Innocent Get What They Deserve

"Mr Smith, how long have you been the principal of the Trinity School?" You ask, confidently walking up to the bald man sitting next to the judge in the witness stand.

"Twelve years now." He answers with a blank face.

"Twelve years!" You pretend to be surprised. "Twelve years and still no progress? No rebuilding the school that's older than me like three times? No? What were you doing those twelve years exactly, Mr Smith?"

"I was leading the school, Miss y/l/n." He answers in a bitter tone, hurt that you pointed out all his flaws in a simple sentence.

"Leading to what? Definitely not better grades because I've noticed a trend in the last five years, to be more specific, your students were getting more and more bad grades, more children failing each semester, but yet you're so proudly speaking to the local magazine about the achievements in sports." You tilt your head to the side, stealing a glance at Marci, who was probably ready to object anytime.

"For your information, I'm not the one teaching those kids or learning the material. It's up to them to understand the subject."

"But it's up to you, to hire competent, young teachers who would light up the knowledge sparkle in them. In those twelve years, you managed to hire only P.E teacher. And we can see that it helped," you say loudly, turning to the jury, and all the people to came to listen to the so called 'epic case', and the cameraman who stood in the back of the courtroom, "sport achievements went up almost twice, even a new team was put together... Yet, a terrible accident happened."
Smith remains silent, almost pleading for Marci's help. But he's not getting any. Not on your interrogation. "Are you following my train of thoughts, Mr Smith?" You ask in a silky tone, smiling a bit.

"Yes, I am." He squeezes with great struggle.

"So, you've noticed that, right?"

"Noticed what?" He asks, pretending to play the role of a victim.

"That the changes in personnel did change some things for the better?"

"Yes. I did."

"So why didn't you hire anyone else? All those years, no other teacher has been replaced."

"I-" Smith begins but gets soon cut off.

"Objection, your Honour, this is not related to the case." Marci stands up, too elegantly for such statement.

"We're getting there, Miss Stahl." You smile at her, blinking a couple of times more than necessary, because the corner of your lashes got stuck together.

"Overruled, continue Miss y/l/n." Judge nods at you kindly.

"Mr Smith?"

"I... Don't know." He mutters under his breath.

"Sorry, could you speak up? They have to get good sound for the video." You smile again, but the smile never reaches your eyes. Just another workout for your facial muscles.

"I don't have an explanation for this." He says louder, and Marci runs a hand through her perfectly blown hair. Everyone wanted to look good for the camera.

"Then I'll ask something else. Why didn't you think of changing the sports equipment? Kids use those everyday, and they wear out faster, was it so difficult to request for money from the government?"

"It's not exactly easy when alien attack occurs almost at your doorstep." Smith squirms in the chair.

"Hells Kitchen received the least damages when compared to New York, which was attacked directly. If anything major happened here, I'm sure Mr Stark would've made sure to get rid of those problems as soon as possible. Besides, Union Allied opened their firm in hopes to fix any inconvenience." You were getting tired of this man already. "If you weren't so greedy, Mr Smith, I'm sure Jeremy wouldn't be sitting here today with a shattered knee and a broken arm, written out of hospital for three hours only."