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ooo---hazelgrimm---ooo · 9 months ago

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Strange Magic (Prt. 2)

Part One:

Billy x OC Kate.

It's not very much an original idea, I think almost everyone has a story like this in all honesty. But it loosely follows the end of season two and (loosely) all of season three.

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A sea of green and white pooled together. Coach was trying to give some inspirational speech. The boys were too busy snickering about the new body that had crouched into their huddle. Kate, of course it was Kate. She had, what Billy assumed, Harrington's sneakers in her hands tying the laces into complicated knots, Harrington was nowhere to be seen.

Billy had come fresh out of his pre-game shower. He puffed out his shirtless chest, flexing his abs as he hooked his thumb into the towel around his waist pushing it down slightly. Kate's eyes flickered up from her task.

"So, get me my damn win! What the everliving fuck are you doing in the boys locker room Torrance?" He shouted, noticing her.

"Steve?" She shrugged.

"Yeah? Where is he?!" Coach asked back. Kate shrugged again, going back to her tying.

"I dunno." He snatched the shoes from her.

"Get out." Kate held up her hands in surrender, leaving quickly. Coach pinched the bridge of his nose, shaking his head, "Let me remind you all that there are no girls allowed in the boys locker room, you wanna meet up before the game, do so in the gym." Harrington chose that moment to come running through the door.

"I'm here! I'm here Coach!" He panted. Coach passed him the jumbled mess that was his shoes.

"Your girlfriend has been by." Steve looked at the laces in shock. Coach patted him harshly on the shoulder as he walked out of the locker room. Everyone broke apart to ready themselves for the game.

"Jesus. She's a hellcat." Billy loomed over him as he struggled to untie the complicated knots, "Plenty of bitches in the sea means go for the bitches, leave the real women for the real men, Harrington."

"Yeah? Well, then we're both out of luck aren't we?" Steve asked in return. Billy chuckled.

"What did you do to her anyways?"

"What?"

"Come on amigo, she's been on you all week."

"Haven't a clue what you're talking about."

"Let's see Monday she jammed your locker, Tuesday she hid you keys, and now today she's fucked with your shoes."

"You sure do pay a lot of attention to me." Steve snapped. Billy chuckled,

"Nah, just so happens the hottest piece of ass in the school has taken a particularly spiteful interest in you." Steve launched off the bench into his face.

"She is not a piece of ass." He growled out, "She deserves so much better than you."

"Like who, you?" Tommy cackled from across the locker room, "Why don't you peep who she's hanging out with in the bleachers. How sorry in the sheets do you have to be for Byers to take both of your girls?"

"Kate's not my girl, never was." Steve growled. Tommy laughed ruefully.

"Yeah, you never could pull her could you? What has it been, eight years of pining and begging?"

"Got a word of the day calendar for Christmas?" Harrington taunted, "Pining's a hard word for you, Tommy."

Coach grunted, coming into the locker room, "You boys break it up and get a move on."

xXx

"Let me see." Kate held her hand out for the camera. Johnathan handed it to her and she turned it around in her hand, she leaned back into Johnathan, snapping their picture.

The kid from the opposite team, shot and missed, Johnathan pulled her away from the incoming ball, it hit the gym wall behind them and rolled back onto the court, Billy stopped it with his foot. The buzzer blew for halftime and the kid stopped in front of Kate and Johnathan. Billy watched as she looked at the kid like he had two heads, then she started to laugh. The kid stormed away, shoving past Billy at the halfcourt line.

"Fucking cunt!" The kid snarled. Billy snatched him up by the front of his jersey.

"What the fuck did you just say?"

"No no! Not you man, that bitch over there."

"That woman is mine." Billy snarled back at him. The ref came and pulled them apart, pushing Billy to the bench.

Coach railed into him about starting a fight. As soon as he left a body slid onto the bleacher behind him.

"Hey!" He turned to look at Kate, "Thank you." Billy chuckled ruefully.

"What makes you think that was about you?" He asked darkly.

"You just conveniently decided to grab him right after he was hitting on me?"

"Yeah, I did."

"I don't believe you. Maybe Max was right, you're secretly a nice person." She pushed herself up and over the railing, kissing his cheek before disappearing again. The next time Billy saw her she was tucked under Byers arm in the cold parking lot, laughing about something. He sped past them as he was leaving. His Camaro kicked gravel towards Byers' shitty car.

xXx

Everywhere he looked Kate and Byers were attached at the hip. The little shit even waited for her outside of class. All the way up until graduation.

Billy stood in the field house bathroom, trying to make that stupid cap look good without flattening his perm. The door was cracked open and Billy was about to shout at them to leave when Max called out.

"Billy? Are you dressed?"

"Beat it Shithead!" But the door was pushed open anyways. Max popped her head in peeking through the fingers covering her eyes.

"I think he has his clothes on." She called out to someone else.

"Max." A sweet voice laughed, Kate pushed the door open further stepping in. "Lock the door as you leave." Kate called back to Max. The door swung closed and her pretty eyes looked up into his.

"Hiya Hollywood." The girls were ordered to wear black unpatterned dresses underneath their gowns and the men white button downs and black slacks. Kate stood before him in a short white dress with long lace sleeves.

"Is that a fucking wedding dress?"

"Yep! I'm officially marrying my freedom!" Her smile was blindingly beautiful. Billy turned ruefully toward the mirror.

"Bet that Byers kid creamed his pants." Billy fussed with his cap more. Suddenly Kate was between him and the sink.

"Here." She whispered quietly. She started taking pins and pinning the cap in place. "Max said you didn't want to mess up your hair." Billy toyed with the extra charm she added onto her tassel, "It's from a bracelet my grandma had, she couldn't be here."

"What does Max not tell you about me?" Billy grunted. Kate smiled softly.

"I think she's trying to play matchmaker." Kate fussed with his curls that hung across his forehead. "There you look perfect." She stepped aside so he could see in the mirror, he watched as she slipped the green robe on. Somewhere out on the football field Higgins began his speech and they both left the restroom, hurrying quickly to line up with their classmates on the running track. Harrington waved at Kate and Billy shoved his way in between them.

Soon they were calling them by name as they crossed the small metal stage set up on the field.

"Mr. Steve Harrington."

Kate whooped and whistled behind him. Harrington looked back briefly, smiling. From the bleachers the child army cheered for their friend.

"Mr. William Hargrove." There was a scattered clapping and cheering, but not from the stands. His father was nowhere to be found, Max stood near the track clapping for him while her friends hugged Harrington.

"Miss Katherine Torrance." The bleachers erupted. Harrington, Byers, Max, all of her little demon spawn children and their families cheered and clapped for their loyal babysitter. Billy stalled at the end of the two metal steps, watching, Kate strolled across the state like she was a movie star. When she got to the steps he held out an arm to help her down.

"Oh. Thank you!" There was a rush of bodies, Kate being pushed away as girls circled Billy to ask about what college he was headed to and other stupid shit.

"Are you going back to California? I've always wanted to see California." Carol batted her lashes at him. He felt fingers in his hair, was about to shove the hussy away and find Kate, when he realized it was Kate. She was nimbley and discreetly pulling pins from his hair. All but the one, she wiggled it some so Billy would know where it was in his hair.

“If no one else has said it today, I'm proud of you.” She whispered to him, then she slipped back away.

"Graduating class of '85," a hush went over the crowd all except for Carol who squealed at Billy's side. There was a snort laugh from behind him and Billy turned his head to see Kate smirking and shaking her head at Carol's back. "you may move your tassels." She motioned, pulling the last pin before a whooping went over the crowd of graduates and everyone started throwing their caps into the air. Billy pulled the last pin and tossed his cap. A different one collided with his and something small and shining broke off of it landing in his upturned hat on the ground.

Holy shit.

That Byers kid rushed up picking up Kate's cap, which had tumbled away from Billy's. Billy grabbed his cap off the ground, discreetly dropping the charm into his palm before tucking the cap under his arm.

He chatted with Carol and the other girls on the field watching as Kate, Byers, and mini Byers walked slowly along searching the grass.

His heart sank just a bit at the end of the night, the kids were circling around Kate as she leaned against her car. It was obvious she had been crying, her jaw was set and her eyes red. The boys ran off, calling for Hopper and Byers' mom, leaving Kate with just Max and a little further off an older woman stood with her arms crossed tapping her foot.

Fuck, did this stupid little silver heart mean that much?

"Katherine, seriously. You are so over dramatic." The older woman that looked oddly like Kate walked away throwing her hands up as she got into an expensive looking BMW. Billy made his way over, Kate's red rimmed eyes looked up into his.

"Billy. Five more minutes please." Max sighed.

"Why are you crying?" Billy ignored Max. Kate's head dropped, staring at the gravel.

"It's nothing Billy." Kate shook her head not looking at him.

"You're crying." He cocked a brow at her, "You don't cry."

"Or maybe you don't know me." She crossed her arms and she was still not looking at him. Suddenly Harrington was there, shoving past Billy.

“Katie.” Harrington sighed at her, “Just- don't punch me too hard.” He muttered before hugging her tightly to his chest. The rest of the entourage came running and it was a flurry of voices and tight hugs for Kate from the Byers' mom. “It was just Charlotte being Charlotte I'm fine I shouldn't expect anything from her.” she sighed quietly, in Mrs. Byers arms.

Joyce jostled her shoulder, “Let's head home, I can make you your favorite.” She promised. Kate smiled, nodding, “Max you and your brother can come too,” she smiled at Billy holding her hand out to him. “Hi, I'm Joyce, Jonathan and Will’s mom.”

“Mrs. Byers I don't think Hargrove wants to come hang out with us he's probably got a party to go to.” Steve really should have kept his mouth shut.

“That sounds lovely Mrs. Byers, I'd be honored.” Billy smiled. Everyone looked at him in shock.

“Well good!”

Everyone split up going to their respective cars.

“I don't need you as a wingman.” Billy told Max as she buckled her seat belt. The girl smiled slightly.

“Just saying, it's working.”

Except Kate wasn't there when they pulled up. Billy lingered outside waiting for her while he smoked and Max hung out with her friends inside.

The door creaked open behind him and Mrs Byers stepped out.

“Any sign of Kate?” She asked, looking up to the sky. The wind had been picking up and it had turned very cloudy. Billy shook his head and Mrs. Byers touched his arm. “If I tell you where she is, can you go get her for me?”

“Shit.” Kate muttered, she had just walked out of her house about to head to the Byers. The sky was turning that weird off green color and the wind was shaking the trees around her. The tornado siren went off and just as she was about to call Joyce a Camaro roared into her driveway.

“What are you doing here?!” Kate shouted at Billy.

“Looking for you! What is that noise!?” Kate blinked at him in shock.

“The tornado siren, come on!” She nodded for him to come inside. Billy hurried up the steps, following her into the house as the rain began to pour. He followed the sound of a phone ringing.

“Yeah Billy just pulled up. No, I haven't seen anything yet.” She nodded as she reached up into a cabinet and pulled down batteries, “We’re headed into the shelter now.” There was a long pause as everything around them seemed to be rattling, “We have to go, I love you Mom.” And she hung up the phone. She grabbed Billy's hand in hers without a word. The power around them flickered.

Out the back door and into a storm cellar. The wind whipped around them and they had to pull hard to get the door to shut. Kate latched it quickly, shoving her entire weight into getting the rusty metal bar into place.

“That will hopefully hold.” she popped the batteries into the old flashlight and smacked it against her hand twice.

“Hopefully?” Billy asked.

“Ever been through a tornado?” Kate asked with a sigh. Billy shook his head. “We’re in for a night.”

Everything around them rattled with the thunder, it had been an hour by Billy's watch. Billy was sitting on an old wooden chair, leaned up against on of the cool cement walls, Kate was on a camping cot that she pulled out of closet space, and the flashlight sat on the floor pointed up the the ceiling to give them light.

"Thought you were mad at your mom?" Billy asked.

"I'm always mad at Charlotte." Kate answered.

"Still told her you loved her."

"... That was Joyce on the phone." Kate hesitantly answered, "But I do still love my mom no matter how much she pisses me off or the fact that I've never actually meant anything to her."

“That can't be comfortable.” Billy muttered. She was still in that wedding dress.

“It's not.” She answered back. Suddenly Billy's white button up flew through the air landing on top of her head. She sat up quickly staring at where Billy leaned back in the chair with his eyes closed.

“Sleeping there isn't going to be comfortable either.” Kate spoke up. “Come over here with me.” Billy cracked a smirk.

“Already asking me to jump in bed with you?”

“Shut up Hargrove. I'm just trying to be nice, not invite you into my pants.” Billy opened his eyes to answer with a cocky comment but the words died in his throat. Kate was focused on getting the little buttons in the correct eyelets or she would have noticed how he drooled over her gorgeous body. Billy closed his eyes back quickly. “Seriously,” he peeked and she was sitting back on the cot dressed. “Don't kill yourself sleeping in that chair all night.”

The wind was still roaring around them like crazy, thunder and rain pounding into their heads. The cot creaked under Billy's weight as he slipped in behind Kate.

“Billy?” She asked sleepily. She turned over on the cot, burying her nose in his chest. “Billy.” She confirmed softly, snuggling into his arms.

“Yeah, I'm right here crazy girl.” Billy ran his hands along her soft skin, remembering how soft she felt in his arms, "I'm right here." He sighed pulling her close and closing his eyes.

And Billy wishes for this exact moment back once morning comes.

“Kate!” Harrington’s frantic voice wakes them, “Katie?!” and Kate rushed up the five small steps to the door, pushing the old lock open, Billy bitterly missed the rust that had made that lock so hard to close last night. She goes to push open the door but it stops with a sudden loud slam.

“Steve! I can't get the door open.” Kate shouts, “Billy.” She turns back to him, her eyes asking for help and he joins her on the steps. Harrington sounds further away and Billy can tell that she's starting to panic.

“Yo! Harrington we’re in here!” His voice booms out. There's a rush of footsteps.

“Oh shit. Kate there's a huge tree limb in the way I'm going for help.” and Kate was reaching through the gap, Billy watched past her head as someone took ahold of her fingers, squeezing gently, “I'll be right back I promise.” And slowly Harrington pulled out of her grasp.

“Where's all the 'love' Harrington usually receives?” Billy asked, a bit bitterly.

“He's trying to get us out of here.” She said as if that answered everything.

“No, he's trying to get you out. I didn't hear him yelling my name.”

“Look Billy, we’re friends-”

Billy laughed bitterly, high on jealousy, “I'm not your friend sweetheart.”

“Well I'm yours, so you can deal with it but I'm never not going to be your friend. Steve has been with me for the good, the bad, and the amazing. I bully him, I do mean shit because that's how I express my love for him. If you wanna stick around with me; Steve, Johnathan, Nancy, and the kids are a part of that package.” Billy grunted in response and Kate bumped her shoulder into his, “That doesn't mean you have to play Mr. Rogers around them, just know that if you want me they'll be around too.”

“So I can still kick his ass?” Billy asked, raising a brow. Kate looked at him in disbelief before rolling her eyes.

“Just let him keep all his teeth, and kick his ass for a reason, don't just punch him for fun.”

“So let me get this straight now, you've got Byers strung along and Harrington?” Billy asked, leaning back away from her. Kate laughed loudly.

“Ok no, Steve was or is dating Nancy Wheeler. He will never not be in love with her though. Jonathan is also madly in love with Nancy and has been since middle school. Neither of those guys would ever be into me and honestly, I think that's for the best.”

“The fuck is that supposed to mean?”

“I'm not good for anyone.” Kate picked at her nails, “Nancy is solid and steady, don't get me wrong she is a fucking badass. But she's the kind of girl everyone needs. I'm brash and I do dumb shit without thinking. I'm more likely to get pissed off and burn down the house than make dinner.” Billy shrugged his shoulders.

“That's what takeout is for.” He mumbled and Kate smiled nudging his boot with her foot.

“Is that an offer?” She asked, snickering.

“No.” Billy answered.

“One day, when we’re closer friends, I want to hug you.”

“In your dreams, crazy girl.” It was quiet for a bit, “What did Harrington do?”

“Hmm?”

“It's got to be more than, you just bullying him because that's ‘how you show your love', what did he do?”

“He destroyed my sandcastle.”

“What the fuck?!”

“Around the time when we were six, the Harrington’s invited my mom and me to go with them to the lake. Mom sent me with them, I took my sand toys. I made an epic sandcastle, like an actual sand fortress around me. Steve fucking Harrington, walks up to me on what little sand we have near the lake and goes, ‘Do you know what my favorite animal is? Jellyfish.’ and he poked a hole through one of the walls.” Billy turned looking at her in disbelief, “And then he says, ‘Do you know what my second favorite animal is? Kraken.’ and he starts smashing my sandcastle. I spent my entire day making that thing, it was huge.”

“You bully Harrington over a sandcastle?”

“Yup.” From somewhere outside of the shelter voices echoed.

“Wait wait wait!” Came Max’s voice, “Billy's with her.”

Billy threw his hands up shouting, “Why does that matter shit bird!” Kate knew why it mattered, El. El was going to lift the tree limb, “Just tie a rope around the damn thing and use Harrington’s car!”

“Where's your keys, Hargrove? Let's fuck up your bumper.”

“Guys stop, all of you just grab an end and start pulling,” Kate suggested, “Me and Billy will push from this side and the branch should move enough to let us out.” El, work your magic but don't over do it.

“Oh… oh! Okay! Yeah good game plan!” Steve realized after a minute.

“They're so stupid.” Billy muttered, bracing his hands against the door.

“Yeah,” Kate responded, bracing herself against the door as well, “but they're our stupid idiots.”

The branch groaned as it was slowly dragged across the ground and as soon as the gap was wide enough Harrington was reaching in pulling Kate out. Billy shoved his way out next and Max practically tackled him to the ground.

“You’re okay.” She hugged him tighter as he tried to shove her off. Kate was wrapped up tightly in Byers’ arms, who was looking at Hargrove with an eat shit look.

“Don't get your panties in a twist, I didn't do anything she didn’t ask for.” Billy bit at him. Kate gave him a look.

"Billy offered me his shirt so I could take the dress off." The kids rushed her next hugging her and Billy started to walk away.

“Thank you,” Johnathan called out, “For taking care of my... Kate." he stuttered looking embarrassed.

“Same. Max?”

“I'm gonna help clean up, Mom knows. Your dad had to shelter in place at work, he won't be home until tonight.”

“Billy you don't have to go.” Kate tried, Billy shrugged leaving anyways.

Steve, Johnathan, and the kids began pitching in to help clean up the debris on the property. The house was barely touched but there were leaves, grass, dirt, and bits of trees everywhere.

"That was Max's brother?" El's quiet voice asked from behind her as Kate swept the porch. She turned to the young girl who was looking down the road in the direction Billy had gone.

"Why? You think he's cute?" She wiggled her eyebrows at the young girl.

"He's pretty to look at. Like art." El mumbled.

"Really pretty." Kate agreed.

"Whose really pretty?" Max asked, coming out of the house.

"You." Kate responded. Max put a hand to her chest, batting her lashes sarcastically.

"No for real." She straightened and Kate smiled softly at her.

El giggled out, "Billy."

"Uug! Gross!" Max responded, looking at El horrified while shoving at her shoulder gently. Max leaned in quickly whispering something to El, whose eyes widened and locked in on Kate before turning her head and nodding quickly.

"I think that's smart." Both girls ran away.

"Hey!" Kate called after them, "Me and Billy are friends! Nothing more! Stop trying to play Cupid!"

But Kate smiled at their antics and for a moment she looked down the road hoping Billy's blue Camero would come roaring back.