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"My Life Started The Day I Found You..." by WallShiganshina
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Summary
Two years after the final battle in Hawkins, the war is over but nothing will ever be the same anymore.
Mike Wheeler watched Will Byers disappear into the Upside Down, locked away alone with Vecna for eternity. The way Will looked at him in those final moments, his big scared trembling eyes, soft with love and sorrow, already accepting his fate. He stayed behind so Eleven could live, so Mike could live, so everyone could be saved. Joyce Byers couldn’t. Grief took her life, leaving Jonathan hollow and bitter, a ghost forced to keep breathing. Just like that, the Byers family was erased, and with them, the version of Hawkins that once felt like home.
Mike refuses to heal. He refuses to move on. His mind unravels quietly, day by day, until he vanishes from everyone’s life, carrying the weight of a love he never got to acknowledge, refusing to bury. When Jonathan says something in grief and spite that will haunt Mike forever, Mike makes a choice; if Will is trapped in memory, then memory is where Mike will live.
