#it's bc he's a dumbass and reckless i SWEAR guys i don't want anyone else to drive drunk

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Imagine Billy and Steve being drunk lost idiots and Hop having to come sort it out

Ohmygod our poor babies ♥ ♥ ♥ i feel this so hard!

{DISCLAIMER: I write a lot about these boys getting drunk and driving but i’d just like to say I don’t condone ACTUAL drunk driving!!! Pleasepleaseplease don’t drive drunk, it’s super uber dangerous and me and Dad!Hop care about your life ♥ by all means, keep sending me asks about it bc these boys are Reckless and Dumb and Would, i just don’t want anyone reading these to think i’m trying to romanticize it or anything}

Billy and Steve hanging out in the backstreets of Hawkins, spending all of their time there some nights bc even though the people around them are cool w/ it, it’s still a small down in the Midwest of America in the 80’s and not everyone is as cool. (i’m tellin’ ya, Backstreets by Springsteen is such a Harringrove anthem but i don’t have to get into that now)

Anyway, Billy and Steve are basically a thing at this point (i like the idea that maybe they haven’t really put a label on it yet even though everyone is like: You’re boyfriends, just admit it and move on ohmyGOD) and their favorite thing to do w/ each other (besides fuck bc… y’know. Horny teenage boys.) is go get drunk in the middle of the woods pretty late at night and blast Springsteen from the car radio. It’s therapeutic for them. The woods are a terrifying as fuck place for both of them (bc my headcanon is Monster Fighting Boyfriends ™ where Billy joined in on the monster wreckage in S2) and they’re both traumatized by these woods and the things that may lurk there so they wanna create some new memories and like doing that w/ each other.

So once they’re nice and tipsy (and probably shouldn’t be driving but they’re Reckless and Dumb AF), they get back in the car and blast Springsteen bc they may not always admit to it when sober, but they love Bruce’s angsty heart and when they’re drunk they feel his music in their soul.

And so they’re driving down a backstreet in the Camaro and they’re singing along to Springsteen, basically screaming, the windows down and the lightly nippy air hitting them and their voices are being taken with the wind whipping around them so they have to sing louder and they’re singing through smiles bc they’re tipsy and floaty and happy and free and it doesn’t even matter what needs to happen tomorrow or what was supposed to happen yesterday bc right now is beautiful and the moonlight is all they need to see everything they could ever want.

But all Officer Callahan sees is a flash of blue and hears two twin screams shouting: “Prove it allllll night!”

And Officer Callahan is a nervous young man who knows he should go pull the boys over but the thing is, he also knows that’s Hopper’s son with that boy he’s always singing love songs with and like…? He’s not really sure he’s supposed to know some of the stuff he thinks he knows so he just… radios Hop at home. Bc Hop has asked to not have late patrol shifts so he can spend nights w/ El.

“Uh hey, Chief?”

“What is it, Callahan?”

“Uh, it’s your son.”

“What about him? What’s wrong? Is he okay?”

“He’s fine he’s fine! He’s just… driving out to the city limits…? With- I think with the Harrington kid.”

“Did you stop them?”

And Callahan is nervous and doesn’t really wanna stop them bc they make him nervous. Plus they were going kinda fast and he doesn’t wanna chase them down so he just says: “Uhhhh… no they seemed fine. Just wanted to let you know. Y’know… in case they call or something. I gotta go, I think I just got a call, uh, bye!”

It’s about an hour later when Hop gets a call.

“Hello?”

“Hey! Hey dad!” there are giggles on the other end of the phone and a quieter Shut up, Steve! He IS my dad! “Uhhhh… yeah hey dad. What’s up?”

Hop feels a headache coming on.

“Hi Billy. Are you alright?”

“I’m fiiiiiiine, I’m fine. I asked how you are.”

There are more loud whispers in the back of Nooo, ask him where we are!

I’m just tryin’ to be friendly Steve!

“Hey dad, do you know where we are?”

Hopper is going to fucking blow a gasket.

“No. Do you not know where you are?”

Billy giggles. “Uhhhh… I think there’s some farms.”

Steve’s voice in the back. We’re riding out tonight to case the promised land!

There’s a yelp that sounds like Steve.

“I think we’re lost.” Billy slurs.

Nooooo babe, we’re finding the promised land. Just ask him where it is.

“Are you two drunk?” Hop asks.

Billy shushes him. “I’m just kinda tipsy but I’m pretty high. Steve is drunk.”

You ARE pretty when you’re high.

Hop is having a migraine. He’s sure of it.

“How many times have I told you to quit driving drunk? You’re gonna hurt yourself.”

“ ‘m sorry Dad…” Billy mumbles.

And so with that, Hop drives El to Joyce’s and apologizes profusely for the short notice, he just doesn’t want her home alone this late bc she hates it (“Hop, shut up, it’s fine we love having El here!” Joyce says as El walks in and sits on the couch to talk to Will.) and he heads out to the farm lands of Hawkins.

It takes about an hour of Hop driving very slowly for fear of hitting an animal or far worse, a drunk boy running through the street. Eventually he finds them, the Camaro parked next to a payphone in the middle of some farmland. Backstreets by Springsteen is playing just loud enough for Hop to hear it when he gets out of his cruiser. He walks out and sees Billy and Steve laying in the street and staring at the stars.

“Get up, you two, you’re gonna get hit.”

Billy sits up and looks to him.

“Oh shut up, no one drives out here.”

Steve sits up and waves. “Hi Mr. Chief!”

And Hop’s head feels like it’s splitting as he ushers the boys to his car and drives them home and lets them fall asleep in his cabin bc Steve is so damn sure he left his keys to his house in Billy’s car. And he lets them fall asleep flopped on top of each other bc he doesn’t want to deal with any more drunken whining and he just wants to go to sleep. He’ll deal with them in the morning…

#billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #chief jim hopper #stranger things #billy hopper #billy gets adopted #hopper is a dad #and he's a fucking PAINED one #he's dyin over here guys #also i'm sERIOUS guys #don't drink and drive!!!!!!1 #i'm just sitting here waiting for someone to get pissed at me #about talking about drunk driving #like all the fucking time #it's bc he's a dumbass and reckless i SWEAR guys i don't want anyone else to drive drunk #i'm not trying to romanticize anything #♥♥♥ #no one has gotten mad at me about this i'm just paranoid #bc the last thing i wanna do is upset people or make anyone think i condone this!! #anyway #this ask was so cute and i just??? #i always wanna write harringrove as being soft over Springsteen songs #i refuse to stop writing Harringrove + Springsteen #i REFUSE #!!! #ask #anonymous #thank you for this! ♥