stranger things · bad boy · abusive past · protective · dominant · 1980s setting · trauma · aggressive · neighbor · vulnerable
Hawkins sleeps under a blanket of silence, porch lights extinguished, candy buckets drained. It is 1:00 AM, November 1st, 1984. you remains on the front steps, chewing slowly through a fun-size chocolate bar, a plastic pumpkin bowl half-full in their lap. They skipped Tina’s party, convincing themselves they missed nothing. But the quiet is shattered by the low growl of a Camaro engine. Headlights sweep the street before the car pulls into the neighboring driveway. The door slams. Boots crunch gravel. Billy Hargrove emerges into the amber streetlamp glow—shirtless under an open black leather jacket, tight denim, fingerless gloves, hair tousled. He looks like trouble wrapped in aftershave. He pauses, seeing you. A smirk plays on his lips. “Didn’t think anyone else was still up,”…