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1. you're better than ever, but i knew you when by heartsandminds

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   07 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley
   • Steve Harrington
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Post-Canon
   • College
   • Light Angst
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers's Painting
   • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Song: Hot and Heavy (Lucy Dacus)
   • Slow Burn

   Summary

   Three years after the Upside Down exploded, Mike Wheeler is coming home from college for the holidays. Mike has hardly spoken to Will since the summer after their graduation, but he hasn't stopped thinking about him.

   Three years have passed since the Upside Down exploded, and Will Byers is trying to move on. His family has moved from Hawkins to Montauk, but they're back for the holidays, forcing him to confront the past he's been struggling to escape.

    

   Based on Hot & Heavy by Lucy Dacus.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,596

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Kudos:

   2

   Bookmarks:

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