As he finished sending the message, his phone chirped at him. "You have eight missed calls from FOGGY and CLAIRE."

Matt's heart leapt into his throat, and his thoughts began to race. Had something happened to Kasey? Had her head injury gotten worse? Maybe Tony went back on their deal and sent someone to go after Kasey-

Matt paused, his thumb hovering over the call button. He was tempted to call Foggy, or Claire, but only then realized the heartbeat he had subconsciously been listening to wasn't his own.

"...Did you hear everything?"

Kasey was sitting on the kitchen counter, her entire body tense and positioned to easily slip away if needed. "Please..." Her voice was quiet and she was trying not to let it quiver. "Please tell me you didn't really mean it-" she sounded on the verge of tears.

"that you aren't-" She took a shaky breath. "that you're not just going to let him take me-" She begged him, her senses only tuned to the two of them, everything else was background noise.

Matt frowned, regretting he had made that deal. But it was the only thing he could think of to give him more time. To keep Tony from taking her today.

"I wanted more time to try and figure this out. Tony really was trying to help, he was just going about it the wrong way." He spoke, turning his head in her direction.

"I promise, if there was any other way to keep him at bay, I would've taken it. This was the only thing that even swayed him." He tried to reason with her.

"S-So, that's... that's it? I get a week and then I'm getting locked up for something I can't control?" She asked him. "And you're just... you're just going to let it happen?" She sounded hurt and pleaded with him to say something, anything, to prove her wrong.

"I'm hoping I can figure something out before it comes to that. Tony said that he wouldn't bother us for a week, but maybe if we can prove that we've gotten your instincts under control he'll change his mind." Matt explained, having thought this over.

"Or maybe the time he has to cool off will help him to see reason." He suggested. He knew this was hurting her, and he hated himself for it.

Tears finally dripped down her face as she shook her head a bit. "He's not!" She snapped. "He is not going to let me stay longer than a week! No matter how under control I am-That's not what he was-" She choked out a sob. "He's going to lock me away until he can send me home, Matt!"

Matt took his glasses off, tossing them onto the coffee table. He dragged his hands down his face in exhaustion, wondering what exactly everyone wanted from him. "Where is your home?? I keep hearing about it, but I don't think the 'home' I'm being told about is here, or the tower!" He was tired of being kept out of the loop.

Kasey went quiet aside from her wiping the tears away from her face and shaky breaths.

"...Remember Kassidy?" She asked quietly after a moment.

Matt furrowed his brows in confusion, wondering what the heck Kassidy had to do with all of this.

"Yeah, I remember her, but what does she have to do with this-?"

Kasey sighed and carefully hopped off the counter and over to one of the chairs across from Matt. "... Do you remember how I broke down when you told me her name? After I told you everything about what happened to me? It's okay if you don't, it was kinda a stressful and chaotic conversation..."

Matt nodded somewhat, trying to remember everything that he was told at the time. "I remember most of it, some was a bit of a blur." It was true, the whole thing was chaotic and made it hard to remember everything.

She leaned back, pulling her legs to her chest. "Kassidy is... She's this universe's version of me." She explained.

He could hear her heart racing from anxiety and adrenaline.

"I'm not..." She hesitated. "I don't belong in this universe..."

Matt paused, trying to process what he heard. "This universe-?"

It took him a couple seconds, as he had to face the reality that the multiverse was real. "If you aren't from this reality, how'd you get here?"

She shrugged. "Hell if I know... Supposedly the people who I escaped from did it but that's the extent of my knowledge on that..." She explained.

"Tony, he-... He said I'm an "Avengers level threat"..." She lightly scoffed, brushing more tears away.

"It's because I was never supposed to be here."

"That's why Tony was talking about sending you home-" Matt was slowly but surely putting all of the pieces together.

"He's trying to find a way to send you back to your universe." It would've been a good thing, if it (once again) wasn't for the fact that Tony was going about it the wrong way.

She nodded at that. "Yeah... where I have no idea what to expect." She pointed out with a sigh. "Any time from seconds to years could have passed since I've been gone." She explained. "And I can't exactly go home to my parents and just be like "Oh hey! I was forcibly taken to another dimension, experimented on and tortured causing me to lose my sight and oh yeah! I got spider powers now!"

She threw her hands up in the air, rolling her eyes. "But Tony isn't going to let me stay here either cause "It's too dangerous!" or "We don't know enough about multidimensional travel to know its safe for you to stay!" or "You have to stay locked up in the tower now so that you don't cause a paradox and rip a hole in the space time continuum despite having been running around fine for five damn months!" or some shit like that! So guess I'm condemned either way!" She ranted in frustration.

She flopped backward with a groan, laying on her back as she draped over the seat of the chair making her hair trailing on the floor as her head hung upside down.

She felt tears stream down, or well, up, her face again. "...I just want to be normal..." She mumbled. "I just-" She rubbed at her face as she rolled over onto her stomach, her hair covering her face. "I just want to have a life again..."

I want to have one here, with you, where I feel at home.

She left it unsaid as she sniffled, wiping at her tears.

Matt heard her out, making sure not to interrupt her rant, or throw her off. She had a point, however, that she had been running around for five months without any universal troubles.

"Well, we have a week to find a way to convince Tony that you should stay. We have to do it carefully, otherwise it might just set him off. I fully believe you could have a great functioning life here, if you were wanting to stay." He made his words short and simple.

She turned to look towards him. "I-... I do." she agreed. "The life I had back home is gone. I can never really get it back... Not like it was." She brushed the hair out of her face glancing away.

"I-" she hesitated before looking back up towards him. "I want to stay here... This is the closest I have felt to... to home in..." she stopped, quickly correcting herself. "since I escaped..." She admitted, tears dripping down her face once again, her voice soft.

"I don't want to leave... Please..." Her voice dropped to a weak whisper as it trembled a little with emotion.

"Don't make me leave..."

It pained Matt to hear her beg him like that, it really did. He understood that Tony wanted to send her back to her universe, but on the other hand nothing paradoxical seemed to be happening around Kasey, and it sounded like she didn't even want to go back.

"I can't make you do anything. But what I can do is help to train you in what time we have. If we're careful about this, maybe we can persuade him that you belong here." Because Matt knew that she did.

She listened, wiping at her tears. She hesitated for a minute. "And if we can't? If we run out of time? You'll just... let him take me?"

She heard their deal. She had heard Matt promise to step aside after a week.

Yes, he said if something happened but damn it, she knew she was going to screw something up... she always did...

So all he did was give his word he'd stop protecting her after a week...

Matt ran his hands down his face again. He truly regretted saying that, but it wasn't the only way to give him more time. "Maybe..."

He thought for a moment. "We could send you out of the city. Technically I wouldn't be protecting you then, but you'd still be away from him."

She glanced away. "But I don't want to keep running..." She mumbled. "I don't want to leave..."

"I know, I know." Matt replied. This was all getting so confusing, and so... difficult. Even he could see that she wanted to stay in this world, so why couldn't Tony? Even with the whole paradox thing, there didn't seem to be an issue.

"Are you really going to just... let him take me at the end of the week?" She asked him after a minute of silence. "I thought you promised to keep me safe..."

Matt didn't want to. He really didn't want to. That's why he was planning to try and sway Tony some more while he had Kasey for this amount of time. "If I didn't offer something he would've taken you today."

"He would've had to throw hands with me first..." She grumbled. "I just..." She sighed. "Where am I supposed to go if I can't stay here anymore?" She asked him. "I don't know anywhere else to go..."

"If it were up to me, I'd let you stay as long as you needed to. But if you need somewhere to go after this... I know a good sanctuary." He barely revealed this location to anyone, so telling her after he knew her for so little was a big step.

"Clinton Church. With Reverend Father Paul Lantom. If I asked, I'm sure he'd keep you safe and hidden."

Kasey looked up at him, her head tilted slightly. "...Really?" She asked him. She doubted Tony would look for her at a church or fight someone over her at one...

Churches were respectable places, the kind where it was unheard of to start fights. "Really. It's a good spot to lay low at, and the people there are very caring. I believe they'd take care of you."

She was quiet as she thought about it before giving a small nod. "I... I think that's a good idea." She agreed. "Just... Just in case." Her hope about convincing him to let her stay here wasn't high but having a plan in place in case things went south allowed her to relax, even just a bit.

"It's always good to have a backup plan, and a place you can go if everywhere else is unavailable. Clinton Church is that place for me." Matt told her, and was honestly happy to share his sanctuary with somebody.

She blinked a bit in surprise. He was trusting her with his own sanctuary? Her emotions felt conflicted as her mind had been saying he lied to her. That he had betrayed her- but... A small smile pulled at her lips. "...Thank you."

"Don't mention it." Matt replied with a light chuckle. "Why don't you get some rest? I can start giving you some tips and tricks tomorrow." After all, it was pretty late.

She started to open her mouth to argue but a yawn slipped past her lips and she covered her mouth with one of her hands, a faint blush dusting her cheeks. "Y-Yeah, okay..." She agreed softly.

Matt smiled and motioned to his room, before the realization once again hit him that she was also blind. He was too used to being around seeing people. "You can take the bed. I had it set up for you earlier, before all of this happened."

She looked back up towards him, smiling a little, hearing the movement of him gesturing. "Are you sure?" She asked. "You should take it cause of your leg..."

"I've woken up on my couch in worse condition before, I think I'll be alright." Matt assured her. He was used to the couch at this point.

"That reassures me so much." She replied sarcastically but had a smile on her face. "Besides, Claire will absolutely chew you out for not sleeping in the bed. Besides, I fit on the couch better since I'm smaller than you." She pointed out.

"You're the one who fell off of a building." Matt reminded her, turning in her direction. "I swear, I'll be fine. Just get some rest and maybe I'll take the bed tomorrow night."

She sat, confused for a moment before remembering. Oh yeah. She did do that, didn't she? She narrowed her eyes at him but had a smile on her face. "Alright, fine. Only because I'm too tired to argue much longer." She stood up and stretched a bit.

"Make sure you rest as long as you need to. That was a nasty fall and I'd like for you to heal up quickly." Matt told her as he sent a quick message to Foggy and Claire to fill them in, before turning to lay down on the couch.

"If you need anything, I'll be here."

"I will." She replied, moving to the doorway. "Goodnight." She told him with a smile. Her anxiety was still a bit up and down but her worries about him just abandoning her were snuffed out. After all... if she ended up having to leave, then at least he knew where she was and could potentially visit...

Matt was glad that everything had gone moderately smoothly. He was worried that he'd push Kasey away again, just by making that stupid deal. But now, he was glad to hear that he hadn't. "Night." He said simply, getting himself comfortable enough to sleep.

Kasey sat down on the bed and pulled her hair tie out of her hair and set it aside. She took a deep sigh as she laid back on the bed, and she hesitated about moving the covers too much before just saying screw it and passed out on top of them, sound asleep.