Okay, as everyone seemed to like my Cinderella AU with this pairing, I thought I would attempt a Hunchback of Notre Dame AU :)
I hope you like it and please read and review :)
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Corruption was everywhere in this part of New York.
Hell's Kitchen was the birthplace and breeding centre of many criminal scumbags. Ben hated this place more and more…and yet, there was always something that caught his attention. Recently, the tale of the Devil of Hell's Kitchen had peaked his interest. A mysterious figure who had been seen roaming around the top of the local cathedral, and many swore that they saw horns on top of his head.
Hence the nickname.
Another matter of interest was the newest criminal underground led by a man only referred to as Stick. Ben believed that this man was responsible for a number of corrupt individual coming to power, including a man called Wilson Fisk. This 'Stick' appeared to have been around for many years, with the earliest reference appearing a little over 20 years ago…and this was around the time when the first sighting of the Devil of Hell's Kitchen appeared. In fact, Ben believed that Stick was related to the Devil's origin story.
Cracking his fingers, Ben prepared to type out his story. With enough background knowledge on the events of the nights leading up to the first sighting, Ben was ready. It was time everyone knew the truth.
'The Origin of the Devil.
Everyday this city wakes up and nothing has changed. We all go about our business much the same, travelling to work, taking our children to school or simply hiding in our homes due to the rising crime rate. This city runs by the ringing of the bells of our local cathedral…but these bells don't ring all by themselves.
Many of us have spotted a lone shadow at the top of the cathedral, and it is this individual who also acts as the bell ringer. The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, aka, Daredevil. But who is this man, what is he and how did he come to live in that bell tower? This article holds the answers to this question, and it all began around twenty years ago.
It was almost midnight when the boxer, Battlin' Jack Murdock was last known to be on the streets of Hell's Kitchen. Reports indicate that he had beaten the boxer Creel that very night and had gone on the run from the criminal, Roscoe Sweeney (now in jail for money laundering). He had taken his ten-year old son, Matthew with him and was attempting to leave the city. Matthew had been blinded in a freak accident about a year before. Both disappeared that very night and many believe that they never made it.
However, what the reports don't cover, is that Sweeney was under the payroll of another individual who is probably the man nowadays known as 'Stick'. It is widely believed that Stick sent Sweeney after the father and son…and Jack Murdock didn't make it.
Police reports from that night indicate that gun-shots were heard near the local cathedral and when they arrived on the scene, there was clear evidence of blood. It is believed that Jack and his son were chased from the nearest tram station to the cathedral where Jack tried to claim sanctuary. Sweeney caught up and shot the ex-boxer…what happened to Matthew is unknown, but many who knew the family believe that Sweeney abducted the boy and killed him somewhere else, burying him where he couldn't be found.
I have a different theory however. I believe that Matthew found solace in the cathedral whilst Sweeney was dealing with his Father and may be the Devil himself. The other possible explanation is that Sweeney was about to kill Matt but was stopped by the man we all know as Father Lantom. The Father may have then threatened to tell the cops everything if Sweeney killed the boy, possibly threatening his immortal soul in the eyes of God. Sweeney may have then received a message from the Stick, telling him to hide the boy in the bell tower, where he can be taken care of.
Whatever did happen that night, Father Lantom won't talk to anyone about it. He still firmly claims that the Devil doesn't exist and that he didn't see anything that night of the shooting. But whatever, did happen, something needs to be considered. In this society, who is considered to be the monster? The criminal who killed a young boy's father…or the so-called Devil who may have been the living victim in that scenario?'
Ben sighed as he stared at the laptop screen. It was all speculation…everything that he had just written, nobody would believe. Jack and Matt Murdock had disappeared from the public eye almost twenty years ago and very few people remembered them. This story wouldn't mean a thing and his publisher would never print it.
With a huge sigh, Ben deleted everything that he had just written. It was time to get his head back in the game…life wasn't a fairy-tale. So it was time to stop acting like it was.
