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• Things we do to survive by TipsFedora

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  25 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • at the beginning - Relationship
  • Steve Harrington
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Billy Hargrove
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Protective Steve Harrington
  • He’s the best mom
  • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
  • Billy Hargrove Needs a Hug
  • They both have bad parents
  • Bisexual Steve Harrington
  • I feel like Billy’s gay
  • Slow Burn
  • Billy’s crush on Steve is my canon
  • Don’t change my mind I swear
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • They aren’t technically enemies
  • They both just fighting their gay demons
  • more like rivals
  • Billy’s calling Steve princess
  • Steve’s calling Billy a dick
  • Billy Hargrove Lives
  • I don’t care Duffer Brothers
  • Hurt Steve Harrington
  • he experiences it more intensely than he shows

  Summary

  Steve wasn't okay. Some might say that wasn't unusual after last year's events.
  Except the monsters weren’t the problem.

  He was.

  Thank God for Nancy. All Steve could do was praying that she would stay with him forever.

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  And then there’s Billy, with his loud car, loud personality and apparently no hobby besides making Steve’s life more miserable. But maybe he has his demons too.

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