48. take cover

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Everyone in the lab went home but I stayed behind. I needed to keep my mind busy or i will crash. Scanning, testing, writing and injecting was the routine I did for the past 5 hours. I heard the elevator door open but I didn't want to look behind me.

"I don't think Osborn is going to pay you for overtime if you keep staying past your time." Foggy comes up besides me. "You're working yourself too much Devon."

"If it keeps me off the urge of killing Fisk, then so be it." I rubbed my eyes.

"Im sorry i haven't checked up on you, I can't imagine what you're going through." He looks at my desk, all cluttered, a bag of clothes at the bottom and a pillow. "How long have you been here? Have you been sleeping here?"

"Ive been fine. I just need to keep this project moving along, we are behind and if I don't get this done in time i am going to be so disappointed in myself and Dr. Connors will move me down and strip me from this position-"

"Devon-" he tries to calm me down.

"I cant do that. I just to-"

"Stop! I didn't come to talk about work." He grabs me and snaps me out of it. My glasses slide off from my nose and i pushed them up. He stared at me. Didn't saying anything. My heart drops.

"What?" I stared back. "Its Matt?" I had a lump in my throat. I dropped some vials, glass smashing as they hit the ground. "Did they find a body?" I covered my mouth. Please don't tell me this.

"I promised I would never lie for Matt again. Not to you."

"No. You have to just..you need to tell me. Tell me now Franklin." I gripped onto his arms, breathing heavily. He just looked at me, he wasn't sad. I backed away from him, realizing. "Hes alive." I turned away from Foggy, trashing my desk, pushing everything off of it, screaming and crying. "Why? Why didn't he tell me?" I pointed at myself. "Why did he let us think he was dead!?" Foggy was seeing a new side of me.

"It wasn't Matt that I saw Devon. I mean not really. It was Matt. All five feet, ten inches of him, but...the way he spoke to me...something was missing." I scuffed.

"I mean if a building fell on me, of course I wouldn't be myself." I held my face in my hands.

"I don't think he's coming back," I leaned against the wall, nodding my head and crossing my arms.

"You know, I've cried, ive even prayed for him." I touched my lips. "I have this dream that plays in my head. Im standing here, working. Matt walks in here, all dressed up, in his nice suits, a few scars here and there, waiting for me to come to him. I tell him how much I miss him and i love him. We get to go home together and we go back to as it was." I brushed my hair back. The phone rings at my desk. We both looked at it all scared. We let it ring a few times until i picked up. I had the phone on speaker, waiting for the person to speak.

"Devon Hobbs." Fisk. How did he know? "I know you've got your fellow widows tracking Vanessa down. They're too good, they blend in. Do you remember the last time we spoke? You said that youll go to wherever they are holding her and kill her yourself, all smiling and you said maybe have me watch you kill her from where I am. You didn't just threaten me..." Foggy looks at me. "You threatened Vanessa. That is something that I cannot forgive."

"Listen to me-"

"With everything I gave you, this is how you repay me? Your father was the same. Itll be a shame if the FBI digs into your life, and what you've been doing for the past 20 plus years." He hangs up. I heard footsteps coming from the stairs. I quickly snap at Foggy, he needs to get out of here alive.

"What did he mean by that? Devon? Is he going to tell everyone youre the Red Widow?" I grabbed his hand and took him far away from the door. We didn't have much time to get out, I had to fight.

"I need you to stay here, do you understand? Soon as you hear nothing, i need you to run away from here as fast as possible. Leave me behind." I shook him. "Foggy!" He snaps out of it. "Stay here!" The door smashes down, i ran to them, leaving Foggy. 6 men suits got in line, guns up and pointed at me. Foggy watched as I stood there. "Come on boys, i don't have all day." Two men rushed to me. I wrapped my legs around the guys waist, throwing him down and my arm around the other snapping his neck. The guy charged at me, kicking him and injecting him with the serum which he fell back. I quickly got a hold of the gun and started to shoot back.

I hid behind a desk and shot one. Two more to go. One came out from behind, having me in a headlock. I hit his arms, but I rolled with him, he lets go and I knocked him out with the gun. I got up and looked for the last one. He also comes out of nowhere, stabbing me in the stomach, he pushes me against the wall, making me groan. My heels scratched the floor as he drags me.

"Devon! No!" Foggy screams. He pushed the knife in deeper and moved around. I gasped and looked at the man. I slid down the wall and he lets go. He walks away and calls it in.

"Shes dead." But i stood up, shot him in the chest. He falls on his knees. Foggy runs to me and i turned to him.

"Oh my god Devon." He looks down, making me pull out the knife. Blood stained my shirt and my legs got wobbly, he catches my fall.

"He got me good." I smiled.

"You need to go to a hospital, lets go." He tries to pick me up, but i stop him.

"No hospitals. Fisk will look there, take me to Frank." He groans and we limped to the elevator and to his car. He drives me to the small cabin and Frank sees us, he saw me and takes me into his arms, placing me down on his couch.

"I thought you never get hit." Frank jokes as he stops the bleeding. I faked a laugh and Foggy nearly crying. "You okay?" Frank turns to Foggy.

"Me? No yeah im fine." Frank goes back to me. "She protected me." I gave Foggy a thumbs up.

"Looks like you got 7 more lives Hobbs." Frank finishes patching me up.

"Why do you still look good even though you're all beat up?" Foggy said, making me laugh. I was all white and bloody.

"But yet, she still has a mouth." Frank crosses his arms.

"But yet you're still around Frankie."  I chuckled, still light headed. Frank turns to Foggy.

"She can stay, go home. Wash up. She'll be fine here."

"Are you sure? What do I tell River? Yelena?"

"Tell them to delete the footage at Oscorp. No traces, nothing that leads us there. Tell them ill be back tomorrow."

"This feels so illegal."

"Because it is. I cant have you go down for this. Let them do the work." Foggy just nods. "And Foggy..." he stops at the door. "Im sorry you had to see that. You shouldn't have seen the red widow."

"You did everything to keep me safe. You're not what they say you are."