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1. I Can't Stop, I Can't Breathe, I Can't Think by murphyzworld

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   12 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Post-Canon
   • College
   • Angst
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Past Trauma
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • will goes to art school
   • Mike Got Vecna'd
   • Hurt Will Byers
   • Hurt Mike Wheeler
   • Pining Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Bisexual Mike Wheeler
   • hurt people hurt people
   • Making Out
   • Scars
   • Depression
   • Anxiety
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay

   Summary

   Will Byers has spent the last three years of his life forgetting Hawkins and everything in it. He's happy here, pursuing art in the big city, with new friends and a real life that reminds him nothing of his childhood.

   And then Mike fucking Wheeler shows up out of nowhere.

   And he looks damn good.

   -

   Title from "The Boy" by The Smashing Pumpkins

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,910

   Chapters:

   5/?

   Comments:

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