I wipe the tears off my face and go looking for Annie, heading towards her room. I get in there and shes a wreck, she's having a panic attack and won't stop crying.
"I-I-I didn't know, Elaine I swear I didn't know. Please you have to tell Homelander I didn't know," she sobs.
I sit her down and put her head on my shoulder, shushing her.
"Hey, hey I believe you, but right now you need to calm down, okay I need you to breathe," I try calming her down.
I let her let it out for a few minutes and get her to calm down.
"You need to find Hughie and get to the bottom of this Ann, I'll let you handle this, because I trust you. But I saw Translucents body, thew blew him up into bits. He was a father, a bit of a perv but he wasn't a bad dad. I believe you when you say he's not a bad guy, but you need to figure the truth out. Plus figure out why the rest of these guys are doing this, A-Train killed Hughies ex, so why is everyone else involved," I explain.
She takes a deep breath and wipes her face, "You're right, they..they have to be doing this for a reason. There has to be a reason."
She comes up with a plan to meet up with Hughie, secretly and swears to come and tell me everything afterword.
I head down to IT, I recognize that guy, the dark haired one with the beard, he was at party years ago, Vought made me goes before I was in the eight as a minority representation. He was at the race, staring at Homelander.
What...what did Homelander do?
"Hey Trevor, I need you to do me the biggest favor, I need you to look up videos from a party years ago, there was someone there I need to find. I'll sit here and go through the footage, can you just look it up for me," I ask.
"Of, of course yeah just let me know when it was. Vought likes keeping extensive records so its in here somewhere," He stutters, probably shocked I remember his name.
He pulls up the footage and he shows me how to go through the cameras to keep an eye on Homelander, then I see the guy. Clean shaven, with a beautiful women on his arm, who has a name tag.
"Trev, can you zoom in on her name tag?" I ask.
He does a few clicks and it zooms in.
Rebbecca Butcher
So his wife worked here.
"Trevor, can you look up information on Rebbecca Butcher?"
He does some typing and pulls up her profile. She's missing, and presumed dead.
What the hell did he do to this girl?
My head is spinning, and I have no clue whats going on and I get a call from Annie.
"Hey, I saw Hughie and he said something that I need to go confirm with my mom but, he did kill Translucent. I went to take him in but, some guy shot me,""
"You okay?" I ask.
"No," She replies, "But I'm figuring some stuff out. Can I come see you when I'm done seeing my mom?"
"Do what you have to do." I reply.
We hang up the phone and I head home, I have a lot I need to think on and I have to talk to Homelander.
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He finally shows up at my place, and we don't say a word before he sits down.
"John, who is Rebbecca Butcher?" I ask.
He smirks.
"No one has called me that for a while. What happened to Home?" he retorts.
"What the fuck happened to Rebbeca?!" I shout.
He takes a deep breathe before finally answering.
"I..... slept with her, years ago before she went missing. Y'know I went and saw the Doc today, he called me John too. Told me what happened to her. I got her pregnant."
I draw in a breath and continue to listen.
"I thought it wasn't possible. I was told it wasn't possible. But apperantly the baby grew to fast for her body to handle. Vought took her somewhere without a word to anyone, she signed a NDA, the baby clawed its way out of her and my baby....my baby drowned in her blood,"
His voice breaks on that last part.
"I didn't even realize I wanted kids, It was never a possibility," he explains.
"What happened to Becca?" I ask quietly.
He's silent for a moment.
"She died of blood loss, her husband, Billy has no idea what happened to her," he explains.
We're silent for a moment.
"My baby died, my poor son. I never got to hold him, or teach him how to be a man," he says.
"I'm sorry about the baby, and Rebecca," I reply.
He takes a deep breathe and looks at me teary eyed.
"I'm so sorry about what I said El, please forgive me. I was just angry and worried, I didn't want to lose you to these people," he explains.
I sigh before giving him a hug, letting him let it out.
"I know that, but it hurt, I meant it Home. I'm not a doll, you can't own me. I can only be yours if I want to be," I respond.
He's silent for a minute and he lets go looking at me.
"Will you?" He asks.
I look at him in the eyes, the eyes of my best friend, the eyes of the one person I could always confide in and I take a deep breath. Tears now welling in my eyes.
"I..I need some time. There's to much going on right now and I need to think on it. Can you give me time?"
He takes a breath, jaw clenching, before he releases that breath.
"Of course, take all the time you need. I'll be here if you need me. Always," he says.
I give him a hug, before kissing him on the cheek and he leaves.
I take a deep breath, allowing myself to absorb everything thats happened today, and allowing myself to break down on the couch with a bottle of jack.
YOU ARE READING
Burning Passions
AcciónI'm Elaine and I am what's known as a Supe, a member of the notorious 8, an elite group of heros run by Vought, hero is a loose term, meaning different things to different people, to me we aren't really heros. When I was younger, something happened...
