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Steve liked to explain away this...situation he'd got himself into with Billy Hargrove as merely sexual tension working itself out. Two single guys, lotta tense history, a hot summer - just simple logic really.
But that didn't quite explain why his pillows were starting to smell like stale chlorine and cheap sunblock, or how that Scoops loyalty card suddenly appeared in the Camaro glovebox.
It certainly couldn't explain why Billy brought him out to the abandoned processing plant, with an old blanket thrown on the ground next to a flickering camping lantern and an already opened box of cookies.Series
- Part 1 of a one summer lover
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30 May 2026
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Four weeks after Starcourt, Steve buries his broken heart in a box alongside a pile of blurry Polaroids, love letters from a secret relationship and the keys to a wrecked, blue Camaro.
Four years later, Steve's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere California. The mechanic at the closest shop has blue eyes and blond hair… and a name tag that says Billy Hargrove.
*****"I watched him die." Steve barely got the words out. "I thought Billy DIED. I loved him and then I lost him, but you pulled him from Starcourt and had him alive all this time? Why doesn't he remember me?"
"We erased his memories." Dr. Owens explained. "We rewrote the last few years of his life and gave Billy a chance at a decent life."
"Without me." Steve said numbly. "A life without me. I loved him."
"If you love him, then leave." Owens stated. "You being here might trigger real memories and the mental trauma could--"
"I can't say goodbye to Billy again." he whispered. "I-- I won't."
"You're making a mistake."
"Stay away from us." Steve stepped away from the doctor. "I'm not losing Billy again, so stay the hell away."
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- Part 21 of Stranger Things Fics
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27 May 2026
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It’s barely three days since El closed the gate when Hopper tells him he wants to rip a hole in space and time to rescue Billy Hargrove. Steve thinks it’s the dumbest thing he’s ever heard.
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21 May 2026
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Billy never claimed to be a perfect brother. Most days he wouldn't acknowledge that he was a brother at all. In fact, he was more than happy to completely disown Max for the rest of his life after she plunged that needle in his neck. But there was something about the outright hatred in Max's eyes whenever she looked at Billy that had him second-guessing his decision.
And worst of all, he couldn't understand why.
100(+) word drabbles about Billy and Max's relationship between seasons 2 and 3.
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- Part 1 of what the water gave me
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18 May 2026
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“But I...?” Hargrove asks, after long enough for Steve to go nose-blind to the furyragekillmaimkill scent, the Alpha’s jaw set and hands clenched in his pockets and eyes so easy, so blue, so- pretty. God, Steve should stop looking. Should look away, any second now. “Spit it out, doe-eyes. Don’t got all day.”
God, he has to stop looking at him.
“You call me Captain,” Steve answers, finally breaking eye contact to look instead at Hargrove’s fingers flicking his lighter again and again. Steve hopes the words say what he can’t: you were kind to me. From the way his fingers still, and the soft, barely-there pleased surprise blooms in Hargrove's scent beneath the rage, Steve thinks they might.
Or: Billy moves to the deadest part of the United States, meets the prettiest boy he's ever fucking seen, starts writing poetry, and everything - literally everything, from common courtesy to the food chain in Hawkins to his already-rocky home life to something so basic as his secondary gender - goes to fucking shit. For the better. Steve has panic attacks, spends most of his time alone, and swallows everything he's ever felt on reflex. And then he meets Billy, and everything gets, well- better. Much better.
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16 May 2026