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“Matthew Murdock.”“Huh—” Orin stumbling over literal air was embarrassing enough, but the phone shaking in his hand was almost a step too far. It was undoubtedly a surprise, though, another name dropped like that effectively a flashbang to the brain. Lack of comics knowledge aside, he had paid for enough Disney+ and played enough Marvel Rivals to know pretty damn well who the hell the blind-lawyer-ninja-man was. “Wh-what about him?”“Matthew Murdock—” Victoria continued like he hadn’t just interrupted her. “Acting as legal counsel to Dr. Robert Bruce Banner approached SHIELD to request a face-to-face.”He blinked at nothing, phone still to his ear. “With the lawyer?”“No.” Hand didn’t waste a second in shutting that down quick. “With Banner.”

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Bruce Banner, huh?The guy who ran his research team, the whole mind behind Project Jade; and the hand who had signed off on all the paperwork for three months of everything they did to him in that building with a thumbs up and a ‘keep going’. The guy who turned into a gray screaming ogre with abs whenever somebody hurt his feelings. Also, the same guy that Orin had punched out naked on the Arizona desert a couple months back.That was the guy that wanted a sit-down.So, of course, Orin said yes to that; impulse being impulse, he wanted to see what the big man felt like saying. What could he possibly have left to say? Maybe he wanted to ask Orin why he felt like exposing to the world, that was a possibility.He also still could’ve been mad about losing a tooth. The possibilities were… well, certainly not endless, but they were definitely varied.

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