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Everyone always leaves Steve in the end. Until they don't.
They leave him– they always do, one by one like fading stars in a distant galaxy; flickering weakly as they take their leave of him, still lingering within his sight before burning out and leaving behind empty shadows in their wake. Unnoticeable initially, but the blackening cosmos around Steve is now slowly bleeding through his periphery like spilled ink on a page, undeniable and threatening; gradually enveloping him in cold, hollow darkness and swallowing him whole until eventually there’ll be nothing left but a scared boy desperately running from the skeletons in his closet.
Reimagining of Stranger Things starting in S2. ABO AU with some Steve whump and initial non/dub-con Harringrove gradually turning to fluff. WIP, unbeta'd
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My Heroes Had the Heart by paladin_cleric_mage for LadyFrandrews, peirypatt, Fantasysci5
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2018
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In less than twenty seconds he takes down the rest of the bottle, leaving it as empty as he is. Billy is gutted by the shame and fear he refuses to look at, filled instead by booze and smoke, safe distractions, and a love that hits like ecstasy. Why wouldn’t he cling to it with a fever? And he wants to, now more than ever. He wants to be someone Steve deserves, but fear tells him what everyone else already has-- that’ll never happen.
What if the reason that he can’t change isn’t people or places? He’s thought this before a thousand times, always in the mode of self-deprecation. Never with such honesty: what if the problem is him?
Please note:
- This fic is Post-S2
- A timeline for this work is available upon request
- All the songs featured: [https://open.spotify.com/user/sidneyhummel/playlist/4r3OOFwdsynyIzkQVlLLjf?si=CAuHY5bvS9yeKu_9Li4aBA]Series
- Part 1 of My Heroes Had the Heart