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1. Bottle it up until it overflows by GhoulSanderson

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   17 Nov 2022

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • The Party & Mike Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Ms Kelley
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler
   • Ms. Kelly (Stranger Things)
   • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler Has PTSD
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Crush on Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Daddy Issues
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Mike Wheeler Whump
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler Angst
   • Worried Will Byers
   • Worried Nancy Wheeler
   • Worried Dustin Henderson
   • Sad Mike Wheeler
   • Emo Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler has bad coping methods
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • set after s3
   • once again pushing my Jonathan is like Mike's big brother agenda
   • Holly is the only person who can call Mike 'Mikey' and get away with it
   • the nickname is still a disgrace

   Summary

   Compared to his friends, Mike Wheeler has had it easy. What reason does he have to wake up screaming? To feel like he's got the weight of the world strapped to him like a backpack? And now his heart flutters every time Will comes near him and he just can't look him in the eye and smile honestly anymore.

   So he runs, and he avoids his friends because it's easier than lying through his teeth.

   ---
   In which Mike Wheeler has no coping mechanisms and I project onto my favourite characters.

   Series

   • Part 13 of Mike Wheeler suffering

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