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.
Top Butcher/Hughie Protective Fic Recs
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Dysfunction
Protectiveby 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.”
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
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
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
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.
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.”
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.
Black Coffee
by aishahiwatari
Hughie really needs this job.And, okay, he wants his boss to need him too.
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
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.
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
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
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?’
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
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
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
(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
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
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.
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.
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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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