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1. Loving The Alien by daehoi

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   05 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Robin Buckley & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Platonic Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Slow Burn
   • Slow Build
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • First Kiss
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mutual Pining
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Making Out
   • No Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • No California Plot
   • the painting will not be addressed
   • something I apparently have in common with the duffers
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer Possessing Will Byers
   • Possessed Will Byers
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Fluff
   • Angst
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike gives Will the princess treatment (most of the time)
   • when i say slow build i mean it
   • Basementgate
   • (with the cure!!)
   • Oaths & Vows
   • Mike Wheeler is a Dungeon Master (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Dungeons & Dragons As Flirting
   • No Tammy mention (thank god)
   • sorcadin
   • Creelby Parallels
   • (but no creelby mention I fear)

   Summary

   The first time Will felt that something was seriously wrong with him, he did what he thought was best, which is absolutely nothing. It was hands-down the worst decision he’d ever made, and considering how his life turned out, that was saying something.

   If he’d just opened his mouth, said something—anything—it might’ve saved him from being possessed for the next year and a half.

   Or

   November 6, 1987. Will Byers disappears for seven days, he comes back alive but possessed. Mike takes his sweet time connecting the dots, but once he does, he’s definitely not okay with this information.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

   5/?

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