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1. Only then I am human (Only then I am clean) by Apr1cotss

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eddie Munson & The Party
   • Will Byers & Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Wayne Munson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eddie Munson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Murray Bauman
   • Other(s)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Will Byers in the Upside Down
   • Alternate Universe - Will Byers is Never Found
   • Stranger Things 4
   • BAMF Will Byers
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Permanent Injury
   • Blood and Violence
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Gun Violence
   • One-Eyed Will Byers
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Sorry Not Sorry
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Referenced satanic panic of the 80s
   • referenced HIV/AIDs crisis of the 80s
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Hospitalization
   • Medical Inaccuracies
   • sorry I’m not a doctor
   • Government Conspiracy
   • False Accusations
   • Minor Character Death
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Trauma
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • No beta we die like bob
   • Slow Burn
   • Like really slow

   Summary

   Mike hated the upside down, it rubbed him the wrong way every time he was near it even though he’d never actually been to the upside down, he’s certainly been around the creatures that haunt the upside down. However, despite that, the real reason he hates it? Because that god forsaken place took the only person who truly knew Mike, who Mike trusted with his whole heart.

    

   Will Byers.

    

   A Will Byers never found Au inspired by @se4.stars on TikTok

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,496

   Chapters:

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   Kudos:

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