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1. cause i'm a ghost in training (cause my heart's been waning) by lectersluvr

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   01 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley
   • Vickie (Stranger Things)
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Stranger Things 5
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Coming Out
   • Mutual Pining
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Character Death
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • POV Multiple
   • Slow Burn
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Dustin Henderson is a Little Shit
   • Fluff
   • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
   • Will Byers Has Powers

   Summary

   “Lucas told me it was bad but… I just thought that maybe me being here… Hanging out and basically having another one of those sleepovers we used to have, obviously a lot longer, but you get my point— I thought it’d be better. I thought it’d help him, like, talk more. Or something. But he—” Will’s face heats up again at the thought, and even more in embarrassment when he recognizes the tingling behind his eyes. “He didn’t even come say hi.”

   OR

   in which the end of the world has finally come knocking, and the Hawkins crew only have each other left to hold onto.

   st5 rewrite
   please do not repost on any other platforms

   Series

   • Part 1 of there's the stillness of death on a deathly unliving sea

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