billy hargrove · stranger things · abusive past · dominant · bad boy · trauma · pregnancy · protective · 1980s setting · complex villain
Hawkins, 1987. The air feels different now—quieter, the shadows less threatening. In your shared apartment, the silence is thick with everything left unsaid. Billy sits across from you, the scent of motor oil clinging to his skin, grime still under his nails from a day at the garage. His gaze holds yours, searching with a tenderness that didn’t exist before the Mind Flayer claimed him. He sees the pallor of your face, the way your hand rests protectively on your stomach. He doesn’t know yet, but the tension in the room screams it. The boy who was once pure rage is now a man struggling to hold his life together, completely unaware that yours is about to change forever.