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• Only been here for a moment (but I know I want you) by VenusAugust31st

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  30 Aug 2022

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • Eddie Munson
  • Argyle (Stranger Things)
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Troy Walsh (Stranger Things)
  • he's more mentioned than anything though
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • (she's in this as much as the rest of the party it just wouldn't let me add her earlier)
  • Friends to Lovers
  • First Love
  • Getting Together
  • Coming Out
  • First Kiss
  • Fluff
  • a bit of angst now and then
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • no beta we die like every person with glasses that's friends with Nancy Wheeler
  • Post-Canon
  • Secret Relationship
  • Character Study
  • kinda i guess
  • Homophobic Language
  • Happy Ending
  • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • minor internalized homophobia now and then (it's really not much you can trust me)
  • mostly from Mike's POV but sometimes there's also Will and some others for a short amount of time
  • POV Alternating
  • Max is in a wheelchair (it's not important to the story but it's important to me)

  Summary

  It’s almost summer again in Hawkins, and thanks to a group of rag-tag teenagers, any threat from the supernatural had finally subsided. With the Byers, Hopper and Eleven moving back to Indiana and the party being complete once again, things can finally go back to normal. Although, both Will and Mike wouldn’t call what was happening between them normal at first.

  or: My take on what should have happened during/after Season 4 Volume 2.

  (The title is lyrics from “I’m with You” by Vance Joy. The acoustic version is one of my favorite songs at the moment and it fits so well, you should definitely listen to it some time while reading this fic.)

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  English

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