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1. To Wish Impossible Things (All I Wish Is Gone Away) by thethirdwheeler

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   09 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Robin Buckley
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Possessed Mike Wheeler
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Mike Wheeler Has PTSD
   • Mutual Pining
   • Angst
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Major Character Injury
   • Blood and Gore
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

   Summary

   (previously "Smalltown Boys")

   Mike took a step back, reaching blindly for the basement door that should’ve been there. It wasn’t there anymore. He looked back to the lake, a clear image of two police men pulling something out of the water. Someone. His breathing sped up, each inhale sharp and panicked. He recognised the jacket. He saw it so often as a kid.

   No..no..no..

   He looked back and forth between the kids huddled behind the truck and the body being dragged onto the shore.

   “Will?” The name cracked as it left his lips.

   What the fuck is going on?

   or

   sometimes it takes a curse or two to get a grip on your emotions.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   17,622

   Chapters:

   6/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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