I tried cleaning up and finishing one of my billion WIPs, and this one’s supposed to be Billy enjoying some magic if you can’t tell (and if you could, internet cookie for you!)
It turned into utter crap so I went with the Hollywood solution and slapped on loads of special effects on it. It did not work out.
awwww this isn’t crap at all
I am IN LOVE with the pose, that gentle arch of his back. His blissed out face and unfff the lighting on it.
Gorgeous!
Teddy: It’s not REALLY a piggy. B you should see his face, I’m certain he thinks I’m going to steal his toes. You are the most serious baby Timmy
So then I asked if I should draw Billy and Teddy with little Tim and Kon or the other way around. And Teal suggested both
crap crap crap
I cant even type. I typoed every single one of those craps
D<
Don’t mind me I am pmsing.
G’night
Note: Okay, I was browsing Kaciart’s BxT art and stumbled on this. My brain exploded into fic mode and I. Could. Not. Resist.
Fluff, fluff, and more fluff. Why? Because I like to rot teeth, that’s why. Also because Miss Julie draws the sweetest Billy/Teddy scenes in existence.
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That Thing You Search For
30 Quills challenge: #20~ The difference between love and desire …
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Monday he receives a text from Billy, that he cannot make it to training. He is running a fever and his mother is forcing him to stay home until it breaks and he is no longer a contagious. Teddy spends the day texting him throughout class, daring to risk the confiscation of his phone, a one way ticket to detention, or both. That night, he calls Billy, and they talk until Billy’s sleepy replies begin to sound hoarse and Teddy ushers him to bed.
Tuesday he receives another text from Billy, his fever is running higher than yesterday, now his throat is sore and he seems to be developing a cough. That day Teddy has to sweet talk Mrs. Johnson out of taking his phone away during lab, and narrowly misses getting a detention in Mr. Parker’s class when his phone buzzes during their pop quiz. Training is three hours of agitated distraction in which he gets yelled at by Eli several times, and given that look by Nathaniel.
He doesn’t wait to get home to call Billy, dialing his number as soon as he heads for the train. Billy sounds stuffed up, coughing or sneezing in alternate measures, and the cough medicine has him a little loopy. Teddy does most of the talking this night and only hangs up when he hears Billy start to snore.
Wednesday he doesn’t receive any message at all, and no matter how much he fidgets with his phone, it doesn’t buzz back.
O…M….G….
This…
Word’s how do I do them?
This is amazing, I am actually so ridiculously in love with your characterisations
I don’t want to say anything that will spoil it for people so I should go bug you in your ask box. fffffff
But wow, SO IN LOVE WITH THIS.
Thank you so very much hun! I really loved that it was long and the scene that the pic was from; adorable!
Go read it gaizzzzz
kestral answered: billy and teddy broke up?
Also, we had been talking about this in LS and I intend this to be when Teddy is living with the Kaplans
And he can probably hear Billy crying thru the wall
(I had a version, too? From Billy’s POV. Victorszasz’s version was fantastic, too. I wasn’t sure whether or not to reblog them or whatever, so … ;;;;; IDEK )
He could deal with this.
When he had first heard about his mo- well, the Scarlet Witch, at least- and what she had done (or what they SAID she had done), Billy had promised himself that things wouldn’t end up like that with him. He’d promised himself that, no matter who he lost in his life, he’d let things be. No more spells that changed the entire world. No more sacrificing thousands for a single person. Dealing with Nate had made coming to that conclusion easier, in a way. He’d seen the consequences, seen what could’ve happened if something in the past changed. He’d promised himself that he’d never take things like that into his own hands, no matter what.
Yet here he was, rocking back and forth, wishing that he could could I-want back into the past and change things in spite of the cost. His hands dug into the pillow pressed hard to his face to muffle sobs that he knew Teddy could still hear through the wall. Having a boyf-
Oh, god. He’d been about to say “having a boyfriend with almost super-hearing sucked sometimes,” but that wasn’t true, was it? Not the sucking part, because right now everything sucked. The boyfriend part. That wasn’t true. Not anymore.
Ohgod. Ohgodohgodohgod. And in a flash, Billy understood. This kind of pain- this horrible, tearing kind of pain that he had never known existed- she’d felt even more than this, hadn’t she? Because she hadn’t just broken up with her husband. She’d lost her kids AND her husband. And while the wall dividing him and Teddy seemed so thick at the moment, he wasn’t dead (even if it sortof felt that way at the moment).
No wonder. No freakin’ WONDER.
He’d promised himself that, if anything happened between him and Teddy, he’d do his best to deal with it like an adult, no matter how much it hurt. Because they weren’t just two normal kids, in the end. They should be able to deal with stuff like this easily. They were heroes, right? They’d fought Kang, dealt with an invasion and a war and … and …
And he could FEEL Teddy through the wall, knew that he was also on his bed in their spare room, with his stuff still not unpacked from when they’d stuck it in a few boxes to transfer it from Billy’s room over there. Not that it had taken many boxes. He hadn’t ended up taking much of his stuff with him when he moved in with the Kaplans. And suddenly Billy remembered the look on his face when Billy’s parents had opened the door and welcomed him in, that expression somewhere between disbelief and job that had made him just want to hug him right there and then, and that strangled laugh he’d made when Billy had accidentally spilled the suitcase with all of his underwear and gym clothes down the stairs, and the way his eyes had seemed so bright as he’d looked across the table at Billy that first night …
The pillow still smelled like him. Billy buried his face deeper into it and let out a long, shaking breath in some attempt to stop crying. It didn’t work.
He couldn’t deal with this.
This was really lovely Shera. I love Billy’s thought process and how he’s trying so hard but so beside himself with what he’s lost.
I actually really loved the part where you described him moving out of Billy’s room, that was a real FFFF moment for me.
I’m glad you put it up, both you and Victor wrote such wonderfully unique stories considering the relatively tight guide you have. But just shows what wonderful imaginations you both have.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this 8DD *nudges* MOAR?!
kestral answered: billy and teddy broke up?
Also, we had been talking about this in LS and I intend this to be when Teddy is living with the Kaplans
And he can probably hear Billy crying thru the wall
Teddy couldn’t cry anymore.
He couldn’t get angry, he couldn’t feel guilty or responsible.He couldn’t feel anything. Just a badly connected set of limbs.
“I can’t take this! I can’t watch you risk your life over and over. I love you…so much but…but I can’t…I can’t do this anymore…”
They were just words. Words replaying over again in his head like a record on repeat.
As the sun peaked in through the curtains Teddy swallowed, his mouth was dry and he knew he should be exhausted. He spent the entire evening just replaying everything in his head, crouched in bed numbly chewing his bottom lip until he could feel the metallic tang slowly pooling in his mouth.
Every time Teddy tried to lay his head on the pillow all he could see was Billy’s face as it crumpled, tears threatening to overflow. His voice cracked as he spoke and his hands shaking that he tried so badly to hide behind his cape.
Teddy Altman had never been one for confrontation, especially not with Billy, so he simply stood there. Stood there and absorbed everything until later in the evening when they parted into separate rooms.
He knew Billy was trying to keep quiet but even through the wall Teddy could hear the other boys muffled sobs into the pillow and he squeezed his eyes shut wishing he could rush in and be the comfort that Billy needed.
Teddy felt himself rock forward as he heard the faint whispering, “I want it to stop hurting, I want it to stop hurting, Iwantittostophurting, Pleasemakeitstophurting…”
This is so heartbreakingly wonderful. I love love love angst and you’ve written it so well. I wasn’t 100% on who broke up with who but thats PERFECT because for me when I drew this it had been Teddy breaking up with Billy
And the way you’ve written this lets me choose what I want
This is JUST what I’s imagined when I drew it. Really wonderful! Thanks for taking the time Victor <3 The last line closed it up so wonderfully? Sadly? Both, definitely both!
Just sharing with everyone else so you can enjoy it too!
kestral answered: billy and teddy broke up?
Also, we had been talking about this in LS and I intend this to be when Teddy is living with the Kaplans
And he can probably hear Billy crying thru the wall
Fuck
I feel to tired and sick and stressed about tomorrow to draw today.SOB
Time jump 48hrs please,
please?
Have old shit
I think Billy would be very passive about bullying and tolerate it to a point after what he had to deal with
Not Teddy
He will raeg on anyone who picks on his adorable Billy.
Tho he would know to have cut the Hulk strenght and just trash them normally 8D
Continuation of THIS ONE
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“Oh my God!” Billy cried “Why are you so good at this?!” Tim allowed himself a minute smirk. “Have you played this?”
“Stop trying to distract me by talking” Tim laughed “It won’t work!” The others watched on, twin expressions of amusement as Tim seemed to have piqued Billy’s competitive side.
“Oh yeah?! Won’t work huh? Iwantyoutocrashiwantyoutocrashiwantyoutocrash”
“You…You cheat!” Tim crowed indignantly as his car spun out of control and was sent careening into the sandbags, no amount of button bashing helping his case. Billy glanced triumphantly at Tim who was concentrating on returning his race car to the correct direction. His gaze lingered on Tim’s mouth, his teeth which were tugging doggedly on his lower lip, cherry red from the attention. He ran his tongue along his own lips involuntarily before turning his attention back to the screen hoping to maintain his tentative lead.
It was short-lived when Tim batted Billy’s hand off the controller. He fumbled it like a champ, somehow managing not to drop it and looked wide-eyed at Tim.
“That’s not…”
“I know you weren’t going to say ‘fair’” Tim quipped “Because you just opened up a can of worms Kaplan and I’m going to show you how it’s done” Billy closed his mouth and returned to the game with renewed fervour. It wasn’t to last, Tim was an expert when it came to winning videogames underhandedly. Playing against Kon and Bart had shown him very quickly that human reflexes were often not enough.
Billy giggled his objections, returning the favour and it wasn’t long before the game had dissolved into rough-housing with both sides laughing heartily. Tim let himself be pinned, controller knocked from his grasp.
“Y….you…” Billy gasped, breathing heavily “are a complete cheat”
“Takes one to know one” Tim sniggered, watching as Billy’s eyes took on a mischievous light, lips curving.
“Iwanttowintheraceiwant-“Tim’s gaze flickered to the side, seeing the analog start to move of its own volition. He surged up cutting off Billy’s words with his lips. The spell died out and Billy’s eyes widened almost comically.
“I’ll have to remember that one” Teddy said conversationally and Tim huffed a laugh against Billy’s lips before dropping back to the floor.
“Forget cheat, you Tim, are a force to be reckoned with! Now where was I? Iwantto-wmphh” Kon released a bark of a laugh when Tim grabbed Billy’s hoody by the lapels and dragged him back down.
