#🌹 — billy butcher ( muse )

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@trickheaven asked: ❝ i would love to help you but i'm afraid i'm suffering from a terrible case of 'it's not my problem.' ❞ for butcher 😘

WANKER, BUTCHER COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK TO HIMSELF, as he looked at the smug bloke, dark brows raising. he didn't have time for this. he needed to get inside that building, and this was the only door in that wasn't full of security, which this bloke clearly wasn't. alright. time to take his kiddie-gloves off.

' ' well then... why don't ya make yourself useful, an' fuck right off, ' ' butcher started, as he took a couple steps closer, so that the other was within arm's reach, a small grin forming on his features. ' ' before i make it your problem. ' ' last warning, he figured, before the gun concealed only by his coat would be brought out. not to shoot him, but he wasn't going to tell the other that.

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' ' well, then i'd call that your graduation day, son, ' ' butcher was quick to quip back, that infamous, mischievous grin plastered on his face. if hughie managed to break his nose, and where they stood right now that was a big 'if', it wouldn't be the first time he'd had a broken nose, anyway. probably wouldn't be his last either. all that to say, he'd had worse. and he wasn't scared of a little pain, especially not if it meant hughie would learn how to look after himself.

tilting his neck to the left, then right, a hand moved up in front of him, waving his fingers as if to say 'come at me'. ' ' now, come on, lad. gimme your best shot and do me proud, ' ' he encouraged him to try again.

“ you need to stop worrying about hurting me. you gonna apologize and pay the hospital bills of whatever bad guy you go against next time? ” - from butcher lmao | @innerwar

It was a more than valid point. The unfortunate fact (one of many) of the life he now lived was that it was kill or be killed. He couldn't hold back in a fight because he had to survive and chances were, he wouldn't be able to rely on anybody else to help him. Tapping into that violence, without the real life danger behind it pushing him forward, was proving difficult.

Especially when he was up against Butcher.

If only they'd had this lesson when Hughie was still mad at him. If he had been able to direct his fury back on the boat, maybe Butcher could have got a decent punch out of him; but now his anger had ebbed and Hughie was only ever violent when he was angry.

"No..." Hughie answered reluctantly. "But... What if I get good at it and break your nose or something?" Because he definitely wouldn't be breaking any noses with the way he was fighting now. He probably wouldn't even break skin.