19 Works by PurpleLex
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[Kastle Christmas Secret Santa Gift Exchange ]
Karen just catches the elevator before the doors close, someone from marketing and two of the writers from the political section nodding in greeting to her, when her phone chirps again. The last thing she expects Frank to send is a picture. A giggle bursts forth before she can clasp a hand over her mouth.
A tiny gray pit bull pup, no bigger than five pounds if she had to guess, stares with a line of sight directed just above the camera with bright eyes and a blurry, half-open mouth. Caught mid-yawn or mid-yap, she can't be sure. Not that it matters, though, since the dog is the most adorable thing she's seen in weeks. Maybe months.
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[ a through-canon exploration of Dinah dealing with grief, nightmares, and murder ]
The desert air chokes her, panic sweeping down her spine. Fight or flight.
"You sure this is him?" The medical examiner had asked, crouched next to the open grave in the early hours of dusk.
Mangled, mutilated, and bloated, the corpse is a grotesque caricature of the man, all signs pointing to intentionally stripping away identification. But she knew. They'd have to wait on the DNA, run any fingerprints still salvageable, but she just knew. Bile scorched the back of her throat when she managed a curt nod.
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[ tumblr prompt: "I would DIE if you wrote a couple of scenes where Karen army trains with Frank. I could TOTALLY see Frank being like, "You can't get involved in the extra dangerous stuff unless you at least let me train you." Imagine them running in the mornings??? Karen getting into crazy shape and the tension between them intensifying???" ]
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Endless series of drabbles/one-shots from tumblr prompts + #CivilWarsintheKastle drabbles
Organized by chronological posting
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[tumblr prompt: "something where Frank has a dog and because said dog has pretty much adopted Karen as his second owner, Karen often times takes care of the dog when he's away/busier than usual. And it doesn't take long for someone to start putting two and two together about who the dogs main owner is." ]
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[ two-part tumblr prompt: "A baddie is threatening/hurting Karen in front of a tied up Frank. And he's raging?" ]
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Requested by nxtyourfirstrodeo on tumblr, inspired by a tumblr edit of Kastle + Tangled!
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“I've made the decision to trust you.”
“A horrible decision, really.”
Karen just folds her arms at his attempted deterrent, grinning.
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time is a little unclear by PurpleLex
Fandoms: The Defenders (Marvel TV), Daredevil (TV)
29 Aug 2017
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[drabble for #kastleradioweek]
They’re a flash of white her eyes are drawn to as soon as her fingers find the light switch.
Dusk falls outside but here she stands, too restless to seek sanctuary anywhere else beyond the Bulletin and the work she’s put off for a week too long. Ellison was more than happy to give her an assignment, task one of his best back on a piece, all with a comment that she’d find her office exactly as she’d left it.
He was wrong.
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Gray sky, gray water, gray concrete beneath her heels. He slides into the seat beside her with more grace than should be possible for someone capable of so much turmoil and her eyes follow unwittingly to the split above his brow when he removes the ball cap. There's something almost polite in the gesture.
Or maybe it's simply a pain to wear that all the time while he masquerades as just another civilian on the street.
"The meth-heads give that to you?" Karen asks first.
He turns his head then after setting the cap down next to his thigh, a divider in the distance between them. Not that it's necessary. There was already enough space for another person to sit, enough space to make doing something as intimate as whispering all but impossible. His voice is rough as she avoids him, looks to the lapping river. "You've been following."
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“You sure about that?” He asks, incredulous, but she doesn’t give an inch. “You help me, you’ll only get blood on your hands.”
“I already have blood on my hands.”
She almost had his on hers half a year ago by force of a bullet.
He put his blood on her hands just a month ago by force of a plea.
“Doesn’t mean you need any more,” is all he says before opening the door.
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- Part 4 of Dreams & Lasts
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[ Frank POV retelling of "the space between dreams and reality" ]
The concrete columns echo again with the second gunshot and he stands there for a minute on shaky feet, disgust and satisfaction twisting and warring against each other within his gut.
The satisfaction doesn’t last long, yanked from him harshly when he climbs back into his truck and hears the radio abuzz over a shooting at the tenement building on 47th. Two women sustain injuries — one Sophia Rossum, and one Karen Page.
He forgets to breathe for a long minute.
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- Part 3 of Dreams & Lasts
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Hozier in the Kastle Week Day 7: Free Choice! In which Frank and Karen meet at their bench by the water and discuss faith.
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Kastle Week Prompt: Lasts
Frank rakes his gaze over her entire form, like he’s trying to decipher her. She shifts.
He has a way of making her feel like every inch of her soul is being seen, and it’s as much something she longs for as something she’s insecure about.
“Sooner or later, you’re going to burn out,” he says, tone flat. “How are you going to take care of yourself then? Defend yourself?”
A bitter smile curves her lips. “I could say the same thing about you.”
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- Part 2 of Dreams & Lasts
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Kastle Pet Shop AU (requested by @hheart125 on tumblr!)
“She's Penny,” says a deep baritone behind her, and Karen's not proud of the way she jumps, startled. She braces a hand on the wall and stands, the dog — Penny, apparently — scrambling for leverage on the arm she's holding her with. “You ever held a dog before?” The man asks, tone more amused this time as he tilts his head.
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Kastle Week Prompt: Dreams
He stands in her apartment, by the door, but it is closed this time, and no bullets are coming through her windows. Her gun is in her hand, though, gripped loose from where it hangs at her side.
“Why?” She asks. It’s a whisper of a loaded question.
He doesn’t respond, just stares at her, gaze too unreadable.
Karen wakes with a frustrated sigh.
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- Part 1 of Dreams & Lasts
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For one of the most cliche of prompts ➝ imagine your OTP having a one-night stand and becoming pregnant.
"Claire doesn’t mean for it to happen, but it starts like this."
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Or, "I'm Not Saying You're A Hero, But You Aren't Any Super Villain"
Megamind AU: Mercy City has been the mostly peaceful battleground for Mercy Man and Sylar for the better part of three decades. In the scheme of things, it could be a lot worse. Sylar never wins the battles or kills people with his destruction and Mercy Man is the model for the citizens to look up to.
Except that one day normal doesn't end up so normal and regret lies within everyone. Sylar finds that villainy isn't so fun without anyone else there to stop him, so he sets out to put everything back to normal. Unfortunately, a certain crush keeps getting in the way and- was that just said aloud?
Oh no. Luke was going to blow a gasket if he found out that Sylar was crushing on the completely forbidden, plus former kidnap play-thing, Claire Petrelli. Well, crap.
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Claire awoke on a peaceful Friday morning to obnoxious snoring.
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Emma Coolidge Petrelli's life told as prompted by words lettered A through Z.
"There are a lot of moments of happiness and sadness, excitement and dread, love and unease, the good and the bad, but when Emma thinks of her life, she regrets very few things."