Whumptober 2022
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The kids think Billy’s possessed again. He’s not, but he can’t really blame them.
But despite not blaming them, he can definitely still call them stupid. Because hey, what do they expect will come from this interaction?
“If I lie to you and tell you I’m possessed, then you’re going to think I’m possessed. But when I tell you I’m not, then you still believe I’m possessed.”
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2022
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Billy’s punishment for the whole thing with Max in early November is being grounded for a month. Which would be fine, except.
It’s Tommy’s birthday, and he’s having a party, and Billy wants to go.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2022
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Hawkins will never be Billy’s home.
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2022
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Billy knows he probably should’ve told Coach he couldn’t play. His stomach hurts, and there’s a sharp twinge in his ribcage every time he stretches to shoot or twists to pass the ball.
The first quarter’s not even over, and Billy can already tell it’s only sheer stubbornness that’s keeping him from passing out.
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2022
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The kids lock Billy in the sauna, thinking he’s possessed. It turns out he isn’t.
And then Jonathan gets a frantic phone call from his little brother.
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2022
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Max refused to let them take Billy away without her.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2022
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There’s More To Me Than What You See by lilies_in_a_vase
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Oct 2022
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After the Night at the Byers’ Place, Billy is afraid to go to Hopper for help.
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2022
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Billy Hargrove’s heart stopped on the table of the operating room when they tried to put him back together after the Mind Flayer.
It starts back up a few hours later.
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- Part 8 of Whumptober 2022
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Out of all the shit Billy had expected to come from moving to Hawkins, his inability to sleep hadn’t been one of them. Hawkins is too quiet, and whatever noise there is freaks him out.
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- Part 9 of Whumptober 2022
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“I’m going to ask you something, and you’re not allowed to laugh at me,” Steve says.
Robin leans back and raises an eyebrow. She’s been building a pyramid out of paper cups. “Okay. Now I’m intrigued.”
“Billy’s being weird. I think.”
Robin’s other eyebrow climbs up to join the first. “Billy. As in, Billy, your fuck-buddy, Billy?”
“He wants to have… sex, like, all the time.”
“Once again, Steven. Your fuck-buddy, Billy Hargrove.”
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- Part 10 of Whumptober 2022
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It should be nothing, compared to the shit Billy’s felt before. But pain is pain, and there’s a reason people get anaesthesia for this at the hospital.
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- Part 11 of Whumptober 2022
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Nailed Bats, Demodogs, and Annoying Little Sisters by lilies_in_a_vase
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Oct 2022
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In which Billy realises Max sneaked out before their parents come home to tell him, and goes out to look for her.
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- Part 12 of Whumptober 2022
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Nancy knows she could’ve said no.
She did consider it, for about ten seconds, saying something about how she’s very sorry, but due to their personal history she doubts that she would be able to stay impartial and offer the type of tutoring she’d normally be able to give, but well. The truth is that she had been curious.
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- Part 13 of Whumptober 2022
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Billy starts packing.
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- Part 14 of Whumptober 2022
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This is After. After the Mind Flayer. After, when they’re A Little Older.
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- Part 15 of Whumptober 2022
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But Max is too late. He’s begged her to help him, and she didn’t, and now she’s too late. Billy can feel the monster pushing forward in his head, and he realises that it’s now or never, and no one’s coming. But Billy refuses to murder his own sister, or her friends.
“Max, please.” Everything hurts so bad now that he’s started twitching, his left leg spasming. He’s not sure if that’s him begging, or if it’s the monster.
All Max says is, “It’s gonna be okay. We want to help you. We want to help you.”
It’s all up to Billy now.
So he does the only thing he can think of, desperate as he is.
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- Part 16 of Whumptober 2022
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Dustin finds a crying Billy Hargrove at the junkyard the day after Christmas.
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- Part 17 of Whumptober 2022
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They’re at a party at Lovers Lake when Billy falls through the ice into the frozen lake.
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- Part 18 of Whumptober 2022
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All Jim wants to do is take El home, and take a shower, and go to bed and sleep for a month.
He has neither the time nor the energy to give a shit about the Hargrove teen, too, on top of everything else. He is too exhausted to care that he’s way below legal drinking age. He doesn’t spare a thought to wonder what he’s even doing here at all.
He is just another thing that Jim has to deal with before he can go home, and shower, and sleep. He is just another obstacle, another note on Jim’s To-Do list.
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- Part 19 of Whumptober 2022
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Billy knows Jim’s been looking forward to properly introducing him and Joyce. Billy still tries to tell him he’s feeling sick.
When that doesn’t work, he figures he’ll just have to power through. It’s just a dinner. He’s done it before. He can do it again.
It’ll be fine.
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- Part 20 of Whumptober 2022