So far, Billy's classes were pretty cool, even if some of them hadn't been quite what he'd expected, thank you GLaDOS. He was a little nervous about tomorrow though - he had class with Magneto who he might possibly be related to, and that reminded him that Tommy was still ignoring his text messages, if he'd even held on to the cell phone Kate had given him, and all of those thoughts had resulted in Billy spending the evening on his laptop looking at pictures of funny animals on Tumblr.

It was therapeutic, shhh.

[Open!]

It was only slightly surprising when Tommy chose to be a superhero, given the options Eli had offered, and it was only slightly surprising when Tommy's abilities proved to be majorly useful in rescuing Teddy from the Super-Skrull.

It had been a lot more surprising when the people who successfully got the Super-Skrull off their backs via a well-placed blaster shot turned out to be the Kree, and it had been even more surprising when they'd also claimed Teddy as their own. There was a Romeo and Juliet joke just waiting to be made once the threat of a second Kree-Skrull war on Earth was over, but it didn't seem like that was going to happen any time soon.

It had been very surprising when the Super-Skrull turned out to not be dead, and jumped in front of Teddy to protect him from the blast of a Kree warrior's gun, and it had been very surprising when Teddy insisted on taking the Super-Skrull with them as they tried to escape, because he'd saved Teddy's life or some similar nonsense that Billy didn't understand but didn't have time to argue about, because the Vision was ushering them onto one of the Kree warships, explaining that he could fly it once he accessed the mainframe, while Tommy argued with Cassie that it didn't really count as stealing if they weren't intending to keep the ship.

At this rate, Billy was going to be grounded for at least two lifetimes.

( In which Billy finds out more about himself than he ever knew he didn't know. )

[Adapted from Young Avengers #10 and #11. Warning for violence, and for way more telling than showing.]

So, most of Billy's time at home was supposed to be spent with his family, but thankfully, his parents understood that he needed to spend time with his friends too. Especially since they had a very important mission.

"Do you think this counts as stalking?" Billy asked, watching Teddy check the clock on his phone for the umpteenth time as they waited outside Eli's apartment building.

"It's an intervention," Teddy insisted. "He thinks he can't be forgiven for messing up, and he's being stubborn about it."

"Which is a total shock, really," Kate said, smirking from where she was perched against the railing of the apartment building's landing, bouncing rubber bands off the stop sign across the sidewalk.

Billy smirked back at her. "Have I mentioned that you should come visit me at school and meet Hawkeye?"

"Why? So I can take one look at him and burst into tears?" Kate asked. "Unless he's gonna come back with me so he's not dead here? No thanks."

"Anyway," Cassie said sharply, since talking about dead people who weren't her dad wasn't allowed, "it's Eli's own fault that we had to come here. If he'd just answer our texts or our calls--"

"Or Billy's weird emails from school," Teddy suggested.

"Hey! They're not that weird!" He hadn't even mentioned the Umbridge situation, so clearly everyone had gotten off light as of late.

"They're pretty weird, but not as weird as finding you all here."

Eli frowned at the four Young Avengers, who all moved without speaking to stand between him and the front door. It was nice to know that Billy being gone hadn't changed some aspects of teamwork.

( In which Billy breaks a promise to Topher through no fault of his own. )

[Adapted from Young Avengers #9. Warning: contains violence and (secondary) character death.]

Billy and Topher had originally made plans to go out for an ice cream date over the weekend, but that idea had been hampered by the whole pony thing. So, of course, the day they rescheduled for was the day the island was invaded by goats. Of course.

"Tell me this wasn't our fault?" Billy said, once they were safely inside. He didn't really think it was their fault, but he had to admit, they were getting kind of a strange track record here.

[For the other awkward geek!]

When you were the lead singer of a soon-to-be epically famous band, you kind of got used to waking up and not immediately recognizing where you were. Usually though, it didn't take Nikolai this long to get his bearings. He didn't even remember coming into this place last night, let alone staying, and he didn't have the hangover that usually went with getting seriously wasted. While he was here though, he figured he might as well take a look around. Maybe he'd get lucky and end up in someone else's room for a while.

[Billy is Nikolai Wolf from Jennifer's Body. Yes, I enjoy being mean. Open!]

As usual, I am totally late for the bandwagon. DON'T LEAVE ME BEHIND, PEOPLE!

( About Billy Kaplan. )

I know I'm probably forgetting a dozen things, but for now, here's everyone else, in copypasta form:

( About Zoe, Jason, Sam, and Katie. )