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• So until then, do you want to be... more than friends? by ahearttomatchit

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  • Work in Progress

  25 Dec 2025

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Title from a Lucy Dacus Song
  • Inspired by a Lucy Dacus Song
  • Drunken Confessions
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Holding Hands
  • Song: More Than Friends (Lucy Dacus)

  Summary

  The final battle with Vecna is approaching, and the party wants to have fun. Then, Will and Mike have some time alone and hold hands, this brings up a lot of questions for Mike and Will ends up drinking too much. Mike gets asked to bring Will home, and a difficult conversation ensues.

  OR: Will gets drunk after holding Mike's hand, and internalized homophobia comes into play.

  Inspired by the song More Than Friends by Lucy Dacus.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,740

  Chapters:

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  Kudos:

  6

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