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    Will Byers is in his bedroom. It is 10:34am. He is going to take a shower. He is not in the Upside Down. He is not possessed.

    He tells himself these things like a mantra, as though they will bring back some semblance of sanity. His chest hurts. His lungs still do not work. He is used to it. It still hurts.

    or: Will has a bad day, and Mike is a good friend.

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    08 Jan 2026

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    It isn’t just the name thing. It’s a lot of little things. Will spacing out, or tapping his first and second fingers idly on his other wrist, or saying things with a weird lilting inflection, or fiddling with the radio knobs for a little too long in the basement, like he’s searching for something.

    (‘Midnight,’ Mike could have sworn he heard Will mumble, one of those times. ‘Midnight…’)

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    Mike realizes he's stuck in Camazotz.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    After El's disappearance, Mike struggles to come to terms with what it means to only realise you didn't love someone when they are already gone and you can't talk to them about it anymore.
    But time passes as it always does, and Mike finds that the answers to all his questions have always been right in front of him in the form of one Will Byers.

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    06 Jan 2026

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    “Say it,” Adam demands. “Say I can kill you.”

    “You can kill me,” Ronan says.

    Adam eases up with his knife. A drop of blood beads at the swell of Ronan’s throat, just above the jut of cartilage which shares Adam’s name. Adam kisses away the blood, and then he kisses his way up to Ronan’s lips.

    He whispers there, “Good.”

    or a hunger games au

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    03 Jan 2026

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    "They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."

    Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.

    "Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"

    "But you do," said Henry. "You need him."

    When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.

    Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.

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    03 Jan 2026