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The battle was supposed to end with Vecna dead and all of his friends safe.
Maybe injured, but alive.Mike didn’t remember the moment things went wrong.
Only the moment he came back out.
And Will didn’t.He learned the shape of grief the way other people learn a name.
The cemetery became his second home.
Hours spent there, talking to a stone that never answers, except in the ways he starts to imagine it does.Until November 6th, 1988.
When Will answered back.
And Mike realizes the worst part of losing someone isn’t that they’re gone.It’s that sometimes… they aren’t.
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09 Aug 2026
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The gates to Hawkins have closed and Will Byers is left migrating between his friend's homes for their senior year. A bad storm leaves the Wheeler's basement flooded and a tornado siren sends Mike and Will into a closet, where they are forced to confront their feelings after far too long.
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A pre-dumpster-fire-of-an-epilogue alternate, well-deserved happy ending for our favorite, Will Byers.- Language:
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09 Aug 2026
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It’s 1995; Mike Wheeler is twenty-four, new to New York City, and desperately in need of someone he actually knows to help with his semester-long Master’s assignment.
And then, he runs into a familiar face at a bookstore.
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25 Jul 2026
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Maybe Will decides that enough is enough, and lets Mike go. Maybe whatever persists between them dies slowly of benign neglect, until all that remains is shared trauma and dead memories that don’t mean what they once did. Or maybe he just never hears Mike’s voice again. He shudders.
But what if it's not too late?
Too late for what?
What do you do when the world fails to end? If you’re Will Byers, you build a life. If you’re Mike Wheeler, you build a tomb.
It’s been a decade since El disappeared, Mike is still trapped in his own head, and no one knows how to talk about it. Then, Mike does something impulsive, and sets in motion a chain of events that will cause Will to question everything he believes - including about himself.
Or: A story about grief, love, fate, freedom, and the things that hide in the dark (and maybe the light, too). This starts slow, but bear with me; I promise it doesn't go where you're expecting!
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- Part 1 of Nature and Supernature
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22 Jun 2026
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
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- 25/25
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29 May 2026