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I woke up from Matt's talking. He was practicing his statements for today, the Frank Castle Trial. The same day I visited Frank, Matt, Foggy and Karen came and chatted with him and well, they're representing him.

"We have 10 minutes to leave, so wake up." Matt said as he placed a kiss on my lips. He knew I was awake. I covered my face with the pillow. I only had 3 hours of sleep, it was really getting to me. I rolled myself out of bed, throwing on some appropriate court clothes and helped Matt with his tie as always. We ran out of the place and drove to the courthouse. Foggy and Karen waited for Matt.

"Wait!" I stopped Matt before he was going in. "Good luck." I kissed him and patted his chest. "You got this."

"My lucky charm." He goes in and leaves me behind. I watched as the reporters, police, cameramen waited for the trial to start. I don't know what to expect from this, will they give Castle the death penalty, is Foggy and Matt going to change everyones mind that Castle is a good guy? Will Reyes bring me up? Well you know.

"Castle vs The People of New York." I stood up, they scanned me again and I sat behind Matt, placing my hand on his shoulder. Foggy was sweating, like you can see it.

"You got that vodka in your bag?" He turns to me. I brushed his hair back, lifting his chin.

"You are going to nail this Foggy." He takes a deep breath. I placed a small peck on his forehead and smiled. Matt chuckles and Foggy turns red. "There, a good luck charm." Foggy nods and slowly turns to the front.

"The trial of The People of New York v. Frank Castle is now in session." I turned my head to the doors, Castle dressed in a orange jumpsuit, chained and bruised. Two men walked with him. The crowded room went dead silent. Castle looks up to see me in the crowd, and I raised my chin up. He slowly turns to the judge. This is going to be one hell of a ride.

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After trying to see if there was more Widows on my ass, which wasn't, I headed home to change head upstairs to Matt's place. I was dragging, just so tired. My eyes were drooping, head falling as i try to stay awake. Maybe staying with Matt can help.

"Hey." I walked in. I looked up to see a woman inside. I frowned and my knuckles turned white. She wasn't a widow, i can tell. "Who are you?"

"Elektra." Her thick French accent slips. "You are?" Her? Thats his ex? Whats was she doing here? He was done with her. Why is she back? "You must be his secretary, right? He does have a thing for that."

"Devon, my girlfriend." Matt walks out of his room. He made his way to me and kissed my cheek. I stepped back and just stared at her.

"Shes cute." She smirks. "Matt always has a good sense of women. What he do? Charm you with his talking skills? Oh! What about-"

"Stop." He shushes her. "I think its time for you to go."

"Fine. Just wanted to be friendly." Elektra grabs her bag and walks up to me. We stared at each other for a while, nothing but bad vibes. She was something else. "I'll see you soon Matty. Ill call you." She runs her hand across his chest and arm and leaves the loft. My blood was boiling. I wanted to snap her arm in half.

"Before you say anything, she's gone. I don't want her in my life. Elektra, she does this. Gets her way. She'll get you all angry and-"

"She wants you." I cracked a fake laugh. Matt grabs my hand, plays with my thumb. "She's gotta worry about herself if she gets close again." Matt chuckles and I took off his tinted glasses. "She lost you, she ended everything when she left you. Now I'm not going anywhere, I don't care if she drags me or kills me." Matt crashed into my lips and we stood there. "Because I love you." I placed my hand on his shoulder and he groans in pain. I made him get undressed and got him some frozen peas from the freezer and made him sit down on the couch. "What in the world do you do Matthew?" I passed him the bag and he places it on his shoulder.

"Just pulled something." He lies. I sat next to him, looking at his new scars he got. I never questioned it. Maybe I should.

"These don't look like it." I traced my fingers on his chest. They danced slowly the healed wounds and i placed small peaks on them. Matt grabs my neck and makes me look up at him. His thumb ran over the scar that Taskmaster left. The three marks gently pressed against his fingertips, making me gasp. "What do you do to get these?"

"Bad life choices." I joked. His hand knew my scars, gently running through my body. Connecting them in a way. He stops at my abdomen.

"What did they do to you Devon?" For a moment I forgot how to breathe. I looked down in shame. "You are so closed off, don't let people in." I licked my lips, wondering what I should say.

"Maybe its best to close people off so you won't hurt them." I whispered to him. Matt pulls me into his chest. I sobbed into him. "You don't want to know what I've done." He kisses my head and holds me tight. He said nothing more. We stayed like that the whole night. My eyes shut, felt him move but was too gone to wake up.

Matt sat on the other chair and listened to her heartbeat, her breathing. He knew she was hiding something, all the stories didn't really add up, and he cant tell if she was lying or not. Matt noticed that Devon is trying to be normal but something is holding her back. But what?

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Matt came to my place later in the night after the trial, he missed in the morning. Food was delivered and papers from the trial scattered around my living room floor. My legs were on top of his lap as he goes on about what he's gonna do.

"Karens got Tepper thinking about the real report. The real truth. And then when he's disoriented, I follow up with sometimes like...'who had you change the report?' And even if he says 'no one' it proves-"

"It proves that the report was changed." I finished his line. "That's brilliant Matt."

"See? You should leave Oscorp and become a lawyer." I pushed him gently as he took a bite of his food.

"Nah, i rather keep you company. I like seeing you get all excited." I smiled. I clapped my hands and place my wine glass down. "Ah! Why dont i help you go through Teppers bread crumb questions? We can set them up and you'll be ready?"

"Sure but it'll be boring."

"Nothing is boring when I'm with you." I grabbed the notebook and a pen and lean back on the couch.

"It can take all night." I hummed.

"I dont mind that at all."

"What did you want to be when you grow up?" He randomly asks me.

"A veterinarian." I nodded to myself. "Scientist is fine."

"But is that what you want? You should go back to school and become a veterinarian." Matt sits up and places his hand on my thigh. "I don't want you do something that you do want to to do because you didn't have a choice. Why did you become a scientist?"

"An old friend, she was a scientist."

"Did this old friend have a name?"

"Melina." I brushed my hair back. "She always liked talking about science stuff. Like fireflies, the glow that they have, that comes from a chemical reaction called Bioluminescence." He laughs. And so did I.

"She sounds like fun." I shut down again from the memories of Melina and I in the red room.

"Do you think about the day we met?"

"All the time."

"I came back from being away 17 years, looking for places to live because I didn't want to bother my parents. I was afraid of the whole world. Then I met a drunk Foggy and..." and I turned to look at him. "You. I trusted you. You made me feel like I deserve everything. And then we came to your place."

"Had a couple of beers." He pointed at the table and made me smile.

"I remember that day so clearly. It was nice to actually talk to someone. Someone who actually listened. Not everyday your life is threatened." I realized that he never talked about Red Widow, how he felt about her. I sat there and debating if I should. "What do you think about the Red Widow?" He leans back and sips on his drink. "Do you think she's-"

"Shes not the best idol." Not shit, not trying to be. "But what she does, killing people, working for Fisk, doing stuff that doesn't add up. I believe in the law. She shouldn't be killing off people because they deserve it. The Red Widow is like a darker version of the Black Widow. If Natasha Romanoff went rouge."

"They did come from the same place, they were trained and forced to do all those things. Had no control."

"If you're asking the catholic lawyer, I mean, its hard to say. But she seems to know what shes doing. She doesn't seem to be controlled."

"Do you think shes like Castle?"

"Shes killed people."

"Bad people. People who did wrong."

"But its not up to Castle or the Widows decision who lives or dies." We both stood up from the couch. I crossed my arms and Matt on his hips. "Thats up to god... or sometimes a jury. What happened to Franks family is a tragedy, and whatever the Red Widows story is, Devon, but it doesn't give them the right to kill-"

"No! Im just saying that i can understand why they, anyone would seek vengeance for something after losing-"

"Whoa, no, no, no. Thats not the same. Vengeance is not justice. What they're doing is completely wrong."

"But isn't that the same? I mean, if I wanted to make the people who killed my father pay-"

"You don't go out there and kill them."

"But what if thats the only way they can live? Knowing that the people who did this, are under ground and never harming anyone again."

"You believe that?" I slapped my hands over my mouth and realized what I've done. Im so stupid.

"Maybe." I let out. Matt had this look in his face that he was disappointed. He clears his throat.

"Maybe this is good time to call it a night." I started to back away. "I just think that we are exhausted and-" his phone goes off. It was Elektra. The name kept repeating and he didn't turn it off. After a couple, he hangs up.

"Im sorry. I don't know why-" I started to shut myself down. Why? I was never like this. "I just, maybe, its a not a good idea for me to-"

"No, i mean we all have our opinions." He starts to pick up his things. I watched him as he puts everything away. "Good night, ill see you tomorrow." He kissed my cheek and left. The thick air still lingers and it was hard to breathe. I need some air. I stick my head out the window and closed my eyes. What the hell Devon.

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Devon decided to head out and talk to this ex girlfriend. She has been back into his life and now she wants to know whats she's been up to. After the fight they had, she didn't want Elektra getting ideas.

"Welcome home." Devon said from the living room as Elektra walks in. Devon was dressed in her dark red suit, widow bites on, legs crossed, hair braided. The Red Widow was Matts girlfriend. "Looks like you've been busy." Elektra wore her suit, shes been out with the daredevil, fighting those ninjas and found something. Elektra smiles since she knew that they don't know that they were the Widow and the Devil.

"How did you get in my house?" She was furious, checking how did this girl get into her apartment which is stories high

"I have my ways." Devon looks at the glass that shattered. Elektra sees the mess she had made and Devon gets up."Ill clean my mess sorry, i was hungry." She picked up her trash and head to the kitchen. "You got to go shopping, all you had was brie, and its not the good kind, i know since my mom makes cheese-"

"What do you want?" Elektra crosses her arms.

"I want you to stay away from Matt."

"Ha! Thats not going to happen." She laughs at her face. "I was his first love. He needs me."

"He needs you to stop bothering him." Elektra picks up a knife from her collection and twirls it around.  "You dont want to do that."

"If you don't like it, you can stay out. Matt and I aren't going no where. You should realize that. You dont know Matt like I do."

"If you dont leave him alone, i will come back again and I will make you regret that you did. "

"Are you threatening me?"

"Its more of an statement."

"Im guessing he doesn't know hes dating a murder. Shame. He really does like you." Elektra runs to Devon, who was more quicker and grabbed the knife and pinned her against the wall. The knife was now at the center of her chest, Devon calmingly stares at her.

"You dont want to cross me. I don't ask for anything twice." Elektra swiped her legs and was about to pin her to the ground, Devon gets up and cuts her arm, making Elektra bleed. "So play along." Devon gets up, throws the knife and head back to the shattered window she came from. She saluted and flipped back.

AN: SURPRISE!!! I decided to post again! Enjoy!