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

I'm fine. Malcolm spoke instead of Jessica, who had opened her mouth to say something that would probably have been less positive than that. It was a good choice, because she had only sarcasm at the moment. A slightly perplexed Malcolm managed to properly cross the distance for the handshake, though he had to sort of realign Matt's arm once their hands were connected to do it. Malcolm Ducasse. He was confused for a brief moment, and then realized both what Matt was talking about. Yeah. Weird day. That was an understatement. Jessica had filled him in on most of it afterwards. Like most of the world however, he hadn't made the connection between the lawyer in front of him and Daredevil. The ownerchief and only investigator of Alias Investigations had made no attempts to inform him of the things he still hadn't connected, out of respect for her team-mates and to make sure that her friend wouldn't be put in danger by the things he knew. Jessica moved the chair closer to Matt like a person should when helping out a blind man, but didn't help him further than that. She just pulled out the one she was going to sit in and dropped down gracelessly. As an afterthought she did pull the chair out for him before pushing her own back far enough that she could kick her feet up onto the cold steel table. Jessica, Malcolm half chided, and she shot him a stubborn look, head tilted a little defiantly. The ex-social worker didn't push it any further, knowing that it would be pretty much useless and Jessica was going to do whatever she wanted. Especially now, when she was a little on edge and trying to find a way to express her displeasure in the issues at hand. Jessica didn't particularly like the tone he used with Malcolm, and she kicked the lawyer under the desk. Not hard, not even in a way that would be considered hard for a normal person. Had it been anyone else she would have understood the suspicion, but she had responsibilities towards the man. Because she hadn't stopped Kilgrave properly the first time. I trust him. Mostly It was more towards Malcolm than Matt, who had already gotten that spiel, and more aggressively. The simple fact that she'd brought him was enough for Malcolm to assume the Jessica trusted the blind stranger, but hearing the words was a heavy reassurance. It also told her that he didn't know about Kilgrave. Well, he couldn't be sure, but it was a fair assumption if she was tacking on qualifiers like 'mostly'. I was walking home from the support group I'm part of, he figured Jessica wouldn't want that dirty laundry aired so he didn't get specific, and this guy started tailing me. Revealed he was a cop, and said he had a tip. Said he needed to search me. Did a pat down and found and two grams of cocaine. I've... been in trouble for it before, and didn't have a whole lot of room to argue. He'd tried, of course. But he didn't want to end up on the wrong side of the police officers, he knew what that could be like. His heartbeat was as steady as one could expect for a man who had been arrested for a crime he hadn't committed, but Jessica's was erratic and her breathing was a little tense. I told you, she half snapped at Matt. He'd be able to use his weird super ears to confirm everything. The idea that she was wrong had briefly occurred to her in the beginning, but Jessica had banished it. She couldn't be suspicious of the entire world, life was showing her that. She'd picked Malcolm as one of them, and was working on everything that meant. She wasn't not quite there yet with Matt, but she didn't distrust him, and that was good enough.