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1. Back home (at least, it was home before) by Pastel_Gh0sts

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   28 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Eddie Munson
   • Will Byers is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Trans Male Character
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Trans Will Byers
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers Friendship
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Will Byers Has a Crush on Mike Wheeler
   • Coming Out
   • Nonbinary Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Chatting & Messaging
   • but only a small bit
   • Bisexual Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Aromantic Asexual Dustin Henderson
   • Gay Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   After Lonnie and Joyce Divorced, Joyce moved to Lenora with the kids. After a few years She rekindled an old high school romance with Hopper and moves back to Hawkins, in that time Will has become an entirely new person and no one remembers his old self.

   Enjoy the adventures and fears that Will Byers has of balancing his new self where no one knows who he used to be and trying to balance a new (old) crush on Mike.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   18,163

   Chapters:

   8/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   Bookmarks:

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