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1. i know i'll be the one (that you will never get over) by nocturnalize

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Jan 2026

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Pining
   • Mutual Pining
   • Sexual Tension
   • Light Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Love Confessions
   • First Kiss
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Requited Love
   • First Time
   • Anal Fingering
   • Anal Sex
   • Loss of Virginity
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • College
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Repressed Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   A familiar figure catches Will’s eye from across the bar. The boy’s dark curls sprawl across his forehead, and Will’s gaze follows them down to where they cascade down the back of his neck, under which lays a delicate clasp to a silver chain. The boy’s nose is slightly crooked, and his cheekbones take up most of the focus on his face. Will’s heart does a flutter. And for a split second— a time-stopping, noise-cancelling second— he almost thinks that it could be…

   Or, 5 times Will searches for Mike in everyone he meets and 1 time he finds what he’s looking for.

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