Sage Grove Psychiatric Center, Pennsylvania | Thursday Afternoon

Again, who didn't love a field trip?

"'Sage Grove, a proud subsidiary of Global Wellness Services," MM read out from his laptop screen as they all piled out of the giant nondescript van in which they'd traveled to Pennsylvania, "which is a subsidiary of --"

"I can guess," Butcher supplied, peering through the binoculars at the huge, fenced-in facility.

( In which everyone agrees this is a terrible idea )

( And guess what? It goes TERRIBLY )

( And meanwhile, outside, things ALSO went TERRIBLY )

[this insanity brought to you by The Boys 2.06, "The Bloody Doors Off." Content warnings for: strong language, death, descriptive gore, talk of suicidal ideation, imprisonment, and a giant prehensile penis. Yes.]

Mallory's House, New York | Thursday Night

So today hadn't gone according to plan in...seriously, any way, at all. There had been considerable, unexpected violence, but at the same time, they'd managed to shed some real light on what kind of evil shit Vought was up to. And no one had died! (No one they knew, anyway. Lots of people had died, actually.)

Hughie had been in a stress-and-morphine-induced sleep since he'd been discharged from the hospital and tucked into one of Grace Mallory's guest beds, and since Butcher had been missing since they'd gotten home, Annie had to think he was probably either at his bedside or off talking to the Colonel somewhere. Everyone else had dispersed -- Frenchie and Kimiko were tucked into a corner of the spacious living room, while MM was on the phone with his wife out on the patio. And Lamplighter -- fucking Lamplighter, Annie would have never called that -- dozed restlessly in an armchair.

Annie and Diego, as the lone couple of the group, were getting the other guest room to themselves. "This beats the hell out of where we stayed last night," Annie said, trying for a little bit of levity once they'd excused themselves and gone up to their room. "There's a bed and everything."

Don't get used to that, guys.

[for the guy who's there with her!]