Byler scenes in Vol. 3 - The Rightside Up
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“It’s not Hawkins,” Mike says softly. “It’s me. I’m not the same without you.”
Set in the quiet, breath-held moments before the storm breaks, this short fic is my exploration of how Byler can happen during the finale of Stranger Things: a space between fear and courage, honesty and survival, where Will finally lets go—and Mike finally realises how deeply his life has been oriented around Will’s presence.
This work is part of an ongoing series of short scenes written ahead of the finale, imagining how Byler could remain a possibility in Vol 3 if I were to fix some aspects of Vol 2.
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Will reached Mike. Not with his hands, with memory and feeling, with the raw, aching truth he had carried quietly for years. He poured it forward, into the red, into the noise, into the place where Vecna had rooted himself.
“It can’t end like this,” he whispered, voice breaking despite himself. “Not you. Not again.”
As Hawkins and the Upside Down begin to merge, Vecna exploits the most dangerous weakness of all: what’s been left unsaid.
When Mike is trapped inside Vecna’s mind, Will must decide how far he’s willing to go to save him—even if it means tapping into the Hive Mind and risking himself entirely. Meanwhile, Eleven confronts Henry at the source, as everything old threatens to collapse.
A speculative Volume 3 scene exploring love under pressure, where Byler can no longer be ignored, and survival depends on truth.
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