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   Mad World by AstridEstelle

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   29 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Jason Carver & Will Byers
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jason Carver
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers Has a Gun
   • Will Byers in the Upside Down
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Jason Carver Redemption
   • Background Relationships
   • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • idk why I don't even like him
   • lol

   Summary

   What if Will never made it out of the upside down? What if the gates started closing before Joyce and Hopper could save him, and all they found of Will was the bloodied shirt? What if he spent the next three years there alone fighting for survival? What if right before he goes to hunt down Eddie, Jason goes back to Lover's Lake, just in time to see Will Byers emerge from the depths below. The world's gone mad.

   Series

   • Part 6 of One Day I'll Finish...

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   English

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