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1. no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin by bridgetobyler

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Alternate Universe
   • will has a shit ton of religious guilt
   • mike wheeler is the son of the pastor
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Homophobia
   • Religious Guilt
   • religious trauma
   • Angst
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Dry Humping
   • Hand Jobs
   • Hand & Finger Kink
   • Service Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • holy water as lube
   • Finger Sucking
   • secrecy
   • Ted Wheeler Being an Asshole (Stranger Things)
   • slight divergence form protestant church canon?
   • The Quarry
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Suicide Ideation
   • Lots of Angst
   • Corruption Kink
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mentions of conversion therapy

   Summary

   “You… um, smoke?” Will asks before he can stop himself, swallowing as he watches a boy lean against the dusty, cracking brick wall.

   Will doesn’t know much about the boy, except that his name is Mike and his father is the pastor.

   “What?” He replies, pulling the cigarette from his lips and lightly blowing the smoke from his mouth. “Just because my dad is the pastor, you think I can’t enjoy a cigarette?

   OR:

   Will Byers is no stranger to religious guilt. He carries it everywhere he goes, and it’s starting to weigh him down.

   When he meets Mike Wheeler, the pastor’s son, he realizes there is more to life than just fearing God, and it’s much scarier.

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