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[restitui]

[ He colors. ]

Please don't call it that.

[ He rubs the back of his neck as he thinks about how to answer. If he should and decides he should: ]

You just kind of walked into it especially... after the other Billy insisting they were the same. Saying stuff about that probably didn't help when, like, he's still figuring out who he is or wants to be.

[meforsaken]

What should I call it then?

[they ask playfully, amused by his reaction.]

And what would you suggest I do in the future? I can't say if I'll follow through, but I'm curious if you think there's another way I should approach it.

[restitui]

I don't know but that somehow made it sound worse than it is.

[ The color stays even with the thoughtful frown. ]

Encourage letting him become who he wants to? Like, he's always kind of lived for other people and when he took steps to find himself he ended up here... with others telling him who they think he will be.

I think because there was another version with an arguably better grounding... he decided he wasn't needed? I'm just guessing. Like a different kind of trapped.

So even if what you know for him is all true, let him come to you about it?

[meforsaken]

If I wait for him to come to me, he never will.

[That's the sort of person this Billy is, or so they've gathered.]

Unless your memories and your consciousness influence him to do so.

[restitui]

He might. It's not like we're wholly different people. I just had a better start at the figuring out who I am part.

[ He thinks there might be some of that, too- his influence. Until today, he assumed he'd disappear and so he'd been leaving pieces of him behind. Things he thinks will help the other, should what is meant to pass does. ]

Even if he doesn't or I don't, he's still the kind of person to give people chances.

[meforsaken]

I suppose we'll see.

[They're not sure what to expect, but if he does, they'll be slightly impressed.]

I do wonder what he'll think of our affair.

[restitui]

[ He groans! Why affair, this is terrible! And buries his head in his hands. ]

I'm regretting everything.

[meforsaken]

Tis the way my relationships often end up. At least we don't have to worry about any kids.

[restitui]

[ Help, he's going to spontaneously combust where he sits as he turns crimson. ]

Why would you even suggest that.

[meforsaken]

Because I knew it would bother you. And I also do have several children from different mothers and fathers.

[restitui]

I don't need to know that.

[ Even if he could guess it. Gods and millennia-year-old and all that. It's still weird to think about as a teenager. ]

And I seriously hope you don't think of it like that.

[ Or 'he' didn't, is the real meaning. ]

[meforsaken]

I don't, no need to worry. I merely enjoy teasing you.

[restitui]

Some things never change I guess.



[ Other Loki barely bullied you. ]