Author's Note: I apologize for the long wait, and don't worry, I plan on seeing this project thru to the end. I've just had trouble with this chapter.

"GAAAAHH! YOU'RE HURTING ME!"

Frank Castle had found a guy he had heard about on the news last night and was twisting his arm.

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CRISTU BULAT. RAPED SOME POOR LITTLE GIRL. DRAGGED HER INTO THE ALLY AND MUFFLED HER SCREAMS.

"STOP! YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK MY ARM!" screamed Bulat

"That's the idea" Frank said, twisting hard enough to snap the arm off.

Bulat gripped the stump that was his shoulder as his blood poured out, covering his side. "Alright, now that you've done that, get me to a hospital, I'll bleed out and die!" he sobbed.

Frank raised his gun to Bulat's forehead. "I wouldn't worry about bleeding to death" he said as he pulled the trigger.

A loud knock resounded throughout Judy's apartment. Judy sat up to look trough the eye hole in the door. She saw nothing but a green eye staring back at her. Judy froze. She grabbed her gun, turned the safety off, and slowly opened the door. "wow Carrots, I didn't think I was that threatening"

She sighed and gestured Nick in as she put her gun down. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him. "I'm really sorry, I've been paranoid lately and-"

Nick put his finger over Judy's mouth in a shushing position and said: "you talk to much sometimes, you know that?" and touched his lips to hers.

Passion blazed through them both like fire, consuming all of Judy's fears for the moment. They collapsed on Judy's bed, embracing each other tightly.

NO PATTERN. NO GODDAMN PATTERN!

Frank Castle angrily jotted down notes in his war journal. He had been trying to find a connection between Nick and Judy's "visits"

I'VE CHECKED EVERYTHING. MOON PATTERNS, RABBIT MENSTRUAL CYCLES, EVERYTHING, BUT THERE'S STILL NO PATTERN.

Frank let out a stressful exhale and thought to himself I need a drink.

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THIS BAR IS REAL SHADY. LOTS OF BAD PEOPLE HANG AROUND HERE.

Frank sat at the bar with a bottle of jack when he heard a discourse at the other end of the bar.

There was a female otter at the other end of the bar being harassed by two wolves.

"c'mon, rabbit, we don't bite" one of them said provokingly.

"please leave me alone. I just work here"

One of the wolves grabbed her arm and said "look, your coming with us, whether you want to or not! We're gonna go, get a nice hotel room, and have some fun. Got that"

The woman was about to make her protests, when from across the room the wolves heard: "leave the girl alone."

Frank hadn't moved except to stare at them with his hateful, green eyes. "excuse me?!" one of the wolves said.

"leave. Her. Alone" he reiterated.

"what gives you the right to tell us what to do?"

"final warning: leave her the fuck alone"

when they didn't comply again, frank attacked, punching the first in the chest, braking three ribs. The second he broke the leg of and smashed a glass on the ground and stabbed it into the wolf's forehead. He turned to the other one and pulled a Colt Python from behind his trench coat. "tell you're friends something for me" he said

"o-ofcourse, what is it?" the wolf sputtered.

"their next" castle said, pulling the trigger