Stranger Things - Harringrove Fics
Collecting my Harringrove fics.
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lie to me, pretty boy
6,061 words • 1 work • Ongoing • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Dirty Talk, Sexual Roleplay, Post-Season/Series 02, Pre-Season/Series 03, Feminization, Period Typical Attitudes, Pining
E • 6,061 words
Steve hates lies. Steve hates bullshit. Steve hates when the two coalesce into something heart deep and painful.
So he doubles down after the fiasco of Tina’s Halloween party and thinks what better way to move on than revel in the pain that chains him.
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“But why?” Hargrove watches him smoke like it’s a gem he’s just unearthed, new and his to appreciate. “It’s gotta hurt like a bitch, making them lie to feel good for a while.”
Steve shrugs. He’s tired and wants to go to bed. He wants to finish this smoke and grab another cup of something bitter and stinging to forget the rest of the night. He’s still hard, and he’s annoyed he couldn’t get off with Carol. Annoyed more that she couldn’t come up with a reason to want him.
Annoyed that Hargrove, of anyone on earth he could have told this to, seems to understand it at its baseline.
“Sometimes you gotta lie to feel good at all. Sometimes nothing else works, because pretending now and then makes the rest of it feel a little less fake.”
Horror October Challenge
2,804 words • 6 works • Ongoing • Prompt Fills, Spooky Vibes, Horror, Violence, Possession, Monsters, Werewolves, Witches, etc~
T • 799 words
Billy whimpers. “I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to hurt you again.”
T • 334 words
The others all chose more typical familiars. Cats, toads, owls. But Steve’s never been one for typical.
E • 962 words
Billy clenches his teeth.
“Want some?” Harrington asks, pulling his plump, sinful lips from the straw and using two fingers to scoot the glass over. “It’s chocolate.”
Small Time Bad
3,037 words • 2 works • Complete • Fights and Knives, Post-Season/Series 02, Power Play, Billy Hargrove Being an Asshole
M • 1,140 words
Steve says, “If you’re not gonna walk away, Billy, finish what you fucking started.”
M • 1,897 words
Harrington slaps his angry hand away. Gets his palm on Billy’s shoulder. Then it’s in his hair and Billy recoils, stomach pulsing as Harrington holds his hair away from his sweaty neck.
It feels good.
Hurricane
13,441 words • 2 works • Complete • Post-Season/Series 02, Enemies to Friends, Fluff and Angst and Smut, Enemies to Friends
M • 8,147 words
Steve reads the note that greeted him in his locker again. Reads it three times.
Lunch just started. He has forty-five minutes to get in line and get a good tray, one of the ones with a sandwich that’s made with not stale Wonder Bread and a fresh apple. If he leaves now he can have that. He can have that for himself, and he deserves it. Because the last couple months have been a lot, frankly, and he deserves some nice fluffy Wonder Bread and a nice crunchy golden delicious, and if he leaves any later, even thirty seconds from now, he won’t get any of it.
But then he reads the note again. It’s scribbly writing so bad it’s kind of hard to decipher. But he’s stared at the thing for five minutes now and knows there’s some irony here.
Girl’s bathroom. Right fucking now.
But the note isn’t the worst part.
It’s the little blocky BH it’s signed with.
M • 5,294 words
If Buckley had turned out to be that hopeful little light in the dark, Harrington was a goddamn flamethrower.
And by that, Billy meant he was a giant, irresistible, fucking mess of a bad idea he couldn’t not indulge. Dangerous. Something he shouldn’t want to touch, or even could.
And every time he got close, he got burned.
Multichapter
E • 9,763 words • 1/? chapters • Post-Season/Series 04, Fix-It, Alternate Universe – Time Travel, POV Multiple, Post-Apocalypse, Divergent Timelines, Billy Hargrove Lives + Redemption, Slow Burn, side ships include ronance and eddissy, this fic will be my magnum opus
A year after Vecna rips the town in half, El comes to them with a theory.
That theory doesn’t send Steve and Nancy down into the gate—no, that was already a part of the plan. But it does make them think there might be more to Vecna and the Upside Down world he made. Especially when the plan hits a snag, Steve falls through the portal, and ends up in July of 1985 in the path of Billy Hargrove’s camaro.
And that’s only the beginning.
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“Which means,” he says, taking a breath, eyes never widening past slits, “that my nasty dude has an inherent weakness he doesn’t want us to know about.” They’re all waiting with baited breath for him to continue.
When he doesn’t, Steve prompts, “Which is?”
“Real simple, my guy. Supergirl is saying he’s bridging the gap when he invades our mind spheres. Comprendo? He’s sharing bandwidth. Guy’s mooching our cable ‘cus he’s got shitty dish.”
E • 6,657 words • 2/? chapters • Alternate Universe – Medieval, Middle Ages, Alternate Universe – Historical, Steve Harrington’s King Steve Persona, POV Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson Have a Sibling Relationship, Protective Robin Buckley, Blood and Violence, Protective Steve Harrington, Billy Hargrove Redemption, Hurt/Comfort, Captivity, Mildly Dubious Consent, Angst with a Happy Ending
He picked a small red flag from the board before him, rolling it between his index and thumb. He turned, sitting much of his weight on the table.
“This flag has marked your stronghold for months. We knew where you were, we were only waiting to see how far you would take this war before revealing what you truly wanted.”
“And what is that?” Hargrove asked. “What is it that I’ve craved to have since I left your soiled kingdom?”
“Atonement, perhaps. Indemnity was suggested early on, but for what, I wondered? What financial restitution would a knight want for? You were paid as handsomely as any of my men, and yet here we are.”
“So you don’t even know.”
“No. But I have a theory.”
“And what is your theory? Don’t dither.”
Steve walked to him, and placed the red marker on top of the wool. Hargrove blinked down at the thing.
“Punishment.” Steve didn’t flinch when Hargrove snapped his gaze back to his. “You wish to be punished, and so you will be.”
E • 1,530 words • 1/5 chapters • Substance Abuse, Addiction, Insomnia, Future Fic, Billy Hargrove Lives, Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Sex Addiction, Falling In Love, Eventual Happy Ending
Fifteen years after the summer of ’85, Steve goes to California seeking Billy’s help.
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He can’t sleep. – It’s been a lot of years since Hawkins, since high school, since old hurts and old heartbreaks and monsters.
It feels like yesterday, feels like this morning, feels like two seconds ago and Steve got the number from Max that afternoon and it’s taken him only as long as the ten minute drive home before he’s gotten through to the other line. To the person he wants.
“I can’t sleep.” He breathes in. “She said you can help. Said—said you fix people like me. Can you help or not?”
And maybe because it’s been a lot of years since a lot of old, terrible, wonderful things, but Steve’s definitely ruined mind maybe whispers back, “Can do, Harrington. Can’t say this isn’t a shock the size of Massachusetts, but I have an opening next—“
“No,” Steve says. “Now. Tonight.”
E • 76,009 words • 16/16 chapters • Slow Burn, Childhood Friends, Friends to Enemies to Lovers, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe – No Upside Down, Billy Hargrove is a Mess, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship, Mental Health Issues, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending
Billy moves in next door on Steve’s tenth birthday. They grow up thick as thieves, sharing everything. When they become old enough to date…they turn to one another for practice.
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“Since it’s us. Since I’m not Tina, and you’re not—you’re just you. It doesn’t count if we—if we practice.” Billy turns to face him, even though Steve can’t really make out his face yet in the dark. “Right?”
Steve’s heart rate picks up. “Right. Yeah, that’s right.”
M • 21,818 words • 18/18 chapters • Harringrove Big Bang 2021, Post-Season/Series 03, Billy Hargrove Lives, Protective Steve Harrington, POV Steve Harrington, Alternate Universe – Mental Institution, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Post-Battle of Starcourt (Stranger Things), Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
Forced into mandatory therapy after a bout of self destructive wallowing following the destruction of Starcourt, Steve shows up expecting some lame doctor touting self care. What he doesn’t expect is for the weekly meetings to be in a group setting, or that they might actually be helping.
That is, until he leaves another routine weekly session, only to bump into the next patient. Who he finds is Billy Hargrove—very not dead—standing across from him.
Billy doesn’t seem to recognize him, he doesn’t talk, and to make things worse, the doctors won’t let Steve leave.
E • 9,076 words • 3/3 chapters • Jennifer’s Body AU, Blood and Violence, Possession, Mutual Pining, Canon typical violence, Blood and Gore
Steve is kissing Tommy.
Billy stands at the mouth of the stairs, stunned and watching them. There’s like, tongue and shit. Billy hates it. He fucking hates it.
He wants to throw up.
M • 15,224 words • 5/5 chapters • Post-Season/Series 03, Billy Hargrove Lives, Dreams and Nightmares, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Coming of Age, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship, Mutual Pining, Sleep Deprivation, Panic Attacks, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
Two years ago, before everything, so many things, it had been him and Nancy and Tommy and Carol and Barb and beer and cigarettes and a boombox. It had been a starry night and a cloudless sky and a cut hand and then the first time he’d ever made love. Two years ago he’d have called himself sappy. He would have called himself cool. He would have called himself not a coward.
Today, his usually empty house is filled to bursting with friends and food and a scary movie marathon and it feels like nothing’s changed since Starcourt exploded and burned down from a faulty gas line.
Today, Steve calls himself lonely.
M • 23,208 words • 3/3 chapters • POV Joyce Byers, POV Steve Harrington, POV Billy Hargrove, BAMF Joyce Byers, Neil Hargrove Is His Own Warning, Protective Steve Harrington
The man rounds the front of the car, gets his hands in the kid’s shirt and hauls him up straight, slams him against the door. Jabs a finger in his face and that’s when Joyce locks eyes with the kid.
He looks scared.
And Joyce sees Jonathan then, before Lonnie decked him in the cheek the first (and last) time and, god, she wants a goddamn cigarette.
She walks over, unwinding her arms.
Oneshots
T • 1,521 words • Christmas Fluff, Established Relationship, Snow Shenanigans
He doesn’t argue with the mittens. Just gives Steve a look.
“I’m used to it. You aren’t.”
“I’ve been here two years, Steve. I can handle a little cold.”
“Then why are your lips blue?”
Billy touches his lips, sees Steve smile fondly.
E • 7,847 words • Violence, Murder of Minor Character, Choking, Dissociation, Grief, Guilt, Angst, Dubious Consent, Alternate Universe – No Upside Down, Mental Health Issues, Rough Sex, Protective Steve Harrington
It happens on the shore. In the surf.
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“Don’t want to push my luck.”
Harrington smiles a winning, beatific, smug prick of a smile. Leans in close and magnetizes Billy into his orbit, gives him a supersized dose of oxygen. Billy is Billy again and he tries to mirror the look. The pleased self-assuredness.
“Then let me push it for you,” he whispers and Billy is nodding, is gone, is fucked in the head.
M • 4,184 words • Future Fic, Billy Hargrove Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Divorced Steve Harrington, Past Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Soft Billy Hargrove, Blow Jobs
Twenty years later, they meet again in Pizza Hut.
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“You looked like you needed company.”
“Did I?”
Blue eyes take him in. Drink him down. Another shrug. “You still do.”
M • 9,340 words • Post-Season/Series 03, Pre-Season/Series 04, Ghost Billy Hargrove, Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person, POV Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Grief/Mourning
Billy has twenty-four hours to atone for all the bad he’s done, then he can fuck off and float away to wherever the hell heaven is.
Hopefully.
M • 6,540 words • POV Steve Harrington, Letters, Five Years Later, Post-Battle of Starcourt (Stranger Things), Post-Season/Series 03, Ambiguous
You can’t mourn what haunts you.
E • 3,629 words • Dubious Consent, The Fight Scene, Season/Series 02, Rough Sex, Enemies to Lovers
Billy reaches out, jabs a finger under Steve’s chin to get his mouth closed. It works, if only out of surprise.
“Beg, pretty boy.” He holds Steve’s chin. His thumb strokes his cheek, pinches the skin some. Steve wants to bite his finger off. “Then maybe I won’t break your ass in two. Maybe I won’t give everybody a reminder of what it means to lie to me, every time they look at what used to be pretty boy, King Steve Harrington. King of the cow shit.
“For the kids, Steve tells himself. Over and over again.
Otherwise he’ll do something he’ll probably regret.
“Please, Billy,” he grits out. “Please leave. Your sister is safe here, I promise. I’ll do whatever you want.”
M • 13,592 words • POV Steve Harrington, Groundhog Day, Time Loop, Alternate Season/Series 02, First Kiss, Coming Out, Mutual Pining, Comfort/Angst, Enemies to Friends to Lovers
Will Byers didn’t die. El closed the gate and Steve kept the kids alive. Then Steve wakes up the next day to do it all over again…and again, and again. Until one morning, Billy shows up at his door saying he’s been living the same day over too.
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“You know then?” Steve asks him, staring him down.
Billy’s eyes shift between his face, his shirtlessness, and then back to his eyes.
“Yeah. You gonna let me in or what?”
T • 2,247 words • Harringrove April, Pre-Relationship, Good Babysitter Steve Harrington, Protective Steve Harrington
“Not exactly. Way I see it, now my car’s all dirty from me stopping to help.” He shrugs to make his point. “I almost didn’t stop. You can thank Max for that.”
“Yeah, I got it. Daddy Harrington not a fan of water spots on his son’s prized beamer? Figures.” But he’s sighing, slumping a little as the grit lessens from his frame. The tension gone from him. “So what, you want me to wash your car?”
“Yep. My dad has a power washer you can use.”
“God you’re such a fucking prep.” But Billy is wiping more hair from his face as he tosses it over his shoulder. He shields his eyes from the downpour. “Think I could borrow it after? You know, for mine?
Steve smiles. That’s what he’d been thinking in the first place.
T • 1,847 words • Harringrove April, First Kiss, Basketball, Fluff
Demodogs have nothing on an angry seventeen year old with a god complex.
E • 241 words • Drug Use, Party, Billy Hargrove POV
Everybody’s got addictions.
E • 1,823 words • Humiliation, Voyeurism, Public Sex
Steve watched Billy. Billy watched Steve.
T • 1,626 words • Fluff, First Kiss, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Disaster Billy Hargrove
“Get in line,” Billy says. “You’re freaking out over a kiss? Just a kiss?”
He gets a glare. “Yes!”
“And you’re asking me because?”
“Well, because! You’re…gay.”
Billy leans in close, whispers, “No way!”
T • 2,333 words • Halloween, Falling In Love, First Kiss, Billy Hargrove Lives, Period Typical Attitudes
Steve is drunk, it’s Halloween, and he lost Billy in the crowd hours ago.
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“You remind me of all the dead people in this town,” Steve says to the new guy, the new asshole, Billy Hargrove.
M • 4,487 words • Neil Hargrove is His Own Warning, POV Maxine “Max” Mayfield, Gay Billy Hargrove, Billy Hargrove & Maxine “Max” Mayfield Bonding, Protective Steve Harrington
She’s just turned thirteen when she sees Neil hit Billy for the first time.
She runs away.
Her heart is in her throat. She can’t breathe.
M • 3,108 words • Parental Jim “Chief” Hopper, Billy Hargrove Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Marijuana, Falling In Love, Period Typical Attitudes
“Whoa,” says Harrington from right against his ear. He flinches, turning back to see the guy leaning inside the window. Billy draws his arm back. “Who knew?”
Billy frowns. “Who knew what?”
Harrington smirks. “That you’d look so good in glasses.” He flicks the bottom of the frames, nail skimming Billy’s cheek and making his world blur in the process before it goes clear again. “They suit you.”
E • 6,625 words • Pets, First Love, Intercrural Sex, POV Billy Hargrove, taking care of a kitten together
Billy almost crashes his car, finds an abandoned kitten, and ends up raising it with Steve.
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It’s a little life in his hands. And the small twisting, nagging feeling itching beneath his skin is the same as the one that made him pick up that bag in the woods in the first place.
“I know you’re not a bad guy, Billy,” Harrington mutters, like he’s been thinking about it. Billy expects to meet his eyes, but Harrington is looking at the cat. “She can stay here no problem. She’s yours. I’m just helping out.”
“Why?”
Harrington shrugs. Knocks a knuckle against Billy’s knee. Like that was normal.
“I like helping. Makes me feel good. Like I’m doing something meaningful with my life. Kind of the only thing I’m good at.”
E • 2,102 words • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Scent Kink, Alpha Billy Hargrove, Omega Steve Harrington, Miscommunication, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mating Rituals, Angst, Mutual Pining
Billy tells Steve he’s not really an alpha, but rather an omega. Steve has a hard time accepting it. Billy offers to teach him how things work.
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The principal called Steve into his office that morning to introduce them to each other. Said they’d be a perfect fit. Billy licked his lips when Steve took his offered hand. Billy shook hands like someone told him the harder the better.
Billy smelled like honey and aftershave. Smelled sweet and bitter in turns.
E • 2,773 words • POV Steve Harrington, Massage, Intercrural Sex, Billy Hargrove Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
Steve gives Billy a massage after practice.
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“This feel that good, huh?”
Billy swears. “H-Harrington. Get the hell off me.”
T • 1,262 words • Post-Season/Series 03, Billy Hargrove Lives, Prompt Fill
Billy dies. Billy wakes up.
M • 1,115 words • Prompt Fill, Sexual Tension, Roughness
Billy moves to Hawkins circa season 1 and meets Steve.
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Harrington bats his books out of his hands when they pass each other on the way to lunch and it makes Billy smile. Makes him laugh, sudden and shocked. Nobody fucks with him.
“Oh,” Harrington purrs, looking concerned. “You should really watch where you’re going. Wouldn’t want anyone to step on your toes.”
G • 673 words • Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe – Flower Shop, Meet-Cute, Prompt Fill, Fluff, Florist Billy, Language of Flowers
Steve needs flowers. Billy is a florist.
M • 1,059 words • Possession, Billy at the pool with his evil demon elbow, Begging, Light Angst, Protective Steve Harrington
“Billy. You got attacked by something—something else right? Something happened?” Billy’s eyes snap to his, the blue swallowed by black. “Yeah. I know what this is. I can help you.”
“Nobody can help me,” he says. He claws at the black veins lancing his arm. “It doesn’t want anyone helping me. I’m a goner. A fucking goner, Harrington.” When Steve tries to touch him again, Billy snatches his wrist in a bruising grip. “Get the fuck. Away from me.”
M • 1,170 words • Alternate Universe – College/University, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Partying, First Kiss, Billy Hargrove makes bad choices and Steve is here to say stop it
Billy blinks and the guy’s holding up a syringe.
It’s different. It’s delectable.
T • 825 words • Established Relationship, Fluff, Adoption
So it’s almost a good thing that Steve wakes up first. Because it’s the social worker’s name bright on Billy’s screen and it’s seven in the morning and Steve’s heart soars as his stomach plummets. This call is everything. It’s everything.
M • 5,732 words • Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Coming Out, Spin the Bottle, POV Steve Harrington
Everyone has a soulmate mark that disappears once they’re touched by that person. Steve’s is on his cheek. Billy’s is on his sternum. Then they have their fight.
E • 4,001 words • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Scent Marking, Alpha Billy Hargrove, Omega Steve Harrington, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Brat Steve Harrington
Steve goes into heat when Billy pulls up to school. Billy’s the only one who can help him, or so Steve says.
M • 906 words • Prompt Fill, Falling in Love, First Love
Steve endures Billy’s moods. His silences. His rage.
T • 836 words • Prompt Fill, POV Billy Hargrove, Fluff and Mild Angst, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart
Billy’s lost his mother’s necklace.
T • 3,448 words • Fluff and Humor, POV Steve Harrington, Scoops Ahoy, Bad Flirting, Wingman Robin Buckley
Billy’s become somewhat of a summer problem for Steve.
E • 1,882 words • POV Steve Harrington, Season/Series 02, Rough Bathroom Sex, Hate Sex
“Piss off!” he yells, but it comes out a sad whine.
The knob turns and the door swings wide. Steve has to step back to avoid being hit.
He sighs, because it’s just his luck. “Tonight’s really my fucking night, isn’t it?”
Billy Hargrove sweeps blue eyes over him, head to toe. He closes the door behind him.
“What the hell happened to you?”
E • 1,563 words • Fighting Kink, Flirting, Breathplay
Billy only had to look at him wrong.
Steve only had to jerk his chin, choosing not to back down.
It happens in the locker room. Months after the tunnels, and only a few weeks left before Summer. Steve had been daydreaming about swimming.
Billy strides over to Steve in front of his locker, takes a fistful of his hair before Steve’s got his arms up, and breaks his nose on the hard metal.
E • 3,565 words • Vampire Steve Harrington, POV Billy Hargrove, Blood, Biting, Semi-Public Sex
Steve laughs. Sips at his sweating beer. “What’s the point of growing up if you can’t get in a little trouble sometimes?”
Billy huffs at that. “Me and her have seen enough trouble to last four lifetimes, pal.” He watches condensation fall in thin rivulets as Steve raises the beer bottle back to his mouth. His lips are red, cherry red, Coke can red, too in line with the themed my mother never wanted me so I got angry red. “She can do with a break.”
“Sounds rough.”
Another wave of heat, cloying. Billy tugs at the collar of his shirt. He shouldn’t have worn a sweater. He catches Steve’s eyes on the movement, on his hands, tugs a little slower and sees Steve watch that too.
T • 3,857 words • POV Steve Harrington, Post-Season/Series 03, Fluff and Humor, Murray gives them The Talk that he gives everyone, Sharing a Bed
They find out Billy’s alive shortly after they get Hopper back. Now, separated from the group with Billy in tow, Hopper tells Steve he and Billy can lay low for the night at Murray Bauman’s place. Murray does what Murray does best.
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“Harrington, why the hell’s it so dark?”
“You sleep with the lights on?”
“Not once I’m in bed, Jesus.”
Steve had already adjusted to the dark, so he watched as Billy palmed the wall for the switch, found it, laid eyes on Steve on the floor, cramped and like he was waiting, and promptly turned the lights back off.
“You took your clothes off, Harrington.” he stated, casual.
Steve was newly blinded by the lights. He blinked against the dark, squinting to focus. “I’m not about to sleep in my jeans, so yeah.”
“Why’re you on the floor?”
M • 6,369 words • POV Billy Hargrove, Fighting Kink, Light Angst, Roughhousing, Pining, Insomnia, Stalking
Billy starts forward, wanting up in Harrington’s space, wanting his doe-eyes on him, wanting him to know how fucking feral Billy can really be, given the chance.
But Harrington levels him with a stare so cold Billy just–just stops. It’s Harrington who gets in Billy’s space and it’s Harrington who’s getting Billy looking at him and it’s–it’s not what Billy wanted.
“Touch me again, Hargrove,” Harrington murmurs to him, slow and deliberate and all dark fire, “And I’ll break your goddamn fingers.”
It’s the first time Harrington’s looked at him in a week and Billy wants to fucking hide.