#also billy having powers in this au or just some weird corellation to the upside down and feeling alone and crazy and will helps him

[shprka]

Ok so its Billy brainrot hours but if he isnt alive and it is actually just flashbacks of him living in Cali, and considering there's some stuff going on with time and Will possibly having some sort of powers, I want Will to have dreams about this blonde curly haired boy in Cali called Will (or William or Willy or all of them)

And this boy is sort of mommy's boy, and he's sensitive and creative and loves to surf but hates playing baseball and hates that his dad makes him do it and hates that his dad is calling him insults. And the father gets worse and worse and starts being abusive to William's mom and she tries to pretend its nothing but William although young, knows something is wrong. And then his dad starts to be worse for him too and William pretends its nothing when his mom asks. And William puts on loud music all the time because he hates hearing his parents fight downstairs. And he's never home and hanging around kids way too older than him that teach him how to smoke and drink. But there's still that goodness in him, it's not too late to turn back.

And then the big fight happens, plates being smashed, the mother leaving as Will screams for her not to leave her son, to take him with her because Will knows what happens a son and a father like that are left alone - it's all fists and insults and scars

But she doesn't come back and while Will had support and friends and Jonathan and his mom, William has no one good left in his life. No one to talk to or turn to or hug. The only familial contact he gets is when his dad pushes him around. And Will sees the anger and hatred and resentment in William grow and Will... sort of gets it. He understands where William is coming from - understands the fear, the uncertainty, the helplessness. And Will gets a bit of a vicious satisfaction from William beating up his bullies and breaking their noses because he wanted to do the same so many times - to just let go, to release all that anger in him. But his anger is not like William's, Will's anger grows and festers and spreads like vines under his veins. So Will lives vicariously through William, all of the self-destructive tendencies he didn't even know he had and it makes him feel powerful, that William, even though fairly short and lanky at the beginning, trains and gains muscle just so he can be strong and can protect himself and attack even though he feels helpless at home. And then there's the living through another aspect of William's life that Will represses in himself, but William explores it - that is his attraction to men. He kisses boys all the time, like he doesn't even care about the rest of the world.

But most of the time, Will feels sympathy. He feels for William and his bad experiences and wants to save him somehow, help him, steal him away from his abusive family to join his own.

And because of all the time travely shenanigans Will is able to reach William and become sort of friends with him. Which isn't perfect but it helps. William has this imaginary friend that is also called Will and lives in California and who hates his dad. They talk through the radio, or the lights flickering or maybe Will shows up as an actual ghost. And maybe William shows up in Will's life too, like ghost, flickeringcin and out of time. And William tells him when to hide when Will is running away from school bullies, or how to threaten a bully so it doesn't escalate into a fight. He teaches Will how to fight too, just in case. William hopes Will won't ever need it. But yeah, just in case. Teaches him how to use a switchblade and how to fight a bigger opponent.

So for the first few months of the Byers living in California, it's just that - William and Will, intertwined, imaginary friends, traveling back and forth in time, learning from each other and telling each other their deepest secrets - secrets they both share but can't tell anyone else. Because it all isn't real anyway, right?

Then one day, Will has the dream, the one that changes everything. Wiliam's dad calls him downstairs and there's a small red-headed girl in the living room, with her mother that has her hand in William's dad's hand. "William, meet your new sister. Her name is Maxine."

"It's Max," the girl later says. "I hate being called Maxine."

"Me too," William replies. "Hate being called William. But my dad wants to call me that, so. William, it is."

"How about Billy? Can I call you Billy? When he doesn't hear?"

William nods, trying not to look to excited. Billy. He likes that.

That night, Will wakes up in the middle of the night, crying. Crying because he spent so much time getting to know this boy, learn this boy, relate to this boy. And this boy, Billy, who later in his own timeline, will move to Hawking, will still be living with his father, will be pushing everyone away, will be alone when it happens. Will be alone when the Mindflayer takes him. When it makes him a spy, a killer. When it eventually kills him. The boy shared so much with Will and now he's buried in Hawkins, just like Will thought he would be. And there's nothing Will can to do help him, anymore. Just cry for him and what he lost, and what he could've become if he had a little more good people in his life.

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That was wayyy too long, it was supposed to be a short idea. Can you tell I love Billy and Will parallels. Also I would love if there was a third boy called William, the Creel boy who shares a lot of parallels with Will too. But there instead of an abusive father he would have a father that is actually possessed by the MF and the MF sees them for the first time and is like, yeah im gonna find the 2 other Williams in the future hehe