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A Valentines gift exchange for @/veeforvindicta on Twitter!

@hellfirevalex

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(Here's a snippet! The rest is on Ao3)

He ignored the electricity that he felt when he touched Billy’s cheek, “I… I just… you…” He bit his lip. Fuck it. “I wanted to give you this.”

Floating away for a moment, he grabbed the satchel that he set on the rocks and reached in to draw out the long string of pearls. “I wanted to… well this is for you.” 

And Billy.

Billy just stared. He stared at the pearls in Steve’s hands, before staring at Steve and back down again. His eyes narrowed, almost as if he was angry. “What is this?"

“Dustin and I were exploring this underwater cave, I guess some humans were exploring and one had a string of pearls or something. It looks intact and… I just thought to myself ‘ this would look so pretty on Billy.’ ”

He shrank in on himself for a moment, “It was a thought, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what they would look like on you.”

Gods. 

He was a sap.

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A Valentines exchange gift for @adelacreations ! It has a little snippet of story to go with it. @hellfirevalex

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"I..I don't understand...What do you mean you're-"

"Dead? Un-living? Cursed to walk these lands on this earth at night until raptures comes?"

A rumble had escaped from Steven's chest like the thousand hooves of wild buffalo running in the summer nights of the Californian grassy planes, a laugh so deep that I could feel it in my bones as it shook the wooden planks of the floor were we stood.

"Are you scared of me now?"

"...I could never be afraid of you Steven."

"You are though...afraid of me, even just a little. It's alright though, I'm not upset."

I was scared that night, I will admit. Terrified of what the man I had come to know as a friend...a lover really was. The biggest secret he had been keeping from me finally revealed. I had been terrified before of course, laying with another man while the Mother Mary and her child rested on my breast bone, God's judgement weighing heavy on my soul while my breath was light in my throat.

"Will you kill me now?"

"Kill you? No...never...Exactly the opposite my dear William...my Billy."

I'd never been afforded the opportunities and grandiosity that my Steven had been able to shower me with while he courted me, lavish outings and fine clothes draped over my shoulders all paid for by his aloof parents dime. Of course, after he turned me that night, draining me within an inch of my life before supplying me with his own, I found out his parents had been dead for at least a hundred years now.

"S...Steven?...I feel...fa...faint."

"Shh...save your voice my dear."

I'd fallen in love with the man regardless of the gifts and the money, regardless of the lies he had told me to lure me into his web of blood and honeyed words. There was no doubt in my mind at the time that I would have made any other choice than what I did, falling into his arms like a southern bell in the thick summer heat and I was happy for it.

"I'm...I'm scared."

"I know my love...it will be over soon, I swear it."

We had our rough times of course, as all relationships do. Most would call it a human condition but it is not, love and companionship accompanied by hard times and disagreements long settled in by old hurts and misunderstanding Is merely how the world works.

"S...st..."

"Shhh...Once you wake, I will be there to greet you. And then?....Then we can truly begin to live."

However we always made up after a time, slowly gravitating back towards each other over a few years of brooding or ill tempers. It was in our nature after all, something we couldn't fight against lest we fell deeper into the pit of mania. It was easier to embrace it, to throw the punches when tensions got high...yet we always regretted it.

I loved him once. I love him now and I'm most positive I'll be able to love him again in due time.

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Valentine's gift exchange

The collection on AO3 for the fics, art and videos created for the Hellfire Valentine's Gift Exchange!

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Hellfire Valentine's Gift Exchange

Four days until Valentine's day and all the gifts get revealed!!

It will include art, fics & videos created for strangerthings, individual characters & pairings inc. harringrove, mungrove, steddie, royalcourt, hellcheer, gommy, cheerscoops, metalsandwich, and more!