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Something Made Me Stay by cryptobranch for not_that_kinda_girl
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Mar 2025
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Billy Hargrove should have left Hawkins the second he got the chance.
Hell, he had the money to do it. After Starcourt, the government paid him off to keep his mouth shut. He should have taken the cash, hopped in his car, and never looked back.
Instead, he’s fixing up a shed at Hopper’s cabin, getting dragged into the lives of the kids he once ignored, and finding himself with something dangerously close to a family.
He never planned on staying—but he definitely never planned on Steve Harrington.
And somehow, by the end of summer, Hawkins feels a little bit like home.
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It starts as a joke. A dumb, ridiculous, totally scientific joke.
Shawn Spencer, self-proclaimed genius and part-time menace, embarks on an investigation of utmost importance: determining whether Carlton Lassiter is, in fact, packing.
What begins as harmless teasing spirals into something else entirely. A game of proximity, tension, and the slow, agonizing realization that Shawn might be in way over his head. Because Lassiter isn’t just reacting, he’s pushing back. Hard.
Unfortunately for our favorite psychic, Lassiter never loses.