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[youretheworst]

(Gwen is a millennial, you better text her cause she sure ain't checking her pocket watch voice-mail)

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[youretheworst]

[ She sighs. Great. It's somehow her job to stop a child ninja from going murder-crazy. How fun. ]

Alright, fine. I'll head over. Try not to kill anybody in the meantime.

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[notthekingpin]

[ :) :) ]

See you soon, Spider-woman.

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[youretheworst]

Sure. Just... don't go anywhere, okay?

[ What do you even do with a tiny Matt Murdock, she doesn't really want to find out but she doesn't have much choice either. He's her "responsibility."

Gwen sighs. Whatever!! She can totally do this. Though she is in kind of a hurry so she goes to him via her web shooters and switches out of her gear before going to meet him. Sure, he can't see, but other people can... ]

Murdock? You here or what?

[notthekingpin]

[unfortunately (what were you expecting), by the time she gets there he's already a kid. he's there...its his house...but he's also hiding in a closet trying to decide if he should jump her or what

hope you like hide and go seek]

[youretheworst]

[ Of course he's hiding. He's a ninja. Gwen has her spider-sense, so at least she shouldn't be totally off-guard... Maybe. ]

Alright, kid, where are you?

[ Where would a blind ninja hide? Under the bed? She's gonna check there first, sorry for intruding, Murdock. (She's not sorry tho.....) ]

[notthekingpin]

[luckily theres no porn or like anything bad under there. gwen wont be scarred for life]

[youretheworst]

[ He's blind, what kind of porn would he even have???

Don't tell Gwen you can feel colors, Matt. ]

Murdock? Muurdock? C'mon, you're in here, right?

[ Time to try the closet... ]

[notthekingpin]

[when gwen enters the closet he jumps down from the shelf he was perched on -- this is the nice part about being a little kid, you can fit into crawl spaces - to try and land on top of her. of course, he doesn't know about her spider sense so she might just get the sense in time to jump away OR she'll end up with one little ninja kid on her back]

[youretheworst]

[ Thank you, spider-sense, for all that itu may be usually useless, it gives her enough of a warning for her to step back with a shriek.

I mean, it's still a tiny kid jumping at her in a closet. ]

Holy crap, Murdock! You almost scared the hell out of me!

[notthekingpin]

What are you doing here?

[darn. he really wanted to jump her, too.]

[youretheworst]

You asked me to come.

[ Gwen crosses her arms. She is so not equipped to deal with this, but she's gonna. ]

Well, not you, you. Older you.

[notthekingpin]

[ok well that makes no sense but on the other hand what about this place does? so he'll...take it, i guess]

I don't need your help.

[youretheworst]

I never said I was here to help you. You're the one who wanted me to keep you out of trouble.

[ At least she's being honest...? ]

[notthekingpin]

Well I'm not going to get into any trouble.

[duh!!]

[youretheworst]

That's easy for you to say. I still have to keep an eye on you.

[ Responsibility! ]

[notthekingpin]

Well you sound like you don't really want to, and I don't really want you to so where's the harm if you just go?

[youretheworst]

Oh no you don't, kid. I said I'd take responsibility for you, and that's what I'm gonna do.

[ Gwen puts her foot down for emphasis. If he's blind then he can't see her expression, so she'll just have to make her "I'm totally serious"-ness clear in other ways. ]

Besides, aren't you like, hungry maybe? I can get you lunch or dinner or whatever. You shouldn't be wandering around on your own or something.

[ That sounded real mature until the "or something" ]

[notthekingpin]

I'm not hungry.

[youre not his real mom and dad, gwen

(they're dead :') ) ]

[youretheworst]

Then what, did you have some kind of gameplan here? Because you're pretty far from home, kid.

[ Surely her superior knowledge will somehow win this kid over? Maybe? Not likely? ]

You might claim you don't need help, but everybody does when they first show up here.

[notthekingpin]

Not me.

[he says it with the kind of baseless confidence only a youth can come up with, but also: the hand hadn't ever given him any help, they'd only ever demanded things of him. you don't speak japanese? better learn. you can't see? figure out how to use your other senses]

[youretheworst]

[ Gwen is a teenager, she has no clue how to deal with a child, much less one with Matt's... colorful history.

But he's her responsibility. She's gotta try. ]

Alright, so what'll it take to get you to listen to me? I'm older than you, you know, didn't anybody ever tell you to... I dunno, listen to your elders?

[notthekingpin]

[she's got something of a point, almost. but not enough that he takes it.]

Who are you, anyway?

[youretheworst]

[ Hey, it's progress! Minimal progress, but progress all the same. ]

Gwen Stacy. I also go by Spider-Woman when I fight crime, back in New York. That's where I know you from.

[ u are a criminal, child. ]

[notthekingpin]

[ok, now she's actually gotten his attention. because she did say something about his older self so that means:]

I end up back in New York?

[there's a note of hope. that dangerous, awful thing he was supposed to have learned better about by now. but it's there all the same]

[youretheworst]

[ wow, tiny matt, slow your roll with the emotions.

actually, okay, he really is very small, even gwen can't be a total jerk to seeing a hint of hope rise to his otherwise ninja-stoic face. ]

Yeah. I think you showed up there a few years ago? I know you've been a thorn in my dad's side for a while now. You're a defense attorney for crooks and the Kingpin.