[It's a sound of acknowledgement; yeah, he remembers, he'd just rather not comment too much on it. That was just a few hours after he broke ties with Greg, and the topic Nate wanted to talk to them about was so surreal that he almost didn't believe it, and so he kept losing attention and thinking of his situation. What would happen now? Would Greg tell his secret to everyone? Would he be outed as a mutant? Kicked off the basketball team? What if the Avengers found out he was doing? He was basically dead.
And he kept the form that he'd shown to get in with the members of the team in the first place, knowing this was what people wanted, this was what got the most attention, this is what got people to notice him. And it apparently worked then too, if it got Billy to think he was perfect almost immediately.]
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[It's a sound of acknowledgement; yeah, he remembers, he'd just rather not comment too much on it. That was just a few hours after he broke ties with Greg, and the topic Nate wanted to talk to them about was so surreal that he almost didn't believe it, and so he kept losing attention and thinking of his situation. What would happen now? Would Greg tell his secret to everyone? Would he be outed as a mutant? Kicked off the basketball team? What if the Avengers found out he was doing? He was basically dead.
And he kept the form that he'd shown to get in with the members of the team in the first place, knowing this was what people wanted, this was what got the most attention, this is what got people to notice him. And it apparently worked then too, if it got Billy to think he was perfect almost immediately.]