It's late at night, and your headlights aren't working properly when you hit and kill a man that you don't recognise. It had been entirely your fault. You were driving recklessly, more focused on your own anger than the road. If you were a better person, maybe you'd turn yourself in, so you could be held accountable and the man's family be given some closure. But you're not a better person. You've decided the world has taken far too much from you. For some inane reason, Billy Hargrove - Hawkins' resident heartthrob, and more importantly, the man that beat the shit out of one of your best friends - helps you cover it up. Slowly, you start to want him to consume you before the guilt does. ---- Adopted! Hopper! reader x Billy Hargrove Set during the interlude between S2-S3, continuing after S2 basically TW: vehicular manslaughter, gore/violence, disposal of a body, talk of substance abuse issues, minor character death (not Billy tho because I love him), allusions to child abuse, adult/mature content