lifeoftheaveragenerd
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Frank Castle has spent most of his life surrounded by war. War overseas. War in the streets of New York. War inside his own head.
But one cold night in Hell's Kitchen, he finds something that doesn't belong in a battlefield.
A baby.
Left in a dumpster behind a rundown diner, barely alive, wrapped in a torn sweatshirt and crying like the world had already given up on her. Frank could have walked away. That's what soldiers do when something isn't their mission.
But he doesn't.
He takes her home.
Maria Castle calls the little girl Jessica, though she quickly becomes Jessie to everyone who loves her. For one year, Jessie has something she was never meant to have: a family. Frank, Maria, Lisa, and Frank Jr. become her entire world.
Then Central Park happens.
Gunshots. Blood. A war brought to Frank's doorstep.
When the smoke clears, Jessie is the only one left breathing besides him.
The world will know Frank Castle as The Punisher.
But they'll never know the real reason he started the war.
He didn't just lose a family.
He still has one left.
And heaven help anyone who tries to take her too.