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1. all i’ve ever known is how to hold my own (but now i wanna hold you) by cn1dar1a

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   26 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • I Will Go Down with This Ship
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna is His Own Warning
   • Inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Blood and Injury
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • we’re treating season 5 as a suggestion that I’m not taking
   • First Kiss
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Manipulative Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • no more “friends? No thanks. Best friends” because what is that
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Mike will go to the ends of the earth for will
   • Will does the same
   • Not Beta Read
   • Homophobic Language
   • only once or twice

   Summary

   “Please promise me no matter what happens, no matter what he’s shown you, come back home with me. That’s all that matters to me now.” He took a shuddering breath, tiny rivulets of tears carving paths through dust. “Because I love you, and I’ve already lost you once. I can’t lose you again.”

   Or

   Mike realises that he sees Will differently than his other friends, and setting the record straight is far more important than saving the world.

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   English

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