66. all eyes on us

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Devon sat on the ledge of the building. She looks at the bright lights that covered the city. Matt and Isaac returned home, Isaac grabbed an ice pack to ice his shoulder after the twist Devon gave him.

"Where is she?" Isaac asks.

"On the roof." Matt heads up. He sensed that she was in her thoughts, the long inhales and exhales he could hear, slowing her heartbeat down. She hears the door shut.

"Lay it on me. Say it." She said with her eyes still closed.

"Tell you what?" Matt said as he makes his way and sits next to her on the ledge.

"How far i went. How i could have killed him." She sighs. "I just wanted to teach him how to protect himself."

"I know."

"I went too far. I just went complete Widow. I wasn't satisfied with his performance, i just snapped. I was like back then and-" She takes a deep breath. "Is he okay?"

"Just his shoulder hurts." Devon hides her face in her hands, disgusted in herself. "He will be okay."

"I cant." She sighs. "Im trying to keep him away from HYDRA but im the real problem."

"Hey, no. Thats not true. He doesn't think that." Matt tries to calm her down.

"I promised to protect him, and i could've snap his arm, i went too far." She gets up and paces around. "How is he going to trust me?"

"Devon, sweetheart." Matt stops her, holding her hands, her breathing was getting better and her body was less tense. "You are doing everything you can to keep him safe. Yes you went far, but you didn't mean it. It's your response. Theres some things that im realizing that sometimes you don't, you go back to your old habits, stuff you did back in the red room. You don't mean it but you do it." The sleep talking in Russian, the sweeping the place gun in hand, the repeating of the ballet dances, her mind is still in the red room. Devon fell silent. "You see yourself in him. You saved him because he remained you of yourself and you don't want to lose him-"

"So he won't be one of them." Devon chokes. She didn't want him to be one of tests that makes him evil.

"And he won't because he has us." Matt and Devon headed back down to their place. Devon sees Isaac sleeping, perfectly fine.

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Devon was awoken by the stomping of Isaac's feet and the loud beeping cars outside. She got out of bed and changed into some clothes as she was going to drop off Isaac at school.

"Morning." Matt smiles from the couch, sipping his coffee as he hears Devon's dragging her feet.

"Anything new?" She grabs her cup.

"No. Just going to stay home and do some paperwork." Devon walks to the table as Isaac walks in. The air got thick. He was a bit scared of Devon, he wasn't going to lie.

"Ready for school?" Devon coughs, breaking the silence. Isaac nods, grabs his backpack and his headphones.

"Have a great day Isaac." Matt calls out as Devon shuts the door. The two jogged down the steps, heading to the car. Again, nobody said a word. It was just Isaac listening to his music and Devon was listening to hers on the radio. She taps the wheel, waiting for him to speak, and Isaac was pretending to listen to music to see if she was going to speak.

"Listen-"

"I want-" They spoke at the same time, after the dreadful five minutes of no words exchanged.

"What I did, i am sorry." Devon told him. "You have every reason to be mad and not forgive me. I will have to live with that. But i want you to know, you and I are very much alike. Like it or not. We are very similar, how we lived, what had happened to us. I saw myself in you and i let out my anger and emotions to you. Trust me, i am still working on that." Issac sits there, looking at the car line ahead of them. "I want to protect you, not hurt you. I am not the monster everyone thinks I am." A shadow peaks through the window and made the two jump. Isaac slides down his window and a boy appear.

"Hey Leo!" Peter smiles. "Ned wants to show us something, wanna go? Good morning Ms. Murdock!" Peter waves as Devon.

"Hi Peter." She smiles back. Isaac looks at her again, opening the door.

"See you later, mom." Issac hops out and walks away with Peter into the school. Devon hit her head on the wheel and she drove off. As she was driving back home, she sees that a few cars down, started to follow her, could be her getting it to her head or something. She should know better. She decided to drive around awhile to see.

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Matt was still listening in to his recordings, trying to get ready for a client. He paces around the room, speaking as if someone was there. A knock from the door pulls him out and Matt stops to listen to who is there. Eros. Matt stops his recording and heads to the door.

"Oh hello." Eros smiles as he sees Matt in front of him, answering the door. "Is Devon home?"

"Shes not here. What do you want?" Matt cuts with his sharp rude tone.

"Good, because I want to talk to you!" Eros claps his hands. "May I come in?" Something is up. Matt couldn't get it. Matt lets him in. "Cute place, i believe Devon decorated, im shocked. I don't see her as a decorative person." Eros walks around, acting like he wasn't here the night before. "How did you meet Devon?"

"How about we skip to the part on why you are here?" Matt crosses his arms.

"I can see why she likes you." He laughs. Eros walks up to Matt, waving his hand in front of him, nodding his head and walking away. "Isn't she a hand full? So bossy and sexy."

"Dont talk about her like that. I would very much appreciate it you dont call my girlfriend sexy." Eros snaps his fingers.

"You mean business, i like it." He sits on the edge of couch. He looks at the door of a room that looks like it belongs to a teenage boy. "You have a kid?" Matt had to think fast. Lie. Say something. Eros walks in to see the dark room. He flicks the light on, a boy was living here. He sees the lived in room. 

"We decided to start a family, we adopted a kid from the orphanage that I in grew up in." When Matt said that Devon and him decided to start a family, Eros' smile dropped. "Its not official yet but we are praying that he will be able to come home." Matt hears the light flicker back.

"Family. Wow." Eros chuckles. "Devon never wanted one when we-"

"Maybe because she realized being with me is the best thing that happened in her life." Matt picks a nerve. "With everything she gone through, you know."

"With the life she had, I don't blame her."

"Was it before or after you left her for dead?" Eros laughs.

"She told you huh?" He gets a text, he's got to go. "I have to go but, i do want to say this..." Eros heads to the door, stopping at the front. "Whatever Devon said to you about her life being a mess and it's complicated, just know that it's going to be a lot of that happening. Dont let her pretty looks have you fooled."

"Dont you worry, its not just the pretty looks that she has me like a fool." Eros scuffs.

"Good luck being a papa, hopefully nothing happens to stop you taking him home." He leaves. Matt listens in, hearing him walk down the stairs and into his expensive car and leave. Minutes later, Devon comes home. She starts talking.

"I might be out of my mind but, theres this car that has been-" Matt immediately covers her mouth, shushing her. "What?" She mumbles against his palm.

"Eros was here. I think he left something." He whispers in her ear. She nods against his large hand. "You know since the whole car explosion, it could just be Mahoney." He plays along.

"Mahoney is always looking out for the little guy." She starts to find a mic or something he left. There was nothing. She sees Isaac's door open. "What did-"

"Nothing." Matt holds her close to him. "He doesn't know." Devon's head dropped onto his shoulder.

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For few more days, Devon has been seeing this same black car. Outside the apartment, outside of work, even when she goes ballet practice. She brushes it off as she tells herself, it's New York, theres a bunch of the same cars out there. But it continues. Issac, Matt and Devon went out for dinner, they walked and saw the same cars that was outside their apartment was now a few cars behind the restaurant.

"You alright?" Issac calls her back to reality.

"Devon?" Matt places his hand on hers. "What is it?"

"Nothing." She clears her throat. Knowing this, Matt knew it was just not nothing. Devon became more careful with Isaac, taking him to school, instead of going to the front, they climbed down the fire escape.

"Hey, have you noticed anything with that black car?" Foggy asks Karen and Devon as he walks into work. Devon's head whips back at him. "It's been sitting there for a while, every single day." Matt walks in. She peeks out of the window to check out if the car is still there, and it was.

"Devon." He stops her from doing something bad.

"Im taking my lunch break early." She lies and heads out. Matt calls out to her but she just left her blazer on the table and out the door. Devon spots the car, she pretends to make a move. Isolate the driver. She gets in her car and starts driving around. She comes up with heading to an abandoned building and waits there for a moment. She hears the car door open and shut. There. Devon stands by the door and waits. The man walks in the building and searches for Devon. She comes in kicking the man in the groin. He drops his gun and she knocks him out to the kick to the face.

Devon had tied him up, checking him as he was knocked out. She tosses his things she found on him out. She waits for him to come back, sitting in front of him. She checks out her nails as he groans, waking up.

"Late night shift got you sleepy now?" Devon hums as she gets up, slapping the mans face.

"Screw you."

"Oh." Devons acted surprised. "My feelings are hurt." She then kicks his legs. "Do you know who i am?" She squinted, looking straight at his eyes. He says nothing. "Shame, whoever hired you never told you."

"Your life seems pretty miserable to me." He laughs. She laughs with him.

"Who hired your pathetic ass?" She crosses her arms.

"HYDRA never forgets." Her smile fades. She grabs the man, throws him against the wall and smashes his head in. "You stole the one weapon that mattered." Isaac. They know. Her fist clenched, throwing punches. She kicks his leg in, hearing the crunch and a scream.

"Neither do I." She bashes his head in again and Matt runs in. Devon gets up slowly.

"Devon..." He hears the faint heartbeat.

"They know that we have Isaac." She tells him. She turns to him. "Hes not safe anymore."

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Devon and Matt raced to the school, calling in for Isaac to take him out of school early. Devon had called Frank, trusting him and telling him that if Isaac can stay with him until they hunt down HYDRA and Eros. She knew that Eros was behind this. She wasn't taking any risks.

"Hey?" Isaac frowns as Devon and Matt rushed him out of the school and into the car. "Whats going on?"

"They found you." Isaacs face turned white. He leans back and hides his body on the floor of the car.

"You said-"

"I know." Devons voice cracks. "I know." She can hear the sound of the scared boy. The met with Frank outside of New York, same apartment where Frank and Devon stayed together. Frank stands there, waiting for them to give him the boy.

"Please be gentle with him." Devon tells Frank. He watches Matt and Isaac talk, Matt being gentle, his hand on the boys head, preparing him for whats going to happen. "He's scared. Frank..." Devon looks at him.

"I got him." He nods. "I didn't know you were taking in strays." His brow arches.

"Frank..." She didn't have time for this.

"For you, anything." Matt walks over with Issac. Issac looks at Frank, he was a bit nervous about this. He knows nobody but Devon and Matt. The only two people he trusted and would rather be with. He felt like a child again, the same child that was ripped from his mother's arms as HYDRA used him as a weapon.

"I cant." Isaac turns Devon. "I wanna stay with you guys." Matt sighs, Devon just steps up to him. "You cant do this."

"HYDRA knows. You cant be with us." Devon tells him. "The only place that is safe for you right now is being with Frank."

"Please..."

"Ill be back for you. When i get HYDRA, i will come back." She tries to touch his arm but he pulls back. "Isaac..."

"You promise?" She nods. Isaac hugs Matt and Devon, then pulls away as Frank calls him over to come inside. Devon watches him leave. She will do right for this boy. She doesn't want to loose him.