QUANTUM~Billy Butcher

How to save a wife

Butcher kept to his word and a few days later Athena received a call from him, unfortunately for her it was when she was in the middle of cooking for her and Annie. "Hello?" she answered resting the phone between her ear and her shoulder as she flipped the steak over In the pan. "It's me." Butcher answered, causing Athena to nod to Annie, giving her the hint to take over cooking. "Butcher, Hi." Annie clocked on to what was going on and a look of surprise was on her face. Of course Athena had spoke to her sister about what happened with Billy, the whole confession, and the fact that against her better judgment, she had fallen for a man who had dedicated his life to hating Supes.

"I know where Becca is." 

"How did you find out?" she asked, sitting on a stool, she turned the phone onto loud speaker so Annie could hear, it would save her having to repeat herself. "I told our Colonel, Mallory, that in return for finding Raynors- The deputy Director of the CIA's- murderer I wanted information on where Becca is...I didn't pull through and she still gave it to me. It's a Vought facility armed to the teeth, it won't be easy" This sounded like a challenge, and if Athena loved anything, it was a challenge. "So does that mean...?" she nudged "Yeah, We're gonna go get her." Athena smiled, she was relieved he had found her, that woman was essentially a captive for Vought, even if she did have a house and a neighbourhood, it was just a glorified prison, and she needed to be freed. "I'll come pick you up tomorrow, bright and early." She said. Taking the car she got for Butcher would be the best idea, her car was too obvious, but she was going to have to put fake license plates on and pray it didn't get them pulled over by police.

Annie had started plating the food when Athena ended the phone call, "So I guess I'm going to have to cover for you and say you're sick?" Athena laughed, that would never work, Supes don't get sick. She didn't know how long she was going to be gone for so she needed an excuse for her absence, "Well I have a cousin in North Carolina, you could say you're reconnecting with your birth family one step at a time?" Annie offered, and fair play to her, that was a pretty damn good lie.

The pair ate their meal and gossiped about things that had been going on, the main topic being Stormfront, something seemed off about her and Athena couldn't put her finger on it, she was very social media savvy, constantly condemning Vought's actions, which on the surface was good, it was bringing issues to light, but something about it seemed like she was overcompensating, like she was doing all this big media show to try and hide something, since neither of them had any proof of this, this was all speculation for now. Annie left shortly after she had finished her food, lightly teasing Athena on the way out about getting to spend more time with Butcher. "Nothing is going to happen- we're going to save his wife for gods sake." that didn't phase Annie, "You know how to pick them don't you?" the Supe laughed, waving goodbye to her sister and going back to the tower, making sure to put her hood up as she walked.

Prince meowed goodbye and walked back in the house, which reminded Athena she was going to have to buy a lot of treats for him to make up for leaving him for a few days, food and water wouldn't be an issue, having as much money as she did, she had to spend it on something, and that something was her cat. Prince had a state of the art food and water station which held enough food for a week and dispensed whenever Prince was near from a chip in his collar, and the water also held enough for that amount of time and also had a filter. She did love her cat. 

Athena planned to get Butcher around 6am, the earlier the better for this mission, considering she had no idea where they were actually going. Which meant an early night was essential or there was no way she was going to get up in the morning.

While Athena was prepping herself in her silk pyjamas for bed, Butcher was packing an assortment of weapons and supplies he might need if things were to go south, he didn't know what to expect on this trip, and of course if history was any teacher, it was better to expect the worse than the best. "Where do you think you're going?" Marvins voice was heard and Butcher turned around, "Just on a little trip." he answered nonchalantly, but nothing got past MM, "You're gonna go find Becca aren't you? I heard you on the phone earlier." He couldn't lie to him now, "I leave early, thought it best not to give use lot anything to worry about, even though Frenchie's been drugged up for weeks and Hughie's a cryer, I'd rather not get snot all over me jacket." Butcher took a folder out and handed it too MM, it held the contents of a 'Liberty' Budweiser advert that Mallory had given him. "The Colonel gave me this after she told me where Becca was, apparently she was all over Raynor's personal devices, might mean something." MM took it and examined it, there was an address on the back, it was in North Carolina "Take the kid with you." Butcher motioned to Hughie room where the young lad lay fast asleep, 

"You be careful out there." MM offered his hand to Billy which he gladly took, but looked concerned as the mans grip tightened and wouldn't let him go, "And you be careful with Athena, she's a good woman, don't go fucking her around because she's been a saint to us." Butcher faked confusion, "I don't-" "Cut the bullshit Butch, we all saw your little smooch on the cameras. Just don't end up hurting her. You've hated Supes for as long as I've known you, and now suddenly you're all infatuated and shit." Billy cursed himself for forgetting about the camera outside the shop, but MM had a point, it was beyond unusual, especially coming from someone like him. "I'll be fine lad, now you go get some shut eye." Butcher verbally dismissed his comments, he knew Marvin spoke the truth, but Billy wasn't one to talk about his feelings, especially with the Boys.

Morning rolled around and Butcher was already waiting outside on the quiet street when Athena pulled up, she had made her hair short again and she had her signature cap and sunglasses on for when she was going incognito. Billy quickly got into the car, skipping the pleasantries as it was safer to just get out of the public areas, once they were in the clear Butcher handed her the folder, but she didn't take it, stating she already knew where to go "How the hell do you know where we're going?" Butcher asked, "I couldn't sleep last night, and after you told me it was a secret Vought facility I had the brains to search deep into Voughts servers, if Homelander wasn't meant to find her, it meant the information wasn't going to be easy access. So after I hunted for the information I found a facility in Virginia and I knew it had to be there, there was no other information on it, just the location." He was impressed. From what little information she had bene given she had found where Becca was and he was now even closer to finding her.