every breath you take
(( stalker!billy au )) chapter one of ?
pairing | billy hargrove/steve harrington
summary | Billy loves Steve, hanging around his house and making himself comfortable - Steve just doesn't know it yet. (OR Someone requested a stalker!billy drabble and now I'm writing more parts to it.)
a/n | as said in the summary, a very kind anon requested some stalker!billy content and now i've written a part two! before the stars is the original drabble. find it on ao3 here !! feel free to request dark/dead dove content :')
warnings | billy is stalking/obsessed with steve like mad here, so be prepared for extreme possessiveness, jealousy issues, threats of violence (against other people), toxic behaviour, etc !!
Steve Harrington’s house still baffled Billy despite being inside dozens of times. It was just so different than the shitty house they’d moved into when moving to Hawkins, where he had to use a milk crate as a vanity and the shower he shared with his brat of a kid sister only spit out hot water half the time. It was massive, with a gorgeous swimming pool like the one he used to have in their home in California.
He still didn’t understand the downgrade. Their home had been much nicer in California, Neil had had a better paying job. For whatever stupid reason, after he married Susan, his father decided to take a transfer to Hawkins where he made half his Californian salary. They were financially struggling and it made living with Neil even harder than normal.
That was the real reason why he liked being over to the Harrington house so much.
Steve didn’t know he was constantly around, but it made no difference. He didn’t need to know, at least not yet. He had to continue to believe that Billy couldn’t stand King Steve so he would never suspect that the reason his things were started disappearing was because of Billy Hargrove.
He liked to take souvenirs every now and then. A pair of Steve’s underwear here, one of his sweatshirts out of the laundry basket there. Someone so rich would never miss the disposable things, he figured. Nothing had happened yet, at least, and his Steve collection continued to grow.
The truth of the matter was that he loved Steve. It was why he acted so mean around him, like a child picking on a girl they had a crush on in the school yard. It didn’t work, though. Steve continued to be blissfully oblivious to his advances even though Billy got more and more obvious about it — a few weeks prior he’d pressed his bulge against Steve during a basketball practice, even, and nothing.
The guy was hopelessly heterosexual or a proper idiot, and Billy was banking on the later.
He was having a very rough day, a fresh bruise blooming on his cheek from the fist of his father, when he heard it.
Laughter. A girl’s laughter.
Nancy Wheeler’s laughter.
He crept to the fence surrounding the Harrington’s backyard and looked through the tiny hole he’d made a few months prior. The world suddenly turned red at what he saw.
Nancy Wheeler in a tiny little bikini, practically hanging off of his Steve, who was also just in his swimming trunks. He looked as beautiful as ever, but Billy had the most sour taste in his mouth at the sight of Nancy.
It should have been him. He should have been the once pressing into Steve, holding his arm.
Steve belonged to him.
It wasn’t just the two of them, though. The older Byers kid was there, too, and he was also laughing and taking pictures of the pair of them.
He tried to calm down by adding up the facts in his head.
Nancy and Steve had broken up months ago. They were still friends, but they never really spoke. Steve had groveled over her for awhile, had let it affect his basketball skills, too, until Billy had taunted him enough that he’d gotten his head back in the game. There were rumours that Nancy had quickly moved on to Byers, which he had assumed to be true, but now he wasn’t so sure.
For her sake, he hoped it was true. He wouldn’t let anyone come between him and his lover, even if said lover didn’t know they were together yet, especially not Nancy Fucking Wheeler.
It’d be such a tragedy for the entire town if a bright young girl with so much potential wound up floating in the Quarry.
He watched her bounce around, trying to look innocent while still pressing her arms together in that way that girls did when they wanted to make some extra cleavage and show off without being obvious.
It made him feel sick. She was such a little priss in school, yet here she was, basically ready to star in a porno with her ex for Byers’ camera.
What pissed him off further was that it meant he wasn’t going to get into Steve’s room, either. They were supposed to be out of the house; Steve was always out on Tuesday’s at four. Billy was sure of it, because he’d been watching Steve every day for many months and knew what he did every second of every day.
He knew the kind of cereal he liked to eat, what station he kept the radio on, how he folded his socks and where his secret stash of condoms and nude magazines were. He’d looked through them, had found the pages that were turned down. They were all women, all brunettes with tight bodies that could have been Nancy if you squinted hard enough, but it didn’t make any difference.
They were destined to be together. Steve just didn’t know it yet. But he’d find out one day soon, and Billy would convince him they were soulmates whether he liked the fact or not.
The more he watched, the angrier he got. Steve had already had his pictures taken for the yearbook by Byers’ two weeks and three days ago during fourth period at school. Their current little party wasn’t anything to do with school or the yearbook, he was sure of it.
This was Jonathan Byers being a pervert and Nancy Wheeler being a slut and he couldn’t let his sweet boy be tarnished by their poison.
***
“Well, well, well. Someone’s looking rather sad. Wheeler get back with you only to dump your ass again, Harrington?”
Billy reached out and shut the locker Steve was in front of to be able to get a proper look at him. He was looking as beautiful as ever, hair freshly washed and a sweater he kept hung up in his closet on. It was one he didn’t wear often, one that his auntie had given him as a gift the previous Christmas, and he wondered why he suddenly decided to wear it.
“Piss off, Hargrove. Really not in the mood,” Steve’s voice oozed frustration, long fingers immediately yanking the locker back open.
For a moment, Billy was taken aback. He hadn’t been expecting him to be in a genuine bad mood when he hadn’t been in months. All at once his mind was consumed with thoughts of why he could have been in a bad mood. If someone had hurt his boy, had even just upset him, he’d kill them without a second thought.
“Was just messing around, sweetheart,” His voice didn’t give him away and he shoved his hands into the pockets of his jean jacket so Steve wouldn’t see how they curled into fists. His mind was reeling with possibilities, every single one including Steve getting hurt somehow. He didn’t like it one bit. “Oh, come on, Stevie. Lighten up, would ya?” His words were softer then, though, gentler and kinder. Kind enough that Steve pulled his eyes away from the contents of his locker to look at him.
It took everything in Billy not to grab his face and yank him in for a kiss. He had no idea how alluring he was, how difficult he made it to stay away from him. It wasn’t Billy’s fault that he couldn’t resist him; if Steve wasn’t so perfect, he wouldn’t have been so bloody in love with him.
“What’s up with you? Bothering you is no fun if you just stand there and take it.”
Normally Billy would have faked a pout, would have mocked him, but his voice was still genuine, still soft. There was concern there, worry even.
Because he was worried. He was worried that someone had hurt his boy without his permission.
“As if you even want to hear it,” Steve scoffed, rolled his eyes, his attempt at maintaining normalcy when Billy wasn’t acting mean.
“Try me.”
Steve’s eyes widened. Billy wondered if he was going to burst into tears because someone, even if it was just Billy Hargrove, wanted to listen to what he had to say. He didn’t know yet that Billy wanted to hear everything he had to say every single day for the rest of their lives, and that he already knew so much about his shitty parents that hadn’t done anything but shout at him every now and then since he was five years old, and how hurt he got when he had to pretend laugh at the jokes everyone made about him being stupid.
Billy would never call him stupid. He wanted to cover him in kisses and remind him he was the most intelligent man he’d ever met in between each one.
“I think someone’s been following me,” Steve leaned in closer to Billy, not wanting anyone to overhear. “Even breaking into my place. A lot of my shit is just gone.”
For half a second, Billy debated on panicking. The thought came just as quickly as it left, though, and was replaced with one about how he could use the situation to his advantage. Steve may have thought someone was obsessed with him, but he didn’t know who.
Billy could swoop in, be his protector. Save him from the scary people breaking into his place, scare away whoever it was that was following him.
Of course, he was the one who was breaking in and following him constantly, so Steve wasn’t in any real danger, but the clueless boy would never know it.
Perhaps he’d even invite him over for the first time to go on a little lookout for whatever creep was trying to sneak in.
Excitement shot through him. He could be in Steve’s house, in his room, but with Steve. Not on his own, not having to keep an ear open for any cars arriving home early, no sneaking around and tiptoeing on the specific floorboards that he knew didn’t creak when his parents did happen to show up.
He hid his thoughts from showing on his face, eyes flickering over Steve’s pretty features as he listened. “You sure you haven’t misplaced it or anything? Left it in your car?”
“No. I’ve checked everywhere. One of my sweaters is gone, and a few other things,” Steve shook his head.
The other things were underwear, his toothbrush, a bottle of his hairspray and cologne, more underwear, a few condoms. Billy had them all stashed safely in his room. He slept in the sweater Steve was spoke about missing most of the time, wore it with nothing underneath, sometimes even jacked off onto it. If he ever gave it back, ever returned it years down the road when Steve knew about everything and thought it was so cute that Billy just couldn’t resist him, every time he saw Steve in it, all he’d be able to think about would be all the shots of cum that had once upon a time been littered across the same fabric.
“You don’t believe me,” Steve’s face turned sad, but only for a second, before it was filled with anger. “Forget I said anything. Just leave me alone, Hargrove.”
“Relax, amigo. Didn’t say that,” Billy put his hands out in defence, an act of peace. “I’m just thinking of who the hell would be dumb enough to break into a house like yours. Do you not have security systems and shit?”
Billy already knew the answer, obviously— yes, they did have a security system, and Billy knew the code was 04126. It was one of the very first things he’d learned from Steve who had made the mistake of telling Nancy outside the house one day. She’d forgotten something, had to run back in, and he’d gone ahead to get his car started up.
He hadn’t thought anyone had been watching, so he’d called the code out to her.
“Yeah, we do. But I’ve noticed other shit. The towel being moved in the bathroom, an extra glass at the sink that I didn’t use. Stuff like that,” Steve closed his locker to look at Billy properly.
“Well, who do you think did it?” Billy questioned some more. He wanted to see who Steve had on his mind, who he thought his stalker was.
“I don’t know, that’s the thing,” he sighed softly.
“Not Wheeler messing with you, is it?” Hargrove raised his eyebrows a little. “Or one of your little kid friends?”
Steve rolled his eyes. “I doubt it. Nance barely came over when we were together, she has no reason to take my stuff. But—“ he cut himself off, shutting his mouth as an idea seemingly hit him.
“What? You think she’s suddenly interested in you again or something?” Billy was *good* at playing dumb. There wasn’t even the slightest amusement being given away on his face.
“No, but…” he shook his head. “I don’t want to talk about it here.” He gestured with a nod for Billy to follow him. He lead the way out of the school and out into the fresh air. Billy immediately took out a cigarette to light. His body couldn’t be outside without having a cigarette, or so it felt.
“Spill it, amigo. The suspense is killing me here,” he muttered around his smoke, one hand trying to protect the flame as he lit it up.
“Byers. You know, Jonathan. He’s always had a thing for Nance. Maybe he’s trying to be more like me to get her attention or something,” Steve watched Billy’s fingers shake out the flame and push the lighter into his back pocket.
Billy could have squealed with excitement. It was perfect. If he could convince Steve that Jonathan was his stalker, he could kill two birds with one stone, take out both Byers and Wheeler in one go. “Wouldn’t surprise me. He’s always been a fucking creep, perving on girls with that camera,” he muttered. “Careful he doesn’t go perving on you, Harrington. Fuck knows what he’s into.”
“You don’t think he could have a crush on me?” Steve scoffed like it was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard.
Billy gave an innocent shrug of his shoulders. “He’s weird and you’re a pretty boy. Don’t tell me you’d actually be surprised if you found out Byers liked you. Dude probably wants to have a go with you and Wheeler at the same time,” he snorted and pulled the cigarette out of his lips to blow out smoke.
Steve’s hands went to his hips, looking irritated and annoyed, but there was a twinge of pink to his cheeks. It was faint, but Billy was sure of it. It was there, the soft pink infiltrating his pale skin, and it was all because Billy had called him pretty.
He’d said it to him plenty of times before, though. But maybe this time was different. Maybe this time Steve could understand that Billy was flirting with him by saying it.
“He can have a crush on whoever he wants to have a crush on. I don’t care. But you don’t just take people’s stuff if you like them,” Steve blurted.
Billy just wanted to squeeze his cheeks and tell him to never change. He was so oblivious and it was the most endearing thing. Billy figured he could drop to his knees before him and Steve still couldn’t understand what he was wanting to do.
It was okay, though, because Steve didn’t even need to have a mind of his own. Billy wanted to take care of everything for him, his every thought and desire and whim. A boy as pretty as his Steve should never have had to lift a dainty finger again in his life.
“You’re right,” Billy said, simply enough. “Maybe you should talk to Wheeler—“
“No. Nance can’t know,” Steve cut him off. “She’ll just say I’m being jealous and ridiculous and that I’m always misplacing things. She just won’t get it.”
On the outside, Billy nodded, inhaling on his cigarette, but on the inside, he was like the cat that got the cream. Soon, Steve would realize how horrible Nancy Wheeler was for him. He’d realize how happy he was that they were over and how lucky he was to have someone like Billy willing to dote on him and love him unconditionally. “Well, what’re you gonna do about it?” He asked, raising his eyebrows.
Steve was silent for a long few moments before letting out a heavy sigh, “I don’t know.”
“Well, Harrington,” Billy finally let his mouth grow into a shit eating grin. “Luckily for you, I do.”
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