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• Our hearts beat as one by Hannaaaaaa

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  02 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Vickie (Stranger Things)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Murray Bauman
  • English Is Not The Author's First Language
  • 1980s
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Teenage Drama
  • Mysticism
  • Science Fiction
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Jonathan Byers Needs a Hug
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug
  • Will Byers Has Powers
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Platonic Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
  • Past Child Abuse

  Summary

  1988: In a small town called Hawkins, a strange boy is found with black veins spreading across his arms. No one in this world knows who he is or where he came from.

  Or

  AU, in which Will Byers never existed and the Upside Down was never opened.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  36,421

  Chapters:

  4/?

  Comments:

  12

  Kudos:

  63

  Bookmarks:

  17

  Hits:

  920