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1. If Only I Could Have Held You Close (What Should Have Been) by Insertaname

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   03 Jan 2026

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Byler Should Have Been Canon
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   What the title says, it's what we should have gotten

   Or,

   I get so pissed I write a better ending for the worst queerbait I have ever seen

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,645

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   4

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