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if you could let me in (I could be good with you) by MayRaven1798
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Feb 2026
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The redhead moves closer to Hargrove, kneeling on some of Will’s drawings. He groans softly, like he can sense her approaching, and one of his hands flinches. By the pathetic sound he makes, Steve thinks the jerk isn’t in attack mode any more; he might actually be trying to get away from her.
“You’re okay, dipshit,” Max sighs before turning to the police chief. “He will be okay, right?”
“Should be,” Hopper replies, though by the way his mouth twitches nobody really buys it.
“Maybe Hargrove should go to the hospital too,” Dustin offers, his brows knitting together. “He kind of got punched a few times, and that tranquilizer was meant for Will. But, like, possessed Will.”
“Your choice, kid.”
Max turns towards Hopper, confused.
“What do you mean?”
—This is an AU which starts at the end of s2 and tries to fill in some of the gaps. This is also my attempt at having Hopper and Joyce more or less adopt Max and Billy. The usual background pairings apply, but this is mainly a Harringrove story with implied Byler.
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30 Aug 2025
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When one child goes unpunished after getting the other in constant trouble, resentment is bound to bloom among siblings.
Max knows exactly how to get her awful stepbrother Billy in trouble. Pranks lead to an all-out war between them, until Max winds up getting him in more trouble than anticipated and learns just how brutish his father, Neil, can be...
Neil's actions help her realize Billy might be the way he is for a reason.
With a change of heart, Max wants to be the friend Billy so desperately needs. But it might be too late to fix things between them. On a mission to see another side of him, she searches for a way past his armor to be his strongest ally... instead of his worst nightmare.
Can Max fix things—or is it too late?
Contains disciplinary spankings and child abuse.Readers often comment this is the emotional, realistic, well-written, true-to-canon, relationship-focused Billy and Max redemption fic they've been looking for.
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21 Aug 2025