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Theodore "Teddy" Altman ([personal profile] halfnhalf) wrote in [community profile] kukkijar2012-09-29 07:34 am

Teddy Altman ; APPOINTMENTS



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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-01-08 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki idly draw patterns on the tabletop with one finger.]

He's a magician, Teddy. The idea that he is at all separate from his powers is an illusion. We are not men who happen to have magic. It is our blood.

[He shrugs.] But perhaps it is an illusion that will do him good in the short term.
selfhelp: ([billy] the idiot boyfriend.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-01 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, guess what? A certain someone's birthday is in a week. Which is not necessarily a big deal to Billy, but after some not-so-subtle interrogating, he was able to determine that it's also Tommy's birthday. He should've guessed it, considering they're twins and all, but they're also mystical soul-transferred/reincarnated/whatever twins, so. You never know with that kind of relationship.

The fact that they share the birthday as well as the soul-parents gets Billy thinking - about his home life versus Tommy's, about their families and their upbringing. About how Tommy so casually shrugs off the idea of trading the Shepherd name for the Maximoff one, when Billy can't even think about doing such a thing. It speaks volumes about what Tommy's home life must have been like.

It sparks to life an idea in his mind, and the more he thinks about it, the more he likes it. But with how the last couple of birthdays have gone, he knows that he can't just decide on his own. After several days of very seriously mulling over his options, Billy finally goes looking for Teddy at home to talk it over.]
selfhelp: ([billy] are you breaking up with me?)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-01 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi.

[Billy offers a faint smile when Teddy opens the door, leaning in to give him a quick kiss on the lips, then taking his hand and leading him back in to sit down. In part because he already feels guilty for wrecking whatever plans Teddy might have come up with, and in part because he hates doorway conversations. Or at least ones where they're both at the door. Seats are for sitting, doors are for... whatever.

Anyway.]


So... this is going to come out as really self-serving, but there's no other way to say it. Have you come up with what we were going to do for my birthday already?
selfhelp: ([billy] it's... kind of a brother thing)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-02 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he figured. Teddy's like that.]

Would it totally wreck those plans to, um, postpone them for a couple of days? Or even just one. I think.

[He's not sure how much of an aftermath this idea of his might have.]
selfhelp: ([billy] we need to--)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-02 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet, no. But I'm thinking about it.

[He fidgets a bit, because he really has no idea how this will go.]

Did you know that Tommy and I have the same birthday?
selfhelp: ([billy] we do like him. sorta.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-02 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I kind of felt like that myself.

[They're twins, but not the conventional sort... but even so, it makes sense.]

Anyway, I was thinking... he never talks about it, but I know the last couple of years have been really rough for one reason or another.

[His family ditching him, juvie, all the crap the Young Avengers have gone through. And that's not even considering what his home life was like.]

What if we threw a surprise party?
selfhelp: ([billy] I don't hate it.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-05 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
That was the idea, yeah.

[He's hesitant, still gauging Teddy's reaction.]

Would you mind? I mean, I won't do it if you'd rather just us hang out. I know Tommy can be... himself.

[That is, grating and inappropriate sometimes. And not romantic at all.]
selfhelp: art from kaciart.tumblr.com, coloured by me. ([billy] i got it just for you...!)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[That response makes Billy brighten and relax immediately, leaning in to kiss Teddy briefly to show his appreciation.]

You're the best. And we can definitely hang out after, promise. I just really... I'd like to do this. I talk a lot about being brothers but I don't do much about it.
selfhelp: ([billy] mother-in-law visits!)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
[The serious expression Teddy's suddenly wearing knocks the wind out of Billy's sails a bit, but he's concerned and curious, first and foremost.]

If I can, sure. What is it?
selfhelp: ([billy] my fault. dunno what to say.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
[....Ah.

Billy's face falls, and he looks down, suddenly unable to meet Teddy's eyes. That explains the seriousness, now.]


That isn't... what I said.
selfhelp: ([billy] he's going to kill me for this.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes an immense amount of willpower not to shrink back as Teddy leans in- not out of fear, obviously, not of Teddy, but of shame. He fights it, stubbornly, because he knows that he's come a long way from feeling like he doesn't deserve Teddy, that he's dangerous to be around or to touch. Talking about it makes him feel a little like all of that could so easily come back to him, so he keeps a distance between them to avoid testing his own resolve. The last thing he needs is to give Teddy the wrong impression when he already knows this is going to go badly.]

You... know that I can't do that.

[You know why.]
selfhelp: ([billy] I'll handle this myself.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't used to hurt people when I did that. I didn't change people's lives against their will, or force them to feel or remember things differently. I didn't use it to create things that shouldn't exist.

[He says it all with bitterness and that familiar old guilt in his tone. He's not over all of that. Maybe he never will be. It's a heavy weight, the knowledge that he'd done so much damage on a whim.]

I'm struggling because I'm trying to protect people. I just didn't know it would be this hard, that's all.
selfhelp: ([billy] ....I'm sorry.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-02-07 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He does know, actually. He knows exactly how much people say it. He hears it plenty, and he purposely dodges around it in conversation all the time. And it's hard. It's been three months and it's still always hard.]

Maybe... it's supposed to be hard.

[He knows that isn't what Teddy wants to hear, but it's the truth. If this is his way of punishing himself, then he got off pretty easy, didn't he? Just... cut a word or two out of his vocabulary. Why is that such a terrible thing?]

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