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• Somewhere Between Leaving and Coming Home by snowball_bee

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  02 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Angst
  • Romance
  • Long-Distance Relationship
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Moving On
  • Post-Season/Series Finale
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler is Good at Feelings
  • Post-Graduation

  Summary

  Graduation scatters the Party across the country, and Will Byers finally leaves Hawkins for New York, determined to move on from years of loving Mike Wheeler quietly and alone.

  Mike only realizes the truth of his feelings when Will is already packing.

  A story about bad timing, long distance, ink-stained confessions, and finding your way back to each other anyway.

  Language:

  English

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