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They thought moving to California would fix everything. Far from Hawkins. Far from the Upside Down. Far from the monsters.
They were wrong.
Will starts having dreams about the death of a girl he has never seen, watching through her eyes as something dark and patient coils closer.
Or the second part of my fanfic where the Mind Flayer asks Billy to kill Will before Eleven.
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After everything with Vecna, Will Byers thought surviving the Upside Down was the hardest thing he would ever have to do. He was wrong. Back home, he finds himself facing a different kind of monster, one he’s spent years learning to hide from. His abusive father Lonnie.
Mike notices the cracks in Will’s carefully built mask, but Will refuses to let anyone see how badly he’s hurting, especially Mike. Because being saved is one thing. Letting someone know you need saving is another. -
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“That night, after Mike drops Will back home— he draws. A beautiful, full page portrait of Mike and the exact moment when they cuddled up together at the movie theater.
A broken down house with a stain glass window on the next—“Or a byler-centric season 3 re-write where Mike and Will are already together, and Will is experiencing something strange.
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Something Soft, Something Wrong (held too tightly) by zozomochibear
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Sep 2026
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Will nearly died after the final battle, spending almost two months in a coma while the rest of Hawkins waited helplessly for him to wake up.
Those months changed everything.
For Mike, losing Will once was enough to destroy him. Watching him lie motionless in a hospital bed day after day left him terrified of ever letting Will out of his sight again. So when Will finally wakes up, Mike clings to him harder than ever. Protective at first. Then possessive. Obsessive. Controlling.
And the others let it happen.
The Party remembers how empty everything felt without Will around and how scared they were that he would never wake up. They saw how broken Mike was while waiting for Will to wake up. So instead of calling Mike out, they support him and help convince Will that all of it is normal and only because they love and care about him.
Even if it means manipulating Will into believing the same thing.

