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All Hopper wanted to do was go home and relax, but he got a noise complaint about a car blasting music at the quarry. So instead of going home, he finds himself at the quarry with an extremely drunk Billy Hargrove. A drunk Billy Hargrove who just happens to have bruises and welts covering his back.
Or, Billy talks a lot when he's drunk and doesn't realize that Hopper and Joyce basically made him confess that he gets abused at home or that he ended up at the Chief of Police's house where is his given a safe place to sleep for the night and possibly a place to stay for longer.
Or, Billy gets invited to his first sleepover at Hop's cabin with Jim and Joyce and is overjoyed. They will show him what true love looks like and decide that he is never going back to Cherry Lane again.
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15 Jun 2026
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“Get out of the car,” Hopper says, finally, and Billy blows air out hard, breaking open the thin scabbing on his lip again.
He fumbles with the door, climbs out and stands there, his feet hot and sweating inside his sneakers. It’s awful, Hopper is looking at him with something like pity, enough silent sadness to infuriate him, and Billy can’t figure out how to get past this moment - and then. He doesn’t need to, because everything changes.
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11 Jun 2026
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Just a bunch of drabbles and ficlets from some prompts. Hardy is pretty much the main character, even in the one he's barely in.
1. misc fluff stuff
2. misc whump stuff
3. Hardy and Tess pre-canon where Hardy sucks at relaxing
4. Does Alec Hardy hate fruit?
5. Well, it started out as a nice afternoon until Hardy got kicked in the balls.
6. concussion
7. Okay, now whump him again (medically, of course)
8. spontaneous pneumothorax
9. post-canon Hardy being sad about Daisy moving away, and Miller being a friend
10. stomach bugBookmarked by Readingreading009
11 Jun 2026
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A different take on alecs encounters with lee and ricky.
Now with Mark And joe!
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11 Jun 2026
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Alec is sick, but goes to work anyway, Ellie won't have it. If you like them bickering there will be plenty.
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11 Jun 2026
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Ellie watched the events unfold as if they happened in slow motion, with her eyes wide, frozen to the spot and unable to help. She saw Alec’s body suddenly lurch forward, his arms grasping at thin air and flailing almost like a bird’s wings before all six foot something of him crashed violently to the ground.
...A visit to the pub does not quite go to plan for Alec...
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Just a short OS perfect for NYE - enjoy and Happy New Year!Bookmarked by Readingreading009
11 Jun 2026
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Alec is doing fine. Really, he is. He is on a path to healing from what happened. Some days are still harder than others, though, and he only wishes it wasn’t so. Thankfully, he isn’t alone in his journey and there is always someone looking out for him.
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- Part 2 of Diaries
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11 Jun 2026
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Billy knows Jim’s been looking forward to properly introducing him and Joyce. Billy still tries to tell him he’s feeling sick.
When that doesn’t work, he figures he’ll just have to power through. It’s just a dinner. He’s done it before. He can do it again.
It’ll be fine.
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- Part 20 of Whumptober 2022
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10 Jun 2026
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Two Steps Forward by botanicapoetica for inkyreveries
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Dec 2017
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As the car slowed to a stop in front of the movie theater, Steve watched Billy’s smile grow a little bigger. He’d planned a full, elaborate day, but it was Nancy who had talked him down from it. “If I were him, I think I’d still want peace and quiet. Just...a little different, maybe.” She’d said once Steve had gushed about road trips and the state fair. He’d felt dejected at first, until she’d followed up with, “Steve, I think he’d just like to do anything at all with you. Even something small.”
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- Part 12 of Call & Respond
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10 Jun 2026
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Joyce Byers, The Mother of the Lost by Invaderdumbass
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Aug 2022
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Joyce Byers was an enigma to Billy Hargrove. He didn’t understand her one damn bit. Why would this mother with her hands already full with two boys of her own, while also parenting a super-powered little girl, wanna take in a stray like him?
the knowing gaze she gave him, made him feel like she knew. That he really didn’t need to explain. The sheer understanding in her stare sent a shiver down his spine and quieted any words that were trying to fall from his lips.
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Joyce Byers' love competes against the tallest tsunamis and the strongest tornadoes. She's a mother through and through, blood or not.
(TEMP ON HOLD: Not finished)
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- Part 2 of I wish the world was softer
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09 Jun 2026
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Sitting in a seat that was so soft made his mouth go slack with exhaustion. It was all he could do to keep his eyes open and stare blearily at the smudged lights outside the window as Ellie drove. He asked himself why he even needed to look out on these miserable sights and why he couldn't just turn his mind inward and rest. He'd seen them a thousand times before. You're not a child, Hardy. Stay awake. Sleeping will hold you fast in its claws. Sleeping will destroy you.
Alec, in an attempt to avoid his nightmares, has been keeping himself awake. Ellie, being a mother and his best friend, is not about to let that slide. Featuring the closeness they SHOULD have had in the series. Set post-s3 in the weeks after.
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08 Jun 2026
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Hardy faces a medical dismissal, but he may be the only one who can figure out the tangled mess of the past coming after his replacement, assuming his heart and the PTSD don't kill him first.
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- Part 3 of Valley of the Shadow
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08 Jun 2026
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It's spring in Broadchurch. Everything blossoms, as does Ellie Miller's and Alec Hardy's relationship.
They are in the middle of exploring their feelings for each other, when a new case comes along. A young woman is missing and her disappearance leads them into the life of Broadchurch’s high society. Pressured by the parents, our detectives go to work immediately but will they tackle the case and their new evolving relationship at once? They both have to find out that the truth about missing Lilian Evans is more dangerous than everyone might have thought when Hardy also suddenly goes missing without a trace.
Will Miller find him in time?
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08 Jun 2026
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When DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller investigate a recent string of opioid-related overdoses in Broadchurch, Alec is unexpectedly taken hostage by a psychopath intent on playing god. As the tables are turned on DI Hardy, can Wessex Police decipher the kidnapper's clues and find Alec before he gets hurt – or is it already too late?
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08 Jun 2026
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Alec is taking a spontaneous day off and Ellie has a bad feeling about it, so she goes to investigate...
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07 Jun 2026
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He preferred drowning to this, honestly. At least drowning was muffled, distanced from the life above, unlike the feeling of rawness, of sterility that came with fluorescent lights and clacking heels and keyboard clicking, the scent of perfume with every person that passed by, the talking and talking and talking and—
“Are you okay?”
He wanted to ram his head into a wall.
“‘M fine,”
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07 Jun 2026
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Hardy is a closed off and private person, that was the first thing Miller learned about him. He never spoke of his childhood or his parents, but over the years she slowly learns things that leaves her wondering if he never talks about his past for a reason.
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I'm bad at summaries, but each chapter builds on an important scene from season 2 of Broadchurch.
You're allowed to create works based on this but do please notify me.
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07 Jun 2026
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Alec used to be Catholic. He used to believe like his parents did: mass every Sunday, prayers and communion wafers over doctors and medication, and the monthly youth group meetings. He dreaded those meetings, never quite sure why. He dreaded the stares, the whispers; they all knew he was different. They knew he was tainted. They saw his sins even before he did.
Or: Alec inadvertently opens up about his religious trauma to Paul right before Daisy is meant to move in with him.
There are flashbacks, but no present-day Alec sexual assault.
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- Part 1 of Sin Painted in Stained Glass
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07 Jun 2026
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“I’m fine.” He told her, hoarsely, taking the mug from her hand, almost burning his skin in the process. “Go mind your own business Miller.” It was hard to keep his words coming out straight, but he did his best, as he sank back onto his desk chair.
“What did Chloe have to say about this?”
“She’s asked if I was alright to go in and told her I was fine, which I am,” he emphasised, “so I came in, I’m a grown man for fuck’s sake, I know when I’m not able to come to wor-”
“You came to work when you had a bloody heart attack, Hardy.” Miller of course had to remind him. “Go home, get better, come to work when you don’t look like you’re about to drop dead.”
Despite her description being worryingly accurate to how he felt, he waved it off. “Don’t you have work to do?” He snapped, breathing heavily as he waited for her to leave his office.
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OR: Alec catchest the flu his children had a few days before and doesn't deal with it very good.
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- Part 29 of not a lot, just forever
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07 Jun 2026
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Another shock shot through his body. He could feel the tears threatening to leave his eyes.
“Say it Alec”
He looked to the side of the room where the cross hung, a reminder of why this was happening.
“I am broken and need to be fixed, what I desire is wrong. God didn’t send his son to die for someone like me”
He said while another shock shot through his body.“Good, now say it again”
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Hardy has been told his entire life that he's wrong, and now he's older he can't help but believe that. What will he do when Miller slowly learns more about his past than he would have liked.
(NOT DEAD, as in, I'm really bussy at the moment, and I still need to perfect the next chapter, but I will post it before this saturday)
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07 Jun 2026