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Mike goes to confront Will, but after he finds out Will has been abused he just fucking kills Carlton instead.
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READ THE TAGS. PLEASE GOD READ THE TAGS. THIS IS A VERY ANGSTY, HEAVY FIC WITH A LOT OF DARK THEMES. READ THOSE TAGS. THANK YOU.
Slow updates possibly, because I have trauma with DV myself. This fic started as a project to help me work through my trauma, but after I got a little tipsy and decided to post it on TikTok a lot of people wanted to read this fic. I hope this finds someone who will enjoy reading as much as I will enjoy writing, but due to how close to home the abuse aspect is, it might be a while between chapters. But I promise I won't abandon it, and will still post as regularly as I can. This fic is too important for me to just abandon 🤗 Y'all just might have to bear with me.
Also some of the chapters are REALLY long lol so it takes a while to edit them.
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07 Mar 2026
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The Upside Down crew finally stops Vecna, but at what cost? They all have to deal with the loss of Eleven, but Will in particular is hit the hardest. Mike has to help the boy he loves recover while dealing with his own feelings.
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01 Mar 2026
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If You’re Lost You Can Look and You Will Find Me by R3mmm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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All is swell after the “earthquake” hit Hawkins. The kids are back at school, the military haunts the streets, the Byers live with the Wheelers, the team just recently started up with the crawls, and Will and Mike have been getting closer. But all that changes when a car pulls up in front of Hawkins High.
Suddenly, Will is whisked away for legal reasons, and those back in Hawkins have to work tirelessly to get him back. Meanwhile, Will’s life gets turned upside down, and he is thrusted into the custody of his first ever bully: Lonnie Byers.
Follow the group as they struggle with complex feelings, mental and legal battles, and the story of Will’s heartbreaking past being rewritten in present day (or for us, the 1980’s).Takes place somewhere in the 18 month time gap before season 5, maybe closer to season 4.
Title from “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper.
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28 Feb 2026
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Will had changed. Quietly. Gradually. The way things rot from the inside out without anyone noticing at first.
Of course, the world around him had changed too.
He’d started hanging out with people he wasn’t supposed to. Kids who laughed too loud and didn’t ask questions. Lucas was around more often now — partly because he wanted to be, partly because Max had made it very clear that if he abandoned Will, she’d make him regret it.
Will swallowed hard.
The house felt too small.
He slipped out of his room, grabbed the jacket hanging by the door, and stepped into the cold night air. The first inhale burned his lungs as he lit a cigarette, the tip glowing orange in the dark.
He didn’t look back at the house.
Instead, he started walking — hands in his pockets, smoke trailing behind him — toward the place that felt easier these days.
Jason’s house.
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28 Feb 2026
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My skin is clean, Will tells himself, staring down his reflection as if it’s challenging him. I’m not possessed, I’m not in the Upside Down.
I’m a second-year student at the Art Institute of Chicago. My apartment is shitty and tiny and expensive and incredible. Will stabilizes himself by gripping the countertop, looping the words through his mind. Mike is in the other room, waiting for me. He’s an English major at Loyola, and his dad has no idea how he’ll land a job. He’s waiting for me. He loves me. He’s patient with me, and he understands. My brother lives in New York, and my mom’s safe at home in Indiana. My skin is clean, and all of this is real.
I disappeared seven years ago today, and I was found.
And he’s dead, and far away from me. He can’t touch me ever again.
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28 Feb 2026
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It's Such A Shame (Our Friendship Had To End) by nyxbee
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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An eyebrow piercing. No- two. Matching ones on each side, all-black, matching the series of earrings and the snake bites that now adorned his mouth. A visible scar in the center of his lips, pale and standing out between the set of black on either side of it.
The scar from his first lip piercing.
The piercing that-
"You still have your powers."
"I’m sorry."In which Mike is an avoidant idiot covered in tattoos and piercings, Will is a tired lover boy just trying to pass his classes, and by some stroke of luck (or lack thereof), they end up at the same university, in the same room, two years after they last saw each other.
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27 Feb 2026
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Mike returns to Hawkins after his freshman year of college, riddled with regret and eager to make up for the biggest mistake of his life - hurting Will. He quickly learns, however, that his estranged best friend is being kept behind a locked door. A locked door named Keith.
Now, Mike finds himself in a race against time to locate the key, desperate to free the boy he loves from the prison his abuser created just for him.
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27 Feb 2026
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Will, who didn’t speak for almost four years straight, who didn’t utter his first word since toddlerhood until he cried for his mom when Mike had fallen off his bike in third grade. Will, who spoke in small, unsure fragments afterwards, working towards full sentences in a way that most eight-year-olds had already mastered. Will, who was careful with his choice of words, Will, who Mike taught various phrases and terms to, Will, who was always more comfortable letting Mike speak.
Will, who had never interrupted Mike in his life.
“You’re not Will,” Mike breathes.Title from "Bad Religion" by Frank Ocean
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Five months after S5 and Will is attempting to move on while attending college. After two months of sudden no contact, the party reunite to find him. Please read tags for warnings.
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18 Feb 2026
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Twenty three year old Mike Wheeler has been out of college for a year now, his first book he wrote in school based off the adventures of him and his friends ‘Big Adventures, Small Town’ was extremely successful, but the past year since he moved into his own apartment and now is having to face the loneliness and and responsibilities that come with being an adult. His ideas getting turned down by publishers, he is lost. Desperate to get out of his writer's block, depression, and seek inspiration, he takes a one way flight to New York City, where he runs into an old friend, or more.
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18 Feb 2026
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These Roads Are Changing Me (But They All Lead Back To You) by greenbean4
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Feb 2026
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Mike hasn’t seen Will Byers since he vanished after high school.
He finds him years later, living across the hall in Chicago—smaller, quieter, and with a man who answers questions too quickly and smiles like he has nothing to hide.
Mike has never been good at leaving things alone.
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18 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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18 Feb 2026