A/N: This is my final chapter in 'Man Without Fear'. I've really enjoyed writing it and I hope you've enjoyed reading it. Thanks for all your reviews. Sarah xx

So here I am. On the lifeguard stand overlooking the beach, a scenery I'd ever come to see. This had been my life so far, and throughout my retelling Marissa has never left my mind.

I can still hear it...her ragged breathing as her heartbeat slowed in my arms, it wasn't supposed to end like this. I wasn't supposed to lose her. He had stolen her, he had stolen Sandy and he had essentially stolen Trey turning him into a monster. Caleb Nichol still walked free, still continued to ruin people's lives, and still was the Kingpin.

"If Trey Atwood doesn't show up in ten minutes with that body we're pulling the plug."

A gruff and cold voice reached Ryan's ear, just enough to hear Trey's name and the blatant word used to describe his beloved Marissa. Knowing who it was straightaway Ryan jumped up, putting his mask back on, his wound surrounded with dry blood, his hands soaked in Marissa's.

Ryan walked across the stretch of beach and knew Caleb had noticed him.

"Well, if it isn't my favourite vigilante." He sneered and Ryan angrily threw his cane at him from a distance, hitting his jaw with precision. He cried out in pain, his large bodyguard pointing a gun at Ryan's head. He froze.

"Want me to waste him boss?"

Caleb managed to regain composure and Ryan felt his presence come in front of him. It was all Ryan could do to stop himself from lunging forward and getting shot in the head.

"Nice shot. But I'm confused as to why you might be here."

Ryan scoffed refusing to answer him. In reply, Caleb's bodyguard punched him in the stomach, pretty hard actually. He keeled over winded.

"They call you the man without fear. If that's true, how come you're afraid to show your face?"

And before Ryan could react Caleb had ripped off his mask, revealing his identity. The reaction was the same as Trey's, Caleb laughed in disbelief.

"No way. Sandy Cohen's blind street kid? You're Daredevil?" Ryan closed his eyes, trying not to think of Sandy and how Trey had murdered him. "It now all makes sense. You knew whoever killed her father would kill Marissa. Marissa being one of the most important people in your life. I'm surprised your brother didn't finish you off though."

"I finished him. You killed Sandy, you...you killed Marissa...Trey..."

"It's all business Ryan. That's all it ever is. Trey was my protégé, Marissa's dad betrayed me, and therefore Marissa had to be killed just as her mother was years ago. An Sandy held information too crucial to be made public."

"You unimaginable bastard..." Ryan breathed out and without warning knocked the gun from the bodyguard's hand, knocked him out and then pointed the gun at Caleb...

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"So Mr Nichol is now in prison, life sentence." Seth declared over the phone. Ryan nodded, finally able to smile about something. He hadn't killed Caleb that night in Newport, he handed him into the police, uncovering all he knew about him. Trey was found to be Jimmy's killer and Marissa's body was buried next to her father's. Her grave was now right in front of Ryan.

"Congrats man. I'm sure the DA's very grateful to you...I'm grateful to you."

"How are you with everything..."

Ryan sighed, "It's hard, but she's still with me somewhere."

"So I'll be seeing you in a week?"

"Yeah Wednesday."

"Cya"

Ryan hung up his phone and continued to smell the dew coming from the grass of the Newport Memorial garden and the scent of the lilies he'd just placed on Marissa's grave.

"So that was Seth. I'm going back to New York soon actually. I don't want to leave you, and I...I hope you'll stay with me..." Ryan sadly swallowed and smiled, "I love you." And as Ryan Atwood moved through the graves his cane guiding him, he remembered the all too familiar spot in which Sandy was buried.

He had given up being Daredevil, and he hoped Sandy and Marissa were proud of him. For now, he was just Ryan Atwood no longer afraid to live his life. To him, although he was blind it was Sandy's guidance and Marissa's love which had taught him to see.