Daredevil Prompt Post #12

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This post is for prompts involving characters from Netflix's Daredevil.

Now that The Defenders prompt post is live, all crossovers between anyone in the four individual shows should go over there. Prompts only including characters that appear in Daredevil should still go here.



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• General
  
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• Prompts
  
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  2. Use the subject line for the main idea of your prompt (pairing or characters, keywords, kink).
  
  
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Please post any prompts related to Season 2 of Punisher over on the dedicated Punisher prompt post, and put SPOILERS in the subject line!

Comments

Re: Fill: Even If We're Just Dancing in the Dark 21/22

[(Anonymous)]

It was after there’d been an attempt on Daredevil too that he who’d made the one on Karen finally talked, and they learned Billy Russo had woken up, recovered, and escaped custody. Everyone had lost track of him after half the universe had dusted up; and even Madani hadn’t really had the chance to find out what had happened to him. Frank was pretty sure she was beating herself up over that.

When it finally came to the two of them facing each other down again, down by the Hudson where they’d met before Frank had known, Billy mentioned to Frank he hadn’t targeted Karen because of his connection to her, or even known he and Daredevil were well acquainted. “They were just both of them too close to finding me out was all.”

“Yeah,” and spite of everything, Frank found himself grinning with genuine pride. “They’re both of them good at catching snakes, better than me, when it comes down to it. You can go ahead about kill me tonight, but the two of them? You can’t stop her from publishing what she’s got, and he’ll find all the people you’ve got left sooner or later. They’ll still take you down.”

“And what if I take them down?” He still had his old grin; it looked hideous with his new sliced and stitched up face. “Don’t think I don’t know where you live, Frank, and who you live with. And I noticed, you know, that Daredevil seems to operate out of the same building. And I did an analysis of his fighting style. I’ve been wondering if anyone’s noticed all the signs that guy does not use his eyes, especially since it’s not really a secret he’s got some ability to detect things others can’t. And here I was wondering why he was so interested in my people. I probably would’ve figured it out earlier, honestly, except your living situation confused me at the time. I really never had thought you’d be a fag, Frank.”

“Yeah, well, I never had thought you’d be a traitor,” Frank retorted. Strange, how he felt nothing now but a grim resolve. Also a little disappointment. The ideal outcome of tonight would’ve been dropping him tied up on Madani’s doorstep, since he’d have suffered the most that way, but now he couldn’t let him live.

Later, Frank would wonder if Billy had said what he’d said because he was determined on having either victory or death. But ultimately it didn’t matter if he’d been manipulated into killing him; he’d have done it anyway, once he knew he had to, just to protect those he loved.

In the end, the whole fight was shockingly emotionless for Frank. Even the further taunts Billy tried to throw him off with, some of which might have hit a year or so ago-the one claiming Matt and Karen would never keep him would have-just didn’t anymore. He finally got hold of him and snapped his neck, and felt nothing at all. Not even when his final action was to smile at his killer.

It was better for everyone involved if Billy’s body was never found. He returned to Hell’s Kitchen with it disposed of close to dawn, which was when Daredevil finally found him; Frank had deliberately thrown him off his scent early in the evening. “He would’ve exposed you,” he said, before Matt could say anything, knowing he’d immediately know the rest. Though he then added, “It wouldn’t have been just us that would’ve suffered, you know that.”

“I do,” said Matt, sad, rather than angry, at least for the moment. They made the rest of their way home without a word.