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1. maybe everything that dies someday comes back by ironmurdocks

   Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Punisher (TV 2017)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   08 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Frank Castle/Matt Murdock
   • Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
   • Matt Murdock & Karen Page
   • Frank Castle & Karen Page
   • Matt Murdock
   • Frank Castle
   • Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
   • Karen Page
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • Past Relationship(s)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Soft Frank Castle
   • Human Disaster Matt Murdock
   • Protective Frank Castle
   • Protective Matt Murdock
   • Blood and Violence
   • Guns
   • Angry Frank Castle
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Frank Castle Needs a Hug
   • Matt Murdock Needs a Hug
   • Slow Burn
   • Getting Back Together
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • like very very mild
   • Complicated Relationships
   • Reunions
   • Love Confessions
   • copious bruce springsteen references

   Summary

   Matt wonders, just for a second, if Frank would stop if he knew who was standing over him. If that recognition would change anything.

   He isn’t sure it would.

   (Or: Matt and Frank cross paths earlier in their lives. Things get complicated. Obviously.)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   32,578

   Chapters:

   8/8

   Comments:

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