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    No one ever talks about what happens after.

    No one told Will that the monsters would never really leave him. No one told Will how being taken and possessed would sit in his stomach like a coiled-up vine. No one told Will how he'd never feel like himself again.

    No one told Will what to do, now that the worst is over and he doesn't feel any better. No one told Will how to handle the after, the in-between of not dying and still feeling dead.

    No one told Will how to feel alive, so he figures it out for himself.

    (Or; A study of how Will handles— or doesn't handle— the aftermath of what happens to him.)

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    04 Jan 2026

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    Mike sighed as he moved back to his knees in front of Will. The more clarity Will regained, the more he felt the need to shuffle, to look away, to cover his blushing face. Mike was on his knees in front of him. God, he should not be thinking like this. The proximity didn’t help, nor the fact that Mike’s gaze seemed unable to leave Will’s face for more than ten seconds.
    “I’m gonna have to deal with that gash,” He said, and Will huffed.
    “I can– I can do it myself, Mike–” He said, making to get up before wincing in pain at the tug on his wounded skin, collapsing back into the chair with a gasp.
    “Would you stop that?” Mike urged, voice stern. Will stared back at him.
    “Stop what?”
    “Trying to– I don’t know, play this off. Act like I shouldn’t care,”
    “You shouldn’t care, Mike. I’m fine, it’ll heal.”
    “I know that, Will. I know you can look after yourself if you need to. But you don’t. I’m here, just— just let me help you,”
    Will met Mike’s pleading gaze and caved in a matter of moments.

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    Or, Will gets in a fight. Mike patches him up.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    As the rest of the song played, Mike realised he couldn’t do this anymore. He really couldn’t. His hands trembled as he reached for the glove compartment. There, he kept a gun.

    You can say it’s just the way you are
    Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

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    03 Jan 2026

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    “Who… who tried to stop him?” Mike finally manages to ask, and he dares to look up at the strange girl. “Eleven, who tried to stop Henry?”

    There’s a pause. Then, Eleven lifts her head, and she looks Mike directly in the eye. And Mike… Mike knows. Without her even saying a word, Mike knows.

    Eleven points to the picture one more time—points to Will one more time. And with a voice full of conviction and full of truth, she whispers, “Will.”

     

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    November 6, 1987. Four years after Will Byers' disappearance and mysterious death, things begin to get a little... strange in Hawkins, Indiana.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.

    Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.

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    Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.

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    01 Jan 2026