Okay So I Was Driving For 5 Hours The Other Day And I Came Up With This Fic Idea. Basically Billy Worked

Okay so I was driving for 5 hours the other day and I came up with this fic idea. Basically Billy worked for a 24-hour mechanic shop called “Patchwork” in California since he was 13. (At first maybe it was just after school for a couple hours and on the weekends, and then it goes to the night shift.)

I’m thinking Patchwork is really weird, like there’s 2 floors and the first one is the garage and the second is a motel type thing. But basically it’s for LGBT+ people, like if they were kicked out, or being chased by someone, or just need a place to stay for the night.

Anyways, he worked at the front desk from 13-14 and basically he took calls, made appointments, booked the motel, and all this other stuff. I’m thinking like he helped patch people up who were injured. (I was thinking like rudimentary stitches, or splinting a limb or something.)

And then from 15-17 he worked as a mechanic. I had a weird idea for the shop too. So you know how the Boy Scouts have badges once they complete a task, well Patchwork has something similar. They get patches to put on their coveralls for like their 1st oil change, first alignment, first tire change, and stuff like that. (Side note: I don’t know anything about mechanics or cars.)

Ooo maybe one for like “complete restoration” and like it could be that he restored his Camaro from like scraps basically. Like he fixed everything.

You can also get badges like “combat medic” if you help patch someone up, like I mentioned earlier. Or one like “safe space” if you helped hide someone who was being chased. I’m also thinking of one for helping someone who died from AIDS, but I don’t know what it would say or if that’s insensitive. Maybe like the persons name and the years they lived though.

But anyways once they move to Hawkins, immediately he’s applying to the one 24- hour mechanic in Hawkins and coincidentally they’re looking to hire someone for the night shift. (Not coincidentally because this is a fic.) So yeah they hire him and like I don’t know what happens after that, I didn’t drive for long enough.

Maybe before Billy beats up Steve, Steve comes to the shop after his car broke down and they become friends so they don’t fight and Billy helps them later with all the upside down stuff.

Ooo maybe he meets Steve while his car gets a flat and Billy pulls over to help him cos Steve doesn’t know how to change a tire.

Also I want the guy who hires Billy, to like be cool with gay people and maybe he sees the safe space badge and maybe there’s a pink triangle on it, and he mentions like his brother is gay or something and they make the mechanic shop a safe space as well for LGBT+ people.

I also want Billy’s coveralls to be the same color as the Camaro.

Also maybe Neil and Max and Susan don’t know about the jobs he had, they just think he’s partying all the time. Like he keeps his work clothes and shoes in the car and when he needs to wash them he takes them to a laundromat.