inkythumbs
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- The Boys (TV 2019) (8)
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(Sequel to "There's something 'bout the way you look tonight", but can stand alone.)
“Just– wait up a sec.” Butcher stands up. “Wanted to– uh– Run something by you.”
Hughie narrows his eyes. “Okay…? Sure, what is it?”
“Thought we could, I dunno, grab a bite sometime. Nowt fancy, just–” –his hands are sweating– “–don’t make it weird, or shite. Y’know.”
“A bite,” Hughie repeats. “Do you mean– like dinner?”
Butcher scowls. “Christ, don’t say it like that. Sounds bloody… romantic.”
“Well,” Hughie says, “it sounds like you kinda just asked me to dinner.”
“Didn’t say dinner.”
“You said ‘grab a bite’.”
“Yeah, well that could mean anything, couldn’t it?” Butcher grumbles, ears burning.
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There's something 'bout the way you look tonight by inkythumbs
Fandoms: The Boys (TV 2019)
13 Sep 2025
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(Now with sequel, "Naked in Manhattan"!)
“‘Nightshade’,” Frenchie announced. “LGBT venue. A little shady, a lot kinky.”
“Someone’ll need to go in,” MM said. “And blend in.”
“I think there’s a pretty obvious choice here,” Butcher tipped his chin at Hughie. “Practically begging for a pegging.”
He anticipated the reddened ears, the flustered stammering, the humiliated, pink-cheeked scowl. Instead, Hughie shrugged, calm as anything.
“Sure,” He said. “I know the place.”
Silence fell like a dropped body.
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A love that falls as fast as a body from the balcony by inkythumbs
Fandoms: The Boys (TV 2019)
03 Jul 2025
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(Townie - Mitski)
Alternate Universe - Hughie, worn down by the recent decimation of Robin by A-Train right in front of his eyes, spends long, dull days at his mind-numbing job - tech support for a small scientific facility. Driven by the sense of worthlessness at not fighting for justice, Hughie starts poking into the facility he works for - and finds ties to Vought itself, right under his nose.
And, in the Restricted underground levels, he finds an aquatic Supe trapped in a small, cylindrical tank. What's more, he swears he recognises that face from articles shared on those anti-Vought forums...
Hughie decides he needs to buck himself up; become an infiltrator for once. For Robin. And, maybe, for the unfortunate Supe floating in the water on the other side of the bulletproof glass.
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I'll Win Him Back Again, We'll Be Lovers, Best Friends by inkythumbs
Fandoms: The Boys (TV 2019)
24 May 2025
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(Tears Over Beers - Modern Baseball)
All I can hope for is for me to get better
'Cause all I can take is no more.
I'll win him back again, we'll be lovers, best friends
He won't need no other woman like he did way back when he was with me.Billy Butcher has Hughie entirely, hook, line and sinker. He knows how to make someone feel like the centre of the fucking universe with generous hands, a willing mouth and the right words to whisper.
So why is Hughie leaning in towards the Supe he’s supposed to just be spying on, laughing over some piss-weak beer and shooting her one of those bashful smiles?
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It’s funny how quickly this has become routine for them. Distantly, he thinks about Pavlov and dogs and pretends he’s okay with how he’s growing fond of the bell that calls him.
It could never be love. Hughie knew that from the start, from the first ring of the bell. He knew what he was getting into, knew exactly who he was crawling into bed with, exactly who he was saying yes to, over and over and over. He also knew, from the start, that none of that was ever going to stop him coming back. He knew, from the start, that maybe nothing ever would.
But it’s nice - oh, so nice, so indescribably divine - when it happens. And, afterwards, well, it’s fine. Hughie’s fine. It’s routine. The fool doing his usual little dance. Drooling like Pavlov’s fucking dog at the sound of the bells on his stupid fucking hat.
Sometimes, Butcher “accidentally” says the softest, sweetest things in the heat of the moment, making Hughie absolutely melt for him. Weirdly, though, he always says them right around the time he wants Hughie to do something for him, keeping Hughie loyally chained right to his side.
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There's something 'bout the way you look tonight by inkythumbs
Fandom: The Boys (TV 2019)
01 Nov 2025
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The team dreams up a treatment for Butcher’s Temp V brain damage, which Hughie gets tasked with administering. Stuck together on Maeve’s Kansas farm, it goes about as well as you would expect.
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15 Feb 2025
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Hughie agrees to help Butcher raise Ryan, all while trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy in his life.
Of course, things are never that simple. Not when Butcher's involved.
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- Part 2 of our house (in the middle of our street)
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Bookmarked by inkythumbs
21 Feb 2025
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Hughie begins having dreams about an awful future. It bleeds over into his life. He "deals" with it.
Bookmarked by inkythumbs
18 Dec 2024
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Westminster Care Home For Troubled Children by DemandMeNothing
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), MorMor - Fandom
24 Dec 2013
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Jim Moriarty is a troubled child. At only eight years old he's been moved from Dublin to a London care home for difficult youngsters, having attempted to kill his parents and baby sister in a house fire. His roommate is ten year old Sebastian Moran, a painfully shy but incredibly violent little boy.
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Bookmarked by inkythumbs
14 Jun 2020