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• my problems, questions seem to haunt them by pixelzzx

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

  18 Jan 2026

  Tags

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Byers Family (Stranger Things)
  • Wheeler Family (Stranger Things)
  • Alternate Universe
  • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • Angst
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • he just doesn’t know it yet
  • Slow Burn
  • Eventual Romance
  • Work In Progress
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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  Summary

  After a year of communicating strictly through letters and over the phone, Mike Wheeler’s best childhood friend is moving back to Hawkins. Of course Mike is exited to see him, but he can’t help but notice the thing eating away at the back of his mind.

  Takes place around season 4 but note that this is an au and most of the things that happened in the show do not exist in this story! (And some events align with the show but happen at different times) No monsters or upside down either

  Language:

  English

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  13,076

  Chapters:

  9/?

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