The One Where It Clicked

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Listing Series

• It (Finally) Clicked by Jeans_03

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

  09 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
  • Will Byers's Painting
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • First Kiss
  • Kissing in the Rain
  • Heavy Angst
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Depression
  • Love Confessions
  • Coming Out
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Self-Harm
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Author used emdashes for the first time in her LIFE
  • painting gate
  • Smut
  • Showering Together
  • Gentle Sex
  • Top Mike Wheeler
  • Bottom Will Byers
  • Oral Sex
  • Idiots in Love
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower References
  • Song: Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
  • Song: Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat)
  • Song Lyrics

  Summary

  Sometimes it takes a little while for the dots to connect.

  Or

  The story of a painting and the boys it brought back together.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The One Where It Clicked

  Language:

  English

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