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1. I Would Have Followed You (if I had known) by Eggsbaconcheese

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • 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
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Lonnie Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Misunderstandings
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Will Byers Cheats on Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Non-Chronological
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • First Time
   • Smut
   • Reunited and It Feels So Good
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale

   Summary

   Over 5 years after leaving for New York, Will Byers visits Mike Wheeler for the first time since his departure, who's still living in his childhood home in Hawkins. Mike has regrets. Will has his reservations. And a boyfriend, thanks to Mike's cowardice.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,801

   Chapters:

   8/9

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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