3 Works by rustyswingsets
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Will’s curiosity grows, his eyes widening with it. “You think I wouldn’t like it?”
Mike’s hands are trembling again, so he crosses his arms across his chest to hide them. “I don’t know what you’d think, Will.”
“I meant it when I said I like everything you write. All your stories.”
“The storyteller likes to hide behind his stories,” Mike says, with some bitterness. “In real life, he’s just scared.”
The night of graduation, Mike and Will figure things out in the basement.
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The raging storm would ordinarily be uncharacteristic of spring, but the world’s on the verge of collapse, so Will lets it slide. But it’s impossible to close his eyes and block out the crackling across the dark sky, a parallel to the deafening split of Hawkins.
His headphones blare into his ears to muffle the storm, and he pauses the scratching of his pencil across the page when he notices the minute hand on the clock tick over to twelve.
Nothing changes. Vecna’s still alive and waiting to take everything for himself. On every birthday for the last four years, Will’s wondered if it would be his last. This year is no different.
Five times Will Byers makes a birthday wish, and the one time it comes true.
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you were out of my league (all the things i believed) by rustyswingsets
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Mar 2026
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Mike stares at Will, his brilliant, dazzling best friend – and there’s no surprise, none at all – but he doesn’t expect the way seeing it makes him feel. There’s the crack of a dead Demogorgon hitting the ground, Will’s eyes rolling back as he met Mike’s gaze, dragging his sleeve across his bloody nose, and then there’s this. It’s peaceful, just the two of them, here in this moment. No monsters, no fire, no lives at stake, only a shared apartment and Will’s magic.
“Will,” he whispers. Wonderstruck.
Three years after the defeat of Vecna, Mike finds out that Will’s still a sorcerer. They talk about magic, and they talk about them.