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there is a wait so long (you'll never wait so long) by innhalle
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Mar 2026
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Summary
Tobacco products taste like people.
Some of them are very different, others are pretty similar. Some leave a pleasant feeling behind, and others make you want to throw up.
Mike Wheeler lights up a Marlboro Red, and tastes Will Byers on his tongue instead.or
Vecna is dead, and life must go on for everyone — except storyteller. Mike Wheeler is alone in New York, a gap year wasted in Hawkins behind him and the weight of the world in his chest.
College corridors burn with lives he cannot touch, and everyone’s faces blur — except one. Will Byers, sharp, distant, and impossible, is there too, for some reason, and he seems determined to make sure Mike never forgets what a whiny bitch he is.
Between the crush of voices, the suffocating sunlight, and thoughts that bite too deep, Mike must survive a semester of lectures, Will, who has much changed, and himself.