He doesn't get a eye, but the saliva lands on his cheek just below it. It starts running down his face, and he doesn't even blink. Homelander pulls her closer by the firm grip on her wrist, and this has to hurt but the little thing just screws her face up and spits? Gutsy move.

Homelander lets the grapes fall, wiping his cheek with a finger. Her spit clings to his fingertips, bloodwarm and viscous. And slowly, so very slowly, he brings his finger to his mouth, sucking it clean with a mmmmm-sound of pleasure.

"Sweet."