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1. hope is a dangerous thing (for someone like me to have) by rex_corvus

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   31 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington
   • Billy Hargrove & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Steve Harrington
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Post-Battle of Starcourt (Stranger Things)
   • Stranger Things 4 Fix-It
   • Post-Stranger Things 3
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Billy Hargrove Lives
   • Billy Hargrove Has Powers
   • Billy Hargrove in Russia
   • Cold War
   • Military Billy Hargrove
   • Self-Exile
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Angst
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Eventual Comfort
   • Billy Hargrove Redemption
   • Found Family
   • Unresolved Feelings
   • Billy Hargrove-centric
   • Originally Posted on Tumblr
   • Trauma Recovery
   • Healing
   • Scars
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Cultural References
   • Comfort Food
   • Coping Mechanisms

   Summary

   Billy is eighteen when the Russians take him.

   All sun-browned skin and golden hair when they drag him out of Starcourt, when he disappears right from under everybody’s noses. A fake funeral and a closed casket. A body they never see.
    
   UPDATE: now with a part two!

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