DRABBLEVEMBER: young avengers, pg-13

The main reason they haven't yet is that it's been impossible to get more than a few minutes alone with Teddy ever. There's always some new interruption, and by silent, mutual agreement they’re waiting for the moment when there finally isn't one. For the day when they're at Teddy's, eating pizza, and Billy lets his hand fall under the table to touch Teddy's knee and then slide up just a bit, and Teddy's mom doesn't come home because she forgot her wallet. For the moment after practice when Teddy's skin taste like sweat, and his hands are twined in the hair at the base of Billy's skull, the hard line of his hip pressing just on the inside of Billy's thigh, and Kate doesn't burst into the room, cover her eyes, and immediately announce in an over-loud voice, "Oh god, I didn't see anything. Carry on. I was never here."

Teddy's been good about it all because, in the end, Teddy's just a fundamentally good person. He can have a short fuse sometimes, and a temper that can go off lightning fast but for the big things, the ones that really matter, he knows how to be patient.

Billy, on the other hand, absolutely does not at all.