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[ Billy's starting to feel the beginnings of a headache. ]

Fine, fine, I get it. I'm gonna give Loki a chance.

And it's not like I've forgotten what the Avengers did to me anyway. Which is why I haven't said hi to both Cap and Ironman even if they're not from our universe.

[ And after a bit of delay - ]

Thanks for looking out for me, by the way.

OK. Great. I'm not telling them. I'm not your secretary. You can tell them. Or not.

I didn't see Cap. Ironman can bite me. Did call Doc Strange old.

[ After considerable internal debate. So like. 10 seconds. ]

Don't get all sappy about it.

Doctor Strange didn't even reply to me. I wonder what I did to that old man.

Don't worry, the most you're getting from me is a hug when I see you. Let's have dinner later at the inn, alright? I think I trust the common fae folk more than anyone in this castle.

I wonder why not. You're the friendly one. I don't think he knows who I am.

Yeah, OK. Although I'm going to point out that I'm in the castle too.

Beats me. Not worth losing sleep over, though.

You know what I meant when I said anyone in this castle. Like the faerie who are here ruling over all of us.

Yeah I'm just going to side-eye the Fauvengers from a distance.

Am I the only one who's like affronted at where I ended up? Still pissed about the whole thing. But I didn't end up on the badass court.

Why? Which court are you expecting you'd end up in?

I don't know.

[ The ever-present fear that he's as bad as some people think, that all Maximoffs are, but particularly them because of the whole tangled nature of them. Tommy had thought he'd end up in one of the Unseelie courts. ]

[ That... reply doesn't inspire much confidence. ]

Why? Are you alright?

I'm fine. You'd know if I wasn't.

[ Ignoring the fact that maybe he does know. ]

[ Call it twin sense. ]

Yeah, I know, but

Tommy, come on. You can tell me whatever that is

Don't you ever wonder about what it really means? Where Wanda got her kids in the first place?

[ Billy takes in a breath and heaves it out in a sigh, knowing where this conversation is going. ]

Is this about where she got our souls? I wonder about that means, too, yeah.

But we're our own person, Tommy.

I know we're our own persons. I'm not an idiots.

Why did you ask if you didn't want the answer.

I asked because I'm worried.

Worried that you're thinking too much about it or something.

I'm not overthinking anything. I don't navelgaze. YOU spend more time thinking than I do.

[ Just ignore the subjectivity of "more time", please, and let this die, Billy. Tommy knows that avoiding is admitting. ]