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1. (right) where you should be by feverd

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Background Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers's Painting
   • Angst
   • Pining
   • Fantasizing
   • Song: Picture You (Chappell Roan)
   • Song: Pushing It Down and Praying (Lizzy McAlpine)
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Writer Mike Wheeler
   • he writes about will
   • mike redeems himself
   • First Kiss
   • Boys Kissing
   • Post-Canon
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Every chapter is a song title
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • POV Will Byers

   Summary

   Fall after high school graduation, Mike thinks and realizes he needs to talk to Will about the painting from all those years ago. He goes to NYU where Will is studying at just to see him. Mike meets his new boyfriend. Carlton. Oh!

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,364

   Chapters:

   4/?

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   Kudos:

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