That and I don't want to be signing autographs on people's chests. Boundaries, some people need to learn them.

She is.

I'd say you do the same. You're out there at night too, not just me.

... It's a hard lesson to learn.

No, it wouldn't be better. I'm not signing anyone's body parts. It's weird.

Not if people are using the chocolates to woo her, but I really hope that's not what you'd be doing by buying her chocolates.

I think it's natural to want to be a better person because of the people around you. Translating that into taking better care of yourself... it's hard when that sometimes directly contradicts the job you have to do.

What do cosplays have to do with signing body parts?

You're the weird one, wanting to woo a nun with chocolates. Leave the religious folks be, Kate.

So what type of looking after yourself do you do?

Wait, why did Tony Stark get people asking to innocently sign their helmets and I get the people taking off their shirts for autographs?

I think that is very sweet of you. Probably not necessary to bring something to a meeting about volunteer work, but she does like tea and chocolate.

Physician, heal thyself.

Yeah, that doesn't say anything positive about him or the people wanting a Stark autograph on themselves.

I don't think it's inappropriate, just not necessary. It's very sweet, Kate. You don't have to but if you did I'm sure she'd appreciate it. She likes chai teas.

It sounds like it applies to you, too. I can worry about you.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but no, I'm not.

If you get her extra I can have some when I visit her. Just make it good quality loose leaf tea.

It covers the bases when we fall short on ourselves.

I think his policies and choices over the decades have been short-sighted, selfish, eco-and-ego-centric, and incredibly harmful. A Hail Mary sacrifice at the end doesn't change the damage done by years of systemic willful ignorance, with pathetic golf claps at high level policies without ever living where the ideology needed to exist. ... maybe he was a nice man in person, but he was not a good man for governmental policies, and just because he had money he never should have been given the chance to push changes. Which goes for most of our 1%. At least you're living and experiencing the needs of people on the streets. It's not all about fighting aliens and trying to pull a Fisk at a national level with Registration.

[Matt had lived on a street level through that bullshit. He'd lived through so many 'mishaps' at Stark Industries. The problem wasn't just the man, it was The Man, the systemic corrupted system that gave far too much power to predominately rich white men with toys.] For the record, I don't like Stark Industries any better with Pepper Potts in charge. She can cry about the poor kids and throw money around all she wants that's really just pocket change to her, it doesn't change the inherent corruption at that level of disproportionate wealth. And again, I'm sure she's not some evil witch. She's just benefitting from a system that needs change at the starting level, not someone smiling at the camera as they write a check.

... I'm sorry. I just... I'm in the courtroom all the time with these people's lawyers. It's exhausting. It's not an attack on you, who at least are there on a street level fighting alongside people who need it. Or even Tony or Pepper. It's just a broken system that we can get drunk over one day if you really want to hear how some broke lawyer from Hell's Kitchen would start addressing it.

... anyway, back to tea. My mom does like chai! I wasn't lying. I can't help it if I'm my mother's son.

... I remember. Two golden retrievers bonding. He really liked you, Kate.

I do.

[A beat.] Angela, Hector's niece, came to me. When Hector died. She checked my own privilege. I have it, even while having been on the shit receiving end of people like Stark's. I just wish people would be open to learn. So. It's not about ranting. It's about finding solutions. One at a time. I know Fisk is the priority now.

Yeah. She and I bond over tea now. And she became a sounding board when Lantom died. I don't know. My dad... he was just solid, you know? He was always there. Always. My mother... we had to work to trust one another. It taught me a lot about myself. About giving people grace.

You remind me of him sometimes.

... maybe. I mean, that does mean a lot. Hero or whatever, standing up matters. I can't call Frank a hero, but he's on our side. I do call people who aren't fighters who rise up heroes. Yeah. Anyone who is willing to stand up for what matters and set their ego aside, we need right now. Along with people like you, who stood the tide no matter what.

... my mom went through a lot. She was sick. I don't know that it's my story to tell. I found out she was my mother in my thirties. After my time at the orphanage. Just know that I was safe at the orphanage, even if I was one of many. And she was who I needed her to be after Lantom died.

I think you're ridiculous, but the world needs a little ridiculous. And that you're stubborn, for the people who need it.

No. It's not black and white. But there do have to be some lines. Accountability. A social contract in place. We can't do whatever we want. We have to work alongside a society that aims for the best. If not... it's our civic duty to rebel and demand better.

Me, too. I'm even more happy for all the kids she's helped who never had a father or a Stick. Those kids who only ever knew Sister Maggie and the others at the orphanage - what a little fireball of ethical indignation and unrelenting love we have coming.

I didn't mean that. Foggy wasn't just... [A beat, because it hurts to have what he meant brought to such reductionist terms. A failure in doing what he meant, what Foggy meant, justice.] I think I'm too tired to talk about it right now. I'm not saying it right.

I saw Frank. He doesn't see this as his fight. [Matt's voice holds some judgement, which is always part of why he and Frank can never stay on the same page for long. A clash of ideologies that Matt has now drawn as a permanent refusal to help, rather than Frank doing Frank's Own Shit in Frank's Own Way - which is PRECISELY Why Fury never recruited either Frank or Matt. They are two sides of the same damn coin. Matt does Matt's Shit Matt's Way. His way just falls in line with Peter's, with Kate's, with the Defenders, so there's no real clash. Frank, though? Frank will talk Matt to death on a rooftop with one or the other chained for hours and Go Through It - fight an army - then go back to fighting yelling at one another. The epitome of a couple that Stays Up To Fight rather than going to bed angry.]

For her, you mean? She seems to like what she does, but you'd have to ask.

I just... meant it well. The world needs more people like Foggy.

[He, Matt, needed more people like that in his life.]

... I talked to him right after Hector's case. He knew about the task force. The bullets. [Though it has gotten worse.] I can't deal with Frank right now. Let's get through Fisk's gala.

Yeah. She said she had a calling. A destiny. [Matt loved his dad, he idolized Jack Murdock and took the morality of how to be a good man from him. Yet the suffering and shame, the dragging herself up to become something new that protected others with a feral shield... Daredevil felt in his soul that he was Maggie's son.]

I was talking about how you were like him. Not me.

He didn't seem to. [A grudging tone in his voice. Like Matt wants to rail, but when hearing another's rebuke it's like a brother getting huffy on behalf of another brother. Only Matt can give shit until he knows otherwise.] Right. Yeah. I should get changed.

I guess it does.

You bring people together. Even at that shitfaced dinner.