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“Because you, my great sir, are coming to Max and I’s wedding next month.”
A silence passes. Mike blinks, “Excuse me?”
“My wedding? You know. Those events with the flowers and the big white dresses where two people come together in holy matrimony and—” Lucas is already pretending to make out with the air when Mike focuses again.
“I know what a wedding is!”
It’s been 12 years since the world almost ended. Mike, now 28 and a reclusive author in New York, has become an expert in avoiding literally anything that would remind him of it. That would include Will Byers.
Except Lucas forgot to mention Mike and Will would be spending three nights sharing a hotel room.
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It’s bad to rile up the abstractions. Pomni knows that. But the creature just looks at her finger, going cross-eyed, before all the eyes move back to her face.
“And when I do find you again out there, which I will,” she swears, “I’m going to beat you up for everything, and it will hurt and it will bruise because we’ll have real blood and actual bodies, and… and you’ll take it, because I’m going to get you back for all the hell you put me through."
Pomni takes in a breath.
"And I'll finally be able to get to know you, Jax."
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When C&A is forced to dismantle the Digital Circus after the press reveals the brain scans in their database were involuntary, the crew are given one final chance at freedom: every memory accumulated inside the simulation will be returned to their original hosts.
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“Will?” Mike whispers. “What—” he trails off. Dustin and the others are shouting over the walkie, all their voices overlapping in panic, but Mike’s only listening to Will.
“Use it on me.”
Will shifts on his knees, his grip on Mike’s arm tightening like he knows Mike is dying to run. He places the knife into Mike’s hand.
“At the military zone, I felt like I was burning when they hurt it. It has to work the other way around, right? It’s a hivemind. If you hurt me, it should weaken all of them.”
Or: in a moment of panic, Will convinces Mike to hurt him to save the Party. In another moment of panic, Mike kisses him to keep him conscious.
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Will Byers has survived the absolute fucking impossible—the kidnapping, the torture, the possession, and the end of the world.
Telling his current boyfriend the truth about his past shouldn't be harder, but it is.
Especially when so much of it still leads back to Mike Wheeler.
Or: Unanswered letters, a crowded party, and Mike Wheeler at the worst possible time.
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Reflexively, Till kicks upward, and Ivan crumbles, a knee hitting the center of his stomach as Till tries scrambling away. More rebels are running for their vehicles. He needs to get to his bike. He needs to get out.
“Till,” Ivan chokes out, voice hoarse from the agony of being kicked straight in the stomach.
Till’s throat closes in on itself. Ivan’s voice. It’s not a hallucination.
Nearly two years after being saved from the fire, Till runs into someone on a rebel mission with the same face of the person who has done nothing but haunt him.
For the life of him, he can't let himself believe that Ivan is alive. Not while he's still hallucinating a version of him that keeps him from being able to speak.
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seldom the ghost returns by yamscooper
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
30 Oct 2021
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“Do you think you deserve this?” the Oldest Dream asks.
Dokja is exhausted, miserable, shaky in his own skin. He’s so tired of being tired. “I’m starting to think I do,” he says.
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genuinely one of my favorite fics of all time