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Mhm, sure. It's definitely his fault. Not mine.

Poor Mouse has a broken leg. So it's a good thing Red will help, because he needs help.

poor mouse.

i now have an image of red encouraging mouse to learn to use his crutches by standing on the other side of the room and promising him kissies if he successfully makes it to him

Me: *trips Mouse*

Oh no, Mouse is injured. Whatever will he do?

yknow the funny thing is im pretty sure i wrote that to preface a little red x reader situation to mend my own sanity, but this works too.

red will, in fact, just get poor mouse to bed be at his beck and call like a good boyfriend should be, mhm :) all while chastizing him for getting hurt in the first place 😭

he just cares so much. and hes at least somewhat decent at handling emotions. while also being the type to swaddle you in blankets and fret over every last vaguely raspy sounding breath.

At least he won’t yell at Teen!Butcher when he finds him. He’ll just be concerned.

teen!butcher, who, once again, just accepted fate and had laid down to sunbathe for a while before bloodhound found him: oh. hey. fancy seeing you here this late. looking for something?

Bloodhound is at least appreciative of Teen!Butcher cleaning the bunker. Yay for that.

Now I’m imaging what Teen!Butcher does all day in the bunker. Bloodhound has books and video games, so there is entertainment but Bloodhound is asking him if he wants to maybe try and educate himself on his own terms.

teen!butcher: oh... uh. not really. did you know i actually got expelled? yeah.. missed too many days, i guess. and only around half of them were by choice, so i'd rather not, thanks.

apparently he figured out how to unlock the door and will wander around the woods, looking for any abandoned buildings he can explore. thats his entertainment, since he never got into neither reading nor videogames. roman only had a tv, but it only showed the local news and maybe the music channel, so teen!butcher didnt get much use out of it

i can so imagine him getting locked out on accident too 💀 imagine it was raining as well that day. so bloodhound comes home and teen!butcher had just accepted his fate and is laying on the ground somewhere, staring at the sky, soaked to the bone. and 100% being sick the next day.

Bloodhound, closing the fridge: We have enough food.

If anything, Bloodhound doesn’t really need to eat. Since he’s a vampire. So I think they’ll be fine.

teen!butcher: uh.. sure. if you insist.

aw. he'd feel bad if bloodhound was purposefully splitting his own portion size just to feed him. i can totally see him eating only half the plate and bluffing how he's not hungry anymore and that bloodhound should just finish it to not waste a crumb of it.

because whether or not he admits it, he is just a nice boy 🥺 and recognizes that hes actively being helped.

Bloodhound is at least telling him his name. And that he took Teen!Butcher to get him off the streets.

He's now going to the kitchen and hoping Heartthrob's meal prepping will last them until Heartthrob comes back. He really should've thought about the food situation before taking Teen!Butcher home.

oh,, interesting,,

teen!butcher's reaction to the door being locked: well. okay. i guess.

he saw enough and has decided he doesnt even care enough to pick the lock.

but yay for him at least knowing bloodhounds name now :) yay!

teen!butcher, in the kitchen: if you have no food i can also just. not eat. my father once locked me in a barn for two days. came out perfectly fine. and maybe a bit too many pieces of hay in my system, but thats irrelevant.

Bloodhound: Why would there be a basement? This is already a secure bunker.

This man is wondering why he took Teen!Butcher off the streets and baby, we're all asking that. But here he is, with a teenager.

There's a door he doesn't want Teen!Butcher to open and he's telling the teen not to open it. Sir, I think that will just make Teen!Butcher open it.

teen!butcher: so you cant hunt? weak.

SIR 😭 youre testing this nice man's patience, omg 💀

teen!butcher: oh. that door? this is what you dont want me to open? okay, cool, it leads to all the dead people. sick, ive seen a few of those. its chill. whats a few more?

so he is, in fact, opening the door. sigh.

i get that hes under a lot of stress right now, but hes really showing all the reasons roman hated him in one fell swoop 😭 a loud mouthy, rule breaking brat. but thats also just teenagers in a nutshell. plus hes unmedicated, as the cherry on top.

teen!butcher: sooo you still havent told me your name, murderer man. as you know, if you paid attention, i'm adam... and i have no clue why im here. sick? sick. wonderful. glad we're on the same page.

He's unlocking all of the locks and opening the heavy door to let Teen!Butcher inside. And wouldn't you know? It is actually cozy.

Or as coy as it can get with a bones collection.

teen!butcher, staring at the bones: ... cool. so. how many people and slash or animals have you killed for this? looks like at least three.

hes still on high alert, unsurprisingly, and he reaaaally doesnt like how secure the door is. but hes at least looking around the bunker.

teen!butcher: so wheres the murder basement? every bunker in the woods needs one. my father almost had one too. just an, uh, fun fact, i guess.

For no reason other than he doesn't want to see a kid get lost to the life of crime again.

teen!butcher, seeing the bunker for the first time: are you gonna kill he there? that looks like the perfect place to kill someone. which i think is extra true because you never told me your name. but i guess if you ever kill me and make a nice gravestone, you can put adam on it.

teen!butcher: but are you *sure* you live *there*?? kinda.. creepy. but i fuck with it. even if it is a murder dungeon. i see the vision.

Bloodhound really has no patience left.

they really should be paying bloodhound for letting butcher stay here 😭 if he can give himself a bloody nose from sheer blunt force trauma one day in, hes ready to brave the world with his new abilities.

hes just feeling like a little kid again, messing about. and now kali gets to experience why none of the adults in butchers childhood had any patience for him 💀💀

i can see his nose still bleeding every once in a while, and all he does is wipe the blood with his hand and then.. on his perfectly good jeans. as if theres not a clean napkin on the table 💔

Poor Kali is now fretting over Butcher being like “What happened????”

butcher, now sopping wet: i deserve that

at least hes being niceys and shaking all the water off before heading inside. hopefully he has clean clothes there 😭

butcher, to kali: ... i just killed a bear to save lane and then fell into a mud puddle...? mhm. yeah sounds about right. do you know where the towels are at? my hair's wet :/

That man won’t do anything to stop it either. 😭

So like good luck to Butcher.

butcher fully would ignore that and does, in fact, go superspeed. only to come upon a wet patch of mud that trips him up instantly and makes him faceplant 💀 so hes now covered in mud, even as he goes back to human mode.

butcher, laughing: when was *this* when i was still twenty? boss wouldve loved if i could go this fast, ha!

sir, you'll freak kali out. youre literally caked in mud and i'd argue also just hit your head 😭 his nose is bleeding. smh.

Bloodhound is going to get Butcher back to the bunker, because he needs his rest.

okay, kali, if you insist

apparently butcher's trying to see if he can still go wolf mode here. which he can! yay! so hes just trailing bloodhound now.

Anyways, Bloodhound is like “Thanks.” And then he’s wondering to himself why he didn’t use his superspeed to get away.

I wonder why too, Bloodhound.

kali, when did i say this *is* canon..? thats just the butcher who's in my head right now. if you dont love him anymore, im sure sylvester will be happy to have him instead 💕

Bro was out foraging for berries and a beast stumbled upon him. 😭 At least Butcher is there because Bloodhound does not have any weapons him.

I do wonder how Butcher got here though.

butcher: ... i mean. i'm staying in the bunker bloodhound lives in as i "recover" from ashok biting me.

butcher: i just wanted some fresh air. and then i.. i dunno, my body started moving on its own?

something in him sensed there was some trouble happening nearby, and his enhanced senses only helped