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1. the green in his eyes (the guilt in mine) by castle__byers

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   05 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Universe - After College/University
   • Childhood friends to strangers to lovers
   • Angst
   • Mutual Pining
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Bullying
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Writer Mike Wheeler
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Dialogue Heavy
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Eventual Smut
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • kinda? not really?

   Summary

   Will misses the Mike he used to know.

   He misses when it was just the two of them. When they were free and inseparable and when they were astronauts and adventurers and pirates and the paladin and the sorcerer. When he was Mike's prince, and Mike was his knight in shining armour. 

   Will misses his Mike.

   —

   (technically an au but also a really fitting time skip fix-it for the shit show that season 5 was. ur byler wounds will heal i promise ㅠㅠ)

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