revivalproject | Vay Cay

WHO: Billy Kaplan, Teddy Altman, OTA
WHERE: Risa
WHAT: Vacation, Date Night, Under Age Drinking.
WHEN: Risa Event
WARNINGS: None, Will update if needed

A vacation is sorely needed after these last few weeks, and apart from their dimension hopping adventure, this might be the first solo vacation of Billy's adult life. No parents watching over him, no twins to look after. Billy plans to enjoy himself.

The market is full of all sorts of exciting things, and Billy's eager to stock up on things the storm can't disappear on him if his magic shorts out again. Clothes, supplies, even a strange sort of idol that someone seems very keen on him purchasing, though he's not sure why.

The beach is pristine, like something out of a dream, and Billy even has one of those fancy tropical drinks. The kind that tastes so sweet you don't realize just how tipsy you're getting. And it's quickly replaced with another before it's even finished.

It feels like he and Teddy haven't had a real chance to catch up between everything that's happened since his arrival, but this is just the excuse they need to devote some time to just them. It's the sort of date night they couldn't possibly achieve back home without some serious leaning on the magic, and it's nice to pretend for a bit that things are normal again.
"So tell me about future Billy and Teddy," he prompts with a curious hum, leaning into Teddy's side, "Do we have a place yet? Have we picked a date?"

[OR feel free to throw a different starter at him]

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Of course it did, Billy didn't even look like he was out of puberty yet and he had hung onto this boyfriend for more than six months. That was basically eternity already. But Tony couldn't argue with a choice like that feeling right, as illogical as it was, because he knew that feeling far too well. It wasn't impossible that Billy really got that. Tony went, "Yeah," elbow on the table to prop his chin up again so he could carefully cage his fingers over his mouth, then tried to disguise the motion with a scratch at his beard. He hadn't shared his plan to propose to Rumiko with anyone else, and he wasn't about to start with Billy now-- that story didn't have a helpful ending, Billy's was going to turn out better. "Lock down that intergalactic royalty, princess, don't let him make you sign a prenup. I respect the hustle," Tony smirked instead, giving Billy a sidelong look over the table before trusting himself to release his cage and daintily adjust his tie. "The bachelor life can't suit all of us."

He laughed at the teasing, missing Tony's disguised movement. He might have been a self professed hero geek, but there were plenty of personal aspects they had managed to keep to themselves over the years.

"Hey, he asked me," he defended.

"Oh, I know Cassie is the smart one, you don't have to tell me," Tony replied, smirking before he slouched forward again and it turned to a more conspiratorial grin. "Honestly, were you surprised? That gal in the store looked like she was ready to, uh, marry you on the spot. It would have been very romantic, I'm sure. You didn't make that little..." The thing Billy had been carrying and causing him problems didn't have an obvious purpose, and Tony wiggled his fingers until he landed on, "voodoo doll, did you?"

Not that Tony meant to accuse Billy into magicking Teddy into proposing, a statue like that was not his standard operating system. Someone else had given him a weird sex doll, and that was worth investigating. Who did that to a kid?

Cassie. Damn. Billy tried not to make a face this time, and luckily enough the teasing continued for him to lean into, shaking his head defensively.

"No- someone sold it to me. I thought it was just...some kind of traditional culture...thing. You think that was why she was all over me?"

Though accusing him of magicking anything involving Teddy would have been a pretty serious trigger at this point.

Tony was stroking his beard again, but this time it was a thoughtful tick, gaze going unfocused as he considered the facts they knew. This was proving to be a very sexually charged resort, voodoo or not, and that lady had very much left them alone when Tony had transferred the thing into her hands, even though nothing Billy was saying seemed to be in any way effective at disengaging her. "The way she was looking at that thing, I would have guessed you were carrying around some kind of sex toy. But you might be very right. You were just experiencing the local culture," he surmised out loud. "Do you remember where you got it?" A theory needed to be tested, after all.

"One of the stalls." He gestured back a ways. "The person running it recommended it to me. But they weren't...shy about it." Which was how Billy thought someone handing out the equivalent of sex toys might act, but they did all seem to have a very liberal attitude towards that sort of thing. Meanwhile, Billy was blushing just talking about it.

This was not the kind of thing he'd ever pictured talking to Tony Stark about.

"Why would they be shy about it?" Tony laughed. Billy must have still been not quite old enough yet to be allowed into an adult establishment, but definitely seemed old enough to have had the experience anyway, if he was in any way actually a teenage boy. "Your teenage rebellion is all capes and magic, isn't it? Have you even snuck a drink? You know what, don't answer that, you're going to depress me either way." Throwing themselves into heroing wasn't the safest way for the Young Avengers to be spending their youth, but Tony was sure he would be much more disappointed to find out any of those kids had been corrupting Cassie with more grounded bad choices. All of Tony's friends in school were always older than him, he was never even in a classroom with kids close to his age, and he knew the result was some psychological damage that he did not want to confront. It occurred to Tony to be concerned that if Billy was blushing about this potential sexual object, he might not have had the confidence to put more standard accessories on a checkout counter, but he stopped himself from asking if Billy was at least being safe. He resisted anyone asking him that question about less dramatic things, like fighting the embodiment of Time. He had parents, right? Somewhere.

"Come on, let's go check it out," Tony encouraged, pushing himself up to his feet and buttoning his jacket before gesturing for Billy to lead the way. "Time to solve the mystery of the rowdy resort." Maybe everyone was under a horny spell, and Billy had just narrowly escaped being sucked into it.

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