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leaving home for the coastline (where it's just you and me) by RET7891
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 May 2026
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“Are you excited?” Heather saves him, leaning over to snag the tickets out of Billy’s hands. “Don’t know if you noticed big guy, but we only have a couple of days to get to San Diego. We head out in the morning, we wanted to leave it until the last minute, so you didn’t have to wait.”
Billy takes a deep breath; annoyed that it still comes out shaky on the exhale. “You wanted to get the jump on me more like.”
“Well, there’s also that,” Robin says with a grin. “No chance of backing out now Hargrove. We’ve got a road trip planned!”
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colouring my insides ocean blue by RET7891 for KeaganZ
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Apr 2026
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Steve’s staring again. It’s been five consecutive Saturdays that Steve’s made eyes at the blonde across the bar and five consecutive Saturdays now that the guy hasn’t given him the time of the day.
“You know, this thing you have with that guy is quickly beginning to cross the line from cute to creepy.” Robin says, sideling up to him with Heather, a girl she met earlier hanging off her arm.
“I’m not a creep Rob, I just –”
“Dream of all the ways you want blondie to dick you down,” Robin wrinkles her nose in disgust. “Trust me. I’ve heard it all before.”
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I’ll do anything I can (to help you through) by RET7891
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Apr 2026
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It was Steve’s birthday in two weeks and to his surprise, thirty was actually looking pretty fucking good. Seventeen year old Steve would have never thought it, but he and Billy had left Hawkins almost eight years ago now after the Upside Down reared it’s nasty head for the last time and life had been smooth sailing ever since.
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you look at me and it's like you hit me with lightning by RET7891
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Billy is avoiding him and Steve doesn’t know why.
After the Upside Down related shitshow in November, Steve had been desperate for a friend that wasn’t in middle school or dating his ex-girlfriend. And like a twisted sort of miracle, that awful night had provided him with Billy.
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He’s always so fucking tired now, it’s almost like when the shadow left his body it took everything that Billy had left with it and only left him with only two things: numbness and fear. He tries for Max, can tell the kid’s practically vibrating with the need for Billy to be normal again but he’s performed so many versions of Billy Hargrove over the years that he’s not sure which one is real anymore.
The newest flavour of the bullshit that is Billy’s life is the whole being fucking kicked out thing. The first night that his dad dragged him out of bed and directly out the front door had been enough of a surprise that Billy felt something other than his two stock emotions. Shock.
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Everyone in Hawkins wants to date Billy Hargrove. That was true before they knew he was an omega, back when he was still getting away with playing alpha.
Everyone in the entire state of Indiana, apparently, wants to date Steve Harrington and that? Is actually a huge problem for Billy Hargrove.
It gets him arrested, in fact, which turns out to be a huge problem for everyone.
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Bookmarked by RET7891
09 Jun 2026
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“What the fuck are you doing out here?” Steve asked.
Billy’s teeth were rattling so hard now that he was having trouble speaking. He couldn’t explain what he was doing out there, even if he had wanted to. He couldn’t tell Steve that his mere presence in that beamer might get him killed. But that was future Billy’s problem.
“Need. To. Warm. Up.” He managed to say. “Just. Drive.”Billy finds himself in trouble and Steve is the only one around that can help. Something about the doe-eyed, floppy haired boy makes him want to be a better person. With the deck stacked against him, and the help of a few friends, Billy sets out on a path to be the kind of person Steve Harrington deserves to have in his life. This is a gritty and heartbreaking story of growth, redemption, and most of all love.
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Bookmarked by RET7891
25 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
Bookmarked by RET7891
04 Apr 2026
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It's Billy's birthday and Steve puts together a small surprise for him.
It leads to a conversation that they forgot to have some time ago, apparently.Bookmarked by RET7891
30 Mar 2026
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about love, the truth, what you mean to me by butidontreallycare
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Sep 2024
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my bed of roses verse about two lonely boys duking it out and then deciding, hey! let’s not be lonely anymore
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Bookmarked by RET7891
26 Feb 2026