You Always Kill My (Sugar) High (Gwen-Matt | PG13 | 7,116 words): Gwen convinces Matt Murderdock to chaperone her and her friends while they trick-or-treat. This is a super fun fic with great character interactions, a lot of humor, and a bit of scary as befitting a Halloween fic.
Excerpt:
"You've certainly gotten very comfortable making demands, Gwendolyn."
And there he went, doing the Big Bad Kingpin pose, his feet shoulder-width apart and the white cane that also served as a sheath for his katana planted firmly between them. But she wasn't going to be cowed.
"I learned that from you," she told him, poisonously sweet.
And... There. The implication that she was learning from him, beginning to take after him, sent a flicker of— pride, maybe? — across his face. Which was, of course, the moment that Gwen realized it was probably true. She'd hardly picked up this calculated manipulation from anyone else. Gwen pushed the thought away before Murdock could smell out her weak point, or whatever it was he did. This was for her friends.
Murdock blew out a breath and rolled his shoulders a little as the silence stretched between them. And then another flicker of a smile passed across his face, barely there before it was gone.
"I can't imagine your father would approve of my chaperoning you," he pointed out with an 'oh well, what can you do' kind of shrug. "Nor your friends' parents."
Wow. He really thought he had an ace in the hole with that one, huh? Gwen had to bite her lip to keep from laughing.
Excerpt:
"You've certainly gotten very comfortable making demands, Gwendolyn."
And there he went, doing the Big Bad Kingpin pose, his feet shoulder-width apart and the white cane that also served as a sheath for his katana planted firmly between them. But she wasn't going to be cowed.
"I learned that from you," she told him, poisonously sweet.
And... There. The implication that she was learning from him, beginning to take after him, sent a flicker of— pride, maybe? — across his face. Which was, of course, the moment that Gwen realized it was probably true. She'd hardly picked up this calculated manipulation from anyone else. Gwen pushed the thought away before Murdock could smell out her weak point, or whatever it was he did. This was for her friends.
Murdock blew out a breath and rolled his shoulders a little as the silence stretched between them. And then another flicker of a smile passed across his face, barely there before it was gone.
"I can't imagine your father would approve of my chaperoning you," he pointed out with an 'oh well, what can you do' kind of shrug. "Nor your friends' parents."
Wow. He really thought he had an ace in the hole with that one, huh? Gwen had to bite her lip to keep from laughing.