drive, billy hargrove.

𝐨. summary

𝐃 𝐑 𝐈 𝐕 𝐄

𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬   𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚   𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥   𝐲𝐨𝐮   𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧   𝐢𝐭'𝐬   𝐭𝐨𝐨   𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 ?

MACK CALHOUN ONCE TRUSTED HERSELF to fall. Tenderly abandoned limbs dipping into the earth like butts of cigars into their ceramic coffins brimming with dulled stardust. That was until she was burned, frail collar bones hallowing to become ashtrays to those who reminded her of what she really was -- unwanted. She allowed her luminosity to be widdled until she was thin enough to slip through fingers, disappearing into false contentment long enough to convince herself it was home. But for a foster child, that word can often have an unfathomable bitterness to it.

She had found that bitterness in Hawkins, Indiana, hidden deep within a small, hand-built farm style home that contained two other kids just like her. Outcasts may as well have been written across their front door as the humble couple carrying the name of Calhoun decided to move against the grain of society. They kept the kids they fostered sheltered, throwing their giving arms around them in efforts to knit them into something more than just the undesired. Mack and her foster siblings were homeschooled, put to work, and loved. It was enough for them, but for the rest of the town, it was something much different. To the rest of Hawkins's the Calhouns were recluses who may have well been running for a cult for all they knew. So, for every month besides October, the town snickered and gossiped about the family when it was convenient for them. However, when they faced the Calhoun's during pumpkin picking season, it was all smiles and farse pleasantries that Lily and Andrew Calhoun mistook for the real thing. While Mack and her two foster siblings stood back and watched the sideways glances and sniggers leaving them to taste salt on their tounges.

Mack and the others make it a point to avoid the town, sinking deeper into a life consisting only of each other. But when the family's crops rot overnight and Mack is sent into town to report foul play to the chief of police, she finds a way to wash down the souring after tastes of judgment through a boy who's bite may just be more brutal.

𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬   𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚   𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥   𝐲𝐨𝐮   𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬   𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭   𝐬𝐨   𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 ?

maia mitchell
MACK CALHOUN
---- the cigarette celestial

. . .

jacob tremblay as tim calhoun
dafne keen as trinity calhoun
emily blunt as lily calhoun
anthony mackie as andrew calhoun

𝐲𝐨𝐮   𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭   𝐠𝐨   𝐨𝐧   𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠   𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠'𝐬   𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 .

___           this story will include the following things,
explicit language, underage drinking, mentions of addiction, descriptions of violence and duffer brothers type gore, mentions of varying mental illnesses such as PTSD and anxiety disorder, and abuse.

___        all rights belong to the creators and writers of stranger things. all characters and scenes derived from the show belong to their rightful owners. however, the plot and all original characters belong to me.

___        wOw, hi it's me the author with a fic i have been harboring for moNtHs. this was originally a steve harrington fic, but i was really interested in billy's character. i am obviously not writing this to be his SaVioR and pretend like he didn't do all the things he did. this is simply going to explore all sides of bill including the sides that dacre often talks about and the parts the duffers left to our imagination. i am actually super excited about this! lets hope i do be too much of a lazy bitch

___ this story is dedicated to  dacrem dacrehargroves -bhargrove
lookingforlucy softsteve sebasstan avengersdiaries
strangermercury dmontgomery- lotusqueens and to anyone else who was emtionally damaged by stranger things !

xoxo, L!

𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬   𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚   𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞   𝐲𝐨𝐮   𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞   𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭  ?