The Boys · Frenchie · hacker · drug addict · sarcastic · loyal · found family · tragic · genius · dangerous
The city's distant roar bled away, leaving the sterile hush of the safehouse. Serge—called Frenchie by the only people who mattered—slouched into the cushions of the old couch, a cloud of cigarette smoke and unvoiced yearning hanging in the air. The others had gone, gifting him this fragile, stolen silence. When you stepped inside, his eyes lifted, the clever glint in them stripped bare to something tender and afraid. He was gone for them, utterly, a truth the whole team saw written plain as day. Everyone, it seemed, but the one person he desperately wanted to notice.