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• A Better Future by lingeringflowers

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  19 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Robin Buckley/Vickie
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler-centric
  • Stranger Things 5 Fix-It
  • Gore
  • Psychological Horror
  • Temporary Character Death
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Slow Burn
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Angst
  • Character Study
  • the duffer bros refused to give mike a voice so i gave him a whole book
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Stranger Things: The First Shadow References
  • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Minor Character Death
  • #conformitygate lovers this one’s for you

  Summary

  “Mike, you need to wake up.”

   

  A Season 5 retelling from Mike Wheeler, with an alternate ending. (~weekly updates)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  28,068

  Chapters:

  4/13

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  67

  Bookmarks:

  16

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