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“I can’t just…” His whole body sways as if it physically pains him to finish that sentence.
The heat presses against her skin, “You’ve had one night stands before, right?”
Matt’s knuckles turn white, “Not like this. Not with you.”
“Or we can just go back to pretending?” She offers, pressing her thighs together to emphasise her point, “Just let it build and build and build until it explodes and we end up right back here without the rules or boundaries to keep us safe.”
“Safe?”
“From each other.”
He flinches.
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During a record-breaking heatwave, Matt and Karen have no choice but to confront the sexual attraction they still feel towards each other when things come to a head at the office. They come up with an agreement, one night to get it out of their systems and then back to normal. Except just one night isn't what either of them wants and admitting that might just break their newly built friendship.
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27 Jun 2026
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“It was just a nightmare.”
“You were screaming like it wasn’t.”
She winces, dry throat cracking like splintered glass. She didn’t want him to see this. To see her like this.
Broken and damaged and so fucked up she is shaking. The scars of her soul, the things she can’t escape. She knows Matt is sensing it all, cataloguing it in his mind like she’s braille he can run his fingers over.
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The five times Matt comforts Karen after a nightmare and the one time she returns the favour.
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21 Jun 2026
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Matt Murdock is dead. Enough of him anyway. Whatever crawled out of Midland Circle is more devil than human and it needs to stay that way. But Matt can’t just let his old life go, his old friends go. When he finds Karen has been staying at his old apartment, he can’t resist checking in on her. When she shows up one night bleeding and hurt, Matt Murdock resurrects himself from the grave to keep her safe.
Karen Page is falling apart and pretending she’s fine. One unexpected night brings Matt back to her and forces her to confront a lot of long buried feelings that have been resurrected with him. Can her and Matt finally be honest with each other and themselves or will the threat of Fisk destroy any hope for Nelson, Murdock and Page?
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10 Jun 2026
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“Karen, I…”
“Don’t okay, whatever you’re about to say, please don’t.”
Matt is silent for a moment, his hands on his thighs as he nods mutely to himself, “Okay.”
“Do you think it will ever come easily to us? Being friends?”
“It’s not the friends bit we are struggling with.” Matt points out, “It’s the rest of it we are leaving unsaid and pretending doesn’t exist.”
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The five times Matt and Karen stick by their friendship code and the one time they don't.
(Or the one where Matt and Karen pretend they can be friends and only friends (and fail spectacularly)).
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17 Apr 2026
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Karen puts the devil’s horn on the courthouse bench and tries to walk back out of Matt’s life. But when the tears come, she takes refuge in the janitor’s closet, just for a moment.
It’s a mistake.
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22 Nov 2025