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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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    22 Feb 2026

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    Good shit, Richard. Real good shit.

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    Billy hasn't been able to satisfy the itch beneath his skin since leaving California. Unfortunately, he doesn't think he has a chance in hell to find what he needs in small town USA.

    But that all changes when he sees the fire in Steve Harrington's eyes the night they fight. He sees something in them that he sometimes sees in himself when he looks in the mirror.

    Harrington has demons. Just like Billy

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    17 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Chapter 24 and OH HEELLLLLLL YEAH THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT MAN!!!

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    Billy keeps sneaking in Steve's window as the months go on: a story in ten parts.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    Fuck me this is cute

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    “Anyone there?” Steve tries again. He’s hoping it’s a person and not– well, something out of his nightmares. This could still all be a concussion induced dream, he supposes. Steve hasn’t been hit this hard since Jonathan laid him out on the street. And even then, he was able to walk away with his wits, but not his pride.

    “Harrington?” A voice, one that also sounds strained, speaks out. Steve knows that voice too, gets taunted by it every basketball practice since it waltzed into his life and shoved him to the ground, figuratively and literally.

    “Hargrove?” He’s asks, still incredulous that they’d be put in the same room. Then again, this isn’t a hospital. It’s rather shaping up to be a nightmare.

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    Steve is left behind after he's knocked out while the kids go and burn the tunnels. When he wakes up, he's strapped to a bed with Billy Hargorve as his roommate, at the mercy of a Russian doctor with "great" plans for the both of them.

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    16 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Some of my favorite tropes allllll cuddled together??? And peak writing???? Helllll yeah baby

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    Steve takes a deep breath and picks up the receiver, “Hello?”

    The kitchen lights flicker once, so quickly that he convinces himself that he imagined it, and then there’s a crackling, a kind of static-y hiss against his ear, and the rasp of a voice, “Hey, I need, uh, police?”

    There’s something familiar about the voice, something twitching at the back of his mind, the tip of his tongue, but Steve can’t quite place it.

    “Hello? Anyone there? Please?” it comes again, laced with so much desperation that it has the back of Steve’s neck prickling uncomfortably, “I need- shit, I need help.”

    AKA Billy is trapped in the Upside Down and somehow manages to call Steve's house.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I need 400k more words of this and them being cute and domestic so I have something to cry about at 3am LOOK AT THESE BOYS OUUGGGHHH