[Billy coughs out a brief laugh at that, the sound halfway a sob, and sniffs to try and disguise it. At least a sob is just more of the same; fake laughter isn't the nicest thing he could be offering Teddy right now.]

I don't... even know. So much has happened now that I regret...

[It feels like their abduction and his subsequent loss of magic control was just the starting point to their spiral into misery, with more downs than ups for more reasons than he can count. And while certain ups - the ring around his finger in particular - made it so that the downs couldn't overwhelm them entirely, they sure did their best to keep them a step away from drowning. And he's so, so tired of treading water without a foothold or a decent rest.]

We just left him there, Teddy... he died, and we left him because we couldn't fight. Because I couldn't cast one stupid spell. I'm no Avenger... I'm not even good enough to be a sidekick.