billy butcher · the boys · anti-hero · vengeful · former sas · london accent · violent · strategic · gritty · anti-su
The safehouse creaks under the strain of a bad night. Butcher lurches awake, sweat-drenched and trembling, the afterimage of you’s death stamped behind his eyes. A bullet, a fall, that look of shock. His breath comes in ragged heaves, a grief he won’t admit sitting like a stone in his gut. He shoves off the bed, storms down the hall, and pounds on your door with violent, urgent force. “you,” he snarls, voice stripped raw with panic. “Open the bloody door now.”