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1. Where There's a Will, There's a Way by VictoriaInEuphoria

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   16 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • POV Alternating
   • Will Byers Character Study
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Closeted Mike Wheeler
   • Angst with a Hopeful Ending
   • Dual POV
   • Mutual Pining
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Soft Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Deserves Nice Things
   • Emotional Intimacy
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Healing
   • Coming Out
   • Love Confessions
   • Mike Wheeler is a Sweetheart
   • Childhood Friends
   • Idiots in Love
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Post-Season/Series 04

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler doesn’t fall in love all at once.

    

   He falls in fragments—through jealousy and laughter, through heat and hesitation, through moments of safety and moments that hurt like hell. Through Will Byers, who sees him too clearly to let him keep lying to himself.

   A slow-burn, cinematic post–Season 4 story about desire, identity, and choosing love even when the world makes it painful.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Where There's a Will, There's a Way Series

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