HYPNOTIC.

Her heartbreak goes a little like this: Girl meets boy, girl befriends boy, girl likes boy, boy doesn't like girl, girl confesses her love to boy anyway, boy rips her heart out.

She should've seen it coming, really, because

she's over here

and he's over there

and when they're together, she feels whole again, like the broken pieces of her heart are fusing back together. When she looks him in his pretty brown eyes, she wonders how many other hearts he's broken (now including hers). She wonders if he's lost count of the hearts he holds in his hands with the ability to crush them at any moment.

Because, really, Violet Sheridan's heart will always sit in the palm of Steve Harrington's hand, letting him do with it what he will.

And maybe that's why she starts fake-dating his enemy Billy Hargrove – to make Steve feel something towards her. And maybe that's why when Billy offers her up to be hypnotized at some random party, she doesn't say no – so she can show Steve that she's more than just his best friend who's in love with him. She can be more than that. She can take risks, she can be fun, she can survive without him.

And she thinks it works...until she starts feeling like her body is on fire, and she starts sweating, and she feels like she can't breathe anymore, and she keeps calling out of work at her new job because her body feels like glass. She feels like she's slowly losing her mind, falling into the darkness, with no way out.

Not even Steve Harrington can grasp her heart hard enough to bring her back.

STARRING...

GRACE VAN PATTEN. VIOLET SHERIDAN.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: language, death, blood, gore, sexual situations, drugs. please be advised before continuing.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: y'all aren't even ready omggggg

🫀first of all, no this is not a love triangle. no, I am not romanticizing billy or his actions. yes, I will be giving other sides of billy bc I believe all people are like onions even if they're outwardly terrible people. anyway. you'll find out.

🫀she fell first but he fell harder trope is one of my favorites so here !! we !! are !! also...fake dating tropes are superior and that's all I've got to say on that subject. we love a jealous steve!!

🫀this takes place just before season 3 and continues into season 4! hold on tight, this will be a wild ride :)

🫀violet is my little child and I will protect her with my life bc she'll never do any wrong.

anyway!!! let me know what you think!! I'm so excited to start this and share violet's story with you!! xoxo