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1. I would love to go back to the old house (but I never will) by Firefl0y

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   07 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Vickie (Stranger Things)
   • Carlton - Character
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Post-Season/Series Finale
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Friends to Strangers to Lovers
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Cheating
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Avoidant Personality Disorder
   • Post-Canon
   • mike wheeler is deeper in the closet than my lost sock
   • Self-Hatred
   • Feelings Realization
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • things need to be chopped and coocked before they can be served and eat
   • Blind Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • The Author Regrets Nothing
   • but mike wheeler regrets everything
   • i've seen stranger things
   • Ten Years Later
   • Carlton in't a bad boyfriend
   • Found Family
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Stranger Things 5
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Slow Burn
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Will Byers Has PTSD

   Summary

   It's November 6, 1997. Exactly 14 years after William Byers' disappearance, 10 years after Vecna's, and Jane Hopper's death.

   Lucas and Max Sinclair have a small house in Cleveland where they live a quiet life.

   Dustin works with NASA on new satellites, occasionally plotting with Erica to annoy their coworkers.

   Will is in New York, where he spends time working on new gallery exhibitions of his paintings with his partner.

   Meanwhile, Michael Wheeler remains where it all began, unable to let go of regret for every decision he's made.

   OR

   As a failed writer, Mike has never come to terms with the breakup of his group, the death of his girlfriend, or his sexuality. Another year passes, and he avoids the annual reunion with his old friends.

   OR

   mostly everything is canon after season 5, but we have mike wheeler in the closet/becoming just like his dad and a cheating byler, cause fuck Netflix for queerbaiting all of us.

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