[Right now, Danny is a shelter from the storm of sensation and emotion swirling around Matt. He hasn't been as attuned to chakras or chi or anything of the sort. It's not just the way he is being touched or spoken to. There's an energy that slips just below Matt's own radar of awareness and all that he can sum up of it is that Danny's presence is a wordless help.]
Thank you. [Deep breaths. His own and those with the man beside him. Matt lets the quiet and the calm settle a bit more.]
I'm ready.
[Muscles tense and he moves. It's like someone has weighed him down. Before he even has a chance to think it over, he's leaning on the man right with him.]
[ Stillness is good. It offers clarity. It can ground others. Right now, it's doing that for Matt. If that is what the other man needs then he will offer it for as long as he's able. His own balance might help Matt to refind his center as impossible as that sounds right now. ]
Of course. [ It's no trouble. He's a friend. Not that it would stop Danny from offering to a random stranger on the street. It wouldn't be the first time he's done something like it.
Once they start the motion of standing there aren't a lot of ways to back out of it. If they need be, they can lean against one of the support beams and go from there. Walking is more slow going but they start a little at a time. ]
You're doing great.
[ Not patronizing in the least. It's a marvel for sure. Only hours before he was on death's door. Now he's walking. ]
[Matt has had it rough in his life. Not just as Daredevil which is the obvious point of imagining being beaten to a pulp. As a child he was often bullied and even with skills to fight he had taken his hits. The worst wounds of the early years were emotional. And in this moment he can't remember a time he had felt like he had fallen so low, physically and emotionally at the same time. It's humiliating as much as it is just despairing.
Focus. Breathe. His breathing is labored from doing this much and he grounds himself again.]
[ Considering the man that Stick was, Danny believes it. He doesn't have a lot else to go off of, but kind lives don't lend to the things men like them do in the dark. Violence is not always the way. Violence is not always dissuaded by a gentle heart. Sometimes extreme measures are necessary. A good thing about being made low is that there is only one direction to go from that point.
Danny keeps his pace slow and measured. His breathing he keeps steady as a metronome to guide off. ]
You were close. [ Closer than Colleen had been that time. It was terrifying. ] But you didn't die.
[One strong arm is looped about Danny. The other is hanging, pained and limp Matt covers his blind eyes and his shoulders shake.
Dead with his father, dead with his mother. Dead with Elektra.]
Why do you think....why me and not them?
[Forgive his vagueness. It really is a shameful question to ask as a man of any faith. Danny is being so kind to him. He doesn't deserve a ball of existential turmoil and physical pains. Matt shakes his head in dismay once more at himself. He cannot get it together. They toddle into the room. The temperature changes. More stillness, more warmth.]
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Thank you. [Deep breaths. His own and those with the man beside him. Matt lets the quiet and the calm settle a bit more.]
I'm ready.
[Muscles tense and he moves. It's like someone has weighed him down. Before he even has a chance to think it over, he's leaning on the man right with him.]
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Of course. [ It's no trouble. He's a friend. Not that it would stop Danny from offering to a random stranger on the street. It wouldn't be the first time he's done something like it.
Once they start the motion of standing there aren't a lot of ways to back out of it. If they need be, they can lean against one of the support beams and go from there. Walking is more slow going but they start a little at a time. ]
You're doing great.
[ Not patronizing in the least. It's a marvel for sure. Only hours before he was on death's door. Now he's walking. ]
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Focus. Breathe. His breathing is labored from doing this much and he grounds himself again.]
...did I--did I die, Danny?
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Danny keeps his pace slow and measured. His breathing he keeps steady as a metronome to guide off. ]
You were close. [ Closer than Colleen had been that time. It was terrifying. ] But you didn't die.
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Dead with his father, dead with his mother. Dead with Elektra.]
Why do you think....why me and not them?
[Forgive his vagueness. It really is a shameful question to ask as a man of any faith. Danny is being so kind to him. He doesn't deserve a ball of existential turmoil and physical pains. Matt shakes his head in dismay once more at himself. He cannot get it together. They toddle into the room. The temperature changes. More stillness, more warmth.]