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Sami was safe now, and that was all that mattered. Ray and Seema had had a whispered fight, by which he meant a moment during which Seema had yelled at Ray and blamed him for endangering her and their son, and Ray had agreed with everything she said.
Matt had smirked a little more after he and Nelson had showed off their awesome dynamic by finishing each other’s sentences when telling Ray to hire them so that he could testify against Fisk in a show that looked like it had been practised before, but which Ray highly doubted because the pair was just so damn badass. Obviously Ray hired them.
Matt had taken Ray to a boxing hall with a table, few chairs, and an angry Karen Page inside it.
Ray had tried to apologize to her but she cut him off and went straight to explaining their plan of getting Sami and Seema outside of the US and told him they’d pay for the flights. No wonder why Nelson & Murdock’s clients loved them.
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“You ready for this? testifying is not gonna be easy.”
“I loved my job. I loved being the good guy. I want to be on the right side of the line again.”’
Matt chuckled darkly.
“You didn’t love it enough to stop Fisk.” Shit. What was it with people blaming him for everything? Could be the fact that he was responsible for said everything, but still. It wasn’t nice.
“Fisk knows how to make people vulnerable. He got my sister-in-law’s health insurance canceled, left me with bills to pay-”
“So you take a loan, sell your house figure it out. You don’t allow yourself to become an accessory!” Matt interrupted.
“It wasn’t that easy-”
“You backed his play, Ray. You moved him into a hotel, even gave him his toys back.”
“He was giving information that saved lives,” Ray knew it was total bullshit but he had a pride to defend, dammit!
he was on the verge of crying now. He was honest to God scared. Scared of Matt, scared of driving his one chance of not getting murdered by Fisk away by acting like an ass and he sure didn’t want to lose the guy he was developing a major crush on, either. But he had to defend himself.
Matt was straight up yelling now. “While he was taking lives. While he was taking over the city!”
Ray decided to try and change the topic out of himself and yelled: “What the hell are you doing? I thought you were my lawyer!”
“I am your lawyer, but I can’t help you if you can’t answer this one simple question. Why didn’t you blow the whistle when you watched your boss murder an agent?” Matt asked furiously pointing an accusing finger at him.
“I don’t know,” he answered knowing it was useless.
Matt continued: “Or when you saw Dex walking in that church? You didn’t say a goddamn word when he murdered a priest!”
“I don’t know,” Ray muttered.
“Then why are we here?!” Matt was enraged, probably about to punch Ray if he didn’t get a real answer.
And of course Ray was fucking scared.