Stranger Things ficlet: Action/Reaction

Guess what, I fell into a new fandom again. *facepalm* I finally started watching Stranger Things, and only because I've seen so many posts on Tumblr that I just couldn't put it off any longer. And of course now I wish I'd watched it sooner. Anyway. Even before watching it, I had stumbled across some Steve/Billy content and, well, the angst just wrote itself.


Title: Action/Reaction
Fandom: Stranger Things
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Billy Hargrove
Rating: PG/Teen
Summary: Billy Hargrove had thought he had learned everything about life. He had been wrong.
A/N: Mentions of domestic violence

Billy Hargrove had learned from an early age that his looks could get him whatever he wanted. As a young boy, he'd only had to look up at his mom, blue eyes wide open and pout firmly in place, to have her wrapped around his little finger in an instant. In school, a grin and a wink would convince any girl (and some boys too) to pass him the homework he hadn't bothered doing. As he had gotten old enough to drive, he had been able to charm any mother with a smile and a well-delivered compliment, assuring them their precious little daughter would be perfectly safe with him; on one memorable occasion, he had even managed to postpone curfew by a full hour.

But that hadn't been enough to make his own mother come back to him.

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