43. old habits

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Frank Castle lived quietly away from everyone after the bloody fight with his friend, not anymore, Billy Russo. He lived in a small house in the woods. He came back from a grocery run and walks up to the small cabin.

He takes out his stuff and manages to put them away until he notices something strange, someone was walking. The floors creaked and it wasn't him. He grabs his gun and starts to sweep the house. Who can it be? Nobody knew that he was here, not a single person, not even Curtis. He stops at the first room and pins the person onto the wall.

"Hello Frank." Devon smiles as he hovers over her, gun on her chest.

"Son of a bitch Devon." Devon pushes him off of her. He tucks the gun in the back of his pants. "What are you doing here?"

"I miss the married life." She looks around the tiny bedroom. "I know its been a dreadful few months since we separated." She played around.

"Hate to say it but I did miss you." He sighs. Frank notices that something is off, why would she be here? "I heard what happened to Red. Im sorry." Devon stops and looks straight ahead to the wall when he brought up Matt. She pushed the feeling down and forced a smile.

"Im sorry you said you missed me?" She turns to him. "Look at you, you have feelings, somewhere in that nonexistent space you call a heart." He smirks and they walked out of the room and into the living room. "Frank." She hums.

"What?"

"You do remember that you still owe me with a favor, any favor, right?" He frowns and crosses his arms.

"Whats this about?"

"I need help finding some people, I do believe you know someone who can help me find them." She plays with her rings. "He goes, well used to, go by the name Micro." She smiles so devilishly. Frank shakes his head.

"He doesn't do that anymore." He stares at her. Something is off. "Youre brother can do it, he's works for the whole damn city."

"River can't know what Im doing, nobody can. And I hear that Micro is fantastic at finding people, like how he found you." He clenched his jaw. "All he has to do find this person and done. You owe me."

"He has a family."

"Im not going to kill anyone, if thats what you're so worried." she I took out the wedding ring that Kazi gave them when they went into hiding. "What do you say Pete? Shall we see your friend?" She slides the bands into her ring finger. Frank mumbles some words and opens the door. "You help me do this, after this, you will never see me again." She grabs his arm before they leave. "If thats what you want of course."

"Why? Thats all I want to know."

"I was just told that I was sold to red room and Im not finished finding my fathers killers, i just want closure." She lets him go and they go to her car and drives to the home of David Lieberman. Devon stares at the homes, children playing and such a white picket fence neighborhood. They step up to the home and Frank rings the doorbell.

"They have kids."

"Again Frank, i wont lay a finger on this family." The door opens and the wife smiles as she sees Frank.

"Pete! Oh wow! Hi!" She chuckles. "Its been a while."

"It has." He looks at me. "This is my wife, Scarlet." Aww he remembers.

"It is so nice to meet you!" I smiled at her, shaking her hand.

"Come in, please." We stepped in. The walls are covered with children drawings and school year pictures. "Do you guys want anything to drink?"

"No thanks, we're good."

"Ill take a water, please." I scrunched my nose and she smiles to go get one. Their kids come running down, saying hello to Frank.

"Sarah, Wheres David?" Frank asks.

"Sarah! We should go-" David walks into the kitchen and stops as he spots Frank and I. I waved at him slowly. He gulps. "Pete, what brings you here?"

"David!" I smiled as i walked up to him. "I need your help with something that is on my phone, mind if you can help? I just really need it and ill be dead if anything happens at work." Frank nods his head to give him the okay. He nods and the three of us walk i to his office.

"Youre Red Widow." He was shaky. Scared.

"Oh stop being a pussy, im not here to kill you." I walked to his desk. "I need you track down someone who wears this ring." I showed him the picture i took a long time ago.

"Thats it?" He takes my phone. Before he turns on his computer, i put a flash drive into the usb slot.

"So nobody can track you down, not even the FBI or SHIELD. My brother designed it, he's got the brains in the family." I sat on the desk as David taps.

"This might take a while, this ring can be very used. Didn't know you got a partner Frank."

"Its a complicated relationship." He sighs.

"I know you stalked us when we were in hiding." I told to David. He slowly looks up at me. "If you ever do that again to me, i will come back." I stared him down and he coughs and goes back to the screen.

"Whats up with the ring?" Frank gets closer to the desk.

"One of the person who kidnapped me was wearing this ring, just want some answers." The computer dings and I get a closer look. Only three hits. This could be easy.

"Well, one of these guys is in the ICU."

"I knocked him out a long time ago, and he was young, so not the guy." I told him.

"This guy? He's like in his 40s."

"How old would he be in 1993?"

"Like 23?" I took over the computer and printed out the name, picture, address of the man.

"Thats him."

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Devon has tracked the man and he was in New york this entire time. She followed his schedule, his routine. And today is the day that he gets to go out of the city and go to a bar that nobody goes to. Only him and his buddy.

Frank didn't trust Devon, he knew her, she was him. She was going to do something to that man. He followed her and watched her. Devon goes to the bar, sits down and orders a drink, listening to the Russian man talking about his time with HYDRA and Dreykov. She laughs to herself, he's really talking about that out in the public. Devon goes and locks the bartender in the room before she goes on with her plan.

"Mind if i sit here?" She smiles at the gentlemen. They didn't say anything so she pulled a chair to the table and sat down. She sips on her vodka. "Can i tell you a story?" She whispers to them. They backed up in their seats, looking for the bartender who was not there. "Well, long ago, there was this girl, she was was a normal little girl, loved spending her time with her family, and loved going to the park." The man sits up. "One day, this little girl decided to go play and two men come out of nowhere, snatched her and took her away from her real family."

"The hell is this?" He spits.

"Oh wait, im getting to the good part." Her smile widens, now scaring the men. "They took her away from her real family and send her to live with a fake one for three years, and then she turns into the most dangerous, skilled assassin spy ever known." The mans face turns white.

"Red Widow." He choked. His friend tried to grab a knife but Devon stopped him.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." She took the knife and stabbed the friend with it. He screams and she turns to the man trying to leave. The door locked, he tries to fight back. All Devon had to do was toss him and slam him onto the table. The wooden table crashes. Devon gives him a moment to get up. "So you do remember me?" She smirks. Devon kick spins and the man falls back to the wall.

"I remember all of them." He laughs. "Soon as we gave you away to Alexei, we knew you will be like this." He stands up. Devon tightens her fists. "Melina did a good job creating a monster." Devon screams and swings at the man. He fights back. He grabs her arm and flips her. "You think you terrified me? Soon as Dreykov-"

"Dreykovs dead. We killed him." The man backs up in disbelief. "You should've seen the jet exploded with him in it, it brought me great joy." She grabs a part of the wood from the table and twists it around. "Who gave you the money to kidnap me?" He laughs.

"плаксивая сука." (Whiney bitch) she smashes his knees and gets down to his level.

"Who!"

"Just like your father, his temper is what got him killed. No wonder hes dead." Something took over Devon, she stabs the man and screams in anger. Frank runs in and sees the mess.

"Devon!" He yells for her to stop, she didnt. "Devon stop!" She stands up and Frank looks at the bloody woman. He shakes his head. This is no longer Devon.

"We're even now." She walks past him and heads to her new mission, with the help of some old friends.