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1. The boy who crossed worlds by Brokeasf

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   10 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/ Other Mike Wheeler
   • Usual pairings
   • Traumatized Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Reality
   • Dead Will Byers
   • In another life though
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • AU
   • Alternate Universe
   • season 5
   • Mike-Centric
   • Eventual Romance
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Eleven and Mike broke up in season 4 IMO
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • More tags as I go

   Summary

   When he was 12, he watched a monster kill his best friend. It traumatized him so badly they say it broke his mind. He was too young, too fragile. The doctors say he conjured this image of a monster in order to make sense of a terrible tragedy.

   It was all bullshit.

   ----
   In another reality, Mike Wheeler lost Will Byers, and it destroyed him.
   He won't lose him again.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,071

   Chapters:

   11/?

   Comments:

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   133

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