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1. i look at you and breathe again by nyamtart

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Self-Worth Issues
   • Coming Out
   • Fix-It
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • and he Gets them dw
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Canon Compliant
   • until it's not
   • Almost Kiss
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • but he tries for will
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Will Byers's Coming Out Scene Fix-It
   • Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2 Fix-It
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • Humor

   Summary

   "I think we're both idiots," Mike grins, and Will still feels breathless, because he is beautiful, Mike Wheeler is so beautiful, and Will loves him. He is far past the stages of puppy crush, of contained affection, of childhood yearning; he loves Mike Wheeler, fully and with all that his heart has to offer.

   Or, Will's arc in S5 vol 2 if a gay person actually wrote it. (Will does not come out to everyone and their moms. He and Mike have a heart-to-heart.)

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