Chapter 5

The time after was actually in December and Foggy only knew because matt called him.

"Foggy?" he heard gasping on the other side of the line.

"Mattie are you okay? Who did it? Were you mugged or dare deviling? I swear all the nasties come out around Christmas."

"Foggy no one hurt me." Matt sighed.

"Then what happened? Are you in a garbage can? I smelled your outfit after that happened and I think I'll leave that one to Claire. Unless your dying or something." Foggy wrinkled his nose just thinking of the stench that clung to matt for days afterward.

"Im pretty sure ice doesn't stink." Matt laughed hoarsely.

"Wait what matt?"

"I may have kinda slipped on ice and I just might be a little, sorta stuck."

"Wait you slipped on ice? Really? Mr ninja extraordinaire fell because of winter weather?" Foggy laughed then sobered up here matts hiss on the other end of the line.

"Yeah it's not exactly easy to sense and I hit my bruised ribs."

"Aww Mattie, where are you?" Foggy tucked the phone against his shoulder and shrugged on a jacket.

"I think near the park but nearer to the crosswalk."

"East or west?" Foggy opened the door and was hit in the face by a freezing gust of wind. "Ugh matt how have you not frozen to death."

"I don't know and I'm pretty sure that it's east."

"Ok I'm coming matt, hold on just a minute."

"What do you think I've been doing?"

"Well just a few more, see you in a minute."

"Hear you in a minute." Matt said as he hung up. At least the cold hadn't frozen his sense of humor foggy muttered to himself.

"Hey taxi" he yelled not caring about politeness as the lady next to him flinched. A yellow car pulled over and he nearly knocked down an old man racing to get there. "Sherman's park, east side." He demanded. (I don't know if Sherman park even exists)

"Sure" the driver said and sped off. Foggy spent an anxious few minutes as the taxi swerved around cars and snow drifts. Finally he got there and threw a couple of dollars at the driver and lept out of the cab. "Thanks mate" the cabbie yelled as he sped off.

Foggy strode towards the crosswalk and started yelling. "Matt, Mattie" he finally spotted a pile of lawyer in one of the snow drifts surrounded by black ice. Not that it mattered to matt what color is was.

"Yeah fog" he groaned.

"Mattie here let me help you up."

"Okay" Matt slurred. Foggy began to feel genuinely scared. He reached under matts arms and hauled him up. It was a testament to Hell's Kitchen that no one stopped hurrying by.

"Thanks foggy" Matt said clearer.

"Thank me when you don't feel like a sightless icicle."

"My ribs hurt." Matt whined.

"Well you did fall on them." Foggy pulled matt up fully to stand next to him. "Are they really bad, like hospital bad?"

"There not broken and not cracked." Matt supplied helpfully.

"Okay" foggy hauled all 160 pounds of matt Murdock to the crosswalk and hailed another taxi. Another driver stopped almost instantly and foggy shoved matt into the heated space.

"Nelson and Murdock law firm." Matt mumbled.

"Hey buddy are you drunk?" The cabbie turned around. "Im not taking you anywhere if your trashed."

"He's not drunk," foggy frowned. "He's blind and at the moment freezing and hurt."

"Okay then, well sorry. Where do you want to go again?"

"Nelson and Murdock law firm." Matt repeated.

"Are you sure you want to work Mattie?" Foggy put up a hand to stop the cabbie.

"Yeah it's closer and warm, also aspirin."

"K then, Nelson and Murdock." Foggy confirmed.

The car sped off and they arrived back quickly. Well foggy was back matt just made it. "How much do I owe you?" Foggy asked.

"No charge, you solved my brothers case when no one else could. Trusting that your actually Nelson and Murdock."

"We are" Matt murmured.

"And I didn't want your friend there to freeze to death." The guy finished.

"Thanks" foggy said and hauled matt into their building. The frozen one of them nearly melted in the sudden heat.

"Thanks foggy." Matt sighed as he flopped on their rather beat up couch.

"Well I don't want my best friend dying." Foggy smiled.

Matt smiled even with his eyes closed. "You still forgot my cane."

"Well your lucky I remembered you." Foggy said making sure the grin melted through his voice.

Matt snorted and smiled again even as he fell asleep.