"Tied with Asher for second-best forecaster-- uh, that's a person whose job is to predict the outcomes of certain policies so the parliament can make informed decisions-- in Cascadia."

"Why aren't we first best?"

"I ask myself that a lot."

"He's like this about most things," Sasha says to the other Sasha. "Are you okay?" 

"I'm okay. I miss my Marlo." 

"...I could hug you too if you wanted?" 

He pauses for a moment, debates whether he wants a hug more than being touched will freak him out, and curls up against the other Sasha's side. 

Lev notices that Noonlight is being hugged and his face gets soft.

"Do you want to see the project I'm working on?"

"Um, yes!"

Sasha lets go of Lev and does not let go of other Sasha. "Have fun." 

Asher, who has still not managed to find a shirt, wanders back into the hallway.

"I think I've figured out the tracker-- wait what."

"Oh hey I do know an Asher, we're friends sort of on tumblr. — hi, I'm going by Noonlight, I come from a world that apparently you guys have as a fanfic trope?" 

"He means A/B/O. Except from what I can tell they don't have betas." 

"Cool. Why is there an alternate-universe Sasha?"

"I think I got in the way of the beam while I was grabbing Lev." 

"It shouldn't be that hard to figure out a way to reverse-engineer it and send all of you home. --SHIELD wants me to come in and talk about this alien they found wandering NYC but I think I'm going to blow them off and focus on you guys, it's not like they have a shortage of alien experts."

"I love you lots but don't blow off SHIELD." 

"If I never blew off SHIELD I'd never have time to do anything but help SHIELD. --So am I an alpha or an omega?"

"Alpha. Dating a trans omega but you just call him 'my boyfriend.'" 

"Wonder who that is. And I bet I didn't include anything else about my identity."

"Not particularly but I can ask Cascadia Lev if any of the anecdotes I know remind him of anyone." 

"Maybe it's Z."

He laughs. "It's not Z, I'd know if it were Z, I'm dating Z. Also he isn't a trans omega, he's a gamma — catchall term for lots of different intersex things —" 

"You should tell the other me to date Z! Z is great."