signs of a life well-lived
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“Forever?”
Though the camera doesn’t catch it, Joyce and Jonathan exchange an amused look over the rearview.
Then, the footage splices, rapidly cutting through various points in life—Will and Mike’s first time hanging out at the Byers’; Mike coming over for Will’s birthday; Will coming over for Mike’s. Flashes of middle school that stretched into those final days before they left for Lenora. High school, graduation, moving day—the clips start blurring into one another as more pop up, but it stops on a clip of Mike and Will, probably around six years old, giggling as they try to handle the camera.
“We’ll see about forever, honey.”
(or, the one where jonathan byers has a lot of stocked up video footage from when mike and will were kids, and decides that the best time to reveal them is during his best man speech at their wedding.)
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- Part 1 of signs of a life well-lived
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He feels a ring on his finger and a promise that holds him by the small of his back. He feels Mike’s knee accidentally brushing against his feet when he goes down on one. He swallows down a laugh and a bottle of red underneath a blanket of stars that never quite shows itself this far out in the city.
Will lets himself feel it. All of it.
He finds that love is the thing that remains.
Oh, what a relief.
(or, the one where will byers has been engaged for seven hours, and nothing bad has happened yet. he's getting around to the idea that maybe nothing ever will.)
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- Part 2 of signs of a life well-lived