[ Tommy is naively operating on the idea that Billy is Billy is Billy. That his checking that Tommy was Tommy was in fact the same - similar enough to cause whiplash, different enough to hesitate. Isn’t there anything else Billy could reach for? It has to be that?
Talk about using history against you. Whatever. He owns the risk of bad boy on the team. Tommy huffs quietly, and his voice loses some of the cocksure pride it always carries, but he’s not ashamed. ]
I didn’t mean to. So, yeah, I broke in at night for a dumb prank. Powers don’t come with a manual. I figured out how to go through walls and I thought it’d be funny to mess up the hallways or flood the bathrooms and get a day off. I didn’t know what happened if I sped other stuff up too long. It goes boom.
[ He knows a brave face when he sees it, and maybe the extra detail is a trade. Or a distraction from something worse, with no one to blame. Tommy can’t ask him anything else about his dying. If Billy starts to crumble again, he really will hug him. Tommy’s not sure if that’s…allowed. Or if Billy won’t let him go again, this time with a shove. Honestly, it’s 50/50 that Tommy’d tell him to get off if it was the other way around.
He doesn’t remember Wanda having control over a town, but it’s not like he cared about the news before he went all superhero. Or that he started paying attention to Maximoffs in the news. ]
Why does it matter? It was years ago. I was 13. You know all this. You don’t get to just bring it up whenever it pops in your head.
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Talk about using history against you. Whatever. He owns the risk of bad boy on the team. Tommy huffs quietly, and his voice loses some of the cocksure pride it always carries, but he’s not ashamed. ]
I didn’t mean to. So, yeah, I broke in at night for a dumb prank. Powers don’t come with a manual. I figured out how to go through walls and I thought it’d be funny to mess up the hallways or flood the bathrooms and get a day off. I didn’t know what happened if I sped other stuff up too long. It goes boom.
[ He knows a brave face when he sees it, and maybe the extra detail is a trade. Or a distraction from something worse, with no one to blame. Tommy can’t ask him anything else about his dying. If Billy starts to crumble again, he really will hug him. Tommy’s not sure if that’s…allowed. Or if Billy won’t let him go again, this time with a shove. Honestly, it’s 50/50 that Tommy’d tell him to get off if it was the other way around.
He doesn’t remember Wanda having control over a town, but it’s not like he cared about the news before he went all superhero. Or that he started paying attention to Maximoffs in the news. ]
Why does it matter? It was years ago. I was 13. You know all this. You don’t get to just bring it up whenever it pops in your head.