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1. Clouds like shadows pass (He’s passing like a day) by mazzystarlight

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   13 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • James Hopper Sr. | Jim "Chief" Hopper's Father
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Slow Burn
   • Angst
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Horror
   • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
   • Stranger Things 2
   • Background Demogorgon (Stranger Things)
   • Will Byers Has Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer Powers
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Vecna's Curse (Stranger Things)
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • POV Will Byers
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper Are Twins
   • Sad Will Byers
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Forced Proximity
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)

   Summary

   “So I ran. I just kept following the memory.” He looks at Will. “It led me back to you.”

   "Oh."

   Mike smiles at this. His normal, full smile, his eyes crinkling in the corners, and it makes Will’s stomach swoop. “Yeah, Will. Oh.” He elbows Will’s arm playfully. “So you can’t leave me. I’m not letting you out of my sight, actually. You have to be attached to my hip like Max and that goddamn Walkman.”
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   After Vecna split the earth beneath Hawkins, nothing has been the same. Will's sensitivity to the Upside Down is stronger than ever, Dustin and Lucas are consumed with grief, and Mike and El are not speaking.

   Then, Mike falls under Vecna's curse, and the party discovers that his way out of the trance is not through song but through his oldest friend, who is hopelessly in love with him. To be safe, everyone decides it's best if Will does not let Mike out of his sight for the foreseeable future.

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