Has hope. Wears glasses.

commission for @leeroyjagginz!

Relationship: Matt Murdock/Karen Page

Chapters: 1/20

Summary:

Karen squeezes her eyes shut, “I don’t need Daredevil to be my personal bodyguard.”

A large hand settles on her knee, the warmth spreading through her leg.

“I hear you. But if you really think the mess of us is going to stop me from caring about you, protecting you, then you really don’t understand my feelings for you at all.”

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When Karen finds herself with a stalker, she is determined to handle it alone and not involve Matt at all. For the sake of their complicated friendship. But when Matt finds out, he has other ideas. Because if there is one thing he knows, it's that he isn't about to let anyone harm Karen Page. As the threat to Karen's safety grows, they both struggle with their unspoken feelings for each other which get harder to ignore. And maybe, they don't actually want to ignore them anymore.

like both of them had to grow up WAY too fast. matt was literally a blind kid stitching jack up after fights. karen was basically trying to keep her family together after her mom passed , helping with the diner, carrying way more than she ever should've. neither of them really got to just... be kids.

and then the guilt. because that's literally what defines both of them.

jack dies trying to make matt proud. kevin dies protecting karen. both of them have this one moment where their entire lives split into a before and after and they've been carrying that ever since.

and can we PLEASE stop acting like fisk is only matt's villain because i'm sorry?? he is just as much karen's.

union allied. ben urich. mrs. cardenas. wesley. throwing her in prison and trying to have her killed in there. the nightmares she was still having YEARS later. she wanted him gone just as much as matt did. s3 makes that so painfully obvious.

and now BAs2 has me looking at them like... okay fisk's gone. now what 😭 because they have spent YEARS making him the center of their lives. they don't know how to stop fighting.