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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Please post any prompts related to Season 2 of Punisher over on the dedicated Punisher prompt post, and put SPOILERS in the subject line!

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Fill: Even If We're Just Dancing in the Dark 8/?

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn’t long after that when he did indeed find himself back in the fight once again. And when that resulted in a building falling down and Karen and Matt getting asked too many uncomfortable questions by the cops, Frank knew he had to leave town. At that point, he didn’t know if he’d ever come back. Especially since by the time he left, he was the latest person everyone thought dead in a building collapse; only Matt, Karen, Curtis, and Lieberman knew otherwise.

Besides, that was the easiest way to let Karen go and leave her to Matt. Maybe even staying away for just a very long period of time would do the trick there.

Lieberman prepared the van, rigging it up so he and Frank would have a secure line to each other. Frank just let him do it. It wasn’t like he ever had to use it, after all, and he doubted his friend would unless he found out something he thought Frank really needed to know.

He was pretty sure it was Sarah Lieberman who put up the photos. The first was the one of Maria and the kids. The second was a photo he had never seen before. From the sweater Karen was wearing in it, as she leaned against Matt, he thought it pretty recent. Sarah had left a post-it on top of it, on which she’d written, "Go back to them when you’re done." Never mind that Frank wasn’t even sure what he was doing at that point.

Still, by the time he was halfway across Pennsylvania, he felt the bone-deep ache of missing them both. That was only to be expected with Karen, of course, but he missed Matt too, far more than he thought he would. For some reason he couldn’t get the guy’s laugh out of his head.

It was fair enough to have that photo there, he decided. Karen had long been family, and he was now a man who had loved four people more than life itself, instead of just three. And he could admit to himself he cared for Matt, had learned to respect him and what he was, and anyway Karen loved him. Like it or not, he was now family too.

When he went to ground in Ohio, he spent about a week refusing to read news, determined not to hear anything about what was going on in New York. It helped that said week ended up being much more eventful than he had entirely planned on. But it also ended with the discovery that he’d been followed, and he couldn’t even run further, because the very young friend he’d made would be left vulnerable if he did. It meant he had to be grateful Lieberman had put that line in, as he asked for any information he could get on who might have been following him.

He ended up spending two months in Ohio, ones that turned out to be more good than not, especially after saving little Amy won him the favor of her father. Eventually he stopped worrying about further pursuers coming to town. He could stay there indefinitely, he thought, live quietly under the protection of the sheriff. The guy still kept his distance, and even his daughter would only ever get so close to him; no one would hurt or get hurt by him there.

And then he got the message from Lieberman, telling him one of his copycats had decided to target all the other vigilantes, and also those associated with them. “Honestly, I don’t think he’s going to last until you get back here,” it finished, but it didn’t matter. He should’ve known better than to know he could ever leave two people who insisted on stalking around at night with targets on their backs.

He knew, when the only thing he left behind in his apartment was a letter with "For Amy" written on top of it, though her father would probably have to read it out loud to her, that he would never come back to this town. Though as late as that, he told himself that once he got back to New York City and maybe dealt with this whole copycat problem all together, he’d take off again. Maybe go to Wyoming. Lisa had always wanted to see Yellowstone.