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No because if the duffers had really cared about Max and especially Billy, at the end of season 2 we would have gotten a scene between them in the car before the snow ball, paralleling the one between Dustin and Steve.

or maybe we would have not seen it until s4 in one of Max's memories, instead of the one at the skatepark which had literally no value whatsoever, and it could have been something like this:

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Eleven recognizes the building in front of her almost immediately. How could she not? when those same walls held the memories of so many kids, including hers: they had witnessed her first ball, aka one of the few times she had managed to feel like a normal kid, surrounded by friends and other people her age who did not spare a glance for her. Because, for once in her life, none of them could have said there was anything remarkable and different about her except for a pretty dress and some light make up.

And apparently that same building holds some kind of significance for Max too considering that, among all her other memories' locations, Hawkins Middle School was the one to greet her. Except that she finds herself not inside of it, but out, right in the parking lot.

Eleven spins on herself, trying to have a look around; she recognizes Dustin with his absurd hairstyle walking confidently towards the school. She doesn't recognize the car he came out from, though.

The Camaro parked just a little bit further away, on the other hand…

The girl holds her breath, walking slowly towards it; while reducing the distance between them she can already make out a flash of red hair, with a flower pin on top of it. honestly, that's another thing she could recognize everywhere. Sitting on the passenger's seat is Max, with her mouth set in a tight line and, right beside her, Billy. Eleven has to stop for a second while trying to shake off the memory of the last time she saw him: dead, with his chest spared open. So different from the one version now in front of her; His hair is shorter, his clothes cleaner, and yet the vulnerable gaze she had seen in his eyes that fatal night is almost the same as this one.

The only difference is that, in this memory, there is no one to witness it. Billy is looking straight ahead, and so is Max.

And none of them is speaking.

Furrowing her brow, Eleven gets closer. Once reaching the car's window on Max's side she gets on her knees, determined to have a better look at what's happening inside.

The redhead is sitting with her arms crossed, tapping her foot on the pavement. To say she looks impatient would be an understatement.

"So? Can I go?" To further confirm that fact, her tone is anything but friendly. Billy, who only now seems to remember that she is here, turns towards her with a raised brow.

"No one is holding you back. why are you still here?”

Max looks at him like he is a child, before trying to open the door. Which doesn't, in fact, open. "You have the child security on, genius." she stays silent for a second, then adds: "like I would voluntarily sit in this stupid car with you for longer than necessary."

Eleven holds her breath, shifting her gaze to Billy, who does nothing more than hold the wheel tighter and release a deep sigh, like those words had physically hurt him. And yet it only lasts for a second, because his shoulders relax right after. "this stupid car, as you called it, is the one thing that took you to this loser party in the first place. what's so exciting about it anyway?"

While watching Max's expression, Eleven thinks that if her eyes had a superpower, it would've been be that of throwing daggers. "first of all, it gets me away from your stupid face. It seems like a good reason enough to me."

"yeah, and it gets you closer to the ugly faces of your hick friends."

“I told you to leave them alone. And you still have this fucking security thing on. Let me out, or l'm gonna be late!"

"late for what? Your first kissy-kiss dance under the mistletoe? Jesus, Max, I never took you for a romantic pussy."

"What's your problem?!" she explodes, finally turning towards him with her fists clenched. "Is this your sick idea of revenge? keeping me locked here with you for the rest of the night while leaving me wondering if they are having fun without me or-“

“You look pretty.”

Eleven and Max almost gasp at the exact same time.

Billy, on the other hand, looks like he just swallowed a frog, while still looking straight ahead and his grip on the wheel tight enough to make his fingers white. Eleven can't remember the last time she saw Max at a loss for words. From her position, the only thing she sees is her hair, and yet she can imagine the expression of total bewilderment she must have in that moment.

"I mean... less ugly than usual. Or whatever." Adds Billy, probably in order to escape that suffocating silence.

Max, on her part, doesn't say anything, but El doesn't miss the way she relaxes her shoulder after resuming her previous position, pushed against the seat with her arms tight around herself.

In the end, just as she is about to open her mouth to reply, a distinct click! is heard inside the car. "you can go. Let me find you here not later than half past eleven, got that?"

Max closes her mouth and nods, before throwing a quick, timid glance at Billy. Then she opens the door and Eleven rises to her feet, watching her best friend look at her brother like she doesn't understand him in the slightest. Like she wants to say something but can't manage herself to.

So she doesn't.

Right after Max disappears behind the school's doors, a loud rumble is heard. Eleven has just a moment to process what she just saw before turning and fin herself right in front of the same nebulous cloud that she once saw in Billy’s mind.

The source.

She doesn't have much time. So she can't do nothing more than leave the school, Billy, Max and their complicated relationship behind. At least for now.

#billy hargrove #sorry if this sucks. #it’s my first time writing in English #stranger things #dacre montgomery #steve harrington #harringrove #joe keery #max mayfield #stranger things 4 #stranger things AU

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look, it may not be a s4 announcement, but can we all take a moment to bask in the awe of the fact that there is so much love for this show and these characters that there is a reunion panel 10 years later?!?!? and that so many people are there?!?!? talking about a show that’s ten years old?!?!? with the two lead actors who also love the show!!!!!!! it’s wild honestly.

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steve should’ve been benched for his distracting doe eyes tbh

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well damn.

if hannibal gets renewed on April 27th Billy Hargrove is coming back in s5 because at that point literally anything could be possible

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Nah i think it’s so funny how Joe and Dacre’s chemistry was so strong that they had to scrap their plotline and never make them interact again 😭😭. How the times have changed; back in the teen wolf and sherlock days, if they had acted together in one of those shows, the writers would have queerbaited the fuck out of them

#like… #duffers you had literal gold in your hands #I would have eaten that shit up even while knowing that they would never happen #but at least now we would have much more scenes to edit with heartbreaking Taylor swift songs #billy hargrove #stranger things #dacre montgomery #steve harrington #harringrove #joe keery #stranger things 4

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remember back in s1 of stranger things when i just accepted the show as is cuz it was great and i didnt need to bother thinking about anything other than what was presented to me but then season 2 happened and gay trashlord billiam hargrove stepped on the scene openly flirting with steven harrington and like now i gotta sit here and read fanfics til 3 oclock in the morning to get my kicks because the duffer brothers are gonna let me down and either make billy worse or kill him off or both and i just cant live that life

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Hugh and Mads say they started mirroring each other unintentionally throughout the show, they were asked if they did the extra verbal language intentionally and they said it just happened, none of it was planned

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everyone needs someone who looks at you the same way Mads looks at Hugh💋🥹:3

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Mads saying him and Hugh got drunk last night together…. Madancy fic urges….. I must fight them off…….

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I will never be over them smiling at each other

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They also mentioned like… a potential future of Hannibal multiple times… Mads wants it SO bad

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HUGH AND MADS HUGGED AFTER THE PANEL

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characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay

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me remembering that Neil Hargrove is canonically still alive in Stranger Things:

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this this this

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Hannibal S3, Post Mortem with Scott Thompson (and Laurence Fishburne)