'tis the damn season.
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you're all that i've known for a while by wayward_sherlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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The ache has multiplied, now, spreading from his chest to his whole body, and he suddenly feels a real urge to cry, for the first time in — years, probably. He wants so desperately to talk to Will that it feels a little bit like he might throw up, but he knows that Will sleeping through the entire night is almost as rare as it is for Mike — less because of his brain betraying him and keeping him up like Mike’s does, but more because of the near-constant nightmares he never talks about — and he looks so peaceful, laying under the softest blanket that Mike could find, that Mike refuses to be that selfish, selfish enough to wake him.
He can — he can stay, though. Maybe watching Will breathe will be enough to make Mike’s insides stop churning, stop doing their damndest to escape through his skin.
christmas eve, 1986. mike just wants to be close to will.
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- Part 1 of 'tis the damn season.
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“So, I was thinking,” he starts, and Will freezes, halfway through helping Holly roll their small snowball into a larger one that they can stack.
“Don’t hurt yourself,” Will says, earning him a playful shove from Mike, and he laughs, giddy with the warmth that spreads through his body, radiating from the point of contact. “Thinking about —?”
“You,” Mike says, breathless, and Will’s face must convey the way his body goes into acute shock because Mike follows up quickly. “I mean — you being cold. The heater? Um, I just — I don’t want you to sleep in the basement again tonight if it’s super cold, that’s all.”
christmas, 1986. will tries not to make his pining obvious, but mike has other plans.
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- Part 2 of 'tis the damn season.