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1. Terrified You'll Bite The Hand That Needs You by rightherelikeconcrete

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Rewrite
   • byler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers's Painting
   • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
   • Byler Painting Conversation
   • i wrote this in one sitting
   • Im tired
   • Save Me From The Byler Doubt
   • Not Beta Read
   • Title from an Ethel Cain Song
   • Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2 Fix-It
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2

   Summary

   “You don’t have to say it. You don’t.. You don’t have to act on it either.” Will said, hoping that he could squish and bury Mike’s doubts and anxiety. As much as Will wanted this, he wasn’t going to force it. He knew better.

   “I… want to. I’m just afraid.” Mike whispered, the words for Will’s ears and Will’s ears only.

   Will matched his tone. “I’m afraid, too.”

   ORRRRRR

   Mike finally thinks for two seconds and asks about the painting.

   ORRRRRR

   I hated episode 7 so I sat down at 4 AM and gave it a continuation that I found fitting

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