baby, you can change (and still choose me)

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• baby, you can change (and still choose me) by notapartytrick

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  02 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Domestic Fluff
  • Reconciliation
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler Needs Therapy
  • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
  • Will Byers Gets a Break
  • New York City
  • Adult Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Fix-It
  • Post-Canon Fix-It
  • nyc frivolity
  • two grown men blurring every boundary sharing a studio apartment
  • the 90s equivalent of lime bikes??
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Happy Will Byers
  • Will Byers Has Nightmares
  • and who dyou think is gonna end up there to comfort him????
  • art class
  • Artist Will Byers
  • Writer Mike Wheeler
  • Slow Burn
  • First Kiss
  • There Was Only One Bed
  • mike wheeler fixes his mistakes
  • but only after making many more
  • will byers has the patience of a saint

  Summary

  Mike Wheeler is stuck. Has felt that way for months now and can't seem to shake it. Running out on an NYC premiere, he bumps into Will Byers, who he's been avoiding writing back to for months. Will Byers, happy and settled in the city, who Mike neglected to tell about said premiere. It doesn't help that Mike's cracked his face open on the stupid sidewalk.

  Will, concerned, insists he stay with him, and old feelings and memories resurface further and further the longer they spend together.

  Series

  • Part 1 of baby, you can change (and still choose me)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  40,083

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

  32

  Kudos:

  84

  Bookmarks:

  17

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