Dreaming

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Listing Series

• Dreams I’ll Dream Instead by blellow_surfers

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  07 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • Alternate Season/Series 05
  • Fix-It
  • Post-Apocalypse
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • POV Will Byers
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Minor Character Death
  • Co-Written
  • Betaed
  • They are 16 in our heads we don’t know why
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Slow Burn
  • Background Relationships
  • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper

  Summary

  “I feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods.”
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  For the past few days, this memory has served as the perfect wound Will can press on to keep his feelings in check.

  After all, in that moment, Will was forced to surrender to reality; Mike’s future with Will was always going to be half-empty, waiting for someone else to complete it.

  So why, even with the nail long-driven into the coffin, why does he still end up feeling like he’s hanging around for Mike?

  Series

  • Part 1 of Dreaming

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,400

  Chapters:

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  Comments:

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