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The ghost of Billy Hargrove leaned in the open window of Steve’s car with that trademark smirk and, honestly, Steve was kind of impressed by how detailed his own hallucination could be.
“Wanna fuc-What the shit? HARRINGTON?”
They blinked at one another for about ten seconds before Steve’s brain finally managed to fire off a thought.
“You’re real?”
Steve couldn’t stop the words from spilling out of his mouth, his own stupidity a constant echo in his empty head. Billy’s face reflected his thoughts as he yanked on the door handle until Steve reached over to hit the lock with shock-numb fingers.
“Real fucking freezing. Let me in, pencil dick.”Or: The Pretty Woman AU literally nobody asked for.
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- Part 1 of I Don’t Want To Let You Go
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Bookmarked by lainonesock
01 Jan 2026
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Steve learns how to be an adult. Billy gets in touch with his inner child.
Bookmarked by lainonesock
04 Dec 2025
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Brilliant characterisation. The Post-S3 trope I was dying to find and finally I stumbled upon this unfinished masterpiece
God, believe me it’s good, and it’s delicate and electric, and so, so fragile
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Steve wondered when he’d gotten so goddamn stupid. Probably the exact moment Billy had first kissed him; all the brain cells had flown right out of his ear. Billy Hargrove was definitely the worst thing that had ever happened to him, he decided.
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Bookmarked by lainonesock
15 Dec 2025
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Truly touching, believable and absolutely, insanely, irredeemably good. First part is a must read
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Hawkins holds secrets, the kind that conquer and divide. When Billy barely survives the attack of the Mind Flayer on that fateful hot Fourth of July, he is left blinded and scarred in more ways than one. As Hawkins settles back into a new normal, Steve makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to offer his friendship to the one person who he feels might need it most: Billy Hargrove. Though the darkness of the Upside Down may try to rip people apart, sometimes it’s the thing that brings them together.
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“You know,” Billy says quietly, sneering. “You coulda saved Joyce Byers a plate—if this was all it took, to break you.”
Billy Hargrove is about to learn the hard way—if you come at the king, you best not miss.
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Bookmarked by lainonesock
10 Aug 2025
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Best slow burn I’ve ever read, and I’ve read plenty of absolutely gorgeous fics. Characters are deep and complex, world building, narrative are tricky. Everything is impeccable. This book is a column in my Roman Empire