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• And If You Go, I Wanna Go With You by an_extra_terrestrial

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  05 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers
  • Rewrite
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff
  • byler
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Not Beta Read

  Summary

  In November of 1983, two young boys died in a lake in Hawkins, Indiana. Just days after each other.

  One boy’s body was pulled from the lake, the other was last seen jumping into it just hours after.

  Michael Wheeler and William Byers become a tale. A warning.

  A warning of what happens to kids like them.

  Except, Mike and Will didn’t die that night.

  Dying might have been kinder than the fate they received after.

  Or: What if when Mike jumped in Season 1, Eleven didn’t save him and he ended up in the Upside Down?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,821

  Chapters:

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  Kudos:

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