Tommy was bored. Teddy knew this because he was being pelted by crumpled newspapers from all directions. He couldn't blame him. They were all bored after Kate and America had kicked them out for "some quality girl time" ("But it's my ship!" complained Noh-Varr as Kate shooed them down the gangway). Billy had been very un-Billy like and teleported away to who knows where as soon as the girls decided they wanted the ship to themselves. David, for his part, had let them all come to his apartment. But there to do but play with technology, if you were into that. Noh-Varr was. He immediately hacked one of the many computers to play his music. David immediately locked himself in his room, presumably with more computers. That left Teddy with Tommy, his boyfriend's extremely hyper sort-of twin.

"SowheredoyouthinkBillywent?" Tommy said at a speed to fast for Teddy to comprehend.

"What?"

"Where do you think Billy went?" Tommy said, slightly slower than last time.

"For the last time, Tommy, I have no idea," Teddy replied, exasperated. "Why don't you go run and check?"

"I already did. He's not at his parent's place, Dr. Strange's place, the Avenger's mansion, that comic store he likes a lot for some reason, or anywhere else it would be logical for him to go." Tommy flopped down on the couch next to Teddy. "He's probably off doing some fun heroic-y thing while we're stuck here listening to Noh's stupid folk music."

"Hey!" complained Noh-Varr. "It's country, not folk, and you would find that it's amazing if you were to actually slow down and listen to it."

"I can't slow down. Literally. This conversation has taken me half an hour in the time it has taken you what, half a minute?" Teddy sighed. This is going to be a long night. But suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a familiar burst of blue.

"Maybe I can help to alleviate some of your boredom?" his boyfriend said. Teddy looked up at Billy, and saw the mysterious smile on his face and was once again reminded of how God-damn cute his boyfriend was. With Billy's hair slightly windswept from teleporting and his eyes slowly returning from cerulean to their normal brown, Teddy never wanted to kiss him more. So, when Billy sat down next to Teddy on the couch, that's exactly what he did.

"It's almost as if I weren't sitting there first," Tommy grumbled, reluctantly moving over. Billy ignored him.

"Guess what I got us?" the mage asked, reaching into his pocket for a few pieces of paper.

"Another multidimensional parasite?" Tommy said sarcastically. Billy scowled.

"Ha, ha Tommy. Hilarious. No, I- "

"ARE THOSE DAZZLER TICKETS?" exclaimed Noh-Varr, very enthusiastically. Billy sighed, clearly disappointed at not having been able to make a dramatic reveal.

"Yeah."

"How in the multiverse did you get those?" Noh-Varr asked again, more restrained than last time, having accidentally knocked over a chair in his excitement.

"A magician never reveals his secrets," responded Billy smugly.

"You're no fun," said Tommy. "But to be fair, neither is David's apartment."

"Hey!" said David, offended. He had walked into the room just in time to hear Tommy's comment. "Just because it's not interesting to you does not mean it isn't interesting to me."

"Everything is interesting to you," replied a certain eye-rolling speedster. "Billy, how long till this concert of yours?" Billy checked his watch. Wait. Since when did Billy start wearing a watch? Teddy realized that with everything that's been going on-Mother, Patri-not, all that demiurge business-he and Billy haven't been spending as much time together as Teddy would like.

"Umm, it starts in about three hours," said Billy.

"Sweet! Enough time to go do something other than sitting here!" Tommy said with a grin. In the blink of an eye, Tommy put on his orange-tinted goggles and zoomed out, causing the papers lying on David's many desks and tables to fly about in a panic. As everything started to settle, Noh-Varr put his music back on (Teddy couldn't believe it, but he agreed with Tommy. It was definitely folk, not country) and David sat down in a chair and took out a book titled "The Evolution of the Paper Industry in the 20th Century". It looked incredibly boring, but hey, whatever floats your boat, right? Billy leaned his head back against Teddy's shoulder, and Teddy put his arm around the mage. They were all still bored (except for maybe David), but prepared to wait out the three hours until the so-close-yet-so-far concert.