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Frank shot a kid (and other things Matt finds out in prison) by stormless
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
05 Aug 2026
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Frank said, haunted, “I shot a kid.”
A pause. Then:
“What?” Matt said blankly, baffled.
The one where Frank visits Matt in prison and gives a rundown of Brand New Day and his new best friend Spider-Man and Matt is definitely not jealous. Not at all.
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Absolutely delicious dynamic between Punisher and the two dumbasses™
Matt blinked and stated, “Okay. Why?”
Frank snarled, “I just told you that I shot a kid and you….you-”
Matt interrupted tiredly, “Yeah, I can see where this is going. Frank, I really don't have the patience for this right now. My bed smells like piss and my new roommate has tried to murder me four different times with four different types of cutlery and the night guard shift has been avoiding my block and I haven't gone to sleep in two days. I'm not going to preach at you right now, or whatever atonement you are looking for. I'm already dealing with that shit in my own head, I don't need yours. Just tell me or don't, but I'm not your very own personal Punisher for whenever you feel actual human emotions like guilt and regret.”
Frank hit back through gritted teeth, “No, because then you would actually be useful, for once.”
Matt smiled winningly and said, “Spit it out, asshole.”
...“-sounds like he doesn't want to talk to you, Red. I mean, I can't blame the guy, he must've heard rumours of how you're an asshole and decided not to engage. Maybe that's why you don't get any visitors, everybody knows that Daredevil’s an asshole who lords his moral superiority over us lesser beings. He's not a person, he's just one giant, entitled, walking, wrinkled assho-”
Matt interrupted testily, “You were saying something about shooting a kid?”
Frank seemed to almost wilt, curling into himself soundlessly. Okay, so maybe Frank was right about the asshole thing.
Guilt stabbed in his heart and he gracelessly tried to walk it back, “I mean- I'm….I shouldn't have said it like that….”
Then Matt paused, frowning.
“Wait, what the hell is going on. I know I said I won't preach at you right now, but you shot a kid and I'm apologizing for bringing it up like it's a sensitive subject for the shooter. I don't even know if the kid is alive, or what the context behind the whole shitshow is, and I refuse to feel like an asshole until I do.”
Frank said gruffly, “Yeah…yeah I'll tell you.”
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Spider-Man’s death would've been even worse, Matt knew, judging from the fond tone Frank spoke of the boy in, but it was good that the kid stepped in when he did. His abilities protected him (enhanced healing, he has heard whispered rumours around the city) and saved Jean as well. From Frank's grudging retelling, it seems the girl played a pivotal part in keeping Spider-Man stable, which made his heart light up with giddy hope because sacrifice and forgiveness and compassion and redemption. It was probably the best case scenario of an awful situation that Matt would replay over and over in his head, wondering if he could've done different, but Spider-Man made it reality.
I really love this kid, he mused in his head, and grumpily wondered when he would get a chance to actually express his admiration vocally to the guy’s face.
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Frank, who had seen the aforementioned Daredevil pouting mere hours before because Spider-Man wasn't talking to him, had other pressing concerns. Having personally witnessed this kid take a fucking bullet for his worst enemy and also having endured several of his no-killing lectures, he felt a growing, dreadful certainty that Matt and Peter would get along too well, like a house on fire, and equally as destructive to Frank’s well-being. He chose to remain silent for the moment, because ain't no way in hell he's encouraging what will surely be a slow degradation of his sanity by two smug assholes prancing around New York like idiots. No way.Peter deflated slightly at his silence, and Frank refused to feel guilty about that, because any leeway on his part will lead to a nauseatingly sweet vigilante team-up filled with compassion and love and forgiveness and the beauty of humanity and other disgusting things. No, it was better this way.