"No one would let me name him Shepherd. They said it wasn't very suitable," Teddy shrugs. So yeah, his lamb. But he rises and spares a kiss to Tommy's forehead before slipping out of the white room and through the main room to open the door.

And damn if the slap he earns opening the door doesn't echo.

"Teddy Altman," Billy hisses at Teddy, and all the words that came after that were Krakoan because he was so angry. And shouted so Tommy could hear, not that Billy knew Tommy was there. "You fucking asshole. How could you THINK to hide Tommy's children from him. I don't care if you're an Emperor or if you left me, but you hurt him, and if you didn't have those children as shields, I would put you in a damn closet for a few years and keep you sealed in there for hurting my brother. And where is he? Did you send him back? Because I'm not okay with you just playing with him and sending him away!"