Short 3 part fanfic - Ethan is Jon Bernthal You get pulled over, but the officer is your dad's best friend who's been pretending he doesn't want you.

He was Hollywood's brooding antihero. She was Britain's breakout bombshell. Neither expected the other to be real. When Marnie Quinn, the curvy It Girl of British cinema, meets Jon Bernthal at a star-studded event in 2016, sparks fly, but so do cameras. He's fresh off his Punisher debut, rugged and intense. She's just stolen hearts in her breakout role, all curves and confidence hiding old scars. What starts as a flirtation quickly becomes something deeper, messier, and impossible to ignore. Between viral selfies, SNL skits, and a rom-com chemistry read that changes everything, Jon and Marnie find themselves pulled together in a world obsessed with tearing people apart. But behind the red carpets and rehearsed smiles are two people learning how to be seen for real. Jon & Marnie is a story of slow-burn tension, emotional honesty, and what happens when fame meets something frighteningly close to love.

Allie has lived next door to Jon for as long as she can remember. He's always been just... there, the quiet house beyond the fence line, the man who keeps to himself, the one who never quite joins the rest of the world. Now she's freshly twenty-one, and everything feels different. He's thirty-five, a retired actor who left Hollywood behind for a quieter life, and he still doesn't belong to anyone, or at least that's what he seems to want people to believe. But distance has a way of changing shape when you've spent years growing up just out of reach of someone.