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Frank Castle (coffee_and_ammo) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2018-02-26 18:38:00

Entry tags:

-complete, frank castle, karen page

Who: Frank Castle + Karen Page
What: Frank would like an explanation that doesn't involve magic and time rifts, plz.
When: Late morning, 24th February, Central Park
Rating/Warnings: TBD

Frank remained by the tree where he'd found himself, phone clutched in one hand, the other running restlessly over his head every few seconds. In front of him people were skating, all moving in the same direction like a slow whirlpool on the ice.

He missed his coffee.

His phone buzzed periodically, answers from Karen to his series of increasingly desperate questions. None of them were what he wanted to hear. None of them helped him. He'd be happier thinking he'd taken a severe blow to the head and was in some kind of coma, and he was floating in this weird imagination land.

But Frank had seen the news, he'd read the papers, he couldn't ignore that there was a whole lot of strange shit even in the reality he'd come from. How could he? It had just managed to keep out his way until now.

Karen was here, though. And she was okay. That was important. She tied him to his sanity more than he would like to admit. She just needed to get to where he was, and then everything would be fine.

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notthefirst
2018-03-08 12:56 am UTC (link)

She was just about to protest when he changed his mind. "Yes, you should. I'm not always going to have my gun around and you said it yourself. I'm always pissing people off. It's best I know how to defend myself even when I don't have a weapon." Of course she was always going to shoot first, if she could. But still she needed to know how to defend herself when that wasn't an available option. "I don't want to learn from anyone else but you." Because he would teach her how to keep herself safe for real. Not some blanketed down version that they thought she should know.

She nodded her head, a little wide eyed and then shrugged her shoulders. "I really don't get it either." Ninjas. Who would have figured. "The wizard guy is Dr. Strange. He's not all that bad. He's more tolerable than Tony Stark, I can guarantee you that. But it's still weird. He's still magic and has a weird cape that I think is alive? It's super weird. But at least he's not a condescending asshole." That was for sure. Hm.. What else to tell him? "This is just a guess. He didn't say why us.. but from what I've gathered from anyone who has an access to our channel, it's because everyone is tied to.. in various ways.. to vigilante superhero-ism. And villainry. There's.. apparently a really bad guy.. do you know Jessica Jones? Because you should. You guys would get along great."

They would just punch and shoot people to their hearts content.

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coffee_and_ammo
2018-03-10 07:14 pm UTC (link)

"I mean, you could just stop pissing people off?" Frank suggested, though he knew that that wasn't going to happen. Karen had a drive- she had to go rummaging around, where she either wasn't welcome or was likely to get herself shot at. It would be endearing if it wasn't one more thing he really had to worry about.

"Okay, you got a gym you go to? Or at least something we can punch?" he asked. "I'll teach you. Maybe get Daredevil to teach you some ninja moves, too. He packs a good punch for someone so short." They were the same height. It didn't matter.

"Oh geez," Frank sighed as Karen expanded on Dr. Strange. And his cape. "Great. Excellent. I'm really looking forward to whatever this turns up. So what am I in this? Villain?" That was the last thing he needed so that was probably exactly where this was going to go. "I ain't no superhero, that's for sure."

He lifted his shoulders in a shrug at the name. "Nope, never heard of her. Why, you gonna set me up?" Frank joked gently, shaking his head. "Guess there's a lot of people I gotta meet."

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notthefirst
2018-03-10 09:48 pm UTC (link)

Karen glared at him and then nudged him with her elbow. "Jerk. You know that it's not always my fault!" Sure she pissed people off, but that didn't mean she shouldn't know how to defend herself. It was like he wanted her to get shot or kidnapped or something. Good grief. She was not stopping her glare either, it was permanently fixed on her face. "Shouldn't I know how to do this stuff regardless? I mean I'm just as likely to be shot by hanging around you than anything else." Hmph.

She nodded her head, the glare fading just slightly. "Yeah. I.." she sighed a bit and looked over at him. "What? Daredevil?" Oh that's right. He wasn't here when Matt just outed himself. "Okay first of all, I'm not training with Daredevil. Second.. you missed it but.. you should really talk to him about it because it's not my place but you should know since it's not really a secret any more.. Matt is Daredevil. Blind Lawyer Matt, my ex? That's Daredevil."

And hence she wasn't talking to him. Yet.

"You're not a villain, don't even talk like that. You can not be a hero and still not be a villain either." God knew she was in that boat. Not a great person and not a terrible person. Still a murderer though.

It would serve him right if she put the two of them in a room together and then maybe Jessica could punch him, see how he liked it. "I'm not setting you up with her."

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coffee_and_ammo
2018-03-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)

Frank thought it best to not get any deeper into that conversation. Karen had her ways, and not everyone agreed with them. And he worried. That was all. So of course he was going to help her. "Hey now, you know I'd take a bullet for you," he added, giving her hand a squeeze as they walked. "But we'll go to a gym. I'll show you how to punch. Get you throwin' me over your shoulder in no time-"

His head whipped around so fast it hurt when Karen decided now, now of all times, to drop some facts and revelations on him. "Wait-" Frank stopped suddenly, pulling Karen to a halt as well. "Wait, what? What? How?" Of all the things in the world- He took in a breath, every interaction he'd had with both of them flashing through his mind, dredged up for analysis. But- what? "That doesn't-" magic existed. He'd traveled through time and space. "Jesus, Karen, this is too much."

He could barely process anything else, despite Karen's assurance, despite the mention of this Jessica person. "Too much. I dunno what I'm supposed to do-"

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notthefirst
2018-03-17 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Of course he worried. He worried about her like she worried about him. It was just that he knew what he was doing and she didn't. That's why she wanted to be taught. "I know you would.. you have. But I don't want you to have to do that." What was she supposed to do? Not only stop pissing people off, but stop talking to Frank, or Matt or Jessica or anyone else who had super powers and who dealt with violence all the time? The only person she would have left then was Foggy, and he was too busy being a big time lawyer. "Don't tempt me," she countered, squeezing his hand in return with a smile.

Karen just nodded her head and stopped along with him, having expected that bombshell to get him to stop in his tracks. She thought about saying something smartass like 'well he wears a mask so' but she didn't. "He's not like you or the others, out in the open. Telling everyone who you are. Trust me. I was.. the same, when he told me. Which I mean, if you want to hit him, you have my full permission. Him and his secrets." She sighed a bit.

She squeezed his hand again. "You just go on acting like everything is normal. Or try to. That's all you can do. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere."

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