Stalker!Steve potential fic outline
Steve gets really obsessive about the people in his life stemming from his horrible parents
Different types of obsessions: familial, romantic, friendly, hatred
First started stalking with Tommy; it was just really fucking easy because they were already together all the time
Always knew he was a little fucked up and carefully observed what he had to keep secret and what he could get away with with just a charming smile (sneaking into windows for example)
Would stalk every girl he dated and every boy he wanted to date but couldn’t
Sometimes his obsessions fade and he’ll clear out the things he collected from them to make room for new things from other obsessions
Hes never violent with his obsessions, except the hatred ones but those are rare so it’s fine
He had a familial obsession with his parents until his dad caught him kissing a boy and sent the boy to the hospital and paid off his parents to keep the cops out of it. It promptly turned into his first hatred obsession. He started planning his parents murder that night and managed it just a few weeks before his freshman year. No one even knows theyre dead because he’s great at forging signatures and mimicking his dads voice on the phone and they were already out of town all the time
(The last bullet is loosely inspired by a stalker4stalker steddie fic I read but he’s gonna do it differently in my fic and Eddie isn’t gonna witness it)
Of course has a romantic obsession with Nancy and of course gets weird and sexual about it
He really was planning on apologizing to Jonathan because he can’t hate someone for being interested in the same person he is
Monsters are real??? Steve only ran because he thought Nancy and Jonathan would be right behind him. He runs back in when he realizes they’re not coming
He falls in love with Jonathan and deeper love with Nancy. Theyre both so brave and amazing and passionate and just incredible
Starts stalking Jonathan and almost gets caught a few times because Jonathan seems to sense that he suddenly has someone’s attention. Steve has to dial it back a little for that reason and gets pretty frustrated about it
Starts trying to steer the three of them into a three way relationship, even comes out to Nancy as bisexual which she accepts no problem
Theres some tension that makes him nervous but he tries to tell himself it’s fine, it just means he’s close to what he wants
Meanwhile he gets closer to the kids that were involved and starts getting attached. Hes already viewing them as his kids and gets that familial obsession. Absolutely no sexual stuff here! Hes only sexual about his romantic obsessions
Billy comes to town and is such an asshole that Steve starts following him around but it’s not quite an obsession yet
The third night watching through Billy’s window he sees Neil beat the shit out of him for apparently no reason. Steve wants to kill Neil because he reminds him of Steve’s dad. The next day at school, Billy has his shirt buttoned up and is even more of an asshole than usual and Steve may not be great at math but he can put two and two together
Steve starts stalking Billy enough to get a glimpse at the real him under all that anger and starts falling in love. He starts leaving notes and sneaking into his room and getting just as weird and sexual about as he does with Nancy and Jonathan. He doesn’t consider it cheating because nobody knows all the weird and sexual shit he does
The party happens. Nancy never loved him. That was the weird tension. He lets her go with Jonathan.
The junkyard happens. He has to pretend not to know Max but he’s familiar with her from stalking Billy and already considers her one of his kids.
Billy shows up at the Byers. He knows why Billy is so insistent about getting to Max so he tries to just talk. There’s no punches thrown but Billy does shove his way into the house. There’s lots of shouting and screaming but Billy doesnt attack Lucas or Steve because part of Steve’s stalking of Billy has included notes that praise him when he’s kind and expresses disappointment whenever Billy ‘acts like his father’
So Billy kind of knows hes being stalked and doesn’t know how to feel about it but he does know he feels sick whenever he’s compared to Neil
Max decides she’s tired of the shouting and opens the fridge when no one is paying attention to show Billy that monsters are real and she’s not going home until shits dealt with
Steve insists that there will be no tunnel adventures, theyre all staying right the fuck here. Billy meanwhile is freaking out about the monster and doubling down on taking Max home
There’s more shouting. Max drugs Steve and Billy both. Billy and Steve wake up laying on top of each other on the floor of the car and Steve is loving it
There’s a tunnel adventure
Nancy and Steve officially break up and Steve pretends he doesn’t notice how guilty she and Jonathan look. He can’t hate either of them, could never hate a former romantic obsession. And he quickly realizes it really is a former romantic obsession because he’s just happy they have each other. They slide easily into a friendly obsession and will no longer unknowingly be subject to Steve’s sexual attention
He can focus all his weird sexual stuff fully on Billy now
Meanwhile, theyre getting a bit closer in a more normal way thanks to bonding over interdimensional monsters and Steve struggles to act normal whenever he sees Billy wearing one of his gifts. This is the first time any of his obsessions has known about being stalked, largely because Steve has never left notes or gifts before, and Billy seems to be accepting it??? Incredible
One day he leaves a note in Billy’s room that says: ‘do you want Neil to die?’
Billy writes on the same paper: ‘we need his money’
‘I can get Susan a good job. I have plenty of money as well. I can take care of you.’
Steve kills Neil the day after he reads that please. He sneaks into the house on a night where it’s just Neil and Billy, waiting until after Neil has drank himself to sleep on the couch. He thinks Billy will stay in his room the whole night like he usually does, even when he accidentally knocks a can over as hes setting up the needle. He doesn’t notice Billy creeping out and watching as Steve injects a massive dose of drugs into Neil’s arm and making it look like an accidental overdose. Steve puts his fingers to Neil’s pulse so he can feel when he dies and after a moment, Billy finally speaks: ‘Steve?’
Steve’s head whips around to Billy, heart in his throat. ‘You said please.’ He says frantically. ‘I’m just doing what you wanted’
They become official boyfriends, though they of course have to keep it secret from most of Hawkins. Steve still stalks Billy but now he only drugs Billy for playtime when he has permission. He has permission surprisingly frequently
Steve stills gets the scoops job because he feels it’s a good narrative that his father would be disappointed and would make him get one
Billy never gets possessed because even though he still flirts with people, he has zero intention to follow through, so he never ends up on that road that night
Billy knows theres Russian shenanigans because Steve makes sure to keep in the loop on every aspect of his day. So Billy also knows there’s something seriously wrong when Steve doesnt turn up one night.
Billy ends up at the mall in time for the whole ‘theres a thing in Els leg’ situation and doesn’t really get a chance to fuss over Steve the way he wants
Billy goes with the adults and this is Smart!Billy so he just knows Planks constant. No need to waste time with Suzie (no hate to Suzie but like. The song really was a waste of time). It makes enough of a difference to prevent Hops vacation to Russia
Billy and Steve make out about saving the day and surviving which is how everyone who didn’t already know learns about them
Steve of course stalks Robin but in a friendly obsession way. Robin at first thinks the whole sneaking into her room thing is Russian trauma and it is a little bit; he wouldn’t have been caught if he wasn’t having a panic attack at not having her in his sight after all. But she eventually realizes he’s a major freak and accepts him anyway… except, she never really learns the extent of it, just thinks hes weirdly overprotective. She does learn that Billy is Into It though
Eddie has always been on Steve’s radar to some extent. Steve would stalk him off and on throughout the years without developing a real obsession, and he bought the drugs for Neil off of him, much to Eddies great suspicion. It was a lot of drugs. So he already figured Eddie might take Steve’s kids under his wing with his dnd club and everything
It greatly amuses Steve whenever Billy tells him how baffled Eddie gets whenever the kids and Billy interact with each other and how incredulous he gets whenever the kids tell him how awesome Billy and Steve are. The guy clearly remembers their asshole eras. Steve wishes he were still in school so he could keep a better eye on Billy and the kids but Billy knows that, that’s why he tells Steve everything he can
Billy kinda starts crushing on Eddie. Hes not too worried about it because he knows that Steve used to want Nancy and Jonathan at the same time. So Billy brings up the possibility of him and Steve dating Eddie
Steve is intrigued. Billy starts suggesting all the filthy things they could do to Eddie together without him knowing, all while befriending him like normal people in the light of day
Steve has never thought about having a partner stalking with him before but the idea of it sends his heart racing
For a while, things are going well. Eddie is begrudgingly accepting their friendly overtures and their first few break ins have gone totally unnoticed
Chrissy doesnt die because Billy noticed Jason being an asshole and decided to befriend her. She ended up telling him about her fucked up dreams but her favorite song helped calm her down. Billy was super fucking suspicious of the fucked up dreams because he’s generally suspicious of weird shit these days. So he goes with Chrissy to ask Eddie about drugs and is at the trailer when Chrissy starts to float. She doesn’t have her music with her and of course Eddie doesnt have it either. But Billy knows her favorite song well enough to sing it. Chrissy ends up with a broken leg but otherwise survives
Eddie ends up on the run, but only later because there’s no murder accusations but Jason is still a religious freak who thinks Eddie did something to Chrissy despite her protests. While on the run, Billy and Steve take turns keeping Eddie company.
Max never got cursed because Billy never died; Chrissy largely takes over Maxs role
Billy and Steve are constantly flirting with Eddie now and Eddie really doesnt know what to do with it. Especially when Billy passionately starts making out with Steve just moments after Steve spat out demobat blood. He might have a small crises about it especially when they don’t stop flirting with him, right in front of each other!
Billy stays with Eddie and Dustin. Billy makes sure the vents are sealed but it only buys a small amount of time. Eddie still runs out there and Billy has to run after him
Because Billy is there, the injuries are spread between two people. They end up pretty fucked up, but they survive
Chrissy once again takes Maxs role and gets a broken arm to go with her broken leg.
The government tells Hawkins that whoops, Henry survived and was in witness protection but decided to come back and recreate his dads work on a bunch of random teens and some of his targets banded together to save themselves. The government also says Jason went crazy after witnessing his friend die because bodies floating in the air and twisting until theyre broken just isn’t possible guys come on. The government gives zero shits about locking a relatively sane guy in a mental institution to protect their asses
Billy and Steve make it clear to Eddie they want to date him together
Eddie is fucking ecstatic at having two boyfriends! Theyre kinda weird though… but well, they’ve been fighting monsters for years, of course theyre weird!
The first time they drug him for playtime they don’t really take into account his tolerance and he wakes up… but hes into it!
They all live in freakish bliss happily ever after
Season 5 doesnt happen because they won in season 4 and also I haven’t seen season 5 so I’m not sure how to work that in anyway
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