Under the Covers by ToAStranger ( @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger )

M | 87k words

Steve is (maybe) a little bit still in love with Nancy Wheeler and (maybe) trying to figure himself out-- between the night terrors and the babysitting and the general weirdness that is Hawkins, Indiana-- before he graduates.

Billy Hargrove fits in there somewhere (probably).

A summer to change everything. Frank Iero is just trying to get out of high school alive when a boy from across the lines makes him question himself, his beliefs and test just how far he’s willing to go in order to be who he wants to be. Gerard Way is home for the most important summer of his life. He’s going to build bridges with his younger brother, help out an elderly neighbour and meet a boy from across the lines.

songbird by justaluckybug ( @jaybugwrites )

T | 72k words

It’s January 15, 1985. Max is in Hawkins, Indiana, 2,082 miles from Santa Monica, and in five hours she’ll be fourteen years old. At fourteen, you can be tried as adult. She knows because Billy’s told her, so many times.

It’s January 15, ninety-five days since the worst thing she’s ever done, but there isn’t any statute of limitations on that.

Or, Max is miserable, Billy's in danger, and Steve just wants to help. A take on why Max and Billy moved to Hawkins in the first place, featuring too many 80's songs and also a love story, maybe two.

The Dads!Harringrove Series by osaki_nana_707 ( @some-radical-notion )

M | 78k words (total)

It's Parents' Day at Hawkins Elementary. Steve doesn't expect his old high school rival to be there too. He also doesn't expect the heart-to-heart that follows. Then again, Steve's learned not to expect anything in life, so it kind of works out.

You Make Me Not Want To Die by shippingmyarmada

E | 70k words (total)

After a long pause, long enough for Steve to think he’s not getting an answer (not that he knows if he wants one anyway) Billy responds, “All the fucking time, pretty boy.” Because sometimes getting hypothermia sounds more appealing than going home.

They each smoke another cigarette in silence. Harrington’s face glows softly in the cherry light, his eyebrows furrowed as he stares into the inky water.

Aka some sort of character study of Billy Hargrove.

Don’t Tell Me There’s No Hope At All/ Together We Stand, Divided We Fall by Straight_Outta_Hobbiton ( @straight-outta-hobbiton )

M | 59k words

Billy’s used to being afraid of his father, and he knows he’s not the only one scared. But it’s one thing to know your stepmother gets smacked around every once in a while and another thing completely to find her body on the bathroom floor.

He’s a mess, Max is even more of a mess, and Joyce Byers is a queen among mothers, she really is.

That Douchebag Steve Harrington by blithesea ( @bites-heal ) & womenseemwicked ( @women-seem-wicked )

E | 55k words

The Hargroves come to Indiana one year early. The town of Hawkins is all abuzz about its first missing persons case in decades, but all Billy cares about is figuring out how much Steve Harrington really wants to date the stick-in-the-mud Nancy Wheeler and whether he can stop that from happening.