what it's like to drown

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• Chlorine by rosy_marvels

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  25 Jul 2022

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington
  • Billy Hargrove & Billy Hargrove's Mother
  • Billy Hargrove
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Steve Harrington
  • Neil Hargrove
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Robin Buckley
  • Billy Hargrove's Mother
  • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Billy Hargrove Lives
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person
  • Homophobic Language
  • Neil Hargrove's A+ Parenting
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Smart Billy Hargrove
  • Gay Billy Hargrove
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Explicit Sexual Content
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking
  • Canonical Child Abuse
  • Neil Hargrove is His Own Warning
  • Billy Hargrove & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Have a Good Relationship
  • POV Billy Hargrove
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Non-Linear Narrative

  Summary

  Billy does this shit to himself, again and again. Gets his heart broken. Tricks himself into thinking everything’s getting better. That he has people in his life who care about him. But nobody does, because he always pushes them away, in the end. The last thing he ever did with Steve was fight, and Max is looking at him again how she used to, in the months between the incident in April and the incident in November, like he’s a monster. Because that’s what he is. A monster.

  Series

  • Part 1 of what it's like to drown

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  English

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