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She’s lied to everyone she knows, and these days she lies all the time. Except when she was sitting with Butcher, drowning four months of agonizing sobriety in the worst vodka she’s tasted in years. He looked how she felt. He looked like a man who had scraped the nails off his fingers and his fingers to the bone in trying to move an immovable wall. And when he said that she was the same as the rest of them, that she had to die just like the rest of them, Maeve told him the truth.
She considers lying to Homelander when he finds her. She considers telling him that she loved him in her own way too, considers kissing him one last time, considers telling him that she was never stupid enough to think she could change him, but she was stupid enough to think he wasn’t that bad. In the end, when he asks her if she ever loved him, Maeve tells him the truth too.
brave maeve and the duality of truth and lies. set during 3x05.