For the fics- what is the powers! Billy one cause i love those AU's
okay so it’s a reaallyyy long fic about Billy being one of the earlier experiments, number 6.
The lab initially let his parents be involved because they’re still figuring it out and stuff, but Maria (his momma) hears about what they’re actually doing when Billy’s about five or six and flees Hawkins before they can take her son forever, hence why they don’t let Terry have any involvement by the time Jane comes around.
They’re in California, and there’s a man there who offers to help them, he gets Billy on power suppressants, but he’s also working with the lab and he sells them out. Maria is killed, and Billy and Neil just constantly move all over California to avoid lab people until he decides he’s done running and moves them back to Hawkins, not caring about what would happen to Billy if he got caught.
So now they’re in Hawkins, and Billy, who hasn’t been taking his pills because they’re in some box because of the move, keeps getting this strange sense of déjà vu from everything and it’s really bugging him. He tries to buy some more cigarettes to calm down and accidentally uses his powers, which is persuasion, (like if he commands someone to do something, they do it) on Joyce at the checkout.
From there it’s just a downwards spiral of trying to figure himself out and being pissed off with Neil. He eventually decides to try to find Jane with help from Murray’s conspiracies, and when he does finally track her down, he takes her to Pittsburgh instead of some random trucker. Thus begins his involvement in the upside down stuff!
Basically, it’s found family with lots and lots of angst and humor!
