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Doctor's Check Up- Network- Text

Hey everyone.

So, that was a really trying couple weeks.
I just wanted to remind everyone that if they need anything they can drop by the hospital.

Whether you got banged up, or just want to talk about what happened, I'm here. Or you can reach out to anyone else around here, or whoever you trust.

We gotta support each other, right?

Everyone take care, and check in.

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[Billy grins. He so rarely gets to see Tommy like this, especially for a happy reason.]

So which of you finally made things official?

[Yeah, happy reason. Fuck, little bro. He's in love.]

Him. It was after this night in a club in Germany. You and Teddy don't know yet back home. Stuff hit fans and all of that. Granted, I haven't seen him as much since Krakoa. But he got to come to the wedding so I got to introduce him to mom and sad. Even though David and Wanda were SUPER awkward.

[Tommy. In love. Billy never thought he'd see it. Tommy wears it very well. Little bro is very happy for him.]

What's Krakoa? [And there was that wedding again. There's so much he wants to know.]

[Tommy is really in love, and he looks so pleased. But that name earns a sigh.]

Mutant nation. Apparently Xavier and Mags and tons of others just made a mutant nation again. Can get there through plant gates. They made people accept them because of these three drugs. One to enhance human life spans, one to cure mental illness, one to cure diseases. David lives there now. He's a member of the new X-Factor.

[Plant gates? Cure for-?? Billy blinks, not fully understanding, and feeling an unease he can't really explain.]

Wh- how...w-...?

[Where to even begin?]

You can't just-

They literally did just. Not even kidding, man. They did it. They're a fucking country. They have their own language, spoken and written.

[They vilify Wanda. Whatever.]

They cured- how- w-...their own language? How long have they- why would-?

[This is making his head hurt.]

Few months. Don't know. Nearly all mutants live somewhere in Krakoan territory these days. But they have secrets. A lot of them. Like... David has his powers back.

[Tommy neither knows, nor thinks he'd approve of, how it happened.]

[Brows creasing, Billy frowns. This all sounds very...wrong. Very obviously wrong, and it concerns him that whatever this is has happened so quickly. And enveloped so many...]

...I don't understand. How is any of that possible?

[Oh Billy, you have no fucking clue.]

All I know is that it's got to do with plants and a LOT of Omega-Levels working together for the first time. I'm sorta not... Listen, it's complicated. There's questions back home as to whether we're even mutants or not, if Wanda and Pietro are really Mags', all that shit. So my boyfriend moved away and I'm just lucky the gates mean I can see him quickly when he isn't investigating murders and all that.

Plants??

[Billy never did get around to testing for an X-gene, but the thought that he might not be a mutant still sets him off. He might not be accepted as part of that community, but it's still part of him. ]

Of course we are, why- how could he not be? Pietro looks just like him.

...Murders???

I don't know a lot about Krakoa, B. Please don't ask too much. All I know is that David was visiting there, and then Teddy went off and did his shit, and then David was missing for a few days, and then one night he showed up at our apartment and just curled up in my arms and I could feel him trying not to cry, and he had his powers.

[Tommy would happily point out that he and Billy had Mags' jaw too. But they were created by WANT and MAGIC. So they looked like what Wanda wanted them to.]

Yeah. Murders. Apparently Northstar's sister died.

...

[There is no way NOT to ask to much. With each new reveal Billy feels more and more confused. And less and less sure how this has been allowed to go on what sounds like completely unchecked.]

...the future's messed up.

[Yeah, that's... pretty fair. Tommy breathes a deep sigh and then shrugs.]

Listen, it could be worse. Like, a LOT worse. For one thing, the Skrull and Kree could still be at war, and not probably frantically googling Judaism.

...Why would they be googling Judaism?

Because how else are they going to understand the first Jewish wedding in space?

[Duh, brother. DUH.]

...We're married?

[He can't hide the stupid grin that prompts. Obviously ONE day they were going to be married, but this is- ...soon. A few years soon. Teddy's really going to be his husband]

[There's the smile. Tommy smiles right back at his brother. He knows that look. What a good look.]

Yeah, B. I was there both times. The secret one that was only the team and your family streamed in, and then the big one in space. Your Rabbi was REALLY impressed, and even Mom and Dad were there."

Both ti-?

[He cuts himself off with a laugh, biting at his lip and trying to imagine. Would it be like the wedding he pictures now, or will their tastes have changed in that time? And, wait-]

There was a secret one?

[Yeah Billy, way to be fast on the uptake there. Geez.]

There was a secret one. Before Teddy had to go off and do stuff and you had to get back to some secret stuff you were up to. There apparently wasn't much time. I had five minutes to change and get everyone but Noh-Varr and America there. Basically I let them get dressed and swept them there. And to think, only an hour earlier David and I were hanging with Teddy before a bar fight started.

[You're the fast one for a reason.]

Please tell me it wasn't a shotgun wedding. Did he knock me up? [He shares a teasing look, only able to speculate as to what had really prompted the hurried wedding. He's been tossing a whole lot of questions at Tommy, and he feels like each answer gets stranger than the last.]

Uh, pretty sure you'd have to want to be knocked up, which please don't do, thanks. It's likely more his thing to be.

[He sighs.]

Space calls, Billy. Teddy's not going to be able to run from his birth forever. But he'll have you at his side, mister Prince-Consort and Court Wizard.

[Billy shrugs. They're in a kind of unique situation there. But that's way way future stuff.]

He's not running, he's- [He sighs, but eventually gives a solemn nod. ] Is it at least his choice?

From what I understood, it was more... he could do it, or the universe could sorta end.

[Billy, life is never that easy on any of them.]

[Well that's...not comforting. Billy frowns, hating to think of that kind of pressure on Teddy. Though it's always been there, ever since they learned who he really was. It wasn't fair.]

I guess that doesn't really leave him much choice...

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