Tuesday Afternoon: Third Floor Common Room

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After his one class for the day, Matt hauled his braille textbooks for English Literature online course into the common room to do some studying. He also managed to get the TV on and found the ESPN channel which just happened to be doing a report of the most recent and future boxing events.

Granted none of the boxers were ones he heard of but it made him feel at home.

[Open common room is open. Matt is very interruptible and I'm extremely bored. Entertain me!]

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Darcy had been down with a cold over the weekend and had missed anything odd happening. It was becoming a trend with her. It also explained why she was cheerfully poking her nose into various common rooms to see who was around. She stopped on the third.

"Are you even allowed to do homework in a common room?" She asked teasingly and came in.

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"Is that where I am?" Matt joked back. "I thought was in the library."

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Darcy winced as she plopped on to a couch. "Wow, where are you from that your library has such a comfy couch." She may have bounced on it a little. "And...ESPN on the TV?" She teased back, ignoring her mental head smack.

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"I wanted to get out of the room and my Dad's a boxer," Matt gesturing towards the TV with his head. "So I like to hear what's going on in the world of sports every once and a while. And... Okay there's really no sofa's at my old library but the one we have here is pretty nice."

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Darcy prossed all of this. "Lubrary or soda?" She finally asked.

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"Both," Matt said with a chuckle. "Though I doubt the library would let me listen to news about boxing without headphones."

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"What if you're tucked into a corner and it's on bet , very low?" Darcy suggested.

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"I'll take my chances here," Matt smirked. "More of an opportunity to meet new people and chat."

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"And who have you met yet?" Darcy asked and suddenly realized she forgot to mention her name. "I'm Darcy, by the way."

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"I haven't kept a list," Matt admitted.

Though 95% of them had been girls. Fancy that.

"I'm Matt Murdock, from New York. From one of those places where it isn't the future and there's various people with super powers."

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It was shocking that, shocking!

It took Darcy a full minute to fit that into her world view before she decided 'aliens did it' would cover superpowers.

"Oh, I think you're in my sex class." Was what she finally ended up saying. "Sex Ed. I'm from Arizona, and same except I do t think people have super powers." Not quite Darcy, not quite.

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Oh, Darcy. You'll learn one day.

"Yeah, it's actually fairly rare at this point in Marvel History," Matt admitted. "There were a bunch of heroes back during World War II. Now-a-days, people seem to have some sort of genetic thing that gives them powers. It's a little strange once I say that out loud."

Says the guy with super senses because he took a face bath in toxic chemicals.

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It was a bit terrifying how quickly Darcy's brain came up with 'alien breeding' from genetics.

She shrugged. "I got my iPod taken by some secret service men in black guys, weird things happen."

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Matt boggled at that for a moment. "What did you do to have your iPod taken away?" he asked. "Is the president that freaked out by technology where you're from?"

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"Obama?" Darcy said, confused. "Nah, I mean, didn't the secret service have to confiscate his blackberry at some point?" She shook her head. "I think they just thought that I had info about the alien god dude who fell from the sky and got hit by Jane's car." it made complete sense in Darcy's head.

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You'll have to let Matt boggle at you for a moment, Darcy.

"... Alien god?"

There we go.

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"Thor." Darcy sort-of explained. "He's like, an alien? But he ended up in our stories as a god." That much Darcy had understood clearly. "And then Jane hit him with her car and I tasered him. But it made sense at the time!" Mostly.

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"You tasered and alien who is really the Nordic god?" Matt asked in disbelief.

Though really he didn't sense any dishonesty coming from Darcy so...

"Okay, I think I'm going to concede that your world might be a bit stranger than mine."

And one day, years from now, when Matt has become Daredevil and is having a quiet moment in the Avengers HQ, he'll ask Thor about getting tasered in Arizona. But that's a story for another day. (Stay tuned true believers!)

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"I thought he was a crazy homeless person who was going to attack Jane! And me!" Darcy defended herself. "And we've only had the one odd person, you make it sound like you have more than one so your world is weirder. Or something."

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"Yeah, okay but we don't really have that many aliens or super powered guys wandering through Hell's Kitchen," Matt said with a chuckle. "At least none that I know of."

Well there was Matt himself, but he wasn't going there.

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"Maybe they're hiding?" Darcy suggested. "Isn't Hell's Kitchen like, a really bad neighborhood?"

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"It's not exactly what I call an up and coming neighborhood," Matt said with a shrug. "And I doubt there's a lot of places that alien gods would like to hang out in."

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Darcy shrugged. "He liked a back rode bar in the middle of nowhere. They had good beer."