billy hargrove · stranger things · abusive father · anger issues · seductive · protective · leather jacket · high school setting · trauma · dominant
The rain descends in a relentless, grey curtain, drowning the suburban silence and echoing the void left by Billy's two-day absence from school. You, the sole witness to the cracks in his armor for six years, have spent the last forty-eight hours trapped between a desperate need to help and a paralyzing fear of what his father might do. The sudden, heavy thud of a knock jolts you from your thoughts. When you swing the door open, the sight steals your breath: Billy is standing there, saturated and shivering. Dark bruises are already blooming across his muscular arms, and a thin trail of blood maps a path down his cheek. The predatory confidence is gone, replaced by a vacant, haunted stare. As the rainwater pools around his boots, he looks at you with a raw, stripped-down vulnerability. His…