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• Only then I am human (only then I am clean) by MARABOU_22194

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Rape/Non-Con
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Angela (Stranger Things)
  • Chance (Stranger Things)
  • Troy Walsh (Stranger Things)
  • Trans Mike Wheeler
  • Trans Male Mike Wheeler
  • Crying
  • Bullying
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Physical Abuse
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Protective Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay
  • Author Is Sleep Deprived
  • Author is Projecting
  • How Do I Tag
  • I feel like this might be a monster fic
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Kind Of
  • I'm Bad at Tagging
  • Depressed Mike Wheeler
  • Pre-Relationship
  • Suicidal Mike Wheeler
  • Boi he 11 that's how fucked up ts gets
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • ish
  • This is not meant to be crack
  • If y'all think this is crack I've failed as a writer
  • Blood and Injury
  • Good Parent Karen Wheeler
  • She's trying her best guys
  • No beta we die like all of Mike's character depth in season five
  • Unreliable Narrator Mike Wheeler
  • Mike wheeler has internalized transphobia

  Summary

  Mike had never thought that it would be like this.

  He never thought he'd be lying on a grimey campsite bathroom floor in the early hours of the morning, so early the sun hadn't yet risen, weighing out the pros and cons of staying here until his eyes closed indefinitely: if the world's clearly given up on him, why shouldn't he give up on him too?

  Mike goes on a school camping trip when he's eleven. Things don't go the way he plans.

  Or:

  Bullying crosses a line Mike never thought it would.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The chronicals of trans Mike Wheeler

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  English

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