[A small fraction of Billy's mind (generally the one constantly buzzing "TeddyTeddyTeddy" at all hours of the day) is pierced by the kindness of that gesture, but even that can't hold him back from the surprising amount of frustration he'd managed to build up in the last several minutes.]

And with all that happened I thought you'd know better than to just run off without telling me you were leaving! I thought you'd disappeared! Been kidnapped! O-or worse! I was freaking out!