Welcome to Claire’s hell. Locked in an office with four superheroes’ favorite people. Each has their own opinions on the horrible option that is going on around the people that put them there. Some are more positive than the others.
“If Jessica was more careful we wouldn’t be here,” Malcolm and Trish have been arguing in a corner for around an hour now. With the bits and pieces Claire was able to pick up, it is clear that they are arguing over why they are there.
Foggy and Karen seem to be whispering about something on the other side of the room. No one was talking outside of their groups. It was Colleen that broke the ice. “So what can yours do?”
Foggy snorted. “Didn’t know this was a show and tell. I would have brought something cool.” Karen hit him in the arm. “We would rather not say.”
“I’m not going first,” Trish says. She is clearly dressed to fancy to be stuck in a place like this. “Then I’ll go.” Clair stood up. “Hi my name is Claire, my boyfriend is Luke Cage and he is bulletproof and with extreme strength. I’m also the nurse who kept all of your dumbasses alive for this long.”
Small laughs. “And we thank you,” Karen says.
“Are you dating the hero of Harlem?” Trish asks.
“You’ve done enough story’s on him to know the answer.”
“I guess I’m next.” Colleen has been opening and closing the saber of her katana, an anxious tick. She stands up, closing the blade all the way. “I'm here because of the Immortal Iron fist. He is skilled in the ways of martial arts and can channel chi into his fists creating a powerful attack.” She sits back down, nearly shrinking into herself.
Trish stands up after a moment, looks around and says “My sister also has super strength, but she refuses to do anything that might help someone.”
“I heard about her,” Karen says. “Didn’t she kill that one guy that could control people with his mind?”
Malcolm shrugged. “His name was Kilgrave. He doesn't control people through mind control , he does it through commands.”
“I think my firm got her off, or at least one of the partners did.” Foggy said.
“You work with Hogarth?” Malcolm asked.
Foggy nodded, and looked away. An awkward air settles over the group. A bunch of strangers with superpowered friends and family, a horrible combination. “So Karen and Foggy, how’d you meet?” Claire asked. A polite conversation starter.
“I was charged with murder” she responded. And that is a conversation ender. They all sat like that for a couple more minutes. Everyone was kinda looking at each other, no one talked. Not even in the small groups. What broke the tension was Misty Knight. “You realize that you can go to different rooms right?”
In a instant nearly everyone was pulling out of that small office, with only Claire and Colleen staying put. “That could have gone worse.” At that Colleen let’s out a proper laugh.
“How on earth could that have gone worse?” She kept laughing.
Claire started laughing with her. “I don’t know! A fight maybe!” They both kept laughing.