Bound by Law (Matt Murdock x Reader)

11. Mixing Business

"You know, I had a great time yesterday." Foggy says, acknowledging all the people gathered in Nelson and Murdock, all three in total - him, Matt and newly employed Karen.

"When did you have time for it?" Karen asks, smiling at Foggy, but he doesn't see it with his back turned.

"After your court. We went out for drinks. You know, all-lawyer gang."

"You two call yourselves gang?" Karen asks in disbelief.

"Foggy, you were wasted before five o'clock, we had to lead you to the taxi." Matt shouts from the other room.

"We?" Karen asks again.

"Yeah, me, Matty and y/n." Foggy lifts his head from the printer's back to see Karen's raised eyebrow. "She's our new friend. Sort of. More like my new friend, because Matt always has this weird aura around himself when she's near."

"Foggy." Matt leans on the threshold, one hand resting on his hips.

"Y/n? She's a lawyer too?" Karen sits, very interested in whom this new person was.

"Yeah, kicks ass, and is considered to be too pretty to be a lawyer, but that's her hidden talent."

"Her hidden talent is that she's pretty?" Karen asks again, getting confused with each sentence that leaves Foggy's mouth.

"It's too early for him to make sense." Matt interferes in the dialogue, controlling his thoughts that were about to wander back to you.

"See, she uses her beauty to fool men into thinking that it's all she has, but then she literally destroys them with her legal knowledge. I might as well add art knowledge to the list after last week." Foggy smiles, crouching back to the printer.

"Huh, interesting."

"I think you'd like her. Although, as much as she likes to be petty in court with men, she wouldn't hesitate to do the same with women."

"But we're not in court, Foggy." Matt says, thinking again about your last night's behaviour, and how relaxed you seemed after winning the case. Yet one thing bothered him still, why you refused to sit next to him, and put Foggy in the middle? Had this something to do with your meeting in the café? Have you been-

Matt loses his train of thoughts when a loud knock shakes the glass of the doors. Foggy quickly returns to the standing position, looking confused at Karen, who returns the same look.

"Was that a knock? On our door?"

"Yes, somebody open." Matt urges Karen to do her job, and she runs to the door, opening them wide, when the man of the hour turns around, fake smile plastered on his face-

"Hi. Do you do walk-ins?" The man asks, and Matt feels like he knows his voice from somewhere, wasn't it the same man who called you on Monday?

As the web of lies was currently being made all around the small office of Nelson and Murdock, you were greeted by the surprise meeting with the founders of Hogarth, Chao and Benowitz. All of them sat at the round table in Linda's office, you - in front of them, feeling rather uncomfortable and intimidated by so many eyes.

"We were discussing some other things that can help make our company better, and then we-" Chao begins, falling silent, and being taken over by Hogarth.

"Recalled how you performed yesterday on live television. It was good-"

"But of course, could be much better with more practice, right?" Benowitz finishes the sentence, and you get a feeling that they rehearsed this in the morning.

"Now that the majority of Hell's Kitchen saw your potential, we expect those in need to choose our firm, and want you to represent them in court." Chao takes over again.