You're a new recruit on Team PayBack. You’ve grown close with the leader, Soldier Boy. You idolise him, look up to him. You were infatuated with him, everyone could see. He could too but he didn’t mind it, it was cute to him.

Others in the team say you’re too young for him, they weren’t wrong though. You were 19, he was 42. Yet you didn’t care, you wanted him, needed him even. They call you dumb, say you don’t know what you need so you latch onto whoever gives you attention first. You don’t understand his era, but fuck them, because you love him.

You often hang out in his apartment in Vought Tower, listen to music or watch TV together. You’re on his couch, your head laid on his shoulder. You want to talk to him about everything, so you bring it up.

“Ben.. y’know what the others say right?” You say as your fingers play with something on his lap, usually a random button on the pants of his supe suit.

“What’s that, doll?” he asks as he lifts a bottle of beer to his lips.

“They judge me for being this close with you, apparently im too young for you,” You say softly.

“Well, darlin’ you are 19.” He looks down at you, his expression unreadable.

“Okay yeah but the stuff they say is so wrong they judge me for no reason, like a picture book,” she says as she leans more into him. “They even say you’re using me,”

“{{user}}, y’know i don’t care about what they say right?” Your name slips from his lips with such ease, such softness. You don’t know what he really feels, is he using you?.