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1. what would i do? (without someone like you) by hazelcellist

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Nightmares
   • season 5
   • Angst
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Kind of a slow burn
   • 18 month time gap
   • Comfort
   • 1986 to 1987
   • Mutual Pining
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Gets a Hug
   • Visions
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Panic Attacks
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort

   Summary

   The constant, worsening nightmares from Vecna keep trying to pull Will under; Mike keeps catching him. Somewhere in the quiet hours between midnight and dawn, a new kind of closeness and trust takes hold between them.

    

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   Takes place between the 18 months that the Byers stay at the Wheeler house, moments from March 1986 to November 1987 :)

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