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1. I can feel the light shine on my face. Did I disappoint you? by kai1009

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   18 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Karen Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • References to Depression
   • The Quarry
   • or it can be a standalone i guess
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Hopeful Ending
   • Angst with a Hopeful Ending
   • Bittersweet Ending
   • Angst with a Bittersweet Ending
   • How Do I Tag
   • I'm Bad At Tagging
   • you have to read my other fic first
   • Alternate Ending
   • but to an alternate ending fic
   • you catch my drift?

   Summary

   READ THE OTHER FIC FIRST GANG
   i mean you don’t have to but it’ll help i suppose

   this is titled mike js lwk dies in my docs

   so yk.
   do with that what you will.

   title from the line by twenty one pilots
   love arcane and depression
   so i give it to mike 🫶🫶
   also fuck the ending. give me byler pls. i lwk cried writing this

   Series

   • Part 2 of mike wheeler suffering

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,155

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Kudos:

   7

   Hits:

   69