Thread: Hero Business [Defenders -- Sigr & Virginia]

Since she'd started answering the phone again, Jessica Jones had waded through a lot of cases. The sound of ringing had basically permeated her life to the point that it was just a thing that happened. What wasn't as usual was her cellphone going off. There were only like four people who called that she cared about. Well, exactly four. Hogarth, Trish, Luke, and Malcolm. Danny had it, but the last time he'd called she'd just sorta not bothered to pick up. She'd get back to him eventually. Danny only ever wanted her to come out with him to do... hero things, and it didn't seem to matter how often she told him that she wasn't that kind of person, he still thought she would help out. This time, it was a number she didn't recognize, which was weird but prompted an answer. Once she had, she was glad she did. The details were stressful enough that she had to be careful not to crush her phone, and Jessica couldn't afford to replace them so she held the thing a little like someone might hold a valuable vase while she listened. It was all ridiculous. Ridiculous bullshit, and she couldn't help but feel like it was probably her fault. Given the kinds of things she ended up poking around in, it was basically inevitable that eventually someone would get at her friends. Again. This time it wasn't something she could just bust in and solve though, this was... well it wasn't legal, but it was going through the law. So Jessica needed the law too. She tried calling. She had Matt's work number from when he'd been her lawyer ,but according to Luke, the lawyer and vigilante had been ignoring everyone. He hadn't picked up when she called either, and whether that was on purpose or because it was pretty solidly into the standard lunch hour, she wasn't sure. If he was ignoring her, Jessica supposed she could understand why - he hadn't exactly been pleased with them the last time they'd all been together. She and Luke had hauled a goddamn elevator up what felt like a million stories right before the entire building exploded, and apparently that had been the wrong thing to do. Jessica got it, or at least she thought she did. Losing someone like that had to suck like nothing else in the world, but they weren't going to just leave him behind. But as far as she was concerned one person being alive was better than two people being dead, at least, as long when she was thinking about other people. That meant making a personal visit. To her credit, when she got to his office she didn't break the door. Sure she swung it open with a little more energy than needed but that was what happened when Jessica was stressed out or in a rush. The fact that the doorknob banged into the wall hard enough to leave a dent was pretty mild compared to what could have happened. Malcolm got arrested, the dark haired private detective announced immediately, loud enough that no matter where in the little office he was, Matt would be able to hear. He probably didn't know who Malcolm was, and that entirely didn't matter right now. What mattered was that Matt was going to be able to help, because law was his thing. Someone planted drugs on him. Probably the cop who'd arrested him. There was no way Hogarth would have helped. When she'd been arrested she'd end up with Matt anyway, and had the feeling that if she went to Hogarth, Chao and Benowitz, she'd just end up right back here anyway. No charity cases or whatever. But Matt, Matt was all about being the good guy and taking the charity cases. And he didn't, she'd throw his desk out the window. there was really no reason to slap a picture of JJ in there but it's become such a habit it seemed wrong not to, haha