"I owe you a black eye and two kisses" - Moderately based on The Punisher Series and Daredevil. What happens when Melanie's strangely quiet neighbor shows up at his door bruised, bloodied, and barely standing just as she's leaving for her night shift. As a nurse, she can't walk away. As his neighbor, she probably should.

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.

Lucy Birdsong knows tragedy by heart. By day, she teaches Shakespeare to undergrads at Brooklyn College, spends her nights beneath stage lights, and takes the last ferry home to an apartment she can barely afford on Staten Island. Her next door neighbor is another kind of tragedy entirely. Frank Castle is older, cold, rude, and impossible to read. He keeps strange hours, rarely speaks unless it's to tell her to keep the noise down, and has an unsettling habit of appearing in the hallway just when she thinks she's alone. She tells herself he's none of her business. Then again, Shakespeare always did have something to say about doomed romances. "The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance." - The Tempest

Her father, Sean, served in the military alongside the infamous Frank Castle. When Sean's service ended, he expected to leave that life behind and finally find some peace. Instead, he found himself caught in the middle of an illegal military weapons operation orchestrated by one of his former military buddies, Mercer. Sean testified against him, helping put Mercer behind bars for life. At least, that was where he was supposed to stay. Years later, Mercer is free-and he's coming after the families of every man who helped put him away. Twenty-two-year-old Y/N has built a life entirely separate from her father's past. She's independent, stubborn, and dedicated to her career as an ER nurse. She knows nothing about Mercer or the choices her father made all those years ago. Until Sean receives a photograph of his daughter leaving work. Someone has been watching her. And Sean trusts only one man to keep his daughter alive. Frank Castle. Now Y/N has a bodyguard she never asked for, a target on her back she doesn't understand, and a man following her every move who seems determined to make sure she survives-whether she likes it or not. But the longer Frank stays by her side, the harder it becomes to remember the one boundary neither of them is supposed to cross. Mercer is getting closer. Frank is losing control. And no one is safe.

"to burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." - Federico García Lorca Staying out of trouble is not Frank Castle's strong suit. But is Jenavieve Howlett more trouble than The Punisher can handle? Frank Castle x OC [The Punisher, Season 2] WARNING: It's Frank Castle, so obviously, this story contains violence. #1 in #frankcastle - Oct24-June25 #1 in #thepunisher - Oct2024, Jan-March2025 #1 in #jonbernthal - Aug, Sep, 2024, May2025 #1 in #punisher - Aug2024 #1 in #daredevil - Aug2024

Rule number one: Don't look at her. Rule number two: Don't cross the line. Staying in her father's guest house was supposed to be simple, but Frank is finding it impossible to keep his eyes off Nora. He watches the way she hides behind her clothes and tolerates a guy who doesn't deserve her. Frank knows he's out of line. He knows he's too old to fall into this trap. He just doesn't care anymore.

When she comes home for summer, the one man who makes her feel safe is the one she can never have-her father's best friend, Frank Castle. Older, scarred, and fiercely protective, Frank tries to keep his distance. But in the hazy heat of long summers and stolen moments, forbidden desire begins to unravel them both. A slow-burn age-gap romance thick with tension, tenderness, and dangerous temptation. TW: heavy smutt, swearing, alcohol, cheating mentioned, age gaps, sex, slight violence.

In which, Tony Stark's daughter moves into Stark tower, and is pushed into forming friendships with her father's coworkers, the avengers. With some of these friendships turning into something more; best friends, parental figures, sibling-like bonds, and it one superhero's case, a secret relationship. Slowburn, friends to lovers, age gap... the plot makes sense if u hold it at an angle and squint started October 1st 2024 ended - 9th September 2026 (still post occasional filler chapter updates, not much plot js entertaining)

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. 𝐇𝐞 𝒊𝒔 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑 is a disaster response journalist with a talent for getting too close to the action-and a stubborn streak that won't let her back down. With a camera in one hand and caffeine in the other, she's made a career out of standing where she shouldn't. But after a chaotic Midtown explosion and an unexpected rooftop rescue, Tess finds herself face-to-face with the Human Torch himself: 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍𝐍𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐌. He's cocky, reckless, too charming for his own good... and somehow keeps showing up whenever she's in trouble. What starts as irritation turns into tension, and tension turns into something she doesn't have words for yet. But the closer they get, the more Tess is forced to confront the fire inside herself-the one she inherited, the one she's been running from, and the one Johnny might just fan into something she can't ignore. 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍𝐍𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐌 (𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐇) 𝐗 𝐎𝐂 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑: 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏𝐒 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 6/26/25 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒏'𝒔 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 #1 in #humantorch | 8/8/25 #1 in #storm | 8/8/25 #1 in #suestorm | 10/7/25 #1 in #josephquinn | 11/22/25 #1 in #fantastic4 | 12/29/25 #1 in #johnnystorm | 1/1/26

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