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• Never Much Good At Goodbyes by lilies_in_a_vase

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  06 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Tommy Hagan/Carol Perkins
  • Tommy Hagan & Billy Hargrove & Carol Perkins
  • Carol Perkins
  • Tommy Hagan
  • Billy Hargrove
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Dead Billy Hargrove
  • Good Friend Carol Perkins
  • Protective Carol Perkins
  • Carol Perkins Needs a Hug
  • Good Friend Tommy Hagan
  • Tommy Hagan Needs a Hug
  • Tommy Hagan & Billy Hargrove & Carol Perkins Friendship
  • Gay Billy Hargrove
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Road Trips
  • Friendship
  • Post-Season/Series 03
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • I mean he’s still dead but everything is relative
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield Needs a Hug
  • Whumptober 2025
  • POV Carol Perkins
  • grave robbing
  • Yes you read that right
  • The Author Regrets Nothing
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Chapter 2 is a much shorter and alternate version of chapter 1 with a hopeful ending
  • In which Billy probably is not actually dead

  Summary

  Neil buries Billy in Hawkins.

  Tommy and Carol set out to fix that.

  Series

  • Part 6 of Lilies does Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,725

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  13

  Kudos:

  36

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  196