WHO: Elektra & Daredevil WHERE: Rooftops and stuff WHEN: Night WARNINGS: Angst? The same miserable road they always go down?... Probably none SUMMARY: The former college sweethearts finally meet face to face FORMAT: Whatever works
Matt always liked the night time. He felt more alive after dark, he felt more in his element. The shadows and the darkness were his friends, and he knew how to manipulate them and bring out their best qualities. He knew how to use the shadows to his advantage and practically disappear into them. That's what he was doing now, leaping easily between the buildings, still in his street clothes. He hadn't bothered with a mask at all since he'd been in the City, and while he sometimes felt naked without it, there was also something pretty damn liberating about it
( ... )
She noticed is presence even before he announced himself, and despite all of her training, all of the ways that she knew how to leave herself void of emotion and not give away anything about herself, she still couldn't stop the slight fluttering in her chest or the barely noticeable quickening of her heartbeat when he actually arrived.
"No Daredevil tonight?" She asked curiously, tilting her head to see him.
There was a brief moment that reminded her that this was a bad idea, that no matter how many times they met like this and felt this way, nothing could ever come of it. The Elektra that Matt knew had certainly died the day that her father did, and what was left behind was someone who still hated the world, someone who was not supposed to be meeting ex-lovers on rooftops in the middle of the night.
Still, for now, she allowed herself to pretend.
"You're not that old." She smiled a little. "Maybe it's time for you to hang up the horns and fight crime the Murdock way, if you're getting tired."
"No. No Daredevil tonight," he said with a grin, tilting his head toward her, too. Her heartbeat was so familiar, almost comforting in a way, and it was so good to hear her voice. She sounded even better than she had over the communicator. "I'm laying low. For a little while, anyway. Trying to play it safe...er
( ... )
"Because scaling tall buildings is normal, right?" She smiled a little, finding it easy to talk to him, despite the initial worry that Matt would have ended up being one of the many in this city that weren't the same people that she had known them to be
( ... )
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"No Daredevil tonight?" She asked curiously, tilting her head to see him.
There was a brief moment that reminded her that this was a bad idea, that no matter how many times they met like this and felt this way, nothing could ever come of it. The Elektra that Matt knew had certainly died the day that her father did, and what was left behind was someone who still hated the world, someone who was not supposed to be meeting ex-lovers on rooftops in the middle of the night.
Still, for now, she allowed herself to pretend.
"You're not that old." She smiled a little. "Maybe it's time for you to hang up the horns and fight crime the Murdock way, if you're getting tired."
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