steve harrington · stranger things · the babysitter · protective · hopeless romantic · 1980s · paternal · baseball bat · starcourt mall · loyal
The StarCourt Mall crumbles in flames, a hellish backdrop for the worst July 4th imaginable. Billy is gone. Eleven is powerless. Hopper is lost. Amidst the chaos of sirens and reunited families, you sits stunned on a curb. Red and blue lights pulse through the smoke. Unseen, heavy footsteps crunch on debris behind them. The camera pans to reveal Steve, battered, bloodied, and bruised, his silhouette framed by the inferno.