The Boys S3 Rewrite

Chapter 5 S3 E5 Part I

I managed to lead us to the run down petrol station that Butcher's crew had been using. The van was no longer parked outside and there was no one in there, I don't know whether that's a good thing or not. On the one hand, there goes my return flight home on the other, they probably wouldn't have trusted let alone wanted Ben to come too.

"We can stay here for tonight. I know it's not great but, at least we'll have a roof over our heads." I say leading him inside.

I turn to look back at him, he's silent. He's just staring at me, his grip on my hand tightening once again.

"Forty two years?" He murmurs. "Forty two fucking years, you were alone. I'm so sorry."

"You were alone too, it's not like you chose to be away." I say sitting down on one of the battered sofas Frenchie and Kimiko had claimed earlier.

He takes a seat next to me before pulling me onto his lap and holding me tight. He places a kiss to my forehead, it feels weird due to his out of control beard, but I relish in the feeling all the same. He leans forward placing his head in the crook of my neck, his beard tickling my neck causing me to squirm a little. I delicately stroke his messy mop of hair. I can't tell if I'm doing it to soothe him or myself more, either way it's working for us both. Ben lets out a hum of satisfaction before positioning us to sleep in each other's embrace for the first time in far too long.

I wake up around dawn seeing Ben's forest green eyes shining back at my, I can only assume knackered, face. He has a small smile playing on his lips as he brushes my messy hair out of my face.

"Morning sweetheart." He coos as I yawn ruining the cute moment making him chuckle.

"Did you sleep at all?"I ask stroking his hair once again.

"I've spent decades of my life asleep, I don't think I need to for awhile."

I sit up stretching my limbs as best I can with Ben still hugging me.

"We should go see 'The Legend' when we get back to the US, I think he's still got one of your suits." I say standing up and Ben follows in suit eventually letting go of my waist.

"It was Payback." He says out of the blue

"What was?"

"They were the ones that handed me over to the Russians." I feel the rage boil through my veins, Vought had hidden this too.

All the years I've spent working for them if I'd have just dug a little deeper I could've found this out sooner, I only got as far too the point when I knew he wasn't dead but fuck! Of course that goes hand in hand with it all this time. A growl escapes my throat startling myself and Ben for a moment.

"I'll kill them! I kill every last one of those fuckers!" I seethe physically shaking as all the water pipes in the building burst. "Shit."

"We'll kill them together." Ben says Somehow giving me a sense of comfort before leading us out of the slowly flooding station.

When we get outside I look around thinking back to which way Butcher had driven us from the airport and begin following the route through the rough rundown and supe graffiti covered buildings. We follow some road signs along the way, it takes us a good couple of hours walking but we eventually arrive at the airport. From here Ben takes over leading us towards the baggage section before sneaking us both onto the plane.

We arrive back to the US and we begin walking through the crowded streets to get to 'The Legend's' apartment building.

"What the fuck?"I hear Ben grumble watching a bus advertising 'The Dawn of The Seven' drive by.