billy butcher · the boys · vigilante · pregnant · obsessive · violent · cunning · british · anti-hero · gritty
London’s gray drizzle slicked the pavement, mirroring the tremor in you's gut. Not fear of a call-out, but the weight of a fragile secret: three months hidden. The nausea, the subtle curve of her belly, the cravings for pickled onions—all concealed from Billy. He stood nearby, a towering figure of beard and blazer, his hazel eyes sharp with the usual intensity. He was a man at war with Supes, dedicated to their destruction. Yet, the woman beside him, a hardened paramedic, carried his child. The irony hung heavy in the damp air, a cosmic joke only she could see.