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    Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.

    Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.

    Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.

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    The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.

    Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

    Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

    Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP

    Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.

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    03 May 2026

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    Never have I felt so humiliated reading Mike Wheeler act just like me struggling with my own internalized homophobia. Love this fic, even with the entire chapter dedicated to hating my name.

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    But when she comes to me, salt catches on his lip and dries sharp on his tongue, a stabbing throb beneath his ribs as he envisions his end, the one he wants but could never have in any way that mattered, so real he can taste the runoff of the mountains and the phantom press of lips he’s never touched. So undeserved, this moment he dreams of, yet his heart longs for it the way his lungs long for air; unrestrained, and selfish. The twisted, unforgivable urge to turn such a grotesque moment into something resembling beauty. Peace, he vies for, in the midst of destruction. A breath of heaven before the flames pull him under for good.

    I want to see her. He wants to marry her.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    this is my favourite fic that I haven’t shut up about for years