"I don't think I did. I didn't mean to, honestly, I would never want to or even try to -- try to do anything like that to anyone. But that's -- I could. I could do it. Loki says if I'm powerful enough to create entire realities, which I have done -- there's just basically no limit to what I could do. And because I can't control it I may have influenced you, like so not on purpose. I could do it to anyone. Well, maybe not anyone. Maybe not Captain America. I mean, I don't think it's possible for Cap to do something he doesn't want to do."
Billy was rambling, and he was rambling because he was nervous, but also because he was trying to lesson the blow that was your-boyfriend-might-only-be-your-boyfriend-because-he-can-control-what's-real. He wanted to explain to Teddy that they'd already worked through all of this with Prodigy's help and intervention. That they were going to be fine and that Teddy had accepted that being influenced by Billy was just a danger of being around him. And of course, the more control over his powers that Kaplan gained, the less and less likely it would be that he would ever accidentally use them. But telling Altman all of this just felt like an attempt to manipulating him towards a decision on it's own and that was the last thing that Billy wanted to do, so instead he just kept spitting words:
"Loki says he can help me. Not -- he isn't going to help me influence Cap, I mean, he says he can help me control my powers so there isn't a danger that that I could accidentally do -- do anything like that,"