texas forever 😔🏳️‍🌈

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington Characters: Steve Harrington, Billy Hargrove Additional Tags: Enemies, Pre-Slash, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

Steve has about two seconds of working through his shock before he’s revving up and charging Billy, shoving him against the lockers. “What the hell is your problem!” he’s yelling, feet slipping on tiles as he and Billy fight for the upperhand.

“You’re my problem! Ever since I got to this bumfuck hick town!”

and steves all tortured over his superhero identity because you know hes gotta keep it a secret from everyone he cares about lest it be used against them by someone wishing to do steve harm. but steve cant help himself sometimes and he ends up finding where billy bartends and he'll just go in sometimes and sit alone watching billy, admiring from a distance, checking in on him to make sure he's doing good.

billy has no idea who he is. cant pick him out from adam. just casually comes along asking for steves order like he does everyone else in the bar, barely making eye contact, before going on to the next patron

but maybe theres one time steve leaves the bar but forgets his wallet and billy spots it, rushing out to give it back to him. and theyre talking and its quieter outside so billy can actually hear steves voice crystal clear for the first time and its weirdly familiar... but it cant be... cuz steves not... right? cuz that would be crazy if he was...

steve thanks him and walks off, completely clueless of the cogs turning in billys brain. but billys already decided hes gotta find out who his masked hero is now because he cannot let anything go ever and the idea is already firmly lodged in his brain