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• a time we're in love and a time we're not by mintytheloser

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  30 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • The OG gang
  • POV Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
  • Will Byers is So Done
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Karen Wheeler Tries
  • Joyce Byers is a Mess
  • Slow Burn

  Summary

  Letting Will Byers be angry, especially because of how dirty they did his character in S5 Volume 2.
  Also letting Mike Wheeler have emotions, especially because of how dirty they did his character in S5 Volume 2, even if he's a little slow to allow himself.

  Now, an excerpt because I'm not good at summaries:

  "He wasn’t afraid of himself, he was afraid of how the others would react. He was afraid that all the work he put into others, all the times that he watered himself down for people who would never do the same for him, would go to waste. He was afraid that all of his life could be ripped away from him in more ways than one."

  I promise it'll get more in depth as I update, right now it's more of a pilot. Also, more characters will appear soon, I promise.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,040

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  4

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