Billy had spent the entirety of the past four days avoiding Teddy. He wasn't sure how to even talk to the other boy. They had slept together while drunk, and now things were very strange. Billy knew that the feelings he had for Teddy wouldn't be returned, which just made things worse. So, the magic manipulator had been avoiding his best friend.

"Hey." Nathan said, entering the kitchen to find a zoned out Billy staring blankly into a bowl of soggy fruit loops. Nathan walked over and gently removed the bowl from its choice spot of right underneath Billy's hung head, just in case the younger boy decided to drop his head lower, he wouldn't want him suffocating in a bowl of milky grossness.

"Hi." Billy said in response, delayed a bit. Nathan knew what had happened between Teddy and Billy, he may or may not have been the one to shout 'get a room' at the two before shoving them into a guest room down the hall, it all depended on how mad they were at him.

"You gonna say anything else than just 'hi'?" Billy just looked up, scrunched up his nose and shrunk down in his seat. Fail, great job Nathan, now Billy can't even talk to you. "Look, you two should really talk. Nothing ever got fixed without words having been exchanged." And with that last statement, Nat poured himself a glass of orange juice and walked off.

Meanwhile

"Ohmygods, I can't do this anymore! KATE! Help!" Teddy shouted, despite the close proximity he had to his friend Kate, "I don't know what to do! I am losing my MIND!" Kate sighed and continued to flick through her new issue of the Ammo catalogue she loved so much. "Hun, calm yourself, find your-"

"I swear to Bob, Katie if you say 'find your inner chi' I will hurt you." Kate scowled, seeming rather put out, but really Teddy was losing it and all Kate had to say was some random crap from one of her nonsense yoga sessions? "Now explain again how…Oh! Look at these beauties!" Kate shouted holding up the magazine so it was mere inches from Teddy's face, it was a picture of a case of 50 Cal silver bullets.

Teddy, forgetting his problems momentarily sighed, "Don't you use arrows?" she smacked him with the magazine. "Duh! But I get bullets and have Nathan melt 'em down for me so I can modify my arrows." Teddy nodded. Kate, seeing the visible calm wash over Teddy decided maybe now she could try and help him with his 'issues'.

"So, now that you've calmed a bit, you wanna talk about it?" Katie really liked being a therapist of sorts for the group, it ment she got to hear all the gossip first hand, and then all she had to do was occasionally say 'and how does that make you feel' or sometimes they would just rant and rave at her, she sometimes lived under the illusion that the rest of her teammates would be incompetent without her. But she of course knew that wasn't true. She flopped down onto the floor joining Teddy and resting her head on his shoulder, even though he was the one in need of comfort. She felt him heave a sigh, "I don't even know what to say to him Katie, I just-"

"How was it?" Teddy blushed, his cheeks taking on a bright reddish hugh, "E-excuse me?" Katie smiled, Teddy was too adorable sometimes, and saying that about a kree/skrull mix who had piercings all over and a look about him that said 'don't fuck with me' emphasized exactly how cute it was. "You heard me, how was it? Top or bottom? Did you…"

"God no! Stop asking me for details! You're as perverted as Nathan! /Nathan/; Katie that's not good!" Katie made a fake 'gasp' sound "Oh, come now, Natty lad isn't /that/ bad." Giving her a droll stare Teddy just seemed to slip back into his own mind, thinking on everything that had happened between him and his best friend. They really needed to talk; except Teddy really wasn't looking forward to that, I mean Billy had been avoiding him, that had to mean something, like he didn't have an interest in Teddy…either that or he was really embarrassed.

"You know, you should tell me, and then I'll be able to help you more than just letting you sit here like a rag doll all slumped against the bed post. No one ever solved their issues by sitting around and mopping." Kate said, clearly she was not in the mood to drag information out of Teddy because after sitting in silence for five minutes she sighed and seemed to give up, "You want anything? I'm gonna go grab a snack, and Billy's been staking out the front room so I'm guessing that's a no go for you?" Teddy smiled, "No thanks." To which Katie just shook her head and mumbled 'suit yourself.'

If only Teddy had realized that Katie...the very nosy and intrusive Katie, was going to be in the same room as Billy, maybe he could have prevented a whole mess of things going wrong, but sadly he was too busy worrying about his own damn problems for once. Nathan could handle them just this once. Hopefully.