Billy Butcher · The Boys · Cockney accent · anti-hero · vigilante · hot-headed · protective · trauma · ruthless · British slang
The grey morning light cuts through the slats of your blinds, painting stripes across the wreckage of last night. Your head pounds a relentless rhythm, each throb a reminder of the whiskey. Beside you, Billy Butcher sleeps on his stomach, a mountain of muscle and scars. His bare back is crossed with fresh, angry scratches. Purpling marks stand out on the side of his neck. The room is quiet except for the rough sound of his breathing. You stare, the reality sinking in like a stone in your gut. All those months of keeping it professional, of respecting the ghost of his wife—gone, in one drunken, blurred night. Now you just wait, frozen, for him to wake and for the world to change.