Hey, so this is will be a series of BillyTeddy drabbles based entirely off of AU's I found on tumblr. Right now I have a list of 30, but realistically you can expect about 10 when this is finished. Please send me an AU or prompt for this couple if you'd like to see it, and I've love to add it to my list and possibly upload it!
This chapter's AU: "my friend thought you were cute so she tried to take a picture of you for snapchat and her flash went off but when you looked our way she shoved her phone into my hands and nOW YOU THINK IT'S ME AND OH GOD PLS DON'T BE MAD" au
"Ok then Billy, what about that guy?" Kate pointed to a short, macho kind of guy walking into the Nike store one floor down. His tank top was black and white, and his shorts were very, very nylon.
"Oh god, um, one? Maybe?" Billy was getting tired of this game. Really, really tired of this game. He'd been at the mall all day with Kate, and they've done too little shopping. He went with her planning on getting a new sweatshirt and maybe some shirts if Hot Topic got new superhero ones in. He didn't tell Kate about wanting to visit Hot Topic, but before they even got through the overly-silver doors she had shut him down. 'Billy Kaplan, if you're going to get a date then you're going to have to ditch the fanboy shirts,' she had said. So he walked with her through several different women's clothing stores and Victoria's Secret (something he's never doing again) until they were hungry. And so they sat, at a table by the railing in the third-floor food court, talking about boys. Well, more like Kate asking Billy questions about boys so that she could help Billy find a date.
Honestly, Billy wanted a boyfriend. Really badly. But not like this. Kate was just pointing out guys that she wanted Billy to rate, and any of them that Billy gives more than a 6 (she considers that "passing, I guess") she takes a picture of them and "saves them as references". Something about her trying to find his type and set him up with the right guy. She was also trying to get him to play down how much of a "comic addict" he was, which put a damper on what he and the other guy had in common. So he grinned and bared it, but his patience is wearing thin and now he just wants to get out of here.
"Yeah, a one seems about right. Let's see, oh! Hey Billy," she said, slyness in her words. "What do you think of him?" She pointed to a blond hunk looking at his phone only a few tables away.
"Ten," Billy answered before thinking. He slapped his hands over his mouth the moment it registered what just happened. Kate's eyes lit up brighter than the hunk's hair, and she put on a huge grin.
"Billy Kaplan, it looks like I found you a date!" She pulled out her phone once more to take a picture, but instead opened up snapchat. "I'm putting this on my story and there's no stopping me, Kaplan. You can thank me at your wedding when you're giving your speech on who all helped you get there in life." She aimed the camera at the guy, and pressed the circle to snap a pic.
The flash went off.
Kate jumped and shoved her phone in her pocket faster than Billy thought possible. Billy sat there in muted horror as the blond hunk turned around to make eye contact with him and oh my god he's even better looking from the front. He had perfect blue eyes to match his short, golden hair. Prominent muscles were visible beneath his shirt and his jeans weren't showing anything bad either. Something flashy caught Billy's eye, and he noticed a line of earrings going up both of the blond's ears. He cleared his throat, and Billy saw him look down a bit. What was he looking at? And then it hit him. He had been holding his phone in his hands idly ever since they got to the food court, and the entire situation was laid out in front of him. Kate's flash went off in snapchat because she was probably taking late-night selfies for Tommy, hid her phone before Billy could get his away too, and now the hottest guy Billy's ever seen thinks that he took a photo of him. Perfect.
It didn't seem like things could get much worse until the hunk got up and started walking over to them. He didn't necessarily look mad, but overjoyed wasn't a word Billy would've used either. He pulled out the chair opposite of Billy and sat himself down. The entire time Kate was turned and looking away, leaving Billy on his own. When the stranger was settled down, he laughed. That stupid, shining laugh threw Billy way off. He didn't know what to do, and Kate may as well not be there.
"I'd tell you to take a picture since they last longer, but that would be redundant, wouldn't it?"
Billy felt his face warm up in embarrassment, and he laughed nervously. "Yeah, sorry about that. I was trying to take a selfie with Kate here and things went wrong," Billy explained, lying poorly. He was never the best at making things up on the spot, and this was the greatest testimony he's ever had to suffer through to that statement.
"Billy-" Kate started, but Billy shot her a look. One of those I'm-going-to-kill-you-later-but-for-now-I-need-you-to-shut-up looks he's known for throughout his apartment.
The guy gave him a strange look, and laughed again. "Let me take a shot in the dark at what really happened, but stop me if I'm wrong. You two were rating guys, and when she went to take a picture to keep 'as a reference' her flash went off."
Billy stared with his mouth hanging open. Great, now he's gonna beat me up for thinking he's hot. "Um…" his face got hotter, and Kate started to giggle. Billy would have to steal her purse later and "forget it" in Hot Topic where she dares not tread.
"Hey, it's cool. It's happened to me before, actually…" the stranger said, his face a little flushed in the cheeks too. "My name's Teddy, by the way," he said, offering his hand for Billy to shake.
"Billy," Billy blurted, shaking Teddy's hand and looking him in the eyes. They were nice, and didn't look mean at all. Wait, 'it's happened to me before'? Does that mean he's gay? Oh my god what do I do? What do I say now? Billy laughed a bit, and then noticed the shirt Teddy was wearing. Like, actually noticed it. It was a Captain Marvel shirt: half black and half red with the yellow star in the middle of it. Before Billy could stop himself, more words poured out of his mouth. "I like your shirt."
Teddy looked down to double-check what he was wearing, and looked back up at Billy with a big grin. "Really? Thanks! Not enough people recognize it. I like your bracelet," Teddy said back, turning Billy's hand over to show the Scarlet Witch's face centered on the rubber bracelet Billy had gotten at Hot Topic the last time he went. "I guessed what it was from the comic panels on it. I actually have one of the Hulk back on my nightstand."
"Really?" Billy asked back, taking his hand back and turning the bracelet around his wrist so Wanda Maximoff's face was up. "I bought one of those slap-on bracelets of him for my little brother a while ago. I've never seen any others of the Hulk since then," Billy commented, glad that the conversation was flowing naturally. It could've turned out so much worse but it didn't and he was relaxed and enjoying Teddy's company.
"Well, maybe I could show you it sometime," Teddy responded, winking at Billy. Billy's heart skipped a beat, and Teddy broke out laughing. "I'm sorry, that was pretty bad wasn't it?" His laughs died down and he smiled genuinely at Billy. "I'm not the smoothest I guess. But would it be okay if we swapped numbers? I'd love to meet up again. Maybe not because of a camera flash, though."
