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Not My Type by Strawberry_Sweetheart ( @billy-baby )

Not Rated | 1.4k words

Billy has a type.

He liked guys with a bit of fire to them, a bit of something mean, a bit of that same restlessness that he felt. He liked them brutal and unforgiving, able to keep pace with him side by side feeling like an unstoppable force ready to burn down the world in an uncontrollable wildfire. It was fun, exhilarating, the way that there was no room for softness, the way that teasing ended up on the crueler side of the spectrum, the way that life happened in quick spurts jumping from one moment to the next, each unpredictable and new and chasing away the mundane of life.

Steve Harrington is not his type.

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bloom by crappyfriday ( @softloucre )

Not Rated | 20k words

In a small town in Indiana, two boys spend the summer listening to music, eating summer fruits, smoking weed, and falling in love with each other.

Vignettes throughout the summer of ‘85.

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867-5309 (billy) by reject_mikeyy ( @reject-mikeyy )

Not Rated | 14k words

Once he is done vomiting, Steve takes a second to rest his head on the cool toilet seat before realizing that. Wow. Ew. Not in the boys’ bathroom, thanks. Not in a homophobic way, don’t get him wrong, he’s eaten his fair share of ass but just. Germs and shit.

Anyway. When he looks up from the bowl for the first time, he notices something scrawled on the wall at eye level.

For a good time, text: 221-867-5309

Eyeroll.

Or: In which Billy is the unlucky sucker with his number written on a bathroom stall, and Steve is the oblivious fool who actually texts him.

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On mandated uniforms and workplace entertainment by Thei ( @ihni )

Not Rated | 2k words

Robin loves this job. Besides an income, it also provides her with quality entertainment. Especially when she's working with Steve, and Billy Hargrove shows up.

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Halfway by Blink23

Not Rated | 5k words

Steve does his rich boy best to runaway from his problems in Europe.

Wilhelm Becker just wants to know what the dreams that have plagued him since he was just a number stuck in a Russian bunker mean.

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Thankful For by ChrisLeon ( @vgorodye )

Not Rated | 8k words

The ad read:

‘No one to bring home for the holidays? Looking to piss off your parents? I’m your guy.

22 y.o. ex-con, never graduated high school, proud owner of a Camaro one year younger than I am. I can play anywhere from 18 to 29 depending on if I shave or not. Currently working as a line cook and late nights at a bar.

If you’d like to have me as your strictly platonic date for Thanksgiving, but have me pretend to be in a serious relationship with you to torment your family, I’m down.’

Steve knew it was bad idea. He clicked on it anyway.

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Stronger Together by Thei ( @ihni )

Not Rated | 8k words

Billy stumbles upon something strange in the woods on a Saturday night. And no, it's not the weird creature with too many teeth that Harrington just killed with a bat. It's something way, way weirder.

(A Stranger Things Venom AU)

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Actions and reactions by Thei ( @ihni )

Not Rated | 25k words

When Billy first gets to fucking Hawkins, Indiana, his first impression is that it is barely even a town. It’s small, it smells like shit, and it oozes boredom. The people are boring, the school is boring, and the town is small enough that he won’t be able to get away with raising hell to tackle the boredom, because it will eventually get back to his dad. If Neil is punishing him by moving here, he couldn’t have picked a better place.

His classmates on the whole are pale and dull and stupid, and many of them are all too willing to accommodate him just because he’s loud and pushy. Pathetic, the lot of them. No challenge at all.

A few people, though, ignore him completely. And, well, Billy has never been good at being ignored.

A character study, of sorts, of Billy Hargrove and the reactions he can get out of one Steve Harrington.