This was for a prompt but I can’t remember which one, soooooo here! Acknowledging the Foggy/Marci breakup and how Marci is better than both of them and also christening the new office.
I’m going to find a better ending and put it on AO3 later.
“That’s it,” Foggy says, closing his laptop abruptly.
“Why did we tell Karen she didn’t have to keep the books this time?”
“Excel isn’t accessible for the vision impaired,” Matt
says, lightly, for the third time.
“I googled that, actually, and it isn’t true,” Foggy
says, “but I will admit having vision to see how much money we’re losing—or
maybe earning, honestly, I have no damn clue how to use a spreadsheet—gives me
some advantage.”
“You’ve gotten by on your good looks for too long,”
Matt says, shutting his own laptop and smirking at him.
“You’re right,” Foggy says, sighing. “I should’ve
married rich while I still had my chance—before I got stuck with you again.”
“Marci isn’t going to make an honest woman out of
you?” Matt asks, actually sounding concerned.
“Oh, no, we’re parting ways,” Foggy says, laughing
softly, already wishing he hadn’t brought it up because Matt was—a factor. “I
can’t keep her in the lavish lifestyle she’s used to.”
“Marci Stahl wouldn’t let anyone else control her lifestyle,”
Matt says, getting to his feet and coming over to sit in the chair in front of
Foggy’s desk, making a concerned face that gives Foggy too many simultaneous
emotions, because sometimes he forgets that Matt cares. “What actually happened?”
If Foggy’s being honest, he’d say that Matt was the factor. But he’s not being honest.
“The usual,” Foggy says, leaning back in his seat.
“We’ve broken up four times, Matty, I wasn’t banking on it lasting.”
“Well,” Matt says, reaching out to find Foggy’s hand,
squeezing it gently before he lets it go and stands up again, going over to
start packing up his things. “I’m sorry to hear that. Now I know what our plans
for tonight are, though.”
“Taking a nap,” Foggy asks, hopefully, “and then going
to bed immediately after?”
“Getting extremely
drunk,” Matt says, throwing a smile over his shoulder.
Foggy thinks this is probably a bad idea because
there’s a whole lot of shit between them now and neither drunk Matt nor drunk
Foggy are good at navigating emotions without just outright running into them.
But he’s missed
drunk Matt and he’s pretty sure drunk Foggy missed him even more.
“Just like old times,” he says, smiling back.
*
After Matt dies (none of them say it, but—what else
could it be?), Marci shows up at Foggy’s apartment with a bottle of tequila and
a pint of ice cream and sits with him while he cries. It’s nice of her. They’re
still at a tenuous friends with benefits stage, so she really doesn’t have to.
When they’re both a little drunk, Marci sighs and
rests her head against Foggy’s and says, “You really loved him.”
“He was—my brother,”
Foggy says, even though it tastes wrong in his mouth.
Marci snorts but then she makes a face, turning to
press a kiss to his cheek.
“Sorry,” she says. “I just—you were never great at hiding
what you feel, Foggy.”
Foggy sighs and shuts his eyes, tipping his head back.
“Do you think he knew?” he asks.
“I think Murdock spent a lot of time with his head up
his own ass,” Marci says, and Foggy laughs despite himself, turning to smile
wetly at her. “So—probably not.”
He thinks about Matt’s crazy senses and all the things
he must have been able to hear and—smell,
but Marci’s not wrong. Matt would have to notice or care enough to put all the
pieces together and come up with Foggy’s inconveniently undying feelings for
him.
He knows Matt cares—cared about him, but it feels nicer to think that he never noticed
and not that he knew and just ignored it.
“I loved
him,” Foggy says, after a long moment, feeling paralyzed and trembling at the
same time because he’s never said it out loud before. “Shit, Marci—shit.”
“You need more tequila,” Marci says,
getting to her feet quickly, “and—Xanax, maybe, do you think tequila and Xanax
pair well?”
“No,” Foggy says, “but we may as well try.”
That night, they fall asleep curled up together and
Marci takes him out for brunch in the morning.
It feels okay even though nothing else feels okay.
*
They go back to the office after they’ve had a few too
many drinks at Josie’s because Matt says he left his keys there, but the moment
that Foggy shuts the door behind them, Matt’s hands find his face and he’s
kissing Foggy hesitantly.
“Whoa,” Foggy breathes.
“That okay?” Matt asks.
“I—don’t know,” Foggy says, “but don’t stop.”
He catches a glimpse of Matt’s smile before he’s being
kissed again and he wraps his arms around Matt to get closer and tries to
ignore the red lights flashing in his head that say he’s been in love with Matt
for years and this might just be a drunken hookup. He probably could have dealt
with that back in college when he was hornier and had less self-esteem, but
now—
“Wait, why—” he says, pulling apart just enough to get
the words out, “why are you doing this, Matt?”
Matt rests his forehead against Foggy’s like they’re
protagonists in a romance novel and not drunken idiots making out in a law
office that will never stop smelling like different varieties of pork.
“I didn’t know how to tell you.”
“Tell me what?”
“I want to be with you, Fog,” Matt says. “I don’t want
to push you away again.”
“I know,” Foggy says, cupping Matt’s cheek. “Not about
the kissing, that’s a fun development—but I know you’re trying.”
“Let me keep trying,” Matt says, after a moment, voice
dropping low as he takes Foggy’s hand and leads him to his desk, pushing Foggy
down gently into his chair.
“Really?” Foggy asks, voice breaking.
Matt drops slowly to his knees, tipping his head up to
smile at him.
“I was going to take you out for real,” he says,
fingers sliding up Foggy’s thighs before starting to undo his fly. “Treat you
right. Make you wait for it. But…we’re drunk and we’re here…”
“Yeah, this feels right for us,” Foggy agrees,
groaning when Matt pulls his jeans and boxers down enough to wrap a rough hand
around his dick. “Jesus.”
“My name’s Matt,” Matt murmurs, before he takes Foggy
in his mouth, hollows his cheeks and sucks so Foggy makes a noise that sounds
like it reverberates off the walls. He moves his head slowly at first, one hand
still at the base of Foggy’s dick and the other rubbing circles on his thigh,
and he moans hoarsely when Foggy starts to run fingers through his hair.
“Fuck, you feel so good,” Foggy says. “I’ve been
thinking about this for a—a long-ass
time.”
“Me blowing you?” Matt asks, pulling off, mouth wet
with spit.
“I’ve had to look at that mouth without doing anything
to it for years,” Foggy says,
tightening his grip on Matt’s hair a little, feeling kind of predatory. “Yeah,
it’s come up a few times.”
Matt hums out a pleased noise.
“Pull my hair?” he says, going down on him again,
slowly taking Foggy’s dick until it’s nudging up against his throat.
“Whatever you want.”
Foggy pulls his hair and that pleased noise turns into
something low and compelling, like Matt’s a step away from purring.
Jesus Christ.
He’s really not prepared for this at all.
*
Marci kisses him before she tells him, one firm press
of their lips together before she takes a step back and smiles.
“Alright, kid,” she says. “You’ve got to pack your drawer
up and go back to your place.”
“What are you
talking about?” he asks.
She shakes her head, still smiling when she says, “Nelson
and Murdock. You know there’s no room for me in that, Foggy Bear—I’ve been
ready for it since Matt’s stunning resurrection.”
It still takes him a second to fully get that she’s
really talking about his feelings for Matt, his—stunningly resurrected
feelings, if he’s being honest, but he doesn’t want to be honest. He loves
Marci, too, even if it’s not quite the same. A fact but not a part of him like loving Matt is.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says, but
Marci makes an annoyed face at him so he sighs and continues, “Look, Matt’s
never wanted me before. There’s no way that he’ll want me now.”
“I wasn’t sure before,” she says, “but—I can tell that
it’s more than just you. Maybe having a building fall down on top of him gave
him some perspective or something, but—his face is different when he’s around
you now.”
“I don’t—he’s straight,”
Foggy says.
“Oh, god—maybe,” Marci says, stepping forward to place
her hands on his shoulders. “Look, I love you and I can admit that this has
been fucking great but—straight or not, I’m not going to sit around and watch
you pine like every other time we tried this.”
“I—I love you, too,” Foggy says, softly. He does.
“I know,” she says, sighing and kissing him on the
cheek before wrapping her arms around him. “I’m not pissed, I promise—I just
deserve more than that.”
Foggy holds her tightly and takes a few deep breaths. It
could be so easy with Marci—it was
easy—but she’s right.
“You do,” he says, stepping back slowly and letting
his arms fall to his side. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s not your fault your boyfriend pulled a
straight-up Jesus,” she says, dryly. “You wouldn’t have let us get this far if
he’d been around.”
Foggy laughs despite himself, covering his face with
his hands.
“You’re too good for me anyway, Stahl,” he says.
“You’re not wrong,” she says, reaching up to ruffle
his hair before she turns to walk to her bedroom, adding without turning
around, “I’m going to find the manliest tote bag I’ve got for you and then I
want you to fuck me one more time, like, really
hard. Sound good?”
She really is too good for him.
*
Matt undresses for him after Foggy comes because Foggy
asks him to—wants to finally see all of him when he’s allowed to be looking. By
the time Foggy goes out to the front to double check that the door’s locked,
Matt’s standing naked and waiting for him, looking sweet and hesitant and—perfect.
“Fuck,” Foggy says, laughing breathlessly. “Come here.”
Matt laughs, too, immediately stepping forward and
kissing Foggy.
They end up with Matt sitting on his desk and Foggy
standing between his legs, kissing roughly until Matt says, panting, “I—I want
to make love to you.”
“Make love,”
Foggy says, grinning and kissing him on the forehead. “I want that, Matty, but
I don’t exactly keep lube in my desk.”
Matt makes a disappointed noise.
“You should start,” he says, reaching up to slide
fingers into Foggy’s hair and pull him down into another kiss, murmuring close
to his mouth, “Wanna be inside you, Fog.”
“You’re killin’ me,” Foggy says, breathing out a laugh
and resting their foreheads together. “You want to put all your clothes back on
and go fuck me on your silk sheets or do you want me to jerk you off right
here, right now?”
He moves a hand down to trace his fingers up Matt’s
erection and Matt moans.
“Good point,” he says. “Do that.”
“Silk sheets after,” Foggy agrees.