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1. stepped on the gas (asked if i’m ready to die) by antcrows

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   18 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Bullying
   • POV Third Person Limited
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Possessed Will Byers
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Choking
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Love Confessions
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending
   • Title From a boygenius Song
   • Song: Voyager (boygenius)

   Summary

   Stars swarm his vision, clouding up the view in front of him. His best friend hovers above him, and he dimly registers his friends and family calling his name, physically struggling with their restraints.

   The eyes above him are dark brown and hatred drips from them like the tears spilling from Mike’s own. Wrong color, Mike thinks hysterically. They’re always hazel.

   —

   Or, Mike Wheeler, the words he can’t hold back, and the experience of being pinned against surfaces.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   807

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   117

   Bookmarks:

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