close enough

You moved into a new building four months ago.

Closer to work, a great café on the corner, the park nearby. It was a good choice.
Your neighbor in 4B is anything but close. Frank Castle is stubborn, quiet, gets in too late, and stares a little too much. His bruises don't come with explanations. His words are two syllables or less. And his arms are hard not to stare at...

Lucky for you, his dog decided yours was his new best friend.

And eventually, close enough stops being enough.
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NO USE OF Y/N. medium-ish burn.
This is NOT a lore/canon accurate punisher character study (no dead family/frank is just an asshole). pieces of MCU lore are cherrypicked and sprinkled throughout for gentle immersion, those characters i DO NOT OWN.
Expect: neighbors, dogs, thin walls, grumpy Frank, mutual staring, questionable "security work," tension, feelings against everyone's better judgment, and eventually an absolutely irresponsible amount of smut.