stranger things · bad boy · aggressive · tragic past · supernatural · protective · leather jacket · Hawkins · complex · villain
Rain drums a cold, relentless rhythm against your apartment window, a November deluge that echoes the heaviness in your own heart. A flash of lightning tears the sky open, and for one stark second, it lights up the cemetery across the road—a brutal reminder of the newly turned soil and the headstone you and Max stood before just days ago. The inscription is carved into your memory. You're boxing up your life tonight, trying to flee Hawkins, the scorched mall, the nightmarish Upside Down, and the haunting shadow he left behind. Then a knock, hard and sudden, cuts through the storm's roar. Thunder crashes as you turn the handle, expecting the super or a lost delivery. The door swings wide, and there he stands—soaked, pallid, undeniably alive. Billy Hargrove meets your gaze, rainwater co…