"'Kids?'" the girl with the Raven hair exclaimed. Billy dimly recognised her.
"This is private property," reiterated Patriot, placing himself bodily in front of her. Billy and Teddy moved to do the same.
"And this is Ant-Man's daughter," she shot back. "So now who's trespassing?"
Billy couldn't help himself, his inner fanboy could not be controlled, "You're Cassie Lang?"
"Yeah," the blond said shyly.
"And I'm the girl who saved your life, remember?" Raven-hair shot at Eli whilst Asgardian, Hulkling and Cassie stepped back for the impending argument.
"You did not, you created a diversion."
"I had to do something. Thanks to you, I almost died."
"We were trying to help -"
"You guys are the ones who need help. Which is why Ant-Girl and I want to join the Young Avengers."
"Ant-Girl?" Patriot asked doubtfully.
"The 'Young Avengers' is not our official name, by the way," Teddy added, coming up behind Billy and discreetly squeezing his ass as he spoke.
"So, do you guys have powers?" asked Billy, in a voice slightly higher than normal.
"No..." began the blond.
"Not powers per-se but -" cut in Raven-hair but was cut of herself before she could finish by Cassie.
"Look, can I just get my Dad's gear-"
"How old are you?" demanded Patriot. Teddy was now running his hands lightly up and down Billy's back.
"Fifteen," Cassie replied defensively.
"No, seriously, how old are you?"
"Seriously, fifteen," she said and then under her breath. "In June. Look, I'm just gonna get my Dad's stuff -"
"No, you're not." Patriot held her arm.
"Okay, you're gonna want to take your hand off me if you want to keep it."
"I thought you said you didn't have powers."
"I don't," she began. "But I've been kidnapped enough times, my mom finally let me take self-defense classes." With that, Cassie flipped Patriot over her shoulder and head first into the bushes.
Teddy took the opportunity of everyone being distracted to plant a kiss on Billy's lips, lips moving so magically that Billy felt light-headed afterwards. He broke the kiss with a mischievous grin and rushed to help Patriot up, Billy leant on his wooden staff for support.
"That was awesome," Teddy said to Cassie. "Sorry Patriot."
"Time for you to go home, little girl," growled Eli now furious, but Cassie stood her ground.
"I'm not going anywhere. My father was an avenger. This was his home. And one weekend a month, it was mine too," Cassie had begun to grow. "Now he's dead. And all I have left of him is inside the mansion. So, I don't care who you are – or what powers you have," she had grown further, passing eight foot. "I'm not leaving without it!" she was shouting at full volume now, and was taller than the ancient oaks in the mansion's garden.
"Cassie..." Raven-hair said tentatively. "I thought you said you didn't have powers."
"I don't!" Cassie yelled, still seething.
"That's not what it looks like from down here."
Cassie looked down at herself and saw how far up she was off the ground. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she swayed on her feet. She seemed to fall into a dead faint in slow motion. Billy shot into the air, about to try and lower her down, but soon realised that she was far too heavy; he concluded that someone of her new-found mass would be able to handle the impact.
Billy looked down and saw where Cassie would land: Teddy.
"Hulkling!" Billy yelled. Working out of sheer panic, he brandished his staff and sent out what looked like a glowing blue lasso. It looped around Teddy and snapped him up off the ground and up to Billy's arms.
"Thanks," said Teddy, shocked.
"You're welcome," replied Billy, they were practically nose to nose and Billy lunged forward to kiss his boyfriend. He though about how different it was to kiss Teddy as Teddy, and Teddy as Hulkling; he decided they were just as good, but in their own ways. In this form Teddy was so much bigger physically than him, and his skin had a different texture, his lips were the same velvet but his hands and arms and everywhere else was rougher and caused a wonderful friction. "Don't ever scare me like that again," he warned.
"Well if this is what happens when I do you're not giving me much incentive," Teddy countered.
Billy just shook his head disbelievingly at the boy in his lasso. Teddy grinned and leant forward to lick the tip of Billy's nose, causing Billy and the lasso to crackle with electricity momentarily.
"We've gotta go help," Billy gasped.
"Mmm hmm," replied Teddy, nuzzling his neck. "Put us down then."
Billy gulped and reluctantly brought them back down to earth where it turned out that no one had noticed their absence – or had at least pretended not to notice.
Teddy walked over and took Cassie's hand, Raven-hair (who Billy had just heard was called Kate) was touching her cheek tentatively and Patriot stood by Cassie's shoulder, seemingly unsure of what to do.
"Oh my God..." "Is that?" "CASSIE!" Billy heard from the mansion where he saw Captain America, Iron Man, Jessica Jones and Iron Lad running towards them.
"What happened?" Cap asked.
"You – you're Captain America -" stuttered Kate.
"What happened to Cassie?"
"She got upset. She started growing. And then she kind of... passed out."
"What upset her?" Iron Man asked Hulkling.
"Um... we did. She wanted us to let her into the mansion so she could get her dad's Ant-Man costume -"
"Cassie? It's Cap. Can you hear me?"
"Cap...? Why are you so...small?"
"I'm not Cass. You grew."
"I did? How?"
"I don't know. Think you can shrink back down for me?"
"God, I hope so."
"Sure you can, Cass," said Kate. "Just take a deep breath and think... small."
Cassie wasn't the only one taking deep breaths. Billy was struggling to control his breathing as Teddy – who looked like he was having a serious conversation with Billy – was running his hands over Bill's pecs and tweaking his nipples gently.
"In front of Cap?" asked Billy breathily.
"Anything for you," replied Teddy grinning, tweaking harder to make Billy choke with pleasure. Luckily the heroes were occupied with Cassie who was now up and okay.
"Fine," growled Billy.
What Billy did then surprised even himself. He leant forward and palmed Teddy's dick through his pants, stroking over the bulge. Teddy gasped and moved to grip Billy's arms. Billy grinned, stroked one last time and went to rejoin the group who were making their way into the mansion.