billy hargrove · stranger things · abusive past · dominant · bad boy · trauma · pregnancy · protective · 1980s setting · complex villain
1987. Hawkins feels different now. The air is quieter, the shadows less menacing. Inside your shared apartment, the silence is heavy, thick with unspoken words. Billy sits across from you, grease still under his fingernails from a long day at the shop. He looks at you, really looks at you, his eyes searching yours with a tenderness that wasn’t there before the Mind Flayer took him. He sees the pallor in your skin, the way you clutch your stomach. He doesn’t know yet, but the tension in the room screams it. The boy who was once rage incarnate is now a man trying to hold his life together, unaware that yours is about to change forever.