09. a good luck charm

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I walked into the coffee shop and to my surprise I see Matt waiting. I walked up to him and he smiles.

"Hey!" I cheered. He knew it was me.

"Hi, I was going to call you, im picking up coffee." He grabs the cups from the barista. He hands me mine. "Caramel with 3 shots of espresso." I smiled to myself. I noticed the nasty mark on his eyes. What the hell happened.

"Jesus Matt." I took a look. "What happened?"

"I wasn't paying attention last night." Some part of me was telling me that it wasn't an accident. But again, I cant say.

"I worry about you sometimes."

"Im fine." We head out and made our way to the firm.

"Sorry about my dad, he can be very imitating. He likes when people are scared of him. But trust me, he's a great guy."

"I believe you." He links his arm with mine. "Hes very protective of you."

"Yeah, since the whole kidnapping and now the ambush from the other night, he's been on edge. He just doesn't want to lose me again. I get it."

"Im sorry about the ambush-"

"Its not your fault, like I said, the man in the mask saved me." We walked up the stairs.

"I was thinking, maybe you can introduce me to your family." I stopped. "It's stupid."

"Its not stupid, i mean, I should. I would like my parents know who I spend my day with." He smirks. "Or I can keep you as secret and let my mom and brother guess."

"I bet you like that." We both walked into the firm, Foggy and Karen already there.

"Hey, you know shes not really free?" Foggy turns to us, waving to me. I waved back at the two. "Jesus, what happened to your eye?" We stood by them. I do wonder what Matt does when we aren't together. I really do.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, im fine. I just wasn't paying attention last night. Its my fault." I put my hand on his arm.

"You need a dog." Foggy says. Matt chuckles.

"Im not getting a dog."

"You dont like dogs? Who doesn't like dogs?"

"I love dogs."

"What!" I gasp. "Its like a total chick magnet. Trust me." Matt turns to me.

"Really? Whats your favorite dog?" He flirts. My cheeks burned and Karen was speechless.

"Okay uh wow! When did you guys?" Foggy points at us.

"Oh no! We're not-"

"No. Not together." Before we could say anything there was a knock at the door. It was caught us in surprise. We stood there, looking at the door.

"Was that a knock?"

"Someones at the door."

"Our door?"

"Uh... Karen?" She stood there, processing it all. She nods and walks up. My phone buzzed my my mom wanted me to come over to help her with the venue and decorations.

"Hi!" I heard footsteps coming. "Do you do walk ins?" As my eyes went up, my heart stopped as I saw Wesley. Matt turns to me, noticing. I took a deep breath. What was he doing here?

"I should go, uh have a nice day guys." Matt takes my hand and pulls me back to him. "Ill call you yeah?" He lets me go and as I passed Wesley, he stares me down, acting like doesn't know me.

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My mom and I went through two bottles of wine, 5 books of decorations just to see what we can do for the centerpieces. My dad comes into the house and greets my mom with a kiss and me with a pat. Some part me wanted to tell me about earlier and the other half told me to drop it, its not my business. But here I go walking up to him.

"Hows the party coming along?" He asks me.

"We're debating on what should go on the centerpieces." He smiles. "Hey dad?" He hums as he sets his dry cleaners down. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure, ask away."

"So I was with Matt today, we're at the firm and Wesley shows up." His head went up. "What was he doing there?"

"Well, hes a lawyer."

"Then why is he with you?" He was trying to get out of this conversation. Thinking of ways. "Dad?"

"We're friends, thats all. Everything is fine." He walks up to my mom. "Fisk is coming shortly, we have to talk." She nods her head and shoos him away. My dad went to his office and I went back on helping my mom. The door knocks soon after. My mom tells me to go get it. I got up and there was uncle Wilson. He smiles and I let him in.

"Ah Gen, your taste is magnificent." He complimented. She turns and bows her head. "Maybe you should use these flowers instead of those."

"You're right."

"My dads in his office." I told him. He made is his with the other 4 guys on his side.

"Nice seeing you Devon." He walks up to me. "You're father told me what happened to you a couple nights ago. I assure you nothing like that will ever happen."

"Thanks." I nodded back at him.

"If anything like that happens, come to me, I'll handle it." He walks away and shuts the office doors. There was something about him. He seems too perfect. If something bad or something doesn't goes his way, he might break.

I went to my room after I finished helping my mom. My dad and the others were still in his office. My phone rings and it was Matt. I sat on the window sill, looking down at the city.

"I thought you were going to call me?" He said through the phone.

"I just wanted to see if you wanted more." I bit my lip. "Sorry, ive been busy."

"I get it, no worries. How's your day going?"

"If looking at 10 shade of blues for balloons is a good thing, then its going great." I tucked my hair back. "Yours? How what that lawyer?"

"We took a case."

"What?! Congratulations! Look at you moving to the top!" I heard him laugh. I heard that he was tired, stressed. "Whats wrong?"

"Just tired." He sighs. "When will you be home?"

"Maybe tonight, my moms out and dads working." I got out of my room and head to the kitchen. "Why? You miss me already? Do i really have an affect on you mr. Murdock?"

"I think its the other way around Ms. Hobbs." I rolled my eyes.

"Its the love birds!" Foggy yells through the phone. Made me chuckle. "Whens the wedding?"

"Ill let you plan it Foggy, whatever suits you." I can hear Matt shoo him away. "Now that we're alone..."

"Would you like to come to our first case tomorrow morning? I would like you to be there."

"I will be there. Good night Matt, get some rest."

"Night Devon."

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I arrived early, earlier than Matt and Foggy. I didn't want to miss it. Its their first case! I waited on the bench and looked at the time every now and then. The two comes up and sees me. Foggy goes and set up while Matt talks to me.

"Thanks for coming."

"I wouldn't miss it." I gave him a kiss on the cheek. "A good luck charm. You're going to kill it."

"Can I get another one to be sure?" I rolled my eyes playfully and gave him another one. "Maybe one more for Foggy?"

"Nice try." We head in the courtroom. It was dead silent and empty. I sat on their side of the room, sitting behind them.

"And in the state of New York, I'll remind you, that my client is not required to prove that he was justified in his actions. Instead, its up to the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was not justified in defending his life. And they will come nowhere close to meeting this burden. And the end of this case... the only verdict that you can render will be not guilty." I gave Foggy a thumbs up, proud of him for his statement. I noticed that Wesley was in the courtroom. What is he up to? I excused myself out of the room and head to the parking lot, looking for the black SUV that dad always takes and luckily, the SUV that was here, was the same one that Wesley took.

I dug through my purse and put the tracker on in the bottom of the truck and waited for it to connect my phone. Done. I can finally see what dad is doing that he likes to hide from us.