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[Billy looks surprised at that; he knows how to deal with kids, sure, but the thought of being good with them hadn't really occurred with them. Kids like him well enough, but he's not exactly cuddly. He'd be better with a girl, maybe. Too many years of brotherly tussles that only they enjoyed.

The tussles stopped when he started coming home from school with bruises, though. Maybe they were better brothers than he used to think.]

...I just know how to threaten them into behaving, that's all.

[The idea that Teddy noticed is... touching? Maybe? He's not sure. He'd thought about kids with Teddy a few times, before. More than a few times. It had been scary, sure, but...possible, back then.

Ugh, no, don't lose the good feeling, don't-]

But you are, too. Better, I think.