( she's... uh, well, she's not what he was expecting. his senses do tell a pretty baffling story, though none of those are exactly things he can use against her. his head tilts like a confused dumb puppy as he sorts through information that doesn't make a lot of sense together. she's really the temp? who would lie about that, really, nobody went out of their way wanting to do temp work, but... was this a prank? it was sort of feeling like a prank.
(pranking a blind guy, Maya... shame! for shame!)
she moves closer into the front room of an office space Matt can neither afford nor bear to replace, and he straightens slightly, stepping toward her but not exactly — not that he does not know where she is, but he has a role to fill, even with the temp — offering a hand to open air near her. )
You can call me Matt. ( she seems small. she seems more than small. she seems like a child. ) Forgive me for asking, but, I thought I asked for someone with experience. ( NO OFFENSE MAYA it's just that you're three and experience from play time doesn't count. )
[Maya would never prank a blind guy........... right away. She has to get to know him better first. She clasps her hands together and bows her head -- and then sheepishly realizes the gesture is lost on him. Whoops. She hastily ruses forward to shake his hand enthusiastically instead! Hopefully his blind ass didn't notice that dumb little slip-up]
Okay... Matt. [It feels a little strange to just call him by his first name, but then again, her sister told her to call Phoenix "Nick", and that was fine. Maybe all law offices are informal like this. She's not about to yell "YOOOOO MATT", though. Not yet]
[She does get indignant at the last comment, puffing her cheeks (and totally disproving the theory that she's not a kid, right), but manages to reign it in and chirps out instead:]
Don't let my adorable voice and aura of charm fool you, mist--- Matt! I've got plenty of experience! Nick and I did a bunch of murder trials together and we took down this really nasty prosecutor, too!
[Listen to her heartbeat, chump, she's not lying and she's done more cases than you have]
( you're a complete liar she'd prank the shit out of him and we all know it, the real trick of it is going to be figuring out how to prank a guy that can smell sand in a railroad car. it'll be a battle of the minds, her setting pranks, and Matt having to think up seamless ways to avoid them
yeah, openly and visibly pouting doesn't do much to contradict the idea she's way too young to be working in a law office. the fact she isn't lying (truly and genuinely bizarre, that one) =/= her being a particularly viable candidate for the job. seriously, it has to be against labor laws, and he's never heard of someone so young getting certification as a legal assistant...
still, she's here, and it isn't as if they're walking out the door to court. what he needs help with most is the busywork, papers and organization. she may be young, but even she can do that... even though Matt feels obligated to call the temp office and make sure she's at least old enough for a job. he'll probably do that when she's out of earshot, though.
speaking of charming auras, Matt gives Maya a smile and nods at her nonsense, pulling back and idly fixing a tie that wasn't crooked in the first place as he does. ) I'd like to hear that story, ( if only because it sounds impossible, but hey. ) The work I have for you isn't quite as exciting, I'm afraid. Just need some help going through some records and police reports. It's just me in the office and I'm having some trouble keeping on top of things.
( Matt is forever playing up his blindness, but... in this instance, it's rather gratingly accurate. )
[It's not like Karen had a certificate, get on her level, Matthew. Are you even going to pay her, Phoenix sure doesn't. Unless burgers counts as payment, but even those are occasional. Anyway, Maya's level of gusto remains unchanged, and she's even starting to relax a little in his presence. It helps that she got him to smile! And fix his silly tie that didn't need fixing.]
[(It's funny, though, even blind, he's got a way better sense of fashion than Nick does...)]
Sure, once I get these bad boys under control [the bad boys being the paperwork, apparently] I'll tell you all about it!
Just point me in the direction of the paperwork [he's blind, Maya....] and I'll get you back on top in no time!
[Maybe... since it doesn't involve touching everything at a crime scene, there are no guarantees]
( wow, blind people can point??? way to be bigoted, Maya has it right! besides, it doesn't take eyes when you can practically trip over the boxes and files stacked all over his office. he heads that way and scratches at a scruffy cheek as she no doubt takes in the amount of menial labor in front of her.
is she still dying to work for him? no temp salary is worth this. )
It looks like more than it is. The opposition is trying to give me the run-around. ( it's a common tactic, however, digging through the haystack is a lot more difficult when you have to digitally reproduce every strand before you can decide if it is hay or not. )
[ but can he point in the direction of paperwork??? that's the real issue here, he needs to get on it. maya follows him over to the office of horrors, making a face. good thing he can't see. ]
They're trying to drown you in paperwork? That's sneaky. If you're not careful, they're gonna literally bury you!
[ no that's just regular case stuff, maya..... but to her credit (maybe), she does start digging in without a single complaint (yet). money is a motivator. also: she'd have to be a pretty big jerk to leave this blind guy with five tons of paperwork. are any of these even in braille? ]
(the face is fair. he'd made one when he'd gotten a sense of all the bureaucratic hoops he'd have to jump through, too. when he and Foggy had set out to be partners in a sea of amoral sharks with law degrees, Matt had been fixated on the idea of helping those that had no one else. he'd known it would be a losing battle and he'd picked up the mantle anyway.
didn't make it any less frustrating, however, when the heartless tactics he'd been so disgusted by at Landman and Zach came back to haunt him. trust prosecutors to be cruel enough to try and take advantage of a blind man.)
They're phone logs for a maintenance office. We're looking for any sort of report on building conditions. (it was a tenement case grown ugly, with the owner of the building insisting they had no responsibility for injuries inflicted on a resident when their ceiling collapsed because they'd had no prior report of any problems. there'd been no proving the building had been improperly built, so it was a matter of proving negligent maintenance — and, of course, the phone transcripts included every menial conversation the office had ever had instead of a simple report log. )
[ that's something maya has some experience with --- prosecutors playing dirty, trying to exploit every loophole possible, just piling more and more crap onto the defense in the hopes it'll stop them. it didn't stop phoenix. and it won't stop this man, either -- not if maya has anything to say about it. ]
[ she digs through the files, making a bit of a mess as she ruffles through them -- but she's got good eyes and quick fingers. before long she's waving a handful of papers in front of him. ]
( young as she looks, with a quick call to the temp agency he gets word back that somehow she's in the clear. it makes Matt want to have a long talk with whoever is responsible, though that does make the fact he's taking advantage of her services at least a little hypocritical.
which Matthew Murdock never is. (i'm here all week)
they work in decent tandem, her shuffling through files he hasn't managed to digitize yet and him slowly and aggravatingly going over his own, though at a much slower pace despite himself. he's focused on the movement of his fingers so the flicker and sudden trill of a heartbeat doesn't register, but her voice does shortly after.
and it was good of her to get the obligatory initial "come see! oh, you can't" out of the way quickly. it made life less awkward when people realized it was okay to use general colloquialisms about sight around him without offending. ) Metaphoric would be the more convenient way, ( he says, goodnaturedly. he moves to join her, staring past her while idly touching at the top of the file. ) What does it say?
( he's able to glean bits and pieces, maybe more if he focused enough. because apparently he can read maps and shit without a sense of sight. still, it'd probably be a bit suspect if he didn't have her read it out loud. )
[ listen it could be worse, sometimes phoenix's assistant is pearl. in future games, his nine year old daughter earns the money. teenage girls pulling all the weight in law offices isn't anything new to maya. ]
Orrr, I guess come hear? Since I'll be announcing it triumphantly in a sec.
[ well, if he's not offended, she won't make a fuss. it seems like he's an easygoing guy, anyway. he can probably hear the grin in her voice, she is pretty pleased with herself. ]
It's an actual report! Yanno, like a consumer review of the building -- 2/10, terrible maintenance.
[ she reads the whole thing for him bc i'm lazy and don't remember the specifics of the case. ] Think that'll knock the prosecution's socks off?
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Date: 2017-11-14 08:56 am (UTC)(pranking a blind guy, Maya... shame! for shame!)
she moves closer into the front room of an office space Matt can neither afford nor bear to replace, and he straightens slightly, stepping toward her but not exactly — not that he does not know where she is, but he has a role to fill, even with the temp — offering a hand to open air near her. )
You can call me Matt. ( she seems small. she seems more than small. she seems like a child. ) Forgive me for asking, but, I thought I asked for someone with experience. ( NO OFFENSE MAYA it's just that you're three and experience from play time doesn't count. )
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Date: 2017-11-14 10:07 am (UTC)Okay... Matt. [It feels a little strange to just call him by his first name, but then again, her sister told her to call Phoenix "Nick", and that was fine. Maybe all law offices are informal like this. She's not about to yell "YOOOOO MATT", though. Not yet]
[She does get indignant at the last comment, puffing her cheeks (and totally disproving the theory that she's not a kid, right), but manages to reign it in and chirps out instead:]
Don't let my adorable voice and aura of charm fool you, mist--- Matt! I've got plenty of experience! Nick and I did a bunch of murder trials together and we took down this really nasty prosecutor, too!
[Listen to her heartbeat, chump, she's not lying and she's done more cases than you have]
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Date: 2017-11-14 10:23 am (UTC)yeah, openly and visibly pouting doesn't do much to contradict the idea she's way too young to be working in a law office. the fact she isn't lying (truly and genuinely bizarre, that one) =/= her being a particularly viable candidate for the job. seriously, it has to be against labor laws, and he's never heard of someone so young getting certification as a legal assistant...
still, she's here, and it isn't as if they're walking out the door to court. what he needs help with most is the busywork, papers and organization. she may be young, but even she can do that... even though Matt feels obligated to call the temp office and make sure she's at least old enough for a job. he'll probably do that when she's out of earshot, though.
speaking of charming auras, Matt gives Maya a smile and nods at her nonsense, pulling back and idly fixing a tie that wasn't crooked in the first place as he does. ) I'd like to hear that story, ( if only because it sounds impossible, but hey. ) The work I have for you isn't quite as exciting, I'm afraid. Just need some help going through some records and police reports. It's just me in the office and I'm having some trouble keeping on top of things.
( Matt is forever playing up his blindness, but... in this instance, it's rather gratingly accurate. )
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Date: 2017-11-14 10:56 am (UTC)[It's not like Karen had a certificate, get on her level, Matthew. Are you even going to pay her, Phoenix sure doesn't. Unless burgers counts as payment, but even those are occasional. Anyway, Maya's level of gusto remains unchanged, and she's even starting to relax a little in his presence. It helps that she got him to smile! And fix his silly tie that didn't need fixing.]
[(It's funny, though, even blind, he's got a way better sense of fashion than Nick does...)]
Sure, once I get these bad boys under control [the bad boys being the paperwork, apparently] I'll tell you all about it!
Just point me in the direction of the paperwork [he's blind, Maya....] and I'll get you back on top in no time!
[Maybe... since it doesn't involve touching everything at a crime scene, there are no guarantees]
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Date: 2017-11-25 02:36 am (UTC)is she still dying to work for him? no temp salary is worth this. )
It looks like more than it is. The opposition is trying to give me the run-around. ( it's a common tactic, however, digging through the haystack is a lot more difficult when you have to digitally reproduce every strand before you can decide if it is hay or not. )
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Date: 2018-05-07 07:27 am (UTC)They're trying to drown you in paperwork? That's sneaky. If you're not careful, they're gonna literally bury you!
[ no that's just regular case stuff, maya..... but to her credit (maybe), she does start digging in without a single complaint (yet). money is a motivator. also: she'd have to be a pretty big jerk to leave this blind guy with five tons of paperwork. are any of these even in braille? ]
Sooo... what should I look for?
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Date: 2018-05-08 06:18 am (UTC)didn't make it any less frustrating, however, when the heartless tactics he'd been so disgusted by at Landman and Zach came back to haunt him. trust prosecutors to be cruel enough to try and take advantage of a blind man.)
They're phone logs for a maintenance office. We're looking for any sort of report on building conditions. (it was a tenement case grown ugly, with the owner of the building insisting they had no responsibility for injuries inflicted on a resident when their ceiling collapsed because they'd had no prior report of any problems. there'd been no proving the building had been improperly built, so it was a matter of proving negligent maintenance — and, of course, the phone transcripts included every menial conversation the office had ever had instead of a simple report log. )
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Date: 2018-06-08 03:19 am (UTC)[ she digs through the files, making a bit of a mess as she ruffles through them -- but she's got good eyes and quick fingers. before long she's waving a handful of papers in front of him. ]
Mr. Murdoo--- I mean, Matt, look at what I found!
[ a beat. ]
Ummm.... I mean that metaphorically, of course.
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Date: 2018-06-23 06:00 am (UTC)which Matthew Murdock never is. (i'm here all week)
they work in decent tandem, her shuffling through files he hasn't managed to digitize yet and him slowly and aggravatingly going over his own, though at a much slower pace despite himself. he's focused on the movement of his fingers so the flicker and sudden trill of a heartbeat doesn't register, but her voice does shortly after.
and it was good of her to get the obligatory initial "come see! oh, you can't" out of the way quickly. it made life less awkward when people realized it was okay to use general colloquialisms about sight around him without offending. ) Metaphoric would be the more convenient way, ( he says, goodnaturedly. he moves to join her, staring past her while idly touching at the top of the file. ) What does it say?
( he's able to glean bits and pieces, maybe more if he focused enough. because apparently he can read maps and shit without a sense of sight. still, it'd probably be a bit suspect if he didn't have her read it out loud. )
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Date: 2018-08-29 05:03 am (UTC)Orrr, I guess come hear? Since I'll be announcing it triumphantly in a sec.
[ well, if he's not offended, she won't make a fuss. it seems like he's an easygoing guy, anyway. he can probably hear the grin in her voice, she is pretty pleased with herself. ]
It's an actual report! Yanno, like a consumer review of the building -- 2/10, terrible maintenance.
[ she reads the whole thing for him bc i'm lazy and don't remember the specifics of the case. ] Think that'll knock the prosecution's socks off?