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1. Oh, Saint Peter, let me in. You must know where I’ve been. (Won’t you tell me at last who I am?) by V1ridian

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   12 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Joyce Byers
   • Will Byers in the Upside Down
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Possession as a metaphor for abuse
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer Possessing Will Byers
   • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
   • genuinely so unreliable the shadow is messing with his head
   • Good Sibling Jonathan Byers
   • Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Stranger Things 2
   • Stranger Things 3
   • One-Eyed Will Byers
   • Additional Warnings in Author's Note
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Will Byers Has a Crush on Mike Wheeler
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Protective Jonathan Byers
   • Title from The Ballad Of Jane Doe
   • Will Byers Has Issues
   • Temporary Amnesia
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Monster Will Byers
   • how is that not a tag??? Anyways yeah he becomes a little freak in the upside down (affectionate)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Not Beta Read
   • Slow Romance
   • Eventual Romance
   • Symbolism
   • Internal Conflict

   Summary

   In which Will Byers missed his mother and Hopper by thirty minutes that fateful night in November, trapped in The Upside Down with the Shadow Monster breathing down his neck. Slowly losing himself and his beloved memories with time. Only to find himself back in Hawkins 20 months later.
   —
   Idk how to do summaries, essentially an AU where Will doesn’t get rescued and gets possessed only to be rescued/kidnapped by El and Co during the events of S3 after connecting to her through the hive

   WARNINGS WILL BE STATED IN AUTHORS NOTES

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