The Boys- Apprentice

Interning for the 7

I drove over to Vought headquarters bright and early. After arriving there I was directed to meet with Queen Maeve herself. She greeted me kindly and said to me,

"Hi there James, it seems like you'll be working with me for the next year."

"It's an honor to meet you Queen Maeve. It'll be a pleasure interning for you. If you need anything at all, just tell me and I'll be there."

"Well you'll mostly just be shadowing me on patrols and working with others, doing busy work like fetching drinks for me and the team, and maybe helping direct civilians in case of an emergency."

"Ok, so should I start now"

"Yes, let's begin."

For the rest of the day I mostly followed Queen Maeve around doing whatever she needed. I brought her drinks, I delivered messages for her, and I basically just helped wherever I could.

This pattern continued for the next week before anything exciting happened, with a few exception. The first really exciting thing that happened was meeting Homelander himself. I only met him for a few minutes but the leader of the 7 was just how I imagined he would be very heroic and very inspiring. I later went on to meet the rest of the 7 from The Deep to Black Noir. These meetings were also only in passing, unfortunately, and by meetings I really mean seeing them walk past me in the hallway, but they all looked very heroic. Except for maybe Black Noir, he creeped me out a little.

Well, back to what happened a week into my internship with Queen Maeve. It turned out that the 7 was getting a new member. Maeve told me that her name was Starlight and she was going to be introduced to the world today.

I was given permission by Queen Maeve to go to the ceremony where Starlight would be introduced to the world. So that's where I am right now standing at the front of a giant crowd watching Starlight introduce herself.

Starlight seemed to be very excited to be here joining the 7, as she rightly should be. Hearing her speak, she sounded like she would make a great addition to the 7. She sounded very genuine, like she wanted to, and was ready to go out and save some lives. She would most likely never be on the level of Queen Maeve of course, but that may just be my personal bias speaking.

After the ceremony I went back to meet up with Queen Maeve. I went over to her office to find it empty. Deciding to clean the place up while I waited for her I began putting away some files and emptying out her trash can. Just when I was finishing up Queen Maeve came in.

I stood up straighter and went over to greet her properly. "Queen Maeve, it's great to see you. Where have you been, your usually in the office by now?"

Queen Maeve looked at me for a second appearing startled and then responded, " Oh, I was just greeting the new member of the team." She seemed grim for a moment, but then went back to acting like normal. I decided that I had probably just imagined it.

She then asked me, "So, what did you think of her?"

I took a moment to think a response and then said, "She seemed really genuine, like she was ready to go out and save the world. Not as great as you, of course, but she seemed like she would make a great addition to the 7".

"I happen to agree, she'll sell very well to the populace."

I was a little confused on the way she phrases that, but just took her to mean that she liked Starlight.

I ended that conversation by saying, "Well, hopefully I'll get to meet her in person one day."

The rest of that day was business as usual until I was about to go home and Queen Maeve asked me if I would like to start training with her. I was stunned for a moment, and then enthusiastically agreed. This was the whole reason why I came to Vought in the first place, to train with my powers and learn how to be a superhero.