The Boys S3 Rewrite

Chapter 2 S3 E3 Part II

Whilst Butcher's in the bathroom I watch as Hughie and MM step outside leaving me alone with Mallory.

"Do I know you?" Her sharp tone takes me a little by surprise before I conclude that's just how everyone involved with the boys seems to be.

"Not personally as far as I'm aware. I'm Queen Maeve's PA, could be where you've seen me." I answer hoping that's enough for her.

"No. It's not that. I'm certain I know you from somewhere else." She insists cautiously approaching me as I watch her eyes observe every part of me.

Well this isn't uncomfortable at all.

"I just have one of those faces I guess." I say silently begging for everyone to come back into the room.

"So why are you here? I mean you knowingly work for a supe and you're employed by Vought what issues could you have? Not feeling like you're being paid enough?" Mallory asks, each question more condescending than the next.

"Maeve and I have been the ones providing those guys with any and all the information they and/ or formerly the CIA asked for. We want to see Homelander and the rest of those pricks suffer and Maeve, well she just wants to be left alone she wants to have a normal life." I answer almost getting in her face, not quite but almost.

"Fine, but why are you suddenly out in the field instead of researching like you have been all this time." She's never satisfied is she?

"I wanted to keep an eye on things especially since some of the leads hit a dead end because of their recklessness."

To my relief one by one the boys come back in the room MM first shortly followed by a now guilty looking Hughie and finally Butcher.

"Sorry about that." Butcher say striding back into the room.

"What the hell did you drink last night?" Hughie asked not really expecting a response.

Which he doesn't receive, as Butcher ignores him before resuming his earlier seat whilst I move to lean against a wall creating the distance Butcher probably would've asked for if I hadn't.

"Right, where were we?" Butcher says making himself comfortably as Mallory hunches over in the chair opposite resuming her witnessed events.

"To the surprise of no one that moron Swatto went for another joy flight, giving away our position. Even better, the Sandinistas brought Russian Special Forces with them. Though that didn't matter much to the supes." Mallory begins once again.

She begins telling us how Crimson Countess killed some of her men backing up her previous statement of how supes weren't cut out to be in battle due to their lack of training. To me it seemed more like to their lack of observation and logic skills, not all supes obviously but Payback man were most of them thick as pig shit. Mallory continues saying how at least Noir was killing the right guys, before witnessing Stan Edgar being escorted from the line of fire with at least two armed soldiers ensuring his safety, not like he really had any purpose being on site in the first place but it was one less distraction. She accounts witnessing Swatto, the guy who caused the carnage, retreating taking of before being blown up mid-air, he was always a fucking coward he got what was coming to him if you ask me. Her next observation was witnessing my Ben fighting against the Russians and Sandinistas, at least he was also being useful.

My pride was shortly live however when Mallory recalls Gunpowder, a close friend of mine, someone I had helped train going gun crazy literally shooting anything and everything not caring if it moved or not as she then says how he blew up an ammunitions tent the force of which threw her against a wall knocking her unconscious. She takes a deep breath.