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• If you must damn yourself, you must do so delicately by cornchip69

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  24 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • el is alive
  • Max as a bartender
  • Aged Up
  • Will in art school in new york
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Protective Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • but Mike Wheeler tries for Will
  • Eventual Smut
  • Fluff
  • Shared bed except its not forced
  • Their gay asses are doing it to themselves
  • "The couch is sooo uncomfortable"
  • "I need to sleep in your bed Will"
  • Bottom Will Byers
  • Service Top Mike Wheeler
  • Cute housewives for eachother
  • Sesbian lex?
  • fix-it specifically of will byers ending bc what was that
  • Will evil boyfriend
  • No cheating bc I fear we don't do that here
  • But wills evil boyfriend can go die
  • boooo will's evil boyfriend
  • Fish Racism
  • The penguin has autism too
  • slight dead dove with mike wheeler sh/intrusive thoughts
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • mike wheeler is so many things
  • will byers in a figure study class
  • will byers working at an art store
  • Happy Will Byers
  • will and el best friends
  • Protective Siblings
  • Protective willel
  • my sister saw you from across the club and we hate your vibe. she's gonna beat the shit out of you
  • bartender max/ constantly in bar fights el
  • say gex?
  • no
  • Gay Sex
  • lesbian sex too if that wasn't clear

  Summary

  Will has found himself in New York. He's attending a small but progressive college and majoring in studio art. He has new friends, his own (very Will) apartment, and a job at an art store that gets him discounted art supplies. It's everything he's wanted, it's the perfect new beginning. But a a new beginning doesn't always mean leaving everything else behind. Maybe it means leaving the door open for those things you wouldn't quite mind keeping around.

  Or

  Mike visits Will in New York after having come to terms with himself, now he gets to fall in love with this new version of will all over again, but is he too late for the love to be requited?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

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