A short continuation of Pretty Boy Help Me
where it starts with the camaro having powers and killing a couple of people in Hawkins, then going after Steve. But Steve has understood a lot of things. He repairs the car. They bond. One evening Steve comes outside to find this on the camaro's windshield
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Steve knows now, Billy is alive. He is somewhere, but where?? There's no Hopper to ask for help. The Byers have moved away.
Steve needs help locating him.
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His hands are shaking.
He's pressing the button on the walkie talkie
Max, I need to talk to you!
Oh shit, he forgot to say "over"
Max, over!
His voice is vibrating with excitement. Billy is fucking alive. He is alive, and he asked Steve for help.
Max is not answering.
Mike, come through, Mike? This is Steve! Are you there? Over.
No-one is answering!
They haven't used these walkie-talkies for a while now, is it absolutely not a thing anymore?
He hears static noise and the walkie starts talking, fucking finally
Steve, this is Dustin. What is going on? Over.
Heey, hey buddie. I uh .. do you happen to know El's phone number in California?
...
You gotta say over. Over.
I need El's phone number in California.
Silence
OVER.
Yeah, man, I don't know. You gotta ask Mike or Max. They'll know. Over.
I tired but they aren't answering this stupid thing! Over.
I can call them on the phone. I'll get back to you. Over.
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Seven minutes later the phone rings.
Dustin?
Yep that's me. Here's the number .. Why do you need it all of a sudden?
Uh.. nothing important. I just want to ask El a couple of questions.
About? ..
California. I'm thinking of going there on vacation in spring!
Really?.. Okay, man. Cool.
Thanks.
No problem.
Okay, bye!
Hey, Ste..
It's late. Also, maybe there's like .. time difference and shit, but Steve doesn't have time to figure it out.
He calls the number straight away.
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El is happy to hear him. She's okay there, but she misses Hopper and she misses Mike. She's also been having weird dreams about Hopper, and about Billy. So she's happy Steve has called her because she needs this conversation. And Steve needs help.
El promises to do her thing. To go into the void, try to contact Billy.
Next day she calls Steve and tells him that she couldn't find Billy but it is very very possible, Billy's trapped in the upside down. Has been trapped there for months. How he manages to survive there, god only knows.
Steve wants to go to the other dimension. But how? He needs a portal.
El goes on the search again. Turns out, there is a small gate between the worlds. It's where the ruins of Starcourt are.
Steve goes to the abandoned mall. It's half demolished and it's creepy and it brings all the terrifying memories back.
He drives there in the camaro and talks to it on the way. Tells it everything, although he has a feeling the car knows at least half of it.
Leaves it near the ghost of a building. He has his bat with, his bandana and goggles. His lighter and a can of gasoline, just in case.
Oh, and a bottle of water and some sandwiches he's made while planning the whole thing.
He didn't plan shit. He even didn't tell any of the kids. Only El knows, and she's so far away she won't be able to come to the rescue, if the upside down trip goes sideways.
The camaro stands still and watches Steve disappear through the wall. The portal wasn't easy to find in all the debris, but it's there. Steve slips through the slime and finds himself on the dark side of Hawkins.
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Billy could be in several places actually. The Upside down, a government secret lab getting experimented on, or just a government secret hospital, unconscious/conscious and healing. A Russian prison is a possibility, but an unlikely one, he wasn't down there in the Russian base, so how could Russians pick up his body from above especially if they were in a hurry to get away
Let it be the UD this time
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One day I will write it, but today is not the day.
Fict idea:
SoulmateAU where you get random visions of what your soulmate is up to after you've met in real life.
Hua Cheng keeps "blacking out" which he later realises it's visions from his soulmate but he doesn't understand why it's the same 'blackout' vision every day for the last 100 years.
He later finds out that his soulmate is actually a soilmate - Xielian was buried.
Cue meltdown.
Xielian keeps getting visions of ghosts while he was buried so he thought he was on the verge of entering the afterlife. Turns out his soulmate is the ghost king.
One day I'll write it and today is that day.
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2ha legally blonde au where mo ran goes to harvard to chase after the love of his life shi mei, but ends up falling in love with his uptight law professor after he gets chosen as a student intern for a huge murder case.
Listen okay frat president mo ran who barely got into a state school. He falls head over heels for shi mei, the head of his uni's nhs and a pre-med major to boot. After shi mei rejects mo ran bc mo ran isn't "serious enough" mo ran decides to buckle down and get into harvard to convince shi mei otherwise.
Once he gets there though he's constantly looked down upon for being stupid and low class, but seeing shi mei's shocked expression in the hallway made it all worth it. That is, until mo ran walks into his first class with the absolutely gorgeous but notoriously uptight professor chu wanning, who promptly throws mo ran out of class for not having the assignment completed.
Mo ran is FURIOUS, and immediately resolves to ace chu wanning's class just to spite his uptight professor, who looks at mo ran and only sees him as this stupid, shallow frat boy, just like the rest of his classmates.
Mo ran tears into his schoolwork like mad, only taking breaks to head to the small, local gym to box with his trainer turned friend, ye wangxi. Ye wangxi has been in love with her childhood friend nangong Si, who owns the small gym. Unfortunately, nangong si is too blockheaded to see her feelings, and ye wangxi is too afraid of messing things up between them. So mo ran teaches her some tricks to seduce nangong si (insert the bend and snap here).
One night, mo ran gets an invite to a costume party. he shows up in a pair of bunny ears and dark blue booty shorts, his chest bare and member bulging through the fabric. When he shows up though, nobody else is in costume. He storms into the party and ignores the resounding laughter, managing to find shi mei in the corner with his glass of merlot. They get onto the topic of prof chu wanning's fall internship program, which is notoriously hard to get into.
"I was thinking of applying for it, actually,” mo ran says, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck. Shi mei smiles at him, and tilts his head to the side slightly.
"Are you sure, A-Ran?" He asks, his eyes wide and his expression innocent. "It's just that...it's a super competitive internship, and well, I wouldn’t want you to feel hurt in the event that you don’t get in.”
Brightest."
Mo ran blinks. "Um, I mean, I got into harvard, didn't I? Got a 179 on my lsats, got into all of your classes too. That's gotta mean something, right?"
Shi mei sighs, genuinely looking sorry for mo ran. "Well, yes, but...you know what you're like, mo ran."
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Mo Ran growls. Shi Mei looks to the side, swirling his merlot. Mo Ran’s stomach sinks to the ground.
"Shi Mei...I'll never be enough for you, will I?"
He doesnt want to know the answer. But when shi mei bites his lips and sighs out a weary, "A-ran..." He already knows.
He leaves. Fighting back tears as the rain starts to pour down, mo ran stands under the rain in his stupid little shorts and his waterlogged bunny ears, wishing he'd never come to harvard.
Then, from behind him, a startled call of, "Mo Ran?!"
Mo ran turns. Professor Chu Wanning stands a lil ways behind him, holding a yellow, floral umbrella while he gapes at Mo ran.
"Don't ask." Mo ran growls, wiping a hand over his face. He misses the way his professor's eyes cling to the VERY prominent bulge in his rain-soaked shorts.
"I wasn't going to." Chu wanning snaps back.
Mo ran grits his teeth. He is having an awful day, he's soaked to the bone, and he does not want to stand here with his most hated professor staring down his nose at him. It surprises him then, when a yellow, floral-printed umbrella is shoved into his hands. "You're going to catch a cold in that shameless attire," Chu wanning snaps at him, sliding his coat off to wrap it around his briefcase.
Mo ran's eyes dart to his professor's ill-fitting white button down, now partly translucent as the rain begins to soak it through. He's never noticed how...tiny his professor's waist is. Like so tiny, mo ran's hands could probably almost wrap around it entirely.
He's an erotic sight in his now entirely see-through shirt, clinging to his body and leaving very little to the imagination.
"If you have time to party, then you have time to check the forecast." Chu wanning looks at mo ran once more, standing completely still under the yellow umbrella chu wanning had handed him, before hurriedly looking away. "Now get back to your dorm before I write you up for public indecency."
Then he's gone, tearing off with nothing but his briefcase, wrapped in his own coat for protection.
Mo ran stands there is shocked silence, watching chu wanning's figure disappear in the downpour.
Mo ran slowly climbs to the top of his classes, and the people around campus start to respect him. Mo ran's habit of jogging shirtless has certainly helped his reputation with the ladies. Shi mei has hardly looked his way, but now the spell he's had over mo ran has been absolutely shattered, so mo ran focuses on pouring himself into his studies instead.
When he comes into class, chu wanning makes no indication that he even remembers that rainy night, let alone wishes to discuss it. He pushes mo ran harder than before, but the memory of that night dilutes mo ran's hatred for the man.
It's still a surprise to him however, when the list of people handpicked by the prof himself for chu wanning's internship program come out and mo ran's name is on the list.
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