jewishkarenpage:

gonna stand here in the ache, a kastle fanfiction by @redbelles

[read on ao3]

rated: explicit
pairing: frank castle x karen page.

Her lungs are burning. Her chest aches, wind knocked out of her when she hit the floor. She rolls to the side, reaches for Frank, tries to pull in a breath. Tries not to think about the taste.

“Hey,” he says, hand coming up to cradle her face, huge and gentle. “You okay?”

There’s a piece of shrapnel buried in the meat of his bicep. Gore all over the stainless steel. A shell casing rattling around somewhere inside her purse, cops waiting for them outside.

They don’t lie to each other.

“Yeah.”