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Kastle AU: The Witcher and The Sorcerer

I know not if fate would have us live as one Or if by love's blind chance we've been bound The wish I whispered, when it all began Did it forge a love you might never have found?

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Kastle Highschool AU: The Brain and The Rebel

It’s the Dog Days of Summer when Karen notices a moving truck across the street of her Grandma’s house. She has a tray of lemonade in her hands as she walks out the front door onto the porch and sets the tray down between her grandparents. Kevin is outside playing basketball rather terribly and her grandpa chuckles at his annoyance. 

They’ve spent most of the summer with their grandparents since their mom got sick and all summer they watched moving trucks come and go across the street. Today though, the owners of the house finally showed up. It was a couple, a man and a woman in their fifties and a teenage boy who looked less thrilled to be in a new town.

“We spoke to them a month ago.” Her grandpa says. “They’re from New York and had to move because their boy was getting into some trouble.” 

The ‘boy’ looks toward them, lights a cigarette with a match of all things and looks directly at Karen. She rolls her eyes  and scoffs as she grabs a glass and takes a seat at the stoop. He now turns her attention over at Kevin who was about to give up on his life time career in basketball and walks over to him. “Your form is weak, kid.” He speaks and then opens up his hands for the ball. “You gotta stand like this.”  He demonstrates his form and sure enough he makes the shot. “You’ll be on the team in no time if you keep up practicing.”

Kevin smiles at him and thanks him. “I’m Kevin by the way.” 

“Frank.” He introduces and then looks over at Karen. “And you are?”

When she doesn’t answer, Kevin begins to panic and yells. “Karen, that’s my big sister, Karen.” He glares. “Don’t.be.rude.” 

Frank sends a smile his way and then looks back over at her. “Well, it’s nice to meet you, Karen.” And he winks. “You too, Kevin and remember to keep that form up.”

And as he walks away, she breaths, hoping that it would be the last time she’d have to deal with the boy across the street. Little did she know that she would have to be his official guide around school come September and have him in most of her classes. Well, at least Kevin made a new friend. 

Gregg Sulkin as teenage Frank 

Elle Fanning as teenage Karen

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Kastle AU (and Amy)- One Big and Happy Family.

Frank was great with Amy though, she would often find the two of them goofing off. Sometimes it’d be at the kitchen table, Amy was supposed to be doing her homework, but Frank would come along with a deck of cards and a grin on his face. “Let’s go, time for a break.” He would say. “I’ve mastered it, I can beat you at your own game. Lets go, three card monte.” It would usually end with Frank being a sore loser and Amy with a smug look on her face. Other times it’d be in the garage where Frank had set up a punching bag, that would rarely get used. Instead they insisted on practicing fighting with each other. Karen would often hear them and then open up the door with an eyebrow raised and give them a sigh. “Amy, just- don’t aim for his nose, alright? I don’t think it can handle another break.” The teenager and the grown man would give her thumbs up and a wave respectively and continue on.

Karen really had no idea what she was doing, she thought she was way over her head but then a window opens one saturday morning as she is doing her makeup. Amy knocks on the door frame of the bathroom. “Hey Karen.” Karen turns to look at her, capping her mascara as the teen takes a deep breath. “Are you busy today? Cause if you are, I mean, it’s fine- but I was wondering if you’d take me dress shopping? There is this dance and believe or not, some guy asked me and I wanna go, and I know it’s cheesy and corny, but-”

She smiles at Amy and nods her head. “Alright, let’s go get you a dress. I mean, gives us a solid excuse to check out that store in the mall, right?”

Amy smiles brightly. “Cool, then maybe we could hit up the food court?”

“Do you even have to ask?”

The stores in mall are nothing like the stores in the city. There was your typical department stores, like JcPenny and Macys, and of course there was the stores that the teenagers flocked to, like Hollister and Abercrombie. “So, what’s this guy like? The one that asked you to the dance?” Karen asks as they walk towards the small boutique.

“He’s nice.” Amy answers with a shrug. “JROTC, baseball player, honor society.” She laughs. “I have no idea what he sees in me.” she looks down at her hands. “His ex is one of those super popular girls, I am pretty sure she wants to claw my eyes out.”

Karen laughs as they enter the store. “Well he sounds like a catch and who knows, maybe Frank will even like him. I know he’s been nervous about this whole dance thing, he’s never had to deal with a teenage girl and her first date.” As soon as they walk through the entrance they are met head on by a sales lady.

“So, how can I help you two ladies? School dance I suppose?” She asks and Karen and Amy nod. “Well, so nice of your big sister to take you out shopping for a dress.”

“Actually, she’s my daughter.” Karen cuts in, running a soothing hand down Amy’s braid. “I know, I don’t look old enough.” She says, looking at the woman’s shocked face. “But we were just kids ourselves so-”

“Oh!” The woman cuts in. “You’re the folks that moved into the Pearson’s old place. You’re boyfriend, he’s helping build the new church. My brother’s working the job too! Small world this is, well should I say small town.”

“Actually husband,” Amy suddenly says, sticking the the story they were using. “He didn’t know about me, was serving overseas. My mom and I were the real life Gilmore Girls, until my dad came back. He got on one knee, it was pretty romantic.”

“It was life changing, that is for sure” Karen smiles softly. “But we are really here for her, so, we were thinking something flashy, but not too flashy.”

“And nothing to puffy, we don’t want puffy.” Amy explains, Karen nodding along.

They end up with a nice selection of dresses, the pink options get nixed almost too quickly, as well as the yellow ones. The red ones flush her out and there was no way in hell she was going near a white dress. Though finally, Amy finds navy blue dress with a gold bodice and she looks stunning in it. Karen and Amy both agree on the dress. They walk out of the shop, the dress bag slung over Amy’s shoulder and Karen speaks. “You know, Frank’s going to want to meet this guy.” She tells Amy, who in return gives her a horrified look. “I mean, he can’t honk and expect you to rush out to his car. We’re going to need for him to come in so we can get pictures-” Karen fakes an exasperated sigh and smirks. “Oh I am going to love embarrassing you.”

“You wouldn’t.”

“Oh I will.”

Amy realizes later that there is a lot she doesn’t know about Karen Page.

Like the fact the the woman is a total hellraiser, she knows that you have to be to deal with Frank Castle. Her second week at school, Amy manages to get into a fight at school. Some of the girls really didn’t like her and they made a point of tormenting her, they took to locking her in a utility closet, stealing her clothes during gym class and the straw that broke the camel's back was when they poured rotten milk on her. Amy had lost it, stood up and launched herself at the ringleader, she slammed the girl through the cafeteria doors and into the snowy courtyard. Frank’s self defense classes helped as she put the girl into a tight hold and pressed her already bleeding face into the cold snow. The gym teachers pulled them apart, the ring leader calling Amy a psycho and Amy spat choice words at the girl.

Of course the school tried to pin it on Amy. She sat outside the principal's office as Frank tried to speak for her. It was Karen though that came to save the day, Amy heard the clack of her heels against the laminate floor. Karen stopped in front of Amy, gave her a smirk as she caught sight of the other girl and gave her a wink before walking right into the principal's office. Amy had never heard Karen raise her voice as fiercely as she did in that office.

After the fact, Frank had a smirk as he walked out of the office first, followed by Karen. He chuckled, rubbed her back. “Alright, Mama Bear.” He laughed as the ringleader’s parents shuffled out of the office and towards their daughter. “Their gonna give you a detention, but that princess over there, she has a saturday detention and she has to write you an apology letter.”

Amy thanks Karen, the older woman wrapping an arm around her. “Just cool it with the right hook, alright?”

But she finds out more about Karen, about her life before Frank. The death of her mother and then Karen’s history after high school, the terrible boyfriend, the death of her brother and then the disownment by her dad. Amy learns about Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson, and about mess Karen got into in New York. She understands why Frank has a thing for her.

Karen is the mom that Amy had craved for as a child and the day of the dance, when Karen is concentrating on her hair, Amy sort of blurts it out. “Damn, if I had you and Frank from the start, I wouldn’t be such a fuck up.” Karen’s look from the mirror makes her head drop, but the comforting hand on her shoulder makes her look back up. Karen puts down the curling iron and smiles.

“Hey, don’t you dare talk about yourself like that.” Karen tells her in a soothing voice. “The three of us? We fit together because of what we’ve been through and what we’ve overcame.” She pauses. “We are a family now and honestly, this is the happiest I’ve been in such a long time.” Karen smiles warmly before adding a few more bobby pins and the sighs happily. “All finished. You look stunning.”

This boy, Alex picks Amy up. Frank isn’t that keen about the whole date idea and grills the kid to the nine. The threat of: ‘You hurt her? and I hurt you, real bad. You got me? And if you are stupid enough to try anything that she doesn’t want? Well, you won’t like the outcome.” He point to Amy, “11:00 at the latest.”

“C’mon, dad,” Amy comes back. “1:00.”

“11:05.”

“Mom!”

Karen folds her arms. “How’s 12:30 work for everyone, I think we can agree to that?” Frank folds and Amy beams. “Just have fun, be safe and if anything happens, just call us.”

Frank wraps an arm around Karen’s waist as they watch her get into this boy’s car and drive off. “You know, you’re amazing with her.” Frank tells her and Karen laughs. “No seriously, the kid respects you and trust me, takes a lot for her to respect someone.”

Karen looks up at him, beams and kisses his cheek. “Well, I’m glad that I came along with you guys. This is honestly the best life I could ask for.”

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Kastle AU GoT: The Lannister and The Stark

“And who are you, the proud lord said, That I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different coat, That's all the truth I know. In a coat of gold or a coat of red, A lion still has claws, And mine are long and sharp, my lord,As long and sharp as yours.”

Frank Stark was never one to attend balls, especially ones in which The Lannisters were in attendance. For as long as he could remember, the Starks hated the Lannisters and the Lannisters hated the Starks. It was just one of those things that was known and expected, his family viewed the Lannisters as lecherous leeches and they viewed the Starks as savages that rutted like dogs. He was at this ball though, at his father’s wishes, standing in the corner as he watched the guests drink and dance. From across the room, he caught the eye of a blue eyed woman in a red dress, her golden hair bound back in a intricate braid. Karen Lannister. He watches as she smiles at him with her eyes and takes a sip from the jeweled goblet. For a moment, they exchange a look and finally she makes her way over to him. “Lord Stark,” She greets, voice as smooth as the wine that had been flowing. “It’s a pleasure seeing you here.” Frank looks her up and down. “Pleasure is all mine, Lady Karen.” He dips his head, their eyes lock again and Frank knows that he is in a world of trouble with this one.

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Kastle AU: Red Dead Redemption 2

Since age 12, Karen Page has been living among outlaws. Wilson Fisk, the leader of The Kingpins, took the homeless girl off the the streets and molded her into the perfect criminal. She learned to read and write, shoot properly, crack a safe and ride a horse. Wilson Fisk was the father figure that Karen needed in her younger years. Though years passed and after a heist gone wrong, The Kingpins find themselves up in the snowy wilderness, hiding from the pinkertons. The group finds a place to lay low and provisions are in demand. So Wilson, Karen, and a few others ride out in the blizzard to find rations for the hungry mouths. They quickly come across a small homestead, a nice sized ranch with music playing and a warm glow radiating from the windows. 

It’s Karen who discovers the bodies in the back of the wagon. A bullet between their eyes and their skin turned blue from the snow. A mother and her two children. It didn’t take much for them to realize that they were dealing with Bullseye’s men. Fisk instructs Karen to check out the barn, while himself and the other two men take care of the outlaws inside. When she enters the barn, she sees a man hanging by the rafters from his ankles. He was bloody and blue, but breathing. Karen takes her knife out to cut him down when she is tackled to the ground by one of Bullseye’s men. There is a small struggle, but Karen manages to stab the man in the eye. Pushing the body off of her, she stands up to find the injured man awake and staring at her with fire in his eyes. So she continues her efforts in cutting him down and introduces herself in a soft voice as she helps him out of the barn. She finds out that he is Frank Castle, ex military. He moved up here with his family to start a new life. Frank stays with the gang, fully knowing that he would get help in avenging his family and Karen takes to him as the gang slowly begins to unravel as Wilson, her adopted father, begins to go insane.

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Kastle AU: Take me home, country roads.

“Keep your eyes on the road kid, and remember to keep your hands at ten and two- ten and two, Amy, c’mon ”

“Karen, you wanna control your man here before I drive us off a cliff!”

“Frank, leave the girl alone, she’s fine!”

“God damn, first week on the road and the two of you are already teaming up on me. This what I got to look forward to?”

Season 2 ends with Frank, Karen and Amy opening up a map and blindly choosing a place to live. They set up a narrative, a small family moving from to big city from the country and pack every they own into a car to start a new life.

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2.08 / 2.11

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– hozier // almost.

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– Jon Bernthal on whether or not Karen and Frank are in love. (x)

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Bonus:

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“Sometimes we don’t even have words, just a lot of feelings”

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