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Despite it all, you love. Despite it all, you are filled with tenderness; it overflows from your hands like water. Your softness should’ve died back then, along with the boy you used to be, but it remained in you.
Will Byers, through grief, hurt, tenderness, and love.
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03 May 2025
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He looks up at him, eyebrows drawn together. “Do you not love her?”
Mike shrinks back. “What?”
He hadn’t meant to say it. He wouldn’t have, if he’d stopped to think about it for half a second. But it’s too late to take it back, and he can’t breathe until he knows the answer, and he looks at him resolutely and says, “Do you only love her because of what I said?”
Something darkens on Mike’s face, twisting it into a shape Will’s never seen. “Get out.”
It’s not a no.
or: Mike and Will share a room, and Mike finds out the truth about the painting.
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23 Feb 2025
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And just like Mike clearly hadn't been thinking when he'd said those words, and how much they would affect Will, he wasn't thinking about him back in the pizza kitchen either. Mike never thought about him at all anymore, his supposed best friend.
"I feel like my life started that night we found you in the woods."
As if, just the night before, Will's own life hadn't begun it's slow, agonizing end when he was taken to the Upside Down.
Just thinking about it made Will's mouth go dry, taste like nothing but cold-rot-ash-despair-death.
a much-needed thing that needs to be addressed on will's behalf, imo. that had to hurt his precious little soul like a bitch.
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The impossible happened: Will asked Mike to be his boyfriend. Even stranger? Mike said yes.
That's how it started. A letter, an accidental confession, a Saturday afternoon. And that? That was the easy part.
Now, what they do - what they are - is secret. Because if anyone finds out... they don't even want to imagine. Lonnie would kill them both on sight. Mike's parents would send him away to some boarding school. They'd never see each other again. They'd be marked forever. Everything would come crashing down around them.
But they try not to focus on that. They're busy, after all, trying to navigate this new relationship. Kisses, dates, prom, couples' quarrels. And in the meantime, Will has a problem on his hands; a power he needs to learn to control, before it blows up in his face.
It's a crazy end to their school year - but there's more going on behind the scenes than they realize.(This is a sequel to The Red Envelope but you don't necessarily have to have read TRE; this can be read on its own should you wish :) )
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- Part 2 of The Red Envelope
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i know better (but you're still around) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Dec 2022
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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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17 Feb 2025