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   The Dawn Before by judectionary

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers & Will Byers
   • Lonnie Byers & Will Byers
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Original Character(s)
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Lonnie Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Original Characters
   • Alternate Universe - Hunger Games Setting
   • Inspired by The Hunger Games
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • kind of??
   • BAMF Will Byers
   • He uses throwing knives
   • Sad Will Byers
   • byler angst
   • Byers family angst
   • angst it’s all angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Protective Will Byers
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Bad Parent Lonnie Byers
   • He’s A Piece Of Shit
   • Everyone wants to die atp
   • Will Byers kills people
   • Mike does too but it’s cooler when Will does it bc I said so
   • Mike and Will have to kill each other so the relationship is a bit complicated
   • Part 1 of series
   • Bittersweet Ending

   Summary

   Will found himself apologizing. The words spilled out of him into an incoherent sentence obstructed by the strong wind. He tried to comfort the boy by caressing his dirtied face. His skin, so unique, so delicate, was hidden under layers of bruises and blood. It killed the innocence Will saw in him.

   He waited for the boy to go still.

   —

   Or; in an alternate universe where Katniss and Peeta die in their Games, Will Byers and Mike Wheeler are forced to fight to the death in the 124th Annual Hunger Games while battling their own, hidden feelings for one another.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,892

   Chapters:

   5/?

   Comments:

   47

   Kudos:

   54

   Bookmarks:

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   Bookmarked by mmbonez

   16 Jun 2025

   Bookmarker's Notes

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