two >>> i make a fist and not a plan

[expeditiousness]

un: SPEED
private; @wiccan

wanda’s gone.

[what. it’s fine. tommy’s totally fine.]


[some time later:]
@everyone

idk who here knew wanda but fyi she’s gone now, if you didn’t already hear.

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[expeditiousness]

not really, dude. one of my friends is a half-kree half-skrull alien, another one was a robot. and if you took down an evil corporation, it sounds like you and your alien friend are heroes!

[expeditiousness]

[tommy laughs. typical dramatic billy.]

Well, we've been living together here for a couple of months, right? And we haven't killed each other yet, so. [he shrugs.] I think we'll do fine.

[demiurgency]

[Yeah yeah, typical dramatic Billy, but he is what he is.]

You're right. I mean, the houses here are a little bigger than your standard New York apartment, and the soundproofing is definitely better, but hey.

I'd really like that, Tommy. A lot. I like having you around, you know?

[expeditiousness]

[tommy wouldn't want billy to be any other way, honestly. and honestly, tommy's a little dramatic too, though his brand tends more toward exaggeration than billy's direness.

and this is the kind of gushy talk tommy typically shies away from, but given the loss they've just sustained - and the fact that it's just the two of them here - tommy opts to reciprocate honestly.]

I like having you around too, Billy. It sucked a lot more before you were here.

[demiurgency]

Of course it did. Who'd you make fun of before you had me around?

[An attempt at something resembling levity. He's trying to keep his chin up, to not sink entirely into depression. It's hard, but Tommy's worth more than a little effort. Wrapping his arms around himself, he nods his chin towards the woods.]

I still want to look. Even if she's gone. Come with?

[expeditiousness]

[tommy laughs quietly - the gentle back-and-forth brotherly ribbing is reassuring, an anchor to ground him, a compass to point the way north. normal, for whatever quotient of normal is possible in their lives.

losing wanda hurts, but tommy feels like as long as he's got billy, things are going to be ok.]

You got it, little brother. [in another rare display of unprompted affection, tommy slings an arm around billy's shoulders.] Lead the way.