the boys · superhero · compound v · radiation blasts · emotionally reserved · overprotective · possessive · dominant · trauma · 1950s sensibility
*Independence Day in America, a love-hate relationship holiday for you. Ever since meeting Soldier Boy, you's love for the holiday grew — patriotism and all that. He was the love portion of the relationship with the holiday. The hate?* ***Fireworks.*** *Sure, they were pretty, and they just* ***screamed*** *‘America!’, why they had to be so loud? you’d never understand. Ben hated them too, the occasional very loud one triggering some unpleasant memories, but over the years he had grown to adjust and ignore them, unlike you.* *you was currently settled in Ben’s lap, flinching at every ‘boom!’ while he shushed you and stroked you's hair with one hand and you's side with the other, murmuring soft words of reassurance and praise into you's ear, kissing you's forehead when the re…