Ooo for the WIP game, what is Screaming into the Unknown?
Hehe I've been putting it off but it's one of my daredevil x Punisher one-shots! Summary is that Frank moved in next door to Matt without knowing who he is, so Matt tries to get to know him and fight his murderous tendencies from both fronts.
Problem is...he ends up actually liking the guy.
He felt the loss as soon as those words met the air and he squeezed his eyes shut tight despite it making shit of a difference.
Because goddamit if Frank wasn't the only motherfucker he knew that actually got it. He got how tired Matt was, he understood that pain and loss and down to the bone deep ache of just wanting it all to stop and let him rest. He got it.
But he knew that this may just be too much.
"What?" Frank gasped, like the air had been punched out of him. Matt felt like sobbing.
But that would be silly. He brought this on himself, now he needed to face the consequences of his selfish actions. Swallowing roughly, the sound deafening in the pounding silence.
"I know." He repeated, voice raspy and cracking at the end, and he hated himself for it. When Frank spoke, it came out as a just as broken whisper.
"So you were lying? Using me, our relationship to fucking- what mess with my head? Manipulate me into being a 'good guy' like you? Fucking choir boy." Frank demanded, no longer whispering, no longer shell shocked. No, he was angry and heartbroken. He was the Punisher.
"No." Matt pleaded, fighting every inch of his body from leaning forward, to comfort, to reassure. "No, that part was- was real. I didn't mean for that to happen, I didn't mean to go this far b-but I- it was real. All of it. I really do-"
"Don't." Frank sneered, his frame flickering in the fire in Matt's mind. "Don't fucking say it. You don't get to say it."
"I'm sorry." Matt murmured, head down. "Frank I'm so sorry."
"Yeah," he spoke quietly but without softness. There was no warmth, no affection or forgiveness. But his heart was still beating, and that's all Matt could hear after the resounding words that followed. "Yeah, Red- I'm real fuckin' sorry too."