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   Can you see me? (I’m waiting for the right time.) by starssbyler

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   31 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • byler
   • Slow Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Self-Acceptance
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Buff Will Byers
   • College Student Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • POV Will Byers
   • Mutual Pining
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Fluff and Angst

   Summary

   He walked closer to Will looking him dead in the eye. This time it wasn’t a look of love but of hate. Not for Will himself but for everything that he’d made Mike feel. Mike opened his mouth one last time and released the few words he knew he could say without admitting the truth.

   ”I. F@cking. Hate. You.”

   Or: A fight at a wedding leads to Will Byers and Mike Wheeler not speaking to each other for a year.

   When the letters from Mike start to roll in and he eventually publishes books with interesting dedications it’s hard for them to stay away from each other.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   40,898

   Chapters:

   38/38

   Comments:

   43

   Kudos:

   67

   Bookmarks:

   17

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   Bookmarked by nocturnialove

   22 Jan 2026