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Disconnected by calmb4storm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow
13 Oct 2025
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Panic begins to run through his veins, speeding up his pulse and his breathing. “I can’t– why don’t I remember it? I don’t remember any of it.”
Mike blanches. “Any of what, Will?”
Jonathan’s hand is on his knee. Both of them are too close. He can’t breathe.
“The Upside Down. I… I can’t remember any of the Upside Down.”
OR: A Will Byers-centric speculation of ST5! Based on trailers, BTS footage, and some scenes from The First Shadow.
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Dear Steve, if you get this letter... I hope they don't blame you for it.
Dear Will, I wish we'd gotten the chance to be better friends.
Dear Mike, I know what it's like to want to run away from your fear.
Dear Dustin, thank you for being my friend.
Dear El, you're probably the best person I've ever met.
Dear Lucas, try not to hate me, if you can. I didn't want to go. I didn't want to let everything fall apart.
From/Sincerely/Love,
Your number one Zoomer.
Max_______________________________
A year and a half is a long time to wait for the world to end. It's even longer when, for you, it already has.
Vecna is hiding—somewhere. Max is alive, but barely. And it feels like there’s nothing to be done. The clues have dried up, the trail is cold, the world is rotting.
The Party will have to fight again someday, though when isn’t clear and no one is providing any answers. All they can do is try and stay together until that time comes.
But, you know. That sort of thing is easier said than done.Series
- Part 2 of Stranger Things: After the Earthquake
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Will’s cheeks are still pink, but he’s not pulling away. Mike thinks he’s about to die, a little bit. He starts tugging Will into a sort-of circle, trying to move with the beat of the music and not the rapid hammering of his heart. He can’t help but stare some more—like a fool—when Will catches his eye, lost for words. Mike thinks he could spend forever staring into Will’s eyes like an idiot. Suddenly, Wil bursts out with, “Like a river floooows, surely to the seaaaa!”
Will’s voice is more laughter than melody and he’s grinning, flexing his hand against Mike’s shoulder and doing some weird shimmy-dance-thing. Mike blinks, startled, and then laughs. “Darling so it goes, some things are meant to beeeee!” he tosses back, singing only marginally better than Will, though he’s not aiming for good. This is so much better than algebra homework, and he wants to bottle up the warm, fluttery feeling in his chest so it never fades.
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Egotistical, arrogant, flirtatious.
These are the words Will would use to describe the new transfer, Mike Wheeler. Everything he does makes Will annoyed, angry, jealous and lustful all at the same time.
Unfortunately, they grow closer as Mike learns Will’s darkest secret.
Will just wanted to move on from his middle school torment… why did this have to happen?
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Set post s4 and pre s5, with Will staying at the Wheelers and established bychance but with a byler finale.
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“Seriously? He’s coming. Again.”
“Dude,” Lucas groaned.
“Again with this, Mike?”
“I just don’t get why he’s still tagging along,” he complained.
Will rolled his eyes, he’d been doing that a lot recently, and started walking towards his backpack, “Because he wants to come and I’m not gonna stop him.”
Bookmarked by GettingLost_InMoonlight
16 Oct 2025
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Time doesn’t move the way it used to. When the world falls apart, like, really goes to shit, three months should feel like nothing. Most people are too frantic to notice what Will can only describe as an ascending horror movie soundtrack narrating his every move.
A part of him must still be pinned to the rotting wall of Hawkins library, conscious of every second in every day, desperate to be rescued from something only he can see.
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A hypothetical Season 5, from Will's perspective.
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Will pressed his face to the glass, wishing that he were closer. The man’s cheeks were pale, having thick eyebrows and lips. His nose was long, though it didn’t disrupt the harmony of the man’s features. His eyes were the most captivating part of his face: wide and brown, reflecting the moonlight.
In other words, he was beautiful.
Will found himself blushing, feeling foolish for swooning over the knight, who clearly was just doing his job. He couldn’t help but itch for his parchment and ink, to see the man up close, take in those eyes when they weren’t forced to remain a disciplined neutral.
AKA: Fantasy/DND inspired byler AU!
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Sarah Byers, adopted daughter of Joyce Byers, older sister to Will Byers, and twin to Johnathan Byers, has been keeping a secret from everyone that she knows. But what will happen when a girl with a past like her's shows up with the disappearance of her baby brother happening. Will her secret be known, will she be forced to go back home, or will she just ignore everything while her party goes monster hunting? If only normal things happened in Hawkins.
TAKES PLACE SEASON 1-4. ALL RIGHTS GO TO ORIGINAL ARTISTS AND THE CREATOR OF STRANGERTHINGS. I ONLY OWN SARAH BYERS AND HER STORY.
WARNING: SWEARS
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A certain scene from the movie popped up, causing Will’s mouth to drop open and for his eyes to widen as he soaked in what was on the TV.
Of all the scenes in the movie, Mike had returned The Outsiders paused during the few, brief seconds when Sodapop was getting out of the shower in the background of the shot. Sodapop haphazardly covered himself with a towel, and then wrapped the towel just, like, stupidly low around his hips, his chest still wet and bare from the shower.
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3 times that Mike Wheeler doesn’t rewind his rental movie before returning it to Family Video + 1 time that he does.
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i was going to make a joke about time travel but nobody laughed by iry
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Oct 2025
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At 16, Will Byers thought nothing could surprise him anymore, but he didn’t take time travel into account. Now he’s stuck on the other side of his infamous disappearance, trying to herd his twelve-year-old friends into planning a rescue mission for… himself?
Meanwhile, Mike Wheeler is having a crisis. Multiple crises actually, but the current and most important one is finding Will Byers who claims he's from the future after Mike just saw Will Byer’s dead body getting pulled out of the lake.
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˙uᴉɐldɯoɔ oʇ ƃuᴉoƃ ʇou ʎluᴉɐʇɹǝɔ s’ǝɥ ʇnq 'pǝɹɐǝddɐ sɐɥ ɹǝlǝǝɥM ǝʞᴉW ɹǝplo uɐ ʎɥʍ puɐʇsɹǝpun ʎllɐǝɹ oʇ ǝʌᴉʌɹns oʇ ƃuᴉʇɥƃᴉɟ ʎsnq ooʇ sᴉ sɹǝʎq llᴉM 'ǝlᴉɥʍuɐǝW
˙pɐǝp ɯᴉɥ ʇuɐʍ ʇɐɥʇ lᴉʌǝ ɟo sǝɔɹoɟ ʎuɐɯ ǝɥʇ ʎq pǝllᴉʞ ƃuᴉǝq ɯoɹɟ 'ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝƃɐ 'sɹǝʎq llᴉM ǝʌɐs oʇ ƃuᴉʎɹʇ ɟlǝsɯᴉɥ spuᴉɟ 'ƃuoɹʍ ǝuoƃ uoᴉssᴉɯ ǝnɔsǝɹ ɐ ɹǝʇɟɐ ʇnq 'ʎʇᴉlᴉqᴉssod ɐ sɐ lǝʌɐɹʇ ǝɯᴉʇ ʇno pǝlnɹ ʇ’upɐɥ ɹǝlǝǝɥM ǝʞᴉW '9Ɩ ʇ∀
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The end of the world shouldn’t be like this. It should be ending with a loud bang or a big, sad wave of applause. Not like this. Scattered military bases across a small, rather apocalyptic town, red flashed ground, rain smelling of acid and puke. The scene could remind one of a very bad horror movie, filmed in the sixties on a really, really low budget.
But it’s the reality, the reality William Byers has started to be fine with.
Well at least trying to be fine with. The raw apocalypse has started to seem way more soothing than attending high school under the circumstances. If will Byers was normal, maybe things would be different, easier and he could pack up and leave the government to the work. But unfortunately this wasn’t the case.(This fanfic is a small „prediction“ for season 5 of stranger things. It will actually focus on Byler but the plot will still be there. I’ll post at least 4 times a week, maybe less, maybe more, depends on my exams.)
Every chapter will have the title of a song, I’ll recommend listening to it while reading the chapter! :)
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“No. No, Mike, can you hear me?” He nods, ever so slightly. It’s enough for Will. If he’s dying— if these are truly the last words that will ever be spoken between them— there’s only one thing he can say. “I love you. I’m in love with you, Mike, please. You can’t go. I love you so much,” Will whispers, cradling his body to his chest.
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Will confesses his feelings as Mike takes his last breaths— and then Mike decides to be a stubborn asshole about it and survives. Will is left to deal with the aftermath of his choice, navigating an awkward new friendship.
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“Do you ever wonder if this is just what life’s gonna be like now?”
Mike glances over at him. “You mean… walking around empty fields hoping the apocalypse isn’t still happening?”
Will let out a dry laugh. “Yeah. Pretty much.”
Mike doesn’t answer right away. He was quiet for a few steps, then said, “I used to think after high school, things would feel… clearer. Like there’d be a plan or something. Like we'd get to just live.”
“Same.” Will kicked a rock. “But I guess we’re not really the ‘normal life’ type.”
Mike snorted. “You think?”
There was a long pause.
“I miss it,” Will says suddenly. “Before.”
Mike nods, throat tightening. “Yeah. Me too.”
They stopped walking without realizing it.
Just stood there for a second in the middle of the orchard. No monsters. No voices.
Just them.
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It’s been 3 months since they defeated Vecna when Mike and El break up. Finally, Mike picks up on his feelings for Will. But when Vecna returns, how will Mike balance his sexuality crisis with the return of the apocalypse?
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Left His Heart There in the Sea by Concerned_terrapin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2024
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“Mr. Byers! I was hoping to catch you. This is Dr. Owens, from Hawkins National Laboratory.”
Will pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, already feeling a headache beginning to form in his temples. "I’m kind of in the middle of a lecture here, can this wait?”
“I’m afraid it can’t. We need your assistance urgently.”
“And why do you need me?” Will was unable to suppress the bitterness in his tone, “You’ve got plenty of experts and doctors on your staff. I’m just a grad student, and I’m halfway across the country. What could I possibly do that no one else could?”
Dr. Owens cleared his throat on the other end of the line, “You’re the only one who’s been there and made it out alive. Honestly, we could use your expertise. We’ve caught a specimen. A live one. And you’re definitely going to want to see this.”
Or, it's 1998 and the Upside Down is still alive and kicking, and something new just came out.
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04 Oct 2025
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THE GREATEST THING EVER WRITTEN
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Where Were You (When I Was Lonesome) by Concerned_terrapin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2023
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He didn’t really understand why someone would want to go to a cemetery for a birthday party, but hey, maybe Will was a bit of a weird kid.
“Hey Will.” Mike called, his voice gentler than he had ever heard it.
He whipped his head around, scanning the rows for another figure, desperately looking for Will. It didn’t really click until Mike stepped forward and knelt beside a grave, placing his perfectly imperfect cake in front of a well-kept headstone.
Oh.
Will Byers is dead.
So how the hell did he end up stuck haunting Mike Wheeler's basement?
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There's something wrong with Hawkins, and Will can feel it.
Yeah, okay— so there's always been something wrong with Hawkins. But even this, Will thinks, is teetering on the edge between wrong and plain fucking crazy.
Holly’s found a new friend in an invisible man who gives her invisible toys. Nancy keeps looking at Will like she wants him dead, or maybe just out of her house. All the animals in Hawkins are acting more like possessed statues than actual animals, and Will keeps hearing a raspy, unsettling voice that seems to think he has some sort of power.
As for Mike, Will doesn't even want to think about him, because the guy is driving Will mad. And the bar for Mike making Will crazy is practically in hell, so that should say something.
Oh, right. Did he not mention the sleepwalking?
(Or; Will’s started hearing from a certain someone— think blonde hair, unnerving smile, limb-snapping tendencies— who thinks he has a certain power. Holly’s started hearing from a man who wants to take her to Wonderland.)
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Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
“Take me.”
Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
“Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
“Deal.”---
Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
Mike takes this about as well as can be expected.