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• You promised "together." Honour your word. (Please?) by Mdashqa

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  07 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Robin Buckley
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Slow Burn
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Mental Breakdown
  • Panic Attacks
  • Friendship
  • Friendship/Love
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Drama
  • Feelings Realization
  • Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Music
  • Created While Listening to The Cure's Music
  • Childhood Friends
  • Childhood Friends to Lovers
  • Boys In Love
  • Love Confessions
  • Supportive Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Post-Vecna (Stranger Things)
  • First Kiss
  • Promises
  • Coma
  • steve smokes
  • maybe Mike smokes too
  • Blindness
  • Good Sibling Jonathan Byers
  • Masturbation in Shower
  • Work In Progress

  Summary

  Mike seemed to have become a ghost in two months. Time is passing, time is not going to wait, but Mike does not understand why people start pretending that everything is fine. How can they smile or go to the movies when Will isn't around?

  In short: Mike's monologue, then another monologue, and maybe another one...?

  Language:

  English

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