Listen_To_The_Shadows_Sing
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The idea was a terrifying one—that he had lost time, lost his own body, and that The Lab probably had something, if not everything, to do with it. At least Steve had faced strange enough shit to have hope that this was fixable. Just another clandestine operation gone wrong in the sunny paranatural hellscape that was Hawkins, Indiana.
He just needed to "be" Billy Hargrove until he could get to school and find him — hopefully in Steve’s body, which wasn't exactly comforting that somehow that psychotic asshole being in his body had suddenly become the best case scenario. But still, that was the only plan Steve seemed to have right now, so he’ll do it. He’d be Billy Hargrove.
How hard could that be?
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08 Mar 2026
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“Why are you sitting over here anyway?" Steve asks. "Haven’t you heard? I’m a social pariah who got beat up by Jonathan Byers for trying to beg Nancy to take me back.”
Billy flicks a disgusted look at the table in the far corner where Jonathan and Nancy are eating together. “Seriously? That’s better than having people know I whooped your ass?”
"I've faced down actual interdimensional monsters. After that, small town gossip really loses its threat."
"Sure, because it's better to be known as the loser that Byers tried to kill twice." Billy stares at Steve who has clearly lost his mind.
“Weirdly, I don’t hear you apologizing for nearly killing me,” Steve says pointedly.
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24 Feb 2026
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When Billy fucking Hargrove walks into Scoops Ahoy in his white Hawkins Pool tank top and his tiny little red lifeguard shorts, Steve trips over literally nothing, drops a tub of Rocky Road on the floor, and very nearly brains himself on the glass case covering the ice cream.
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22 Feb 2026
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Still, he is getting really desperate. He needs help with his essay or he's SOL for college. So Steve asks, “Who?”
Robin flashes him her brilliant smile. “Billy Hargrove.”
“Billy Hargrove, as in the douchebag with the mullet who literally brained me with a plate and left me with a nifty scar that I am only so lucky my gorgeous hair covers?” Steve tugs back his hair line, revealing a small, snaking, white scar.
Robin pushes up on the table to get a better look. “I mean, I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said. But, he’s also the top student in Honors English.”
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21 Feb 2026
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Move on. Let it heal.
Maybe that’s why Steve said yes when Max asked him to help move boxes out of Billy’s room after the dust settled. He could hear her voice. Too many. Too heavy.
Just like his wounds. His grief. Too many. Too heavy.
(Or, Steve steals the glass ashtray from Billy's bedside table and things start to go bump in the night.)
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