Frank Castle Is Bae

While I was driving home from the market yesterday, I heard on the radio that someone was planning on doing what I have the Lieberman’s doing in this fic, and this morning I decided I had to write it.

So, here it is!

Also, and not that it’s a big part of the story or anything, but this fic disregards anything and everything that happened in the MCU after Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as I also, on a personal level, tend to disregard most of the happenings in the MCU post CA:TWS.

Adaptably Spooky (Complete) Word Count: 2063

Halloween is different this year.

Not that Karen’s really celebrated Halloween much over the years—not since she and Kevin were kids, really—but this is going to be the first year in a while that she’s done something for it. It’s almost funny that it happens to be the year the world is knee deep in a horribly mismanaged pandemic and Halloween isn’t really being celebrated in the traditional sense at all.

But the biggest reason why Halloween is different this year, is that Frank Castle is in her apartment.

And he’s been here since March, when this whole pandemic began.

It’s almost mind boggling to think about how in the literal years they’ve known each other, the back and forth of “I need your help” and “stay the hell away from me”, they’ve never actually spent time together without that sense of stress and panic and impending doom weighing over them.

What 2 minutes of conversation with Titus does to a MF

“Frank’s wearing a suit.