The vampire|| Billy Butcher

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Butchers pov
We walk into a group that's anti supe due to loss or long term injury. "Seth you're up" Seth stands and says "uh so I'm kinda a writer. I work in marketing there's this one hero who shall remain nameless but has ice powers" she gives my hand a squeeze.

Hughie needs to see and hear what supes do. He doesn't fully get what happened to Kat. Frenchie and MM, understand the loss. She's still here but we knew her before. We were there day in and day out and we know her now. We know how this changed her. We know what they've done. What he's done. They feel the pain from it too. We're a fucked up group. But they love her like she's their own. She's the mother hen or was before everythin. It's changed her. I love her either way but I can identify the changes. Which is why Frenchie called her and not me when he was burned.

"Ice princess" I name the supe. Fuck em. Seth responds "I'm not allowed to say" because he took that pay out Hughie was offered after robin. "Anyway she uh took a liking to me" "when a supe takes a liking it's not a good thing mate" I say. He asks "how would you know" "oh because homelander took a likin to my wife here and made her into something she never wanted. Warning....if they take an interest in ya ya better run" I say. He ignores me "it was heady man. Intoxicating. No one wants to fuck the writer. Needless to say I fell for her big time" I ask Hughie lowly "what kinda nobber falls for a supe" Hughie says "your wife is one" "she wasn't always this way. She's the only exception" I reply lowly.

"Anyway we were uh you know...being intimate, when she climaxes and accidentally turned into ice. Just for a second but I was uh, still in there. At negative 346 degrees. Same temperature as liquid nitrogen. As you can imagine uh, it snapped off. The crazy thing is I still miss her. It's like that's the cost of a moral like me for being with a god like her." Seth continues. She mutters "if one done that when she was happy. Imagine what one would do if she found out you'd been lying to her from the get go" to Hughie. A woman says "excuse me you have something you want to share?"

I reply for her feeling her hand squeeze mine. She hates public speaking. Always has. "No sorry. Please do uh continue the ice capades." "I wasn't talking to you" she replies to me. "Take the talking stick and tell your story" to her. She does and I can tell she's nervous. "I-I uh don't know where to start" nervously. I tell the woman "that's bloody enough" she shakes her head "she needs this. Let her work through it" maybe she does but this ain't either of our call to make. I say "leave her be" Katherine stops me "I-it's okay. I...I think she's right"

"I...I'm not like you. I didn't break my dick in an ice princess, and no one shattered my spine. I got caught doing work I wasn't supposed to be. It was for the good. But uh homelander he uh he took me and beat me. I begged him not to...I was 5 weeks pregnant. He didn't care and I lost my child. He was and still is obsessed. I never looked at him that way but he still didn't care. He asked me to tell him lies and sell it like the truth or he's murder my husband that's behind me. I wouldn't. I'd have rather died than tell him I love him and want him and have sex with him when I didn't. I took vows. I love my husband. He didn't care and raped me and beat me for about a month straight. Told me we'd have a baby of our own and it'd be perfect. He injected me with shit I didn't know what, he snapped my neck and I woke up as what you all know as the vampire. That's who I am. The vampire. Something he created. I hate what I am and what he and they are and you should too. Show your rage. Stop sucking their dicks and cunts and do something about what they've done because they're only going to get worse. They've done worse. To me. To Hughie over there. They're so much stronger but you have your right to vote, you can be angry rally, protest, but this. Kissing their asses like they're a fucking god needs to stop. Feel free to tell my story. I don't care. Everyone deserves to know the kind of shit vought sweeps under the rug and tries to throw money at"

She rambles nervously a tear falling and I grab her and pull her to me "you're alright love. Cmon. We ought to get outta here" she nods and puts on a stone face and we head out and I snap "ya shoulda bloody left it the fuck alone" I tell Hughie "supes are all the same every last one of em" walking out with her and he follows us. We sit on a bench me, with her on my lap soothing her. "What are we doing here? Also...Katherine...I'm so sorry" I shake my head at him telling him not to speak about it anymore. He nods getting the hint.