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• The Hunt for Will Byers by bi0_hazard, goremipsum

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  27 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Minor Characters
  • When I say "The Party" I also mean Max and Jane
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • POV Third Person Omniscient
  • Work In Progress
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Skips around a bit from s1 adjacent to s5 adjacent
  • Location also skips around from Hawkins The Upside Down and Camazotz
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna is His Own Warning
  • I'm gonna be so honest I have no idea how to tag this yet
  • I will add or remove tags as I see fit

  Summary

  Will Byers has been missing for nearly 4 years to the day. His family & friends are convinced he is still alive, but the rest of the town seems to think they’ve gone crazy. Little do they all know, Will is still alive by means more supernatural than his peers initially anticipated. But most importantly, what really happened to him, and where has he been all this time?
  —
  Henry Creel wanted nothing more than to punish the world for how it wronged him. He had been sitting, waiting, patiently for a pliable young soul to cross him. Someone he could show the truth, someone he could break, someone he could mould into the perfect vessel. His world required a brilliant young mind for his plan to work, and how lucky was he to find one as vulnerable as Will Byers.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Hunt - Stranger Things AU

  Language:

  English

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  4,277

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