The Butchers daughter || the boys

part 2

It was around 2 in the morning the same night i sat in the office, "hey wheres Petite?" i look over at the voice, "he went home he was falling asleep Frenchie." "what are you working on?" I hold up the flash drive, "this is everything Stan Edgar had on me for some reason this the only copy," i say annoyed. "why would vought only have one copy of you?" "I dont know."  "drugs?" "no," I chuckle,  "go home Uncle im good here." "you sure?" Frenchie sits down placing a hand on my, "yeah im good tomorrow morning i want you the others to find out about what happened with the patients of Sage Grover center after it went away." "why are you so instersted?" "Sam's supposed death it's to clean and why would Golden boy just now kill himself over his brother death, and Dad hasn't even heard from Erica in a while." "yeah things there do seem off." Frenchie tells me, "go ill see later." "don't be here to late," frenchie say leaving the office.

It was around 5 in the morning when i decided to go home with three coffees, as i walk into the apartment, seeing blinding yellow light getting through at me, i dodge the blast, "annie its me, you idiot!" i yell, "sorry," she said then gave me an apologetic smile, when i see hughie walk out of our room with my gun, "put it down its me dipshit," i say turning on the light putting the unspilled coffee on the counter, "sorry," hughie say putting the gun on the counter, "why do you have a gun?" annie ask confused taking her coffee, "you do understand what we do right?" i ask her taking my gun off the counter and making sure the safety was on, "were an off the record CIA group to stop Vought." "yeah thats true, did dad take Terror?" "no hes asleep on our bed." "fucken knew i was the favorite." "right it's 5 in the morning why are you just getting home?" Annie ask me and Hughie and i look at eachother then back at Annie, "im very lost," annie says Hughie hands me the letter from Vogelbaum, "when did you get this?" I look at him, "right ummm so i did dumb thing a couple of months ago and his daughter gave me that with another flash drive." "whats on them?" Annie ask, "you, vogelbaum gave you his files on you," Hughie says and i nod, "why?" "i dont know i know what you guys know." "open it," hughie says with a compassionate look on his face and i nod opening the letter, Dear Athena, I'm writing you this before the hearing because something is gonna happen to me i can feel it. Athena you were my greatest creation; I know that ive told you that before but that's not why im writing this, you may be wondering why i wanted you to have these files, it's because the files i gave vought were faked so they thought AT3 was dead and that she couldn't kill Homelander. Joe helped me fake the video of you escaping the compound, Athena be careful and its time. Vogelbaum. "Homelander and Vought that i was dead before the hearing, then when-" "you went up there and told the whole world who you were, who you really were, that's why Vought took you at the mission, they wanted you dead," Hughie says cutting me off but i nod, "how did they not look into it?" Annie ask, "i dont know but this guy named Joe helped Vogelbaum get me out."  "right..." the three of us sit there in slience for a little when terror barks, breaking the silence a hand on my shoulder as i know that feeling being Hughie's hand on my shoulder, I look up at him and he gives a nod, I smile getting up, "i will see you both at work." "attie what is your plan?" Annie ask me and i turn back them, "im gonna go talk to the one person who will give a straight answer." "who?" I smirk holding the paper from Ryan i run back over to Hughie hugging him handing him the paper before running out the apartment.

Hughes pov:

"Where is she going?" "we'll see her again." Annie looks at me confused as i open the paper she got from Ryan, it was a picture he drew of them I smiled down at the photo walking and putting it on the fridge, "Hughie aren't you worried." "no. come on lets get to work."

Annie and I walk into the office and i get immediate glares from M.M and Frenchie, "where is she?" they ask in reference to my stubborn wife, I chuckle, "Hughie!" i turn around, "Hi butcher." "she'll be here soon she just needs to make a stop." "a stop where?" "to someone that would tell her the truth." "tell the truth about what?" Butcher and M.M ask and Annie looked over at me, "about who got her out of cell 42 d." "what?" Butcher ask, "her birth mother got her out she made us not tell anyone but knowing Attie she went digging into everything."
"Yeah she does that," Butcher say holding a photo and I look over his shoulder, seeing a little girl who I'm assuming is my wife playing with a boy, "oh holy shit that's me." I say taking the photo, "what?" Butcher asked as I continue looking at the photo, as Annie looks at us both, "are you two gonna fight cause if you two are gonna fight I'm gonna call Athena." Annie tells us, Butcher grabs my arm dragging me out of the office, "that boy in that photo is you?"
"Yeah that was fun day Athena was really nice though she did throw sand at me." I chuckle.
"I almost killed you that day," butcher chuckles as we sit outside, "thank you Hughie for taking care of my daughter, everyone besides you and her have left me, we can finish this you, me and Athena that's all we need your apart of this family now Hughie and us Butcher's we take care of eachother." Butcher placed a hand on my shoulder and I smiled at him, "I will always take care of Athena don't worry about her Butcher."
"I will always worry about her." I nod and Butcher smiles, "thank you for always taking care of my daughter." "of course shes prefect and sweet, and i glad shes my everything." "you do make her very happy."

Athena's pov:
I walked into the empty wharehouse, "Athena." I turn around, "hi Ashley." I say deadpanned, "what do you want?"
"I need to know something." Ashley nods handing me a file, and I open it, "wait Homelander waits Hughie and I dead."
"He fears you both." I laugh, "he fears Hughie, man Child, raw dog me I'm a bottom, Hughie the idiot-"
"the one you love yes. You and Hughie are his worst nightmare." I throw the flash drive back she gave me back at her, I looked at it but like Vogelbaum said it was doctored, "i dont need it, I know who i am and who i'm meant to be, my name is Athena Butcher i was raised by Billy and Rebecca Butcher Im just here to protect my family, Ashley." I walk away from her going back to the office.

As i walk up to the office I see my dad my husband sitting on the steps, "what did you do?" i ask them and Hughie chuckles, "nothing baby," he says with a smile on his face, I grab his shirt crashing are lips together, we pull apart hearing my dad cough, "what's going on?" Butcher ask, "Homelander wants Hughie and I dead." "wait what?" "oh yeah baby youll be fine I promise I wont let anyone hurt you." I smile placing a hand on his shoulder and Hughie smiles up at me, "eww you two are gross. but where did you go?" "an empty wharehouse where I meant Ashley but I need to show you both something." I tell them pulling out the undoctored flash drive and plugged it into my computer, "what is this?" my dad asked me and Hughie gave me a concerned look, "just look please," I tell them and they sit down with me, I push play on the video, "alright Vogelbaum are you sure about this?" one of the nurses said and we watched Vogelbaum, look at what looked at 3 year old me, "she can handle it," Vogelbaum bet over and told little me, "alright AT3 were gonna do it again." Little me looked at Vogelbaum, and I felt Hughie grab my hand giving it a squeeze, I could tell he was nervous about what was happening, which is very fair for what is about to happen, we all watched as Vogelbaum played a loud frequency, I look over at Annie who was covering her ears, I turned it down, "sorry but I highly suggest you guys keep watching," as the frequency ended little me seemed fine as the door went off at the same frequency as the one that was played, "holy crap," Butcher said to me, "you can do that." "yeah apparently." Hughie looked me and then over at Annie, "that frequency that hurt supes."
"Wait where's Kimiko?" I asked and Frenchie spoke up, "bathroom she's fine."
"Annie did you know that a high frequency like that would hurt us?"
"No sorry Athena but the real question is why didn't it hurt you?" Hughie gives a confused look, "I don't know," I tell her truthfully as I watch Hughie plays with his wedding ring, I grab his hand giving him a light squeeze he smiles at me as we both are kinda freaking out about everything.

Later that night, Hughie and I walked into the apartment hearing Terror bark, "hey Terror, babe seriously I think this might be the best plan."
"It's dumb."
"It's really not, Hughie im telling you something fishy is going on there. I've meant Erica a couple of times there's no way she would just cut him like that, and Golden boys death, one brother dead and the other missing, Baby do you trust me."
"Always," he said with a smile kissing my forehead, "it's not you I'm worried about."
"It's dad."
"He loses you." "he'll lose you," I add and Hughie sits down next to me grabbing my hand, "you and I both know that he'll go down that dark hole." "I have to do this." "I know, just promise me you'll be careful." "im always careful," I tell him and I hear him laugh causing us both to smile at eachother, "your really not." "no I really not. but seriously." "I will make sure that your father does not you know." "thank you." I say kissing his forehead, he wrap his arms around my waist holding me close as I feel his head in my shoulder, "please be careful," he whispers to me, "I can't lose you too." "I promise Hughie everything will be fine just stay with him." "always."