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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-07 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[If only worthiness were the only hesitation for Matt. There's no doubt in his mind that Danny is honest, patient, devoted when he says he will be. The scars of people who came to his side to help, to be his support to leave him by choice or death still make it difficult to just give in and trust. In this moment, laying on the dojo floor he has no other option.

Touch makes him lightly shut his eyes. Breathe. Just be a moment.]


Thank you.

[He grits his teeth and they start the process. Peeling back the custom kevlar and synthetic blend fabric. Only a few times Matt asks him to stop, those are only at his very threshold of pain. The melting went through a few places. The movement of sore limbs and newly mended bones had this take longer than it would have normally for Matt to change.]
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-10 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Funny that Stick would be generous with compliments when he wasn't around. Very typical. And the whole ordeal of fighting of The Hand and having a building drop on top of him has put the pain of loss of him on the back burner. Which isn't to say it doesn't exist. That ornery, caustic piece of shit was Matt's teacher. He owes so much to who he is thanks to Stick. Yes, it is complicated.

That isn't even touching the cold, hard truth that Elektra is gone from his life. Again.]


Thanks just--ahhh. [He swallows and squirms before asking for a pause. Danny listens. No admonishments. Maybe those would be better use to him. Tears prickle in his eyes. Cold, open air touching his skin that is a wash of sensation. It makes what is constricted starving for the same even though it smarts.]

Okay.

[And away they would go again until the suit is over. No more Daredevil. What did Matt expect when he let himself go down with the rubble? What's one more death in his life? He is slumped sitting upright and his fingers feel over the fabric draped over him, looking for a distraction.]

Th-thank you. [Gulping air and trying to find a center a point of focus.]
Edited 2019-12-10 16:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-12 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He called and asked for help from the universe. Who or whatever power had given him a connection to Danny fleshed out the plea to be not just the physical rescue. The transfer of Chi reduced severely debilitating injuries. That alone is an unbelievable feat. He didn't have to haul Matt into his home. But he has.

Walking him through a meditation in such a moment of strain and suffering is totally unexpected. This vulnerable he listens immediately.]


On you. [To start. And then awareness to the mats. The warmth is at first hard to locate. Going from the mental to the physical a transition to make him aware of his skin. Ah, wait then. Breathing. Inhaling and exhaling timed with Danny's. Matt clutches his forearm. The connection to himself, to the ground and to his breathing forms.]

...I do. Yeah.
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-15 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[All that Matt is as a person has been stripped down to basic needs. No ego, no wit or charm. He is in a state of physical need of care, the spiritual goes hand in hand with that, doesn't it? That is why he doesn't push off. Grabbing a hold of something with his attention and self to keep him from slipping into frustration or even worst hysterics. Yes, he has been injured seriously. It has never been this bad. Doubt is trying to latch onto him. The awful question of will I ever be better again is trying to make him sink.

Inhale. Exhale. The mat under him, the floor around him. Solid and still. Touching on Danny he can feel the fibers on his clothes, the slight shift as he breathes too. His heart is beating though much slower than Matt's.]


...please. Yes.

[His skin feels grimey, raw. The little bits of glass and rubble are there. And as much as it might hurt to have running water over burns, it would help fend off infection.

God, what a charity case. That's what Stick would say. Doubt is starting to sound like him.]
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-17 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.]
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-18 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[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.]


...did I--did I die, Danny?
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[personal profile] fightlikehell 2019-12-27 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[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.]