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1. The Version of Me You Love by westinyellowandblue

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), You (TV 2018)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   18 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Psychological Horror
   • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
   • Unreliable Narrator Mike Wheeler
   • Obsession
   • Codependency
   • Dark Romance
   • trauma aftermath
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Intrusive Thoughts
   • Serial Killers
   • Murder
   • Violence
   • Manipulation
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Secrets
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Queer Themes
   • Angst
   • Religious Guilt
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • 1980s
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Established Relationship
   • mutual obsession
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Possessive Will Byers
   • “I Would Do Anything For You” Energy
   • first person pov deserves its own warning
   • Mike Wheeler's Internal Monologue
   • Will Byers Internal Monologue
   • excessive use of em dashes
   • no beta we die like vecna
   • Anal Sex
   • Dark
   • Dark Byler
   • Dubious Consent
   • First Time
   • Blood Kink
   • Dom/sub Undertones
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Rough Sex

   Summary

   Hawkins survived. I survived. The Mind Flayer didn’t. It stayed.
   Mike has always been there—watching, devoted, unknowingly holding me together and tempting me apart. But surviving isn’t the same as living. And some shadows never leave.

   *this idea was brought to me by scrolling twitter and the amazing "@bylerpilledd" came up with the idea of a You parallel of Joe/Love and Will/Mike all creds go to them.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   15,691

   Chapters:

   7/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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