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1. and from the ashes you shall rise by bylersm

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   18 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Underage Sex
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Secrets
   • Revelations
   • Sexual Tension
   • Eventual Smut
   • First Kiss
   • Making Out
   • Feelings
   • Feelings Realization
   • Denial of Feelings
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Canon Compliant
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Season/Series 05
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • These two need to TALK IT OUT
   • and make out
   • Good Friend Robin Buckley
   • Mike is a mess
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Attraction
   • emotional cheating
   • maybe physical too....oops
   • Jealousy
   • definitely cheating

   Summary

   He closes his eyes. 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯.

   Behind his eyelids all he sees is Will and the shape of his body, his thoughts a jumbled mess, bees buzzing annoyingly reminding him that he wants to touch while he shouldn’t want to. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘭. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥.

   𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦.

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   English

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