Doldrums Duology

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• ex-friends until the end (better off as lovers) by torturedpoetssociety08

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)  

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

  27 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers/Richie Tozier
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier
  • Will Byers
  • Richie Tozier
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Steve Harrington
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • Middle School
  • set in between seasons 2 and 3
  • Song: Bang The Doldrums (Fall Out Boy)
  • Title from a Fall Out Boy Song
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • no beta we die like jane hopper
  • Byler endgame
  • Richie Tozier is a Little Shit
  • Gay Richie Tozier
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Canon Related

  Summary

  but not the other way around...

  Mike's cousin Richie gets sent to Hawkins Middle School for two weeks while kids in Derry go missing

  Set between seasons 2-3 with byler and reddie endgame

  Series

  • Part 1 of Doldrums Duology

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,026

  Chapters:

  14/14

  Comments:

  88

  Kudos:

  588

  Bookmarks:

  55

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