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1. Home is behind (the world ahead) by olivewritesthings

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   08 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eddie Munson
   • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Demo-Dogs
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eddie Munson
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Sam Owens (Stranger Things)
   • Demo-Dogs (Stranger Things)
   • Will Byers in the Upside Down
   • Alternate Universe - Will Byers is Never Found
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Eddie Munson Lives
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Slow Burn
   • Possessed Will Byers
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Selectively Mute Will Byers
   • minus the selective part
   • but just 'mute Will Byers' isn't a tag for some reason
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Injured Eddie Munson
   • Injured Will Byers
   • Will Byers gets a pet Demodog
   • I'm going to make that a tag
   • Amnesia
   • Angst
   • Whump
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Autistic Will Byers
   • Feral Will Byers
   • why isn't that a tag
   • BAMF Will Byers
   • Morally Ambiguous Will Byers
   • Morally Ambiguous Character
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler Has Religious Trauma
   • Narcolepsy
   • Epilepsy
   • Neithers officially diagnosed but yk
   • no beta we die like mike's empathy in canon
   • Made up languages
   • on occasion

   Summary

   Death? Will wasn’t dead though.

   “No.” The thing agreed. “You’re not.  But your friends don’t know that.”

   Will glared at the thing. He believed in his friends. If anyone could get him out of here, it was them. “Oh, William. You are so naive. Your friends cannot get you out of here if they don’t know you’re alive. They will forget you, in time. And you will forget them.” Will shook his head. He wouldn’t forget his friends. He wouldn’t. “You are not in control of your own mind for much longer.” The thing stated.

   OR: Will Byers is never found. He goes a little crazy, a little feral, and then he finds something to help him.

   A/N: Do not repost without permission. DM for translations. Fuck generative AI. I have never and will never use it to write my fics in any capacity, I just update quickly because I have no life. I do not support Noah Schnapp, but unfortunately I have a habit of fixating on things with problematic people involved. Free Palestine

   Series

   • Part 2 of Psammalah

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