In the city of blood, survival has a face. ___ Frank Castle has spent years hunting monsters. Then a new one appears. A vigilante who doesn't play by rules, doesn't follow plans, and seems to enjoy chaos more than justice. She leaves behind nothing but destruction, puzzles, and two mocking initials. L.M. She knows Frank better than he knows himself. And the worst part? He might actually enjoy the game.

♐︎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑡, 𝑖'𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑡 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐍 was destined for great things. but the red room got to her first. carter's journey through life was hard, painful, traumatizing, and just so unlucky. she was rescued from dreykov's hold, but was she ever really free? she went from battle to battle, fight to fight, but was there ever really an end in sight? she found love, lost it, and then found it again, but would she ever really have everything she wanted? would her family ever be complete? 𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝑡𝑜 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏: 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝑥 𝐎𝐂

This is a VERY slow burn. ----- Frank Castle has a routine. Before a job-and sometimes after-he stops at the same twenty-four-hour diner. Same corner booth. Same black coffee. Same waitress. Josie Monroe, twenty-five and new to New York City, knows Frank only as her quiet, intimidating regular. He barely talks, always sits facing the door, and occasionally shows up with bruised knuckles he refuses to explain. She has no idea what he really does. No idea that the man whose coffee she has waiting every night is the Punisher. Then Frank walks in one rainy night beaten, bloody, and barely holding himself together. Josie grabs the first-aid kit instead of asking questions. Frank knows he should stop coming. Because somewhere along the way, the diner stopped being part of his routine. Josie became it.

At thirty-six, he's a lethal ghost who views her strictly as an assignment. At twenty-one, she's a reckless scientist who refuses to be told when to breathe. He's supposed to keep her safe and keep his distance. Instead, she's ruining his detachment, and he's realizing some lines are meant to be broken.

"Just one kiss." "No." "What? You afraid you're going to catch feelings?" completed. Steve Rogers x OC

❝Just know that from this point on, whatever happens, I'll be with you. I'm not gonna leave your side until you tell me to.❞ . . .in which she helps him find his way back to himself. [BOOK ONE] [Highest ranking: #1 in MCU/fanfiction as of 5/26/18]

latibule (n) a hiding place; of safety and comfort ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ He was alone in this world. He couldn't trust anyone, couldn't believe anything anybody said. He was confused, cold, hurt and most of all, he was broken. He seemed colder than Winter itself, but he was merely a lonely soul yearning for the comfort of a friend, or anyone for that matter. Then he met her. She was a deity, the purest soul he had ever laid his eyes upon. Her gentle and kind heart broke through his barriers. She was his latibule. ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ ➳ - highest rank on Fanfiction : #319 - - #1 in bucky - - #1 in avengers - - 05/11/2016 : 100K views - - A Bucky x Original Character Fanfiction - - All characters and the universe belongs to Marvel - - I only own a few of the characters and some other elements of the story - - Set after the Winter Soldier, but the storyline is altered (the events of the Avengers: Age of Ultron never took place, or anything after that and Loki will be part of the Avengers now) - -Warning: Language-

His plan was to lay low in Bucharest while he tried to figured out who Bucky Barnes was. He didn't intend to come across someone from his past who knew him as the Winter Soldier. Despite his instincts of wanting to push her away, for her safety, Bucky realizes he doesn't have to recover alone. (Post-TWS & CW compliant).

Coward. Freak. Killer. Marie Devnner has never known a life out of the shadows; out of hiding. But a one-off encounter with a mugger threw her into the spotlight and into the path of a certain billionaire philanthropist and an observant redhead. With a hazy past and powers that S.H.I.E.L.D. is dying to get its hands on, Marie is desperate to escape back to the streets and back to the safety of the shadows. But an ultimatum between life in prison (complete with electric-shock handcuffs) and becoming an agent doesn't leave her with much of a choice. Still, nothing could have prepared her for the wild roller-coaster that is the Avengers. And she never expected the feeling of "home." Maire has always been alone. But, maybe she doesn't have to be. COMPLETE

SOME SHOTS AREN'T MEANT TO MISS. BUT THIS ONE DID. He built his reputation on never missing. Every shot was perfect-until the day a young woman walked away from the impossible. Now, the one target he couldn't kill has become the only thing he can't stop thinking about. As obsession turns into answers.