#but it amuses me to think of season three as the gang running around hawkins and in the background of every scene
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gravegroves · 1 year ago
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Okay, little stream-of-consciousness-moment:
Billy, who's mind is like a steel trap, who isn't a scared little child, but a healthy, angry young adult. And the mindflayer doesn't even know what hit it. One second it's infiltrating grey matter, overtaking neural pathways and becoming one with this new vessel and the next second it's burning alive, it's crumbling and shrinking and screeching in agony as the human body does what is does best to foreign invaders: try to kill it.
I've always loved the posts on tumblr that explore how deeply weird humans would be to aliens. Our physiology, our mentality, when spoken of as animal traits they are all deeply disturbing. We're persistence predators. We're built to last. We can survive unimaginable horrors (and also die from the stupidest, most everyday things). Our main predator, is ourselves. A bite from a child can kill another human just from the bacteria alone if left untreated. Our bodies are designed to kill entities both within and without.
Humans are fucking terrifying.
So the mindflayer is so unprepared for an adult human who's been through too much shit already. Not just a tired little slip of a kid, but a healthy, entering-his-prime human and is eradicated with extreme prejudice by nothing more than a good immune system going into overdrive.
But it's too deeply imbeded, so the body again does what it can to protect itself, it encases it. Within the body, but separate. Calcified. Caged.
So here's Billy, who has a rather spotty memory of a car crash and feels like he has a head cold for a couple of days before he gets on with his life. Only weird shit keeps happening to him, now. Like that time he encounters a pack of dogs while out drinking by the quarry, except they look really fucked-up the closer they get, not like any dog Billy's ever seen before, and just as he's prepared for an attack from these things, they just walk up to him and sniff around a bit with their weird flower heads blooming and closing, but otherwise leaving him unharmed. And Billy's just this side of drunk where terrible ideas seem kinda brilliant and he tells the things to sit. And they do. Amazed, he tosses his beer bottle and tells them go fetch, and again, one does.
And then when it's time to go home Billy offhandedly tells them to get lost and they run off back into the woods, and when he wakes up in the morning it's easy to rationalise it away. Probably the beer had been rolling around in the car for too long and it went bad and fucked him up. Should just have thrown the whole sixpack out. Those were just regular dogs, for sure. Except the next day, when he's out behind the pool building trying to find a good spot to smoke, he steps onto soft soil or something and falls down into a weird ass tunnel and a bunch of those same monster dogs just appear out of nowhere and pile themselves on top of each other for him to be able to climb out. And a couple of days later when Neil smacks Billy around for being out late again, one of those dogs honest to God comes crashing through the living room window to shred Neil's leg up and leaves just as quickly at the first sign of panic from Billy.
And yeah okay, by this stage Billy's figuring out things are kinda fucky around Hawkins, and so it's just Billy having his own little side adventure in the background while the rest of the gang are running around Hawkins trying desperately to find the Mindflayer, not knowing that Billy unknowingly trapped it within himself and is just living his life, teaching these weirdly obedient alien dogs to do tricks because they keep helping him or seeking him out.
Anyway, upside down is doomed because their leader is literally trapped inside Billy and Billy is just teaching these dog-things to steal cigarettes from the gas station and volunteering for the closing shift at the pool because he can just get the dogs to bring the pool noodles back into the shed.
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1980s-robin · 6 years ago
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really, “ahoy”?
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pairing: steve harrington x female!reader
fandom: stranger things
requested: no
a/n: i posted about this last night and one of you liked the idea so i decided to go ahead and start writing it! couple things, this is season three based and yes the reader one hundred percent needs to be female because it’s the only way the line “ahoy ladies” is going to work here. 
summary: soulmate au where the first thing your soulmate says to you is tattooed on your arm and vice versa
warnings: i don’t know if soulmate au is a warning, there are mentions of pain because when you meet your soulmate the tattoo feels like it’s burning, or at least that’s how it’s been in every single soulmate fic i have ever read in my entire life with this particular au.
word count: 1.5k words
“El, I know this is your first time going to the mall but I don’t want to be an enabler-” You muttered and she shook her head, a grin still covering her face. “He doesn’t need to know, come on this could be the only time we could hang out outside of the cabin.” You sighed, trying to fight a smile on your face before agreeing to go with the younger girl, she could probably use an older figure with her anyway.
This was one of the only days you had been off from work recently, and you wanted to support your younger friend. You hadn’t been quick enough to get a job at the mall. You moved into Hawkins a few months prior, and you were quick to become friends with your classmate Jonathan, who ended up introducing you to the rest of the gang. 
You’d heard word of Steve Harrington, but you’d never met him in your time in the town since he graduated the year before you. You knew he was friends with El’s friends, and that she wanted you to meet him because she thought you two would be good friends, but you hadn’t met him yet. Allegedly he worked at the mall, but you weren’t sure. 
That’s how you ended up on a bus taking you to the newly built Starcourt mall. While you did want to support the younger girl, you also thought that, even though she was only a couple years younger than you, she might benefit from having someone a little older with her to make sure she didn’t do anything that could get her hurt or make Hopper angry if he managed to find out. 
The second you walked into the mall you were met with the familiar feeling of rush, excitement and the smell of a newly built building. Something felt off, well, not off. But something felt different, and you just couldn’t place what. 
You had only been to Starcourt once, it was the first day it was open and the food court was still closed off for final renovations, but something about it just felt deeper than it being a full, real mall that had a good court. And El could tell something was up with you. 
“(Y/N), is something wrong?” El asked and you glanced down at her, taken from your thoughts before shrugging. “Yeah… no. I don’t know.” You responded and she sighed but didn’t pry. El was observant, of course she was going to notice that something was going on with you. “Let’s go shopping!” Max said, trying to diffuse the tension before dragging you both to the newly built The Gap store. 
After about an hour of shopping, each one of you wore new outfits that you both felt confident about. While your outfit was a tad bit expensive, it made you feel good about yourself so you ended up paying the price. One thing that could be said about it, was that as it rode up on your hip, you could see your birthmark. 
The birthmark wasn’t any birthmark, it was something just about everything had. It was the first words your soulmate said to you. Some people had something normal like “Hey.” Like “Nice to meet you.” But yours had been something that people made fun of you for when they saw it because it was just so fucking weird. “Ahoy ladies?” You thought to yourself. Of all the things that your soulmate could say to you, Ahoy? 
Without thinking, you were tracing the words with your finger. Before your eyes caught the ice cream shop: Scoops Ahoy. It had to be a coincidence, it’s not like you had never seen the words Ahoy before. But Eleven and Max looked from your hand tracing over your hip to the ice cream shop before sharing a look. 
“You know, I’ve been meaning to introduce you to Dustin’s friend Steve. He was one of the reasons we survived last year, you two might get along.” El said, and you glanced down at her, you questioned why she would say this before you remembered that she said he worked at Starcourt. “Sure, El. Where does he work?” You questioned and she pointed her finger, you followed and found that she was pointing to Scoops Ahoy. You felt your heart start racing, but you had no idea why. “Sure, yeah I could go for some ice cream,” you said before the three of you made your way over to the ice cream store. 
It took only a few moments, before a dark-haired boy with the name tag Steve approached, and you could feel your heart racing. And that’s when he spoke.
“Ahoy Ladies- Wait a minute El? Why are you here shouldn’t you be home?” He questioned, and then you felt your birthmark burning, literally scorching on your hip. “Are YOU my idiot?” You questioned, interrupting El and Steve looked confused for a moment, before you could see him grabbing the same hip you were in pain. “T-That’s what my birthmark says.” He said as he looked down, only to see it was disappearing, the bumpy words going down to leave him with nothing but flat flesh. You pulled your shirt up only to see it doing the same thing on your hip.
“We’ll leave you two,” Max said, pulling El away and explaining to her what was happening. Whatever the doctors did, el didn’t have a birthmark. She didn’t really know what it meant, Max was probably going to tell her what was going on between you and Steve.
“I’ll be right back,” Steve said, quickly running to the back to say something to a girl who popped her head out a few seconds later before putting a tally on her board in the “you rule” column. She waved to you, a grin on her face before giving Steve a thumbs up, popping back into her storeroom before entering the sales area. “Do you want to talk?” Steve asked, a dark red blush on his cheeks and you nodded, “Y-Yeah.” You stuttered out, your cheeks equally as red before he took your hand and led you out of the mall. 
“Why haven’t I met you before?” He questioned and you smiled, a bit lightly as you both sat down on a smaller, calm area outside of the mall. “I just moved in a little while ago, you were just in the grade above me. I never met you, I moved here in the fall.” You answered and he nodded in understanding, “So you graduated this year?” He questioned and you nodded. “And chose not to leave?” Steve asked again. 
“Decided to stay, I got a job as an intern for the sheriff’s station.” You said with a shrug and he snorted. “You work under Hopper and encouraged his El going out of the house to a gigantic mall without Hopper’s consent?” He questioned, an amused smile on his face before you blushed lightly. “Never claimed it was a good idea.” You rebutted, already feeling calm with Steve. 
And that’s how it started, your day with Steve. Robin let him have the rest of the day off, and so you spent the day wandering around Hawkins which all led to you, sitting on your porch in the moonlight sitting beside Steve, his hand intertwined with yours and your head resting in the crook of his neck.
“I never asked if you wanted to be my girlfriend.” He said, causing you to snort and look up at him. “Do you really need to ask?” You asked amusement clear in your voice before he nodded. “Well, I think it’s better to make sure.” You knew he was kidding, there wasn’t a single case of a soulmate turning another soulmate down, but you figured you’d play along. “Hm, I  guess I don’t know. I mean, we’ve only known each other for a day…” You trailed off, causing a grin to break across his face before his free hand cupped your chin, bringing your face to meet his, his breath a centimeter from yours before he stopped. “I guess since we’re not dating we can’t kiss.” He said and you pouted, much to his amusement. 
“Shut up and kiss me,” you muttered causing him to laugh before pressing his lips to yours. After a few moments, you both pulled away before you stood up, Steve following and you turned to your door. “Wanna stay over?” You questioned, your parents were out of town for a few more days, so it couldn’t hurt to at least get to cuddle the person who turned out being your soulmate. “Forward-” “That’s not what I meant!” You cut him off causing him to laugh before nodding. “Yeah, I’ll stay.” He said and you grinned, opening the door to your house. God, were you glad you listened to El and went to Scoops Ahoy. Maybe it wasn’t that bad living with the words “Ahoy Ladies” Engraved on your hip for eighteen years.
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