Billy, possessive asshole alpha boyfriend extraordinaire about to find out something new about his omega boyfriend *slaps Steve's stomach* "this belly can fit so many pups in it"
Steve, flushed up to the roots of his hair: *garbled incoherent half hearted protest*
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington
Characters: Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Alpha Billy Hargrove, Alpha Steve Harrington, Omega Steve Harrington, Roommates, extensive swearing and abuse of italics, Billy Hargrove Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Billy Hargrove is Bad at Feelings, Just push em way down there billy, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Billy Hargrove, Scenting, Possessive Behavior, Anal Sex, Knotting, First Time, Omega Verse
Summary:
Steve’s been acting strange.
Planning to move out of their dorm when Billy’d been pretty sure everything was right as rain could be between two alphas— between them— is one thing, but not even telling him why? That’s just not cool.
It’s not like there could possibly be a reason that could just blow up their ability to keep shit copacetic.
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• • •
“When should we tell them?”
“We don’t,” Heather answered. The hard candy of her lollipop clattered against her teeth as she moved it from one cheek to the other with her tongue.
Robin blinked softly, following it before she remembered what they were talking about. “Steve’s my friend. I’m not leaving him to the whims of Billy Hargrove.”
“You’re nicer than me,” Heather disregarded.
“I thought you and Billy were friends.”
Heather looked at her over the rims of her sunglasses. “Where are you going with this?”
Robin looked back at the boringly empty Scoops Ahoy parlor. Slow days were a blessing and a curse. “You’re just in it for the show. I was too, back when I thought Steve was a total lady killer.”
Heather snorted. “I knew Steve was a sweetie way before you did. Don’t worry. Once the ruffled alpha feathers finally relax, they’ll see each other for what they are.”
“Disgustingly horny for each other?”
“Two alphas wanting to bone each other’s brains out isn’t disgusting…so long as they keep it out of my work hours. I don’t care where they get nasty, just stay the hell away from the pool. Draining and cleaning is a nightmare.”
Robin smirked and offered, “If it takes less than a month, I’ll trade jobs with you for a day.”
Heather looked at her, silently processing the offer. “You really think it’ll take them that long to be in each other’s pants?”
“Steve’s sweet but Hargrove only has so many strikes until he’s out of Harrington’s good graces.”
“Yeah but…hormones? The nose knows?”
Robin snorted. “I’ve seen first hand that Steve is predictably clueless and weirdly smart when I least expect it.”
Heather sighed an agreeing sound. “Billy surprises me too. He turns up his jean hems and irons them down.”
“You’re surprised he’s a diva? With that car?” Robin teased. “Have you seen his hair?”
Heather countered, “For a guy who’s trying to have all the peacock feathers of a war-prized veteran, he’s…soft.”
“I’m gonna need you to elaborate on that.”
So Heather did: “Usually it’s the girls who are supposed to teach the kids’ swimming lessons. Don’t get me started on that—”
“Regardless of second gender?”
“It’s old world bullshit,” Heather fumed and continued, “but it’s Billy. Billy’s the best one with the kids.”
Robin adjusted her position in the seat. It was going to be a real bummer whenever someone came in wanting ice cream, but for now, she enjoyed her extended break. “Steve’s the same. I never would have assumed he even liked kids, but the only people who ever visit him are next semester’s freshmen.”
Heather perked up. “The ones Billy’s sister is friends with?”
“Max,” Robin informed. “They’re all fine, I guess. In an…obnoxious freshman way. Max is the most tolerable of the bunch.”
“And she spends more time here than at the pool…” Heather contemplated aloud.
Robin felt inclined to correct, “She spends more time in the theater. Steve lets them into the R-rated films through the staff hallways.”
Heather dropped the stick of her lollipop into an ice cream cup and concluded, “A late night mall date sounds like just the thing.”
Robin stood up and disposed of the cup in the trash bin as she refuted, “I’m not friends with Billy’s sister, and the idea of recruiting a kid so her brother can screw my coworker gives me a bad taste.”
“Okay, prudish,” Heather scoffed. “What to you suggest?”
Robin smirked as she rotated to lean back against the glass, refrigerated case. “I’m so glad you asked.”
• • •
Steve sighed heavily, blunt fingertips scratching his neck as he mentally willed customers to keep walking past Scoops Ahoy. For some reason, all of Hawkins had him on their radar, and where was Robin to witness his ability to draw people into the store?
Steve needed to get laid. Between the internal itch of his body and him fidgeting near his glands, his throat was slowly becoming a red beacon. A dark blue, stupid sailor costume was not doing him favors in concealing it. And it was just his luck that he had to work solo on such a busy day—
“Wow. Do you want a cream for that rash?”
He frowned at none other, than Robin approaching the counter. Dressed in casual clothes, she pointed her stoic glare at him, but he’d developed a skill at reading her.
“You hate this place way too much to be here on your day off. What gives?”
She leaned on the counter with all the familiarity of someone used to being on the other side of it. “Word on the street is that Billy Hargrove is in the parking lot.”
Steve stared at her, visibly processing that until countered, “Robin. That’s not a rumor. You just saw him on the street on your way in here.”
“Whatever. Are you gonna make a move, or what?”
“Oh? A move?” His brows flew up towards the white sailor’s cap on his head. “Like the other move you suggested where I use the community pool’s gymnasium?”
“I didn’t know you could get ring worm from the gym,” Robin defended.
“No, I wouldn’t expect a band geek to know that.”
“You don’t need to go for my throat. At least it got you and Billy talking.”
“Yeah, because it was so thrilling for our first somewhat polite conversation to be him teasing me about the rancid gym. And he was right.”
Robin pursed her lips to the side and recalled one of Heather’s tactics. “Well he gave you nail polish for that, didn’t he?”
Steve’s eyes narrowed on her. “Buckley. I always knew band geeks can’t keep secrets—”
“The hell does that mean?” she recoiled.
“It means someone told him I needed to suffocate some ringworm on my skin!” Steve paused as his eyes darted over her. Steve might’ve been oblivious to her preferences until she spilled about Tammy Thompson, but damn it, that had been the key to a lock that was Steve figuring her out forevermore.
“Heather. You and Heather—!”
“They work together!” she shushed. “I had the best resource to help you with your dead end crush—”
“I am never a dead end,” he huffed. “Tammy Muppet Thompson is a dead end.”
“Okay,” she drawled in a hiss.
“Nothing stays at band camp! You squealed to Heather!”
“Why would I have supported your crush on Hargrove if I didn’t know you had a chance?”
That brought Steve up short. “You know he likes me?”
Robin’s dark blue eyes went wide. “Where did that get lost? Was it how he salivates around you so much that his tongue wags? That he brings you ice pops from the pool despite you working in an ice cream parlor? He behaves like it’s Florida or California, walking in here wearing only his swim shorts!”
“It’s hotter than hell outside, half the town is shirtless. Maybe if you’d told Heather to tell Billy that my favorite flavor isn’t cherry, I would’ve been impressed.”
“We’re always out of maraschinos because you eat them,” Robin countered. “What’s your favorite flavor?”
A deeper voice answered, “Caramel apple.”
Steve’s red neck blossomed up through his cheeks as Robin froze. Steve recovered faster, “You did say he was outside.”
“I thought we had time,” she bit out. “He takes so long to go anywhere, letting people look at him.”
“Are you two a package deal? Because I’ll need to read the fine print,” Billy remarked as he approached and placed two wrapped ice lollies on the counter.
Robin glanced at the green apple flavor boasting caramel sauce inside before she asked, “How long have you been here?”
“Long enough for all your customers and half the GAP to hear about you meddling in my sex life, thanks. Heather’s shifts for the rest of the month depend on how fast you can run.”
Instead of leaving, Robin smirked at him. “How about I take the rest of this shift, and you take the dingus to the pharmacy.”
Billy’s features flattened as he looked Steve over, not having considered him to be ill. He found the source quickly enough, sharp blue eyes riveted to his throat while Steve otherwise handed Robin his Ahoy sailor’s cap. However, she grasped it and frisbee-tossed it through the back room window.
“Screw company policy.”
“Oh-ho, look at you,” Steve sassed, shimmying his way around the counter.
They had to pass each other as she took over his shift, and her features pinched into a grimace. “You smell like a BLT. With pickles on the side.”
“My favorite,” Billy crooned, almost too quiet to hear.
A wave of heat swept over Steve, causing Robin’s eyes to roll while Billy’s nostrils widened. “God, get out of here before someone thinks we have salted caramel as a topping. You’re disgusting.”
“Maybe if you spent your time with Heather gossiping less and getting laid more, you’d sing a sweeter tone,” Steve finished, ice lollies in hand as he waved Billy through the staff door to the back room.
Billy’s composure lasted about as long as it took them to walk through another door to the hallways networking the back of the mall, and for the two of them to glance at each other. Billy’s hand slid over Steve’s lumbar, feeling his fellow alpha jump a little as the heat of his hand seeped through the sailor uniform. “Outside, pretty boy. You might lose your job if your scent lingers like that.”
“Why do you talk like that?” Steve blurted, shoving open the door to the outside. Hawkins was hotter than ever, and the lollies dripped condensation through his grip.
“Like what?” Billy countered, in the same husky tone as he let Steve back him up against the conveniently parked, maroon BMW. A good thing, indeed, that he’d worn a shirt today; the hot metal made him reach for one of the ice pops in Steve’s hand.
“Like you’re growling but shy.”
Billy pulled the wrapping apart to expose the green pop with murky innards promising caramel sauce. Instead of answering directly, he knocked his leg against Steve’s. The natural humidity on their skin made them stick, just for an instant, deliciously together. Billy liked the friction of their leg hair together. “And why’s it taken you this long to stand up to me?”
“I’ve always stood up to you. I just didn’t realize you liked being courted like this—that’s insane.”
Billy had bitten right through the corner of the green lolly that was threatening to melt into slush any second. His head tipped backward, a fast gesture to spare his teeth from the cold chunk in his mouth. “It’s ninety-eight degrees, Harrington, and we haven’t even reached today’s high yet.”
“You’re telling me,” Steve said as he raised the other lolly to the back of his neck. Billy’s tongue moved around his mouth, eyes resting way too long on Steve’s crimson neck. The poor guy was clearly in the cusp of a rut in the thick of July. It was a damn shame, for Billy’s cool fingertips found the edge of an inflamed gland and Steve vocally sighed at the tickling relief.
“You might actually need an ointment for this.”
Steve huffed and shoved the lolly—now ice pack—underneath the hair on his neck. “I get sweat rashes in the summer. This hair comes with a price that my glands pay.”
“Uh huh,” Billy purred, watching Steve’s mouth connect with the top of his ice cream and how his cheeks hollowed while he sucked the caramel out. A thread of sauce followed Steve up before he licked his lips—
Billy chased after it, licking sugar off of Steve’s lips between their kiss before Steve pushed his sweet tongue into Billy’s mouth. Billy’s fingertips found Steve’s chin and cheekbone, holding him in place while he switched sides. Their noses bumped together and Billy smiled against Steve’s overeager pursuit of his mouth. Getting teeth instead of lips made Steve complain, “Do I really smell like a BLT?”
Those doe eyes looked huge across the distance of their breath. Billy shamelessly gripped the red knot of the Scoops Ahoy ascot and pulled Steve’s uniform off his skin so Billy could press his nose against a collarbone. In his other hand, green apple juice dripped over his hand.
“Not yet, at least. You busy this weekend?”
The artificial highlights in Steve’s hair beamed in the summer sun as a dopey smile lifted his tired face. “I sure hope so. You mean with you, right?”
Billy nodded his head toward the car behind him. “We’ll take my car, before the heat takes you out.”
“What’s wrong my car?”
“I can’t drive home smelling you.”
Billy watching Steve’s throat move as he swallowed. “Yeah. Yeah, sure.”
Steve having a false presentation when he's 14, an extremely rare thing that's never happened in their town.
Hawkins and the whole Harrington family, Steve included. Believed that Steve Harrington has an Alpha, he had the qualities of one perfected.
Then Billy Hargrove pins him to the ground right outside of the Byers house. He actually presents in that moment, submissively turning his head for Billy. Letting out a trill, an Omegan sound.
Alpha presents their intended with a significant gift as a sign of courtship
Said gift ranges from jewelry, flowers, clothing or even an important item that belonged to the Alpha.
Alpha!Billy is so awkward and new to the idea of courtship that he fumbles with his words and comes off as aggressive.
Knowing that he will fuck up any opportunity with his intended like that, he starts leaving his seashells in places that he knows Steve would find them.
Steve, on his part, is increasingly confused at why he is finding seashells at the steps of his home, the roof of his car and even on the desk at his work on Scoops Ahoy, while Robin is laughing her ass off at stupid Alphas.
Chapter 9 is up. Billy is so messy and yet somehow so sweet it’s a true conundrum that science can not explain.
“When we exchanged blood Steve you started to become like me, to become omega.” Billy said, perhaps reading the question in his eyes. He read them again, answering a question Steve hadn’t voiced. “It means you’re mine. I’m why you breathe, why you eat, why you open your eyes on the dawn. Without me the world grays. Food turns to ash in your mouth and sleep won’t release its grip. You live for me.”
A wail filled Steve’s head, an internal scream that resonated in his bones and yet did not attempt to force itself out of him. He had no retort. No defense. He’d never had words before to adequately describe to those who cared for him what it was that he felt, what his life had become after Billy. Now he did.
A tear rolled down his cheek and Billy’s thumb followed its path. He leaned down close to Steve, golden lashes lowering as he inhaled deeply – breathing him in.
“And Princess,” his thumb and forefinger gripped Steve’s chin, inhumanly strong, holding him in place.His eyes burned into Steve with barely restrained want. “I like it that way.”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things - Fandom Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Steve Harrington, Billy Hargrove, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler (mentioned), Jonathan Byers (mentioned), Heather Holloway (mentioned) Additional Tags: Harringrove Holiday Exchange, Christmas Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Alpha Billy Hargrove, Omega Steve Harrington, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Smut, Porn with Feelings Summary: “Didn’t you invite him as some sort of accident though?” she questioned. “No Robin. I invited him after I overheard Max say that he wasn’t allowed to come with them to her aunt’s house. On purpose. Because no one should spend Christmas alone,” Steve explained for what felt like the millionth time. “Oh, so it was a pity invitation,” Robin nodded like something had clicked and the world was right again. “No, it wasn’t a fucking pity–Fuck me. Who the hell decided tinsel should be able to get this tangled?” He muttered as he pulled out what was supposed to be garland for the stairs but looked a lot more like a shiny knot. — This meant to be fluffy plot with a little bit of porn but… Oops?
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