Ships Butcher/Hughie Protective

Best Butcher/Hughie Protective Fanfics

The best protective Butcher/Hughie (Billy Butcher/Hughie Campbell) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The devotion and care it demonstrates, the safety and security it provides, and the romantic implications of fierce protection.

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Dysfunction

Protective

by aishahiwatari

“Did he touch you?” Butcher’s repeated snarl breaks through it all. He’s livid, vibrating with tension. Hughie should be more scared than he is. Mostly he’s confused.“No, he- what? Ezekiel?”“No, not fucking Ezekiel, what’s he gonna do, bore you to death? Homelander.”

2,312 kudos 4,590 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
2

You smiled at me first

by thefirecrest

John escapes from the laboratory for an afternoon and makes a friend. Years later, Homelander has an unexpected meeting at Believe Expo.Or the one in which Homelander and Hughie are childhood friends and Homelander is his, typical, possessive bastard self.[Chinese Translation now up: https://archive

4,146 kudos 5,335 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Distraction

by aishahiwatari

Hughie’s on a sort of elated, desperate high after he leaves the tower, after he escapes with his life without being noticed by the superhero squad he’s supposed to be spying on. It manifests in high speed chatter and fidgeting, two things that make Butcher glare at him, sidelong.“If I let you suck

3,613 kudos 2,002 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Revenge

by SumOfAllThings

Hughie opened his eyes, instinctively grabbing the hand around his throat as it tightened threateningly. “There he is,” homelander purred mockingly, pulling him closer. “So tell me Starlight, what is it about the kid that you like so much?”“I don’t-“ Annie began nervously.“Oh fine, liked then.” He l

2,919 kudos 18,928 words 16/? chapters Not Rated
5

Earth or Diabolical Creature

by aishahiwatari

Professor Butcher is gorgeous, but he's closed-off, distant, unattainable.Annie knows that.Robin, meanwhile, has feelings about Professor "just call me Hughie".With the quarantine in place, an online lecture allows a little insight into both their personal lives.

2,826 kudos 1,553 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Diversion

by aishahiwatari

“Why are you hard?” Hughie has to know.“Why are you?”Hughie checks. He isn’t hard, actually. But he checks. And that’s enough. When he looks up, it’s to meet Butcher’s triumphant grin.Hughie sighs. “So I guess we’re doing this again.”

2,654 kudos 3,169 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Happy Together

by punk_rock_yuppie

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.

2,416 kudos 60,295 words 17/17 chapters Explicit
8

Black Coffee

by aishahiwatari

Hughie really needs this job.And, okay, he wants his boss to need him too.

2,408 kudos 9,835 words 2/2 chapters Explicit
9

Demarcation

by aishahiwatari

“Holy fuck, you’re hot.” Hughie realises anew when he sees what’s underneath today’s ridiculous shirt, no artificially bulked muscle but a glorious, broad chest tapering down into a slim waist, a flat stomach, and he’d never realised he could have a thing for shoulders, but- “I’m gunna need you to r

2,176 kudos 2,936 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Present

by aishahiwatari

Wow, Hughie thinks when he sees the flowers, a bright and colourful bouquet shoved into the garbage can at the end of the street. Someone’s relationship is going well.They’re nice flowers, too. Not that he exactly knows a lot about that sort of thing. Butcher is- not the gift-giving type.

2,145 kudos 7,103 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
11

Five Times Hughie was a Beta

by CookieMonstersRUs

“You are not an omega," Kimiko signed. "You are a beta. Our beta.”“Yes, that’s true, I’m the beta here.”“Our beta,” she repeated. “Pack.” And then she gestured to his wrist and mimed biting it, like she wished for all of them to be a real family.“Oh.” Hughie shouldn’t have been stunned by that, but

2,029 kudos 6,828 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
12

Obligation

by aishahiwatari

"I cannot make it," Frenchie tells Hughie, like the traitorous traitor he is. "But I have a friend. Perfect for your purposes. He is much more of an asshole than I am.”“You want me to fake date someone I’ve never met?”“You want me to spend all of Thanksgiving with your insane, American family for a

1,996 kudos 10,582 words 1/1 chapters Mature
13

A candle in the window on a cold dark winter's night

by SatsumaSegments

‘Has anybody else noticed that Hughie and Butcher are in love with each other?’‘D’you think they’re planning on telling us? Or were we just meant to work it out?’‘Oh, fuck. Guys. What if they haven’t worked it out?’

1,883 kudos 9,056 words 3/3 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
14

Of Bonds Old and New

by holyfudgemonkeys (erraticallyinspired)

Although he can’t say he believes in any higher being, Butcher can say that if one does exist, they’re probably having a good fucking chuckle about him right now.Or, Butcher's rut is fast approaching, and there's one person he finds himself gravitating towards.---Kinktober Day 14: Omegaverse

1,807 kudos 2,019 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
15

Home

by aishahiwatari

“Daddy’s home,” Butcher says, and Hughie grits his teeth and rages and fumes and seethes because this is not fair, he does not get to just waltz back in after fucking everything, and act like nothing’s happened. MM accepts it, and Frenchie’s come to expect it, and Kimiko- well, who fucking knows, bu

1,753 kudos 3,027 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
16

Disruption

by aishahiwatari

Hughie looks Butcher in the eye, Butcher who alternately regards him with a vague sort of affection and swears at him in laboured metaphors, who has warm hands that have taken lives and moved corpses but have never touched Hughie in any way he doesn’t want. He probably wouldn’t go so far as calling

1,737 kudos 2,723 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
17

(Bad)? Neighbours

by MotherFuckingSorcery

Hughie knows nothing about the new neighbour, apart from the fact that he’s aggressively good looking. He’s all dark crisp lines and danger emanates from him like a cloud. “Billy Butcher,” he says, with some kind of cockney accent, shaking his hand with an overly firm handshake.Hughie arches an eyeb

1,723 kudos 4,887 words 2/2 chapters Explicit
18

The Ghost of You

by holyfudgemonkeys (erraticallyinspired)

When it seems like both of them are content to ignore their one night together, Hughie resigns himself to the idea that nothing will ever come of it. He goes to work at the FBSA. Butcher joins Mallory again. They see each other a handful of times before the alpha is sent on a mission.Which is, of co

1,688 kudos 17,791 words 2/2 chapters Explicit
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Canary

by JustSomeoneWhoLikesToWrite

Mother’s Milk had called Hughie his canary. Or a.k.a Butcher thinks about Hughie’s reactions to him being back.

1,555 kudos 1,058 words 1/1 chapters Mature
20

Devotion

by aishahiwatari

Butcher really fucking hates supes.There’s not a good or decent one among them.Translucent, for all he’s stuck naked in a cage being regularly threatened with death, proves him correct all over again, the first time he and Butcher are alone.

1,544 kudos 7,344 words 2/2 chapters Explicit

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Why Protective Butcher/Hughie Fanfiction Works So Well

Billy Butcher/Hughie Campbell — Butcher recruited Hughie with a lie and spent four seasons alternately weaponizing and protecting him — the closest thing the worst man on television has to a conscience. The Boys frames them as corrupter and innocent; fandom reads the obsession both directions.

Protective — One character goes to great lengths to protect another from physical, emotional, or other harm. Protection can be obvious or secretive.

'The canary' says it all: fans are drawn to the gravity between a dying cynic and the kid he can't let go of. The devotion and care it demonstrates, the safety and security it provides, and the romantic implications of fierce protection. That's why protective Butcher/Hughie fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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