Black and Midnight Blue

You were taken from your home at the age of thirteen.Your captors trained you, harshly, thoroughly. They taught you that the only way to live was to fight, and that one day, you would lead them through war. You'd seen enough war in your life; all you wanted was freedom.So, eventually, you escaped - hit the ground running.Running led you into a stable home, a university degree, and a career with the FBI. You evaded the dark until it nipped at your heels - secret conflict, violence in the open, family torn apart. It pushed you into using your skills, smarts, and connections to take down darkness from the inside. And, when that wasn’t enough, you'd use your strength, your training, your rage, to purge darkness from the streets of New York - code name: Nightingale.You stopped running. Started chasing.And chased your way right into the path of the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.

an added message as of february 16th 2023:HELLO HELLOOOO soooo just wanted to say thank you SO much for reading and welcome to the party!!!!a few notes in case you were wonderingggg:- i generally update every two weeks, always on sundays! those of you who have been reading for a while probably know that i don't always follow this rule for myself lol and will sometimes post extra chapters in between. so generally i would ask you to expect the next update two weeks after the last, but you may be surprised with an extra from time to time. if something comes up and i need a longer break than two weeks, i'll add a little dated note in the notes of the most recent chapter and will update accordingly :)- reader is somewhat of an OC and is never physically described apart from hair length; reader is given a family backstory as well but it’s a necessary aspect of the story and her background/characterization- plus i’ll be honest dawg i don’t know shit about the fbi LOL so like sure maybe i’ll go for accuracy sometimes but pls don’t expect any LMAO this is all SO very made up- one minor point of canon divergence i'd like to note: in this story, some people in the #criminalunderworld started calling matt "the devil of hell's kitchen" before the first episode - just a lil thing because i love using that title lol. otherwise this is generally canon compliant, apart from some story changes here, some timing changes there, etc etc- and yea that's it lol and i love you for reading and i hope you enjoy it and YEAH let's get some MATTANOTHER NOTE MAY 5TH 2023 - i'm gonna add asterisks at the front of chapters that include some ~spicy moments~ because i will be very real i know and respect that this is a priority for many of you lovely folks ;) (and also for those of you who want to avoid it or just want to be more prepared :) )