"Uh..." Tobey started warily. Looking at Becky's shocked face, he slowly raised his hand "Botsford?..." he asked. No response. He waved his hand in front of her shocked face. "Botsford?"

"Greeeeat. You broke the main character, Tobey. Way to go," the narrator drawled. Tobey groaned "would you shut up you annoying cosmic entity-" "actually I'm just the audiences talking stick" "Whatever! Just be quiet!" Tobey snapped and turned back to Becky "okay damn touchy.." Tobey gulped and slowly shook Becky "uhh Botsford?" He can to panic and shake Becky harder as she remained frozen, "Botsford? Becky come on your scaring me now" his voice filled up with worry and his accent dropped again "Becky? Becky?" He repeated. Over and over.

"Becky?..

Becky?

Becky?

becky...

becky...

Be- OOOF ah!" Tobey started himself up as he felt the soft impact on his face. And launched himself to sit up, snorting and gasping for air as he panicked getting up, hearing a familiar voice jump in surprise at his reaction. Then they gave a sigh "geeze last time I do something nice for you" Becky said dryly. Tobey blinked fof a moment, his heart racing a bit as he removed the pillow from his face and looked around then at his assistant, the lovely Becky Botsford a bit in surprise. He rubbed his eyes "gah umm...hi..Botsford.." he said sheeply, "sup" Becky replied and laid a pillow flat next to the couch and sat down infront of him, "you were out like a light McCallister. I left you for like 3 minutes and come back to you passed out" she frowned, and continued on her rant crossing her arms and ignoring his confused look "this is why I got mad when you said you 'rested'. Honestly you have been passed out for like 3 hours now, you even missed dinner. Mom left you a plate by the way you Luck Bob has t eaten it, Aaand missedyour chance for a ride home since mom and dad already went to bed and...uh" Becky stooped herself and stared curiously back at Tobey, a moment of silence passed before she rubbed her arm awkwardly "um what are you staring at?" She asked and looked down at her pj wear "something wrong with my shirt?"

Tobey blinked and shook his head, that dream. That memory felt so, real.. pushing down the lingering feeling of remose from the 3 year old memory, Tobey gave a smug chuckle "only that it's a Princess Triana t shirt..." Becky didn't double take on her shirt qnd went red for a sec, earning a light laugh from from Tobey. She raised a brow and glared at him a bit before wacking him with her pillow, again getting a laugh that she herself couldn't hold back "oh shut it McCallister you love the series too" Tobey rolled hso eyes "yhea only because You got me addicted to it with that Princess Triana and Duke of Basfron sub plot. I mean really," he pouted a bit "the writer gave them amazing interactions and flirty subtext and does Nothing with that! We got like one Scene at the banquet and that just isn't enough" he huffed.

Becky smirked "aww but I liked the fighting and magical orgers..especially when Triana kissed the orger king only for ot to turn out to be Duke Malis under a curse, he was so awkward qnd just is amazed by Triana hacking away at incoming enemies" Tobey looked at her wide eyed with an expression that could only be read as 'my point e-fucking-xactly' as he pointed at her like she just said the biggest part he had issue with. Becky snorted and pushed him "come on you gotta admit it's still a great series," Tobey bit his tounge and tried to make a scowl but quickly failed and nodded in agreement. Pulling his legs close and sitting with one leg over the other leaning over his pillow to face Becky "ok okay, yes my lovely assistant it's still a great... series... whaaaat you doing?" Becky looked up at him confusingly as she pulled out a blanket and shook it open. Becky looked between the blanket and Tobey confused "um..going to sleep?"

Tobey looked around a bit panicked and pointed at the floor "HERE?" He squeaked to which Becky frowned "well I'm not about to leave you alone, you dunno how to take care of yourself McCallister" now it was Tobeys turn to frown as he rolled his eyes and adjusted his crooked glasses "im not a child to babysit Botsford..I can be left alone" Tobey bordered on pouting at this point before Becky gave a laugh, "what?" He asked in a bit of an irritated tone only to watch Becky snicker at him "noooothing," she smirked "just go back to sleep McCallister, we got stuff to do in the morning" Tobey rolled his eyes and groaned as he sat up more leaning back "but I'm in my lab clothes" he complained, inching closer to a whine "I can't sleep in this" Becky shrugged "so what you wanna sleep in the nude or something?" She scoffed "I never took you for a nudist McCallister" Tobey went beet red, he almost looked furious as he held back a scream "took me for a What?" He asked, he got his awnser in the devil like smile Becky gave him "nudist, a person who engages the practice of being naked whenever possi-" "I KNOW what it means" Tobey seethed, if Becky didn't know better she would have mistaken him for part of her hero costume. Becky giggled a little "relax, if it bugs you so much I got a spare clothes for you and pointed forward towards main guest bathroom "Bob and I left some in the bathroom. Just change into that"

...

Tobey just stared at her for a minute, annoyed and unamused in the doorway of tge living room "...Becky Botsford" he stated dryly "Yes Tobey McCallister?" She asked in a very honeysuckle sweet tone. "I hate you" "I know" she chuckled. Trying hard not to die holding in her laughter, though she could bearly even managed to do that looking at Tobey. It was comfy yes. But Tobey was rather scrawny, he had gained Some muscle from pulling apart mechas and cars for new projects, but not much. He was taller then the while Botsford family, and far more lanky then any of them, so it wasn't hard to find him comfy clothes atleast. But in this case they came at a price. Becky specifically picked a black crop top that she once wore and quickly disliked, mostly due to her sparkley pink glitter phase being over. Written across the front was a hot pink sparkly phrase that said "this bish empty", for Tobeys pants Becky had, respectfully, picked an ugly pair of old cheetah print pj leggings from her father's nostalgia trip. Tim Botsford went through a phase himself in the fact he never left the house in anything that wasn't embarrassing for a year before Sally put her foot down. Now Tobey wishes they had burned every last clothes Tim had to be safe. Or atleast so he could be safe.

Tobey groaned, he switched off the light that had been on this whole time and walked over to the couch with his lab clothes underneath his arm, while placing it down he couldn't help but still turn his attention to the giggling snorting mess that was his assistant on the floor beside where he will sleep while moving to take his place on the couch. "You sure this is alright? Wouldn't it be better to sleep in your room?" He asked. Becky smiled a bit as she thought for a moment, giggles still playing in her throat but she just gave a shrug "well we aren't kids anymore Tobey I don't think mom and dad will allow you even a centimeter into my room alone with me now" the way she said it with ease almost made Tobey wanna scream but instead he just reached to his red ears to pretend to rub them while giving Becky a deadpan stare, Becky continued "and also you are my friend, my guest, and I am your assistant, I can't just Leave you alone can i?" She frowned and crossed her arms shaking her head no "I'd rather be here on the floor with you then leave you alone"

"A-ah..er well uh" Tobey cleared his throat "when you say it like that, does make for the most logical solution" Becky couldn't help but chuckle at this response, Tobey frowned. 'Okay seems like it's my turn in this game' he pushed up his glasses and just gave a small smirk looking down from where he was at his grinning assistant, "it's still rather lonely sleeping by one's self on the couch, probably just as lonely and even more uncomfortable to sleep on the hard floor," Becky blinked turned up to look at Tobey with a curious look on her face, big mistake. It'd not like she didn't know the moon light aswell as the street lamp lights from outside illuminated the living room via the big window over the couch, but now all of a sudden she became aware of Tobey leaning forward towards her "you sure you would not like me to sleep next to you my lovely assistant?" He asked. Tobey's hand moved to push away some of his messy mopp of a hair style from his eyes. As he aged it curled slightly and though he still regularly cared for it, Tobeys blonde hair would sometimes act up and look a mess. Each curl was just for enough from his face for her to notice his more angular features aswell as his blue eyes, they were sunken only slightly, be it from him not eating or sleeping properly Becky couldn't figure ou- he's smirking. Stop staring! Becky whipped herself around "yes I'm v-very positive, the floor is perfectly comfortable" "Oh then perhaps I should join you down th-" "it's only comfterble for me" "Oh ho really?" Tobey mused. He got no response back as Becky just faced away from him and set herself on her pillow, pulling her blanket over herself to ignore the boy genius.

Tobey had a very satisfied look on his face, years of bantering with word girl had gotten him quiet familiar with how to properly drag out a blush from someone. He rubbed his chin and smugly smirked, also could have helped he was 'devilishly handsome' but who's to say. Tobey gave a mock disappointed sigh "ahh I guess that's that, no kiss good night?" He shrugged his shoulder and gave a small joking 'ow'. Becky, without turning around, swung her hand backwards to smack him in the leg. "Take that is a yes," Tobey noted and rubbed his leg before laying down. His labcoat now set aside and replaced by an actual Botsford sponsored blanket. Like litterally it had Sally's re election ad plastered all over it.

Over the years, the scent of Vanilla and berries had become quiet comforting to him, Tobey knew the smell but couldn't place just where he remembered it from, only that it did make his chest feel warm and make his body relax at the welcoming home. Tobey curled into his blanket and the couch decorative pillow he still used for head support and let out a relaxed sigh, staring forward. One might think he didn't bother taking off the glasses, others might argue he didn't want to because the sight infront of him was the rare sight of a sleeping Becky Botsford. Serene, warm, Tobey chalked it up the moon for making her tan skin and dark hair almost glow for his attention. He could stare for hours, and he probably would have had Becky not turned around to face him scare the daylights out of him by how sudden it was. "Oh, also McCallister try not to mumble my name repeatedly in your sleep," Tobeys eyes went wide but Becky kept a very serious face "my parents like you but my dad hears that he's going to knock you out ok?".

Tobeys eyes remained the size of saucers and he opened his mouth to respond, but couldn't find the words. They all refused to even leave his throat. Tobey just gave a huff and flopped himself around to face the cushioned back of the couch. He didn't even care to check, but he already knew Becky was smiling in victory of this little flustered game they played for the night. And she was.

It was a just a few days later, since hearing of Becky's new car trouble Tobey was quick to make adjustments to his jetpack to carry far more then two people and spent most most his time in the lab alone to surprise Becky. By his estimate and testing he could carry a large truck if he could, which he can't so Becky even questioned why go overkill with the weight limit. By the time it was 10 Becky was usually in the air flying high, Tobey added extra straps to the pack to go around Becky but Tobeg kept his arm around her waist to be safe. His other arm? Currently stretched out as Tobey had a wide smile and an excited look on his face "Botsford look! I'm word woman!" He absently said out of pure joy, Becky couldn't help but smile "aw congrats on coming out Tobey-" "shut up, don't ruin this for me" Becky snorted and just held tight to her friends shoulder as the passed over the city. As Word woman she could have been at the junkyard in a split second, Tobey by himself and his new upgrades could have been there in no more then a minute with his turbo setting. But together as Becky Botsford, that wasn't happening anytime soon...she didn't mind it.

"So what is the great plan your working on now?" Becky asked, holding her hand up and popping up a finger with everything she began to list "new rocket? Flying car? Machine that makes weather turn into food? Oh, maybe a machine that turns people's thoughts into reality? Like a 3d printer but Better" Tobey hummed for a moment and shook his head "not this day, today I say we take it a bit light," he said and suddenly the rockets sputtered and Tobey made s bit of movement and held onto Becky tighter as ge was now vertical rather then horizontal like they had been and they descended down to the street below. Becky raised a brow and glanced around as they did only to notice, where they were and a look of horror came over her face "oh no..no you didnt" she looked at Tobey, q look of betrayal all over her face while Tobey had a wide mischievous grin, he cackled like the menace to society he was and raised his hands to the sky before the building infront of them. "Oh! But I did my lovely assistant!"Becky glared at him and raised her hands in balls of fists "You monster! after everything this is what you do? stab me in the back!?" Tobey grinned "hate me as you will Botsford, but today is the day!" "no.." Becky gasped, backing away but Tobey grabbed her wrist and pulled her back "Today!" the blonde proclaimed, and pointed to the building before them "we make a supply run!".

Bobs Robot Battle Barrage! the words boldly said on the neon sign before them. a variety of nerds, comic geeks, dnd groups, and most importantly, robot model enthusiasts gathered. Becky Never went inside, every supply run Tobey asked her to do she avoided the place, she even went out of her way to send Scoops, Violet, or Bob in for her. At one point out of desperation, she coughed up 20 bucks to TJ to go in, then another 5 because he forgot important items. And now to her horror, one of the people she trusts most is dragging her to her doom.

"Wow Becky over dramatic much? ya know people who are reading this are probably very into all of this. or at least the Anime part of it" The narrator pointed out, making Tobey nod "yhea I agree, whats with you? its not that bad" Tobey frowned a bit at the sour expression of Beckys face. Years ago as Word girl she attended the place for a signing of limited edition plushies, Normally shes cool with it but the stares she got from all the nearly exclusively male attending mothers basement dwellers made even her superhero powered self uncomfterble. "look I promise it wont take long, I know a guy, just stay close if you don't like this stuff alright?" Tobey sighed, a bit..disappointed? Odd but Becky let it go so she can continue to dread. "come on lovely assistant, ill buy lunch after we're done deal?"Tobey said and tugged at Beckys wrist leading her inside, she was reluctant but she sighed and nodded walking in. Becky expected the smell of stale chips, old sitting axe body spray, even readied for the smell of a restroom that was exclusivly used by the never ending man-children that accompanied the store. But she didnt? Becky was instead welcomed with crisp fresh air, and teh rushing wind of an AC on full blast in the summer heat, she then smelled...Toffee? Opening her eyes Becky was greeted by bright red walls end to end, with a well lit ceiling To her left were several well organized aisles stocked full of foriegn chips, treats, even saw some facial cream you could normally only get in korea and pre made ramen noodles you would see from the asian market down town, further down looked even more like a convienant store with freezer walls also packed with stuff like yuzu soda or large mochi ready to be opened and enjoyed. For a moment Becky thought the place had evolved to become a glorified nerd grocery store, until she heard a group of cheers from further in as someone yelled "And thats why i said cast fire ball, did i make the call or did i make the caaaaall!" a booming voice called out to more cheers, but those werent the only ones, it sounded like seperate groups made similar extatic noises while the sounds of beeping games with occasional groans of defeat from an upset gamer, or the sound of lazer beams being fired with paniced japanese cries.

Becky just stared around herself in surprise and just excamined teh walls around her while Tobey was still pouting and pulling her deeper in, now she was getting a good look at the space. It was the same size as before but man did it get upgraded, rows of dnd tables, a small new additional room made in a movie theature like style for an anime movie to play on a huge wall from a projector she couldnt see, and at the wall looked like dance dance revolution basketball and punching bag games. This place looked like a teenagers playground, nothing like the awkward den of unshowered grown men she came to and was borderlined traumatized by as a child. "Hey Omar, you here?" Tobey asked, drawing Becky back from her thoughts and looking back forwards, "oop its Tobey," the bombastic voice she heard earlier said from teh corner where a group of friends gathered rising from the table a huge muscled tanned man with long brown hair tied in a pony tail stood from his seat and turned to his group smiling "time for me to act like a boss, yall make sure Grimshaw doesnt die," he glared at a frizzy haired ginger teen who looked half asleep "im looking at you Tom.." he lowered his voice to a menacing whisper "you know what you did to Jackilyn" "eh" was the ginger kids reply while Omar turned back around and smiled at Tobey with a beaming smile waving at him "ey Tobes, good to see ya man, you havent been hanging around much lately" Tobey gave a light smile back and shrugged "yheaaa sorry about that Omar, ive been rather busy with my projects" Omar shook his head "nah man its cool i understand" he chuckled as he walked around to the register, there he finally noticed Becky, he looked her up and down and his eyes trailed to her hand to which he gave an even bigger smile. "Well ill be damned" he said in a soft almost chuckling voice. "What?" Tobey asked in a confused tone, Omar smirked and pointed down "you know what i mean by what you walking pole stic-" "you Finally got your girl is what im talking about Tobey!" he laughed "man good for you!" "hm?" Tobey and followed Omar's point, as did Becky and from the corner of her eye, a few of the other teens at the near by table aswell, all now looking at Tobey gently holding Becky's wrist. "what are you talking abo-aah ah!" Becky gasped and quickly drew back her hand back same time Tobey did his and they held both of their hands up and waved them dismissivly "no no no no no you got it all wrong! way wrong!" Becky said, almost tripping over her words and feeling her cheeks start to burn "y-yha- yes Omar you are completely and utterly wrong! T-This is just Becky, shes my lovely assistant!" "can you not call me that right now McCallister!" "gaaha i mean is shes my friend who is my assistant yea thats uh" Tobey coughed "thats what i mean!". Omar only watched them try and stammer their defenses with a smug smile, like he knew damn well the two were talking out of their ass.

"ah i love when this stuff happens, its like second-hand embarissment but cute"

"SHUT UP"

"SHUT UP"

Both Becky and Tobey yelled at the body less voice, all while Omar leaned ober the counter, resting his hand on his chin smiling at the pair. He chuckled "ah ha alright... okay so you two are Just Friends who Happen to be holding hands walking into Tobeys nerd den on a lovely summer day, but also his assistant who Happens to be who he always says is helping him build project after project that takes hours and days to do.." he smiled "did i get that right?" "oh i like you" The narrator laughed, Omar just shrugged "hm everyone does". Tobey practically ran up to Omar at the counter beet red while Becky stayed where she was letting out a deep breath and rolling her eyes trying to compose herself after that embarissment. Out of the corner of her eye she could see a hand wave for her attention, glancing up to see the group at Omar's dnd table smiling and waving her down, a girl with short bobbed light brown hair leaning on her chair guestering her to come over quick.

Tobey in the meantime gritted his teeth into a forced smile while he glared at the ever cheerful Omar, still looking smug as he felt Tobey's hand on his collar, "you are being a little shit you know that right?" he said quietly through gritted teeth "and you are being a horrible love interest, I mean really I left the confession door wide open, it was right the-" Tobey began to shake him "zip it already Omar why are you like this!?" Tobey seethed out furious but Omar was still carrying a carefree expression "I have no idea"e he looked down at his forearm and gave a flex "I mean I do drink protein shakes a lot and love yogurt but I have to chalk it up to that weightlifting progr-" "Omar!" Tobey frowned and again was only met by the Hispanic mans cheerful smile "yes Romeo?". Tobey let out an annoyed sigh and gave up, he let go of the other mans now wrinkled collar and reached into his pocket pulling out an blue piece of paper "look I just want to pick up my order I made the other day, you said its be ready for pick up today?" Omar nodded "oh you shoulda just said so" Tobey shot him a glare and watched the man unfold and look over the order, comparing it to his computer. Omar whinced, Tobey raised a brow "what? what is it?" Omar turned over to him with an apologetic look on his face "sorry Tobes, but do you think you can wait a little while?" he asked and turned the monitor to the robotic nut "we got everything but that carbon fiber sheet, looks like the delivery guy is on his way with it" "how long will that take?" Omar looked back to his computer and hummed for a moment "uuuuh bu bu buuu ah here we go..looks like maybe 40 minutes to an hour or so, I know this guy he wont be long" Tobey rolled his eyes a bit "you know Everyone Omar" "ah untrue Tobes, I dunno Word Woman," the man smiled and tapped Tobey with the sheet of paper playfully "that honor goes exclusively to you". Tobey was quiet and let out a sigh while Omar turned back to the monitor "if only.." Tobey muttered quietly. "what was that?" Omar asked as he began to close up the window, "nevermind," Tobey shook his head and waved his hand dismissively "don't worry about it Omar ill be here to come get it later" Omar raised a brow "what you don't wanna hang out here and wait for it?" "No id rather not," he sratched the back of his head "Becky seemed rather reluctant to come here, and Id rather not force her to stay if she doesn't want to so" "ah i see..." Omar nodded at Tobey, his eyes preoccupied with his dnd table, waiting a moment and pointed "so you mind telling that to Toman?" he asked, a slightly annoyed tone in his voice. Tobey finally looked up to Omar's dnd table, there was about 6 teens mostly his age gathered at the table, an annoyed Becky standing close to the side of one of the girls who also looked annoyed, and a handsome man in a red white and blue letterman jacket who had his arm around Becky's shoulder smiling widely...wait he was doing what?

BOOM CHAPTER 3 DOWN YALL! Now i know i know OCs in fan fics can be a liiittle annoying, but i am trying to keep the line up diverse here so cut me some slack. Its for story purposes!

I wanna thank all yall who have read thus far, I'm loving writing this story so even if no one really ever reads it I'm having a blast regardless. A03 has me on a waiting list until at least Febuary so hopefully All of us are still invested by then and we can enjoy it there. Right now it probably feels like I'm rapid firing these chapters but i want to get this story out while its fresh and loyal to what i had in mind. This is addicting to write and I'm trying my best so i hope yall enjoy this! See yall next time! :D

Special thanks to Suckmyapplepencil on Tiktok for giving me the best design ideas for Becky and Tobey, i had already written chapter 1 and 2 when i saw their work and am Dying to type out Tobey and Beckys look in upcoming chapters based on their amazing work! Be sure to check them out for more Tobecky goodness on Tiktok.