It feels so natural, this easily familiarity, like they've known each other all their lives. And yet there's so much Tommy doesn't know. Billy smiles a bit shyly, it's not a story he's really got to tell before now.

"He does, yeah, but as far as I knew he didn't really know I existed. Which he tells me is pretty far from the truth, actually, which...I still don't really believe." Someone like Teddy noticing him? "But uh...Iron Lad showed up one day, and was looking for people from the failsafe list to help, and...heh. We kind of hit it off straight away."