The young!billy au is adorable and I cannot get enough🥺🥺💕💕
Might I propose an alternative though, where Billy is terrified of Steve? And no one can figure out why? Because Steve is the group babysitter, unofficial mama bear, and if anyone in the gang is equipped to watch after a small child it’s Steve. But any time Billy is around him, he just starts shaking uncontrollably.
Until Billy overhears Robin and Steve talking about a girl she likes, and he attaches himself to Robin (but she has no idea what to do with him). She sits him down and asks him bluntly why he doesn’t like Steve. That’s how she gets this awkward halting confession that Billy like-likes Steve but that’s BAD and if anyone else finds out he’ll get locked in his closet again but it’s okay to talk to her because she likes girls so maybe she won’t lock him in there?
@charleslucid 's au is here with my ramblings, if anyone wants it.
I definitely rushed over Billy's stressed period (because I don't have the stamina to write a lot of angst) but you're right.
I imagine a discussion with Max follows that, before Robin explains to Steve why Billy acts the way he does. Steve will be the comic relief that he is and just be so so lost.
"A closet? Robin, have you seen my closets? My mom's a pack-rat, there's no room for a kid in there. And it's me. You know I'll sooner throw somebody into the pool. Why would I - "
"Steve. Pay attention, this isn't about you."
Then he has one of his sweet but sad little Oh moments.
