Chapter 13: Naive & Hughie!
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"Eat." Butcher ordered, tossing the food on the table as he and Ben both sat down.
Ben quickly dug in and with a mouthful of burger said. "Okay talk."
"Come work for me." Butcher told him, not missing a beat.
This caused Ben to choke and take a few sips of his milkshake. "What?"
"Ever since World War Two all supes have been working in Vought. All of them, not one has ever not worked for Vought. Others either never get a moment in the spotlight or get paid not be a supe." Butcher tells him.
"Except you." He adds.
"Now I don't two fucks of a rats ass why." Butcher continues, while leaning forward and crossing his arms on the table.
"All I care about is that in 3 days you gave half a dozen of those cunts a good spanking. The kind of spanking people like me can only dream of, but you did it like there was nothin' to it."
"What's a cunt?" Ben asked, naively while grabbing some fries. At that moment a mother with one of her children was walking by and her eye's widened before covering her child's ears as she walked away.
"You'll figure it out." Butcher simply answers then adds. "So you in?"
"Why do you wanna spank Vought so much?" The ten year old asked.
"Cause I fuckin' do that's why." Butcher simply say's sipping his water. "Why do you care? A kid like has to have some sort of squabble otherwise you wouldn't be so set on ruining they're reputation."
"Not really." Ben tells him instead, wiping some sauce on a napkin. "They're just the bad guys. And Heroes fights bad guys." He adds.
Butcher snorts in amusement. "You gotta be jokin'." He replies, but then see's that he's telling the truth.
He still has that naivety in his eyes of a boy who just wants to do the right thing because it's just simply the right thing to do.
When Butcher looked into M.M.'s eyes and mentioned Soldier Boy, he instantly saw a fire for revenge. This kid, nothing.
"Nope. That's why I want to know why you want Vought." Ben say's, while starting his other burger.
"So who was it? Speedy Train, Transparent, the man in Black, Homeloser?"
Butcher's jaw clenched and he mad a fist to contain his anger. "Piss off that's who." He answers.
"First you came to me." Ben points out, gesturing to himself, before holding two fingers up. "Second you want my help you have to tell me what he did to you. Because you need me, not the other way around."
Butcher looked into the sea of patrons and contemplated. It should an easy choice, but it's not. It was bad enough that it happened, he didn't want to relive it.
"Homelander did something to someone I care about and Vought made them disappear." Pauses to look back at the kid. "For good." He adds.
"Your family?" Ben guessed. And the look Butcher gave told him he was at least close.
"Do we have a partnership, or not?" Butcher slowly asks one last time. "Cause I already had a plan before you showed up on my doorstep. I don't really need ya."
"I'm in." Ben agree's holding out his hand. But when Butcher goes to shake it he pulls back. "Just one thing. I see something not right I will go Hero on you." He warns.
"Of course." Butcher replies then the two shake on it. "Now let's go see a trojan about a horse."
"What?" Ben asked, finishing the last of his meal.
"Just come on." Butcher tells him not bothering to explain. Working with a kid was gonna be an adjustment. The ten year old then followed him, but not before running back to get his Milkshake.
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As they drove up to the electronic store Ben noticed the dog toys and asked. "You have a dog?"
"No." Butcher answers with a stern expression.
"Then why the-." Ben was asking, but was cut of when Butcher exited the vehicle. "This better not be a thing." He tells himself as he follows.
When they get in Butcher goes to the nanny cam section and starts examining a bear. "Why are we here?" Ben asks.
"Just wait." Butcher mumbles.
"You interested?" The store worker asks. "We're having a special on nanny cams actually. Popular bear, there's cameras in the eyes so." He tells them.
"Tell me." Butcher begins. "How many nannie's shake their babies?"
"What?" "I'm sorry."
"Like a real hard shake." Butcher continues, shaking the bear for emphasis. "Like tryin' to get ketchup out of a bottle. One percent? Less?"
The store worker just gives him a confused look. "I-I don't really know."
"Funny that." The Brit say's, putting the bear back. "Sell a billion dollars worth of that shit world wide." Takes a few steps to the employee.
"Just goes to show you. The bollocks people will believe, if you get them scared enough."
"Cool... Cool cool." The man replies, with a nod. "Um is there anything I can help you with today or?" He ask's feeling uncomfortable, while glancing to the side.
"I'm not gonna piss you about, Hughie. I heard what happened to Robin." Butcher starts to tell him.
"I'm-I'm-I'm sorry who are you?" Hughie asks, more nervous than ever.
"She wasn't in the street she was one step off the fucking curb." Butcher continues. "And you didn't take the pay-off." He finishes with a bit of pride in his tone.
"What's going on?" Ben ask's, getting ready to use the watch.
"I said who the hell are you and how do you know that?" The worker asks in slight fear.
"The name's Butcher." Pulls out his FBI badge. "Billy Butcher." Hughie looks at the badge and is surprised. Billy then goes closes this distance to Hughie to just a few inches and in a hushed tone.
"Listen, I was thinking that, uh, you and me should have a little bit of a chat."
Hughie looks at him, still and shock and before he can reply. "Why are you whispering?" Ben asks, struggling to hear Butcher and not understanding why he was being so quite.
"Who's he, what's he doing here?" Hughie wonders, pointing at Ben.
"Bring your kid to work day." Butcher answers.
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