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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jan 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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It’s been three years after the events of season 4, and time has done nothing to mend the growing cracks in Mike and Will’s friendship. The party, once thought to be lifelong friends, has broken apart and gone their own ways, trying to move past the horrors they’ve endured. They closed the gate. They saved Max in time. Vecna is dead.
Will Byers, however, is still haunted by the memories of what happened all those years ago, trapped, alone, and unable to move on. But when those memories start bleeding into real life, and imagined threats start to become all too real, Will must find it within himself to fight this evil one more time.
When that leads to Mike Wheeler showing up in his life once more, well, that’s just one more headache Will doesn’t want to deal with. He’s moved on, and Mike is just a bitter reminder of everything he’s lost.
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“I’m sorry, Will.” Mike spoke the words softly, a near-whisper that could’ve easily been swept into the quiet whistle of the wind, only heard by the one who uttered them.
“No, you’re not,” Will says without turning around. “If you were, or if you had been, you wouldn’t be saying this three years too late.”
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Will knew something was wrong back in Lenora. He just didn't know how to confront everyone. How do you even begin telling your mom, brother, and estranged best friend that they had missed your birthday?
A story in which Will is being forgotten by those he loves.
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What if Joyce and Hopper weren't able to find Will? What if he escaped the Demogorgan, but was left stranded in the Upside Down?
This is the story of a boy returning to a world that continued on without him.
