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and we kissed (and the shame was on the other side) by TickTockGlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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Summary
“Will,” he whispers, so softly that he doesn’t even hear it, but he knows he said it. It’s in the familiar way his tongue curls around the vowels, how the word sits on his tongue like a spring, desperate to find a place in every conversation. He knows it like his mother knows the commandments, so intimately that if he were to strip the flesh from his stomach he would find the name carved into every inch of his ribs. It’s his own language of Eden, taught to him by the God that only reaches out when he wants to take.
“Mike,” Will whispers back, and his voice breaks halfway through his name. His hands cup Mike’s face in that gentle but firm way they’ve all learned to hold things after they had been ripped away one too many times.
Or: S5 Rewrite!!! After the battle at the MAC-Z, Mike falls into a coma and wakes inside a world that feels perfect. The problem? It isn’t real. Will is the only one who can reach him, but saving Mike means walking through his worst memories and risking the one thing neither of them has ever been brave enough to name. Can they escape the dreamscape before the illusion convinces Mike to stay?