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@thcrealheroes ; annie / CONT.

𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦, that she had the sense about her to questioning everything she was witnessing right now and not just immediately being glad to see him. that's his girl, that's his annie, even in the face of doom and gloom, she still gotta question fucking everything. yet the moment he used that petname, he saw the 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 flood her face as she realised it really was him and his arms wrapped around her as she leaned into him, eyes closing for a moment and he does everything he can to ignore kessler's mocking voice. nothing was going to take away from this moment for him. they had been through their fair share of shit, but he was just so 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 that if this was going to be one of the last chances he got to see her, he was just glad he could get her out and she would be the one to finally stop homelander. he knew he could do it and he believed in her.

𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝, which considering how sick he was getting, it probably felt like nothing to her in comparison to the way he used to be able to hold her. the way she touched him almost made him emotional, shaking his head, " couldn't forget about you, baby girl, you're a pain in my ass, " he teased, trying to just be a little normal between them, especially considering the way she was looking at him, he could literally see the worry in her eyes as she realised just how 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤 he had gotten and it was only a matter of time, " don't worry about me, we gotta get you out of here and you gotta go stop that shifter, derail their fucking plan to take over, " butcher told her, his hands moving to cup her face and for a brief moment, he missed the power that the temp v had given him. he would be able to break these cuffs and get her out of here, but he didn't and there was no way billy was letting kessler anywhere fucking near annie. it just meant that there was only way two ways out of her cuffs, she had to figure out her power situation and quick, or she had to do it the 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 way and pull herself out.

𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝, he looked at her with a softer look on his face as he hated that she had no other way out of this and there was no way for him to help her, " i'm fucking sorry, annie, but you're gonna have to get yourself out of this. that cunt didn't leave a key and we ain't got the time to chase her down, you can do this, " billy wished they had the time for him to go after the shifter and get the key, but he didn't want to leave her. he also knew one good hit, he was going down and he had things he needed to do before his time was up. getting annie out was the first thing, then he had to try to get through to ryan, " i wish i could fucking do more. but you can get yourself out of this, i fucking know it, "