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Will Byers disappears the night he’s supposed to come home.
They never find his body. They never stop looking, until they do.
Five years later, Mike Wheeler has learned how to swallow his grief. He dates the girl everyone expects him to. He grows up the way he’s supposed to. He tells himself that missing someone is not the same thing as loving them. He tells himself that losing Will didn’t change him.
Somewhere beyond the edges of their world, Will Byers survives. His memories are the first thing to go. His voice follows. His body learns new rules; how to run, how to fight, how to survive. He forgets what it means to be a person, but he never quite forgets what it means to belong to something. Or someone.
When Will finally returns, he doesn’t remember himself.
And as something old and hungry begins to follow him back into Hawkins, Mike is forced to confront the truth he’s spent five years avoiding.
A story about becoming someone new, about loving someone you no longer recognize, and about learning who you have been all along.
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24 Feb 2026
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I'm fixing this shit.
A re-writting of Stranger Things 5.
AKA, doing what the Duffer idiots are too scared to.
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24 Feb 2026
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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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24 Feb 2026
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the less i know the better by inthemovies (getsalami)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2023
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“No. No, that can’t be right.”
“You don’t know anything about yourself, why is this so hard to believe?”
“Because I’m gay.”
Will freezes.
Mike is confused. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He barely knows his own name.
“Mike, you’re not gay.”
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23 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler had always known that there was something different about Will Byers.
He knew it when they were young, when they had first met in school. He knew it when he was finally old enough to understand what the folks of Hawkins would harshly whisper about Will. He knew it when his father forbade him from ever speaking to ‘that Byers boy’ again.
But on the morning he was awoken by Lucas bursting through his bedroom door, he knew it for certain.
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19th century southern gothic AU where Hawkins is a devoutly Catholic town, Mike Wheeler is the son of a priest, and Will Byers is exiled from town for being queer, forcing him to hide out in the surrounding woods.Bookmarked by nomnomnum
23 Feb 2026
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“Mike! What– What happened?” he shrieked. “Why can’t I barely see?”
Mike sniffled, still stood in his spot not knowing what to say or how to talk to the boy in front of him. “Will… I– I don’t—”
Both the boys were frozen in their places. Will felt extremely sick, almost like he was about to throw up in any second. He lifted his hand towards his face to feel what was running down it. It was blood.
Will let out a cry. “What happened to my eye?”
Hawkins didn't end in November, but something shifted. In the Upside Down and between them. Will is still connected to a darkness that won't let go, and Mike keeps looking at him like he's on the verge of saying something that might ruin everything.
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23 Feb 2026
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Will forced himself to stop thinking. The Upside Down was closed for good. Eleven had close the gate last year and saved them all. His mother, Jonathan and Nancy had taken the Mind Flayer out of him. There was nothing more connecting him to that place. He was clean. Purged. And those stupid chills he got from time to time in the back of his neck were just his brain messing up with him. It was him not being able to move on from what happened in the past. It was him not being able to grow the fuck up already.
Dustin clapped his hands, the sound echoing in the calm night, making Will snapped out of his thoughts. “We can become heroes, Will. Honest to God American heroes. Like freaking Red dawn or something.”
Season 3 rewrite in which Will listens to the Russian transmission with Dustin. Inspired by American Heroes by catchip2
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- Part 1 of Our way to the Rightside Up
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23 Feb 2026
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Exit Through The Gift Shop by Hellshire (holleighgram) for Karfayarrvin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jan 2026
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With their car firmly embedded in the mysterious flesh wall, Nancy still refuses to leave the Upside Down with more problems and no solutions. She, Jonathan, Steve, and Dustin venture towards Hawkins Lab to scour for answers, but find more questions along the way.
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Come on, Henderson, you're really starting to freak me out here," Steve's voice wavered with concern once more and he reached a cautious hand out. "These bastards just goddamn Vecna'd themselves and you're just staring off into space like—""For Christ's sake, I am not staring into space," Dustin finally responded. "Not unless you don't see that too."
Dustin pointed up to one of the trees and turned to glare at Steve.
Jonathan helped Nancy up as they moved closer to Dustin, hoping to follow his line of sight.
Jonathan squinted his eyes, inspecting every barren, twisted tree branch. Icy dread found its way into his heart when he saw nothing. But just before the fear for Dustin's wellbeing could settle, the red lightning was back, shedding the much-needed light through the branches. And there it was.
"Is that..." Nancy took a curious step closer. "A backpack?"
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- Part 2 of Parental Guidance
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23 Feb 2026
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and now i'm stuck here (with the ghost of what we used to be) by Kagome300
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2026
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"Will gave half a thought about going to Castle Byers but swiftly rejected it. It would be leaky in this downpour, and, in the unlikely event that Mike did come after him, it would be the first place he’d look. That was ten times worse than having to face his family. He needed space.
He turned sharply to the right. There was another Party member missing."
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aka, what if instead of going to Castle Byers after fighting with Mike in the rain, Will goes to find Dustin at Starcourt. Title from Heels Over Head by Boys Like Girls.
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23 Feb 2026
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In order to save everyone and untether the Upside Down from our world permanently, El had to use her powers to erase any memory of Will from existence.
Now his plan is to get as far away from Hawkins as possible, but even without their memories of him, the people who used to love him are making it impossible.
aka
Will Byers let yourself be loved challenge (level: impossible)
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23 Feb 2026
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What if Joyce Byers died instead of Hopper? What if Will went to live with Lonnie? What is Jonathan and Nancy went to college? What if Eleven and Hopper moved to California? What if Max visited Eleven? What if that changed Will’s entire future? What if…?
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- Part 1 of What If…?
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23 Feb 2026
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
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22 Feb 2026
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"I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."
The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.
There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.
Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"
Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.
Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.
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21 Feb 2026
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Will raised an eyebrow at his friend's antics, then dropped his eyes to where he knew Dustin had reached a hand out towards him.
“This summer, we stick together. You and me, Byers.”
Will grinned, taking Dustin’s hand and shaking it. “You and me, Henderson.”
A rewrite of S3:
The night Dustin gets back from Camp Knowhere, he brings the Party up to the highest point in Hawkins to set up Cerebro. He thought that his friends would be excited to have him back-- even if it wasn't the most entertaining to sit on a hill and talk into a radio with no response, he thought they would at least wait for him before going home. He thought it was going to be the best summer ever.
Instead, he finds himself and the one friend that didn't leave him, Will Byers, intercepting a weird Russian transmission.
And, well... if he couldn't have the best summer ever, at least he and Will would have an eventful one.
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21 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler has spent nine years fighting like he doesn’t expect to live, carrying guilt he never learned how to put down.
When his unit uncovers proof that someone has been hunting Vecna from inside the Upside Down, Mike realizes the truth is worse than hope.
Will Byers didn’t die when he disappeared at twelve.
He stayed—and he’s been surviving the Upside Down alone ever since.
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- Part 1 of Alternate Ending
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21 Feb 2026
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The Choice Was Mine (I Didn’t Think Enough) by madssfd
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler and Will Byers are with the party again, and everything seems perfectly fine. Suddenly, the lights begin to flicker, and everyone begins to think this through.
Will doesn’t understand the pain that’s going through his body, and Mike just wants to help.
Eleven helps take his eye out, and Will is left in pain.
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Vecna comes to visit the party through Wills eye and Will Byers can’t catch a break.
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21 Feb 2026
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Being an author has become draining for Michael Wheeler, and that's why he spends his days reminiscing on old memories rotting in his basement with the Party.
But one day, after another failed attempt of calling Will and getting a decent conversation, he makes the rash decision to go visit him. In New York.
Now he must come to terms with Will's new life and not get involved. Except...
There's something wrong.
Something wrong with Will.POST-SEASON 5!! (1990, ALL CHARACTERS 19)
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21 Feb 2026
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What happens when Will Byers feels his vision and conscience be slowly syphoned by Henry to be solely used as his spy? How Will his feelings and relationship to Mike develop as he is driven to sacrifice half of his vision to break free from the cruel purpose Henry has decided for him?
This is my very first fic ever! English is not my first language and do have dyslexia so any and all support is much appreciated! <3
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21 Feb 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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21 Feb 2026
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The Kids Are [ 'nt ] Alright by Essie (JadeStar), JadeStar
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Sometime, Will thinks to himself. In the ever encompassing darkness of night, his little brother vanishes.
His mom is releasing soft gasping sobs into his dad's chest and his sisters grip on his hand is steadily approaching painful, but his little brothers camera is sat on the dining table. Small and innocuous, unobtrusive in it's existence. It's broken and Will thinks he just might shatter along with it.Series
- Part 1 of The Kids Are [ 'nt ] Alright
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20 Feb 2026