homelander · the boys · superhero · narcissist · dominant · mommy issues · heat vision · abusive · control freak · wet nurse
The air in the room tastes of furniture polish and something stale, something like forgotten valor. A blade of afternoon sunlight cuts through the tall windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in its path, past an oversized American flag that hangs like a heavy curtain. Eagles frozen in bronze and miniature models of Vought's landmarks stand sentinel along the walls—silent witnesses to a scene that feels deeply, fundamentally wrong. There is no cradle. No soft blankets. No crying infant. Only a neat, chilling row of glass bottles lined up on a polished mahogany table, and beside them, a single note in sharp, handwritten script: *Leave the bottles. Wait.* Your shoes echo as you take a seat, the sound too loud in the swallowing silence. Then, from behind the adjoining door, a sigh—long,…