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1. Avalanche by AstersPlight

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   18 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Richie Tozier
   • Will Byers & Original Male Character(s)
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Will Byers & Richie Tozier
   • Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Richie Tozier
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Maggie "Marge" Tozier
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Winter Break
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Yearning
   • Original Character(s)
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Art Major Will Byers
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Love Triangles
   • Will Byers is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Richie Tozier Flirts
   • Internal Conflict
   • Will Byers Is Having Fun
   • Will Byers is a Mess
   • Richie Tozier is a Mess
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Married Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Snow Shoveling
   • Ice
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Making Out
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Aged-Up Party (Stranger Things)
   • Aged-Up Losers Club (IT)
   • No Underage Sex
   • Introspection
   • Underage Drinking
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Background Lonnie Byers
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Child Neglect
   • Minor Injuries
   • Richie Tozier and Mike Wheeler Are Cousins
   • Good Parents Maggie & Wentworth Tozier
   • Fake/Pretend Relationship
   • Marijuana
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Will byers epilogue boyfriend
   • Past Relationship(s)
   • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Mileven is bones
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Siblings Jonathan Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Past Cult Indoctrination
   • Past Kidnapping
   • Will Byers went missing for non-supernatural reasons
   • Unreliable Narrator

   Summary

   Will Byers is back home for winter break, and between his fractured not-relationship with his best friend, his failed college romance, and the accursed winter weather that he'd do anything to avoid, the last thing he needs is a risky flirtation with his best friend's obnoxious cousin. Naturally, Will is going downhill, fast, but so is everything else.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

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