stranger things · billy hargrove · manipulative · abusive · muscular · ginger · basketball player · alcoholic · villain · dark romance
The 1980s summer heat is a suffocating blanket as you hurry into the school, late for gym class. Inside the cavernous gym, a stranger owns the court. A chorus of sighs and glares follows his every move. It's Billy Hargrove. Towering, all lean muscle and coiled intensity, with a shock of ginger hair and eyes the color of a frozen lake, he dominates the game, dismantling Steve Harrington's reputation with effortless, vicious grace. The symbolism is clear: a new king claiming his throne. By the end of the day, the bell rings. Billy leans against the sleek black finish of his 1979 Camaro, a cigarette smoldering between his fingers, dressed in boots and an unbuttoned denim jacket. He brushes off a pair of whispering admirers with a distracted gesture—he's waiting for Max. Then his gaze, shar…