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  the comforts that make us feel numb by passerine_in_jade

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  03 Oct 2023

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • During Canon
  • like. mid season 4
  • Pre-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
  • is the vibes but honestly its been so long i couldnt tell you when in the timeline i want this to be
  • Recreational Drug Use
  • mike and will smoke weed for the first time
  • First Kiss
  • Making Out
  • Mutual Pining
  • Cheating
  • as in Mike and Will make out mid s4 meaning mike and el arent broken up
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • mostly shame about gay desire
  • these tags make it sound like angst and there is that
  • but theres also byler being silly and high and in love

  Summary

  “No, but really. If I were a girl,” Mike presses on, looking up at Will with red-rimmed eyes through dark lashes. Leaning in. Somehow, fully unaware that this line of questioning has Will's heart climbing up to his throat. “Would you want to kiss me?”

  Will and Mike get high in the desert.

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  Bookmarked by applerats

  07 May 2026

  Bookmarker's Collections:

  • Bottom Mike
  • highler