Matt Murdock Shorts

Echo

A/n: Okay, so like 4 or 5 different people have asked me to write this and I finally caved. If someone gets ahold of my search history now, they're going to be very concerned.

It took Matt an embarrassing amount of time to figure it out. Stick would call him an idiot. Although, not putting this together would be the least of his complaints about Matt and his life choices right about now. But that's beside the point. The first time he heard it, he furrowed his brows and asked if you were feeling alright.

To which you mirrored his expression. "Yeah love, I'm fine. What's up? Are you okay?"

He nodded. "Yeah, your heart just sounds different all of a sudden. Like there's this little echo."

"Do you listen to my heartbeat all the time?" You twisted in his arms to look at him.

He shrugged. "Well, not every second; it takes too much concentration to do that and carry out a conversation."

You hummed out a laugh at that. "Okay Matt." You gave him a few loving pats on the thigh and snuggled into him again. "I'm fine."

He was still a little worried, but let it go for the time being. Except the echo was getting louder, he didn't have to listen so hard for it. About a week after he asked you about it, it hit him. You're pregnant. There is a little raisin sized organism that will grow into a child- his child- inside you. He's glad you haven't come home yet because he can't process it right now. He needs time to heave a proper panic attack so that one of you has your head on straight when he breaks the news. Oh God, when he tells you. This isn't usually how this goes. Well fuck. He's never brought this up before because you didn't seem like you even like kids.

And he's not ready to bring a child into this world, he's a vigilante. His reasons don't matter, it's not a stable environment to raise a child in. What if an enemy found out who he was? Found his child and used them against him. Took them from him because he was causing this adversary grief. He wouldn't be able to live with himself and definitely couldn't expect you to live with him. What if you broke up with him and left him to raise the kid how his father raised him? And then he died or got outed as Daredevil and the kid ended up in the foster system like him. No, he couldn't- wouldn't- let that happen. What if it wasn't up to him? What if you took the baby and raised it on your own, threatening to tell everyone the identity of Daredevil to win full custody?

Matt takes a deep breath. He needs to chill the fuck out. He knows you better than that, you'll freak out at first, just like him. The thing is coming out of your vagina- wow, that puts things in perspective. But the point is: you're a reasonable person. You'll have a mature, adult, conversation with him about this once you've finished panicking.

He loves you, and as scary as it is, you can do it together. He wants to do this with you. And that's where his rational train of thought ends, leaving him with cold blooded fear. What if you want to have an abortion? Is that something he can ask you not to do? His stance on the subject has always been that it's up to women to decide, it's their bodies, their lives, their health, their sanity. But, now it feels different. There's an organism with a heartbeat, that he put inside you. It would grow into his child. He might not be ready, but they say you're never ready. All he knows is that he would love that tiny human- his tiny human- with everything he has. And then that nice thing most humans are equipped with, called logic, comes back online. Nobody's talking about abortion. Just like nobody's talking about having the baby and not letting him into their life.

Then there's the issue of religion. He's already bending the rules with the whole sex outside of marriage thing. (It's why he's in this position now.) But having a child outside of wedlock? That's where he'd like to draw the line. Obviously he's not going to guilt you into marrying him if you said no, but he wants to do this right. But you're not Catholic. [just ignore this part if you are. Sorry.] How will you want to raise them? Are you going to put up a fight if he wants to take them to church? He really needs to talk to you about this.