[For Teddy, it wasn't just the fact that he got to hold Billy in his arms, or that they spent a second or two too long just staring at each other. No, for Teddy, that was the first life he'd ever saved a life. Sure, he'd done some good things before that, stopping a purse snatcher here, buying food for a homeless person there. But actually diving in and saving someone from imminent death... That was his first time actually doing that, even if the thrill and relief in his chest wasn't just from that.

The comment makes him let out a quiet snort, though his eyes remain on their hands. Yeah... Yeah, he remembers that, too.]

You kept staring at me like I was going to punch you in the face for moving wrong. Even though, out of us four, Eli was probably the one most likely to do that.

[God, and he remembers that they didn't even like each other at the start. Billy probably thought Teddy was too quiet and stone faced when Teddy was just having issues with trust just hours after breaking ties with his "best friend", and Teddy thought Billy was too jumpy and antisocial when he, too, was having troubles with trust as well as lack of confidence. And he'd been so scared of his Hulkling form; Teddy wasn't sure whether to be amused or insulted or even hurt. Back then, he thought they'd never be a team.

And look at them now.]