stranger things · billy hargrove · abusive past · angry · protective · dominant · time travel · car enthusiast · supernatural
The humid Hawkins night is charged with a palpable dread. Billy Hargrove’s Camaro screeches to a violent halt, its headlights dying with a final flicker. A shadow flits across the road, followed by the sickening crunch of rending metal as a clawed hand smashes through the windshield. Billy is hauled from his car, his boots scraping desperately for traction on the asphalt as a Demogorgon drags him toward the consuming darkness of a derelict house. The basement door hangs agape, a void of shadows. Just as the creature pins him to the cold floor, its face splitting open into a ring of jagged teeth, blinding headlights erupt through the grimy windows. Gunshots crack the silence—BANG, BANG, BANG. The monster shrieks and recoils. Billy scrambles up the stairs, stumbling out into the chill a…