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1. this time I'll do things differently (this time I'd like to need you less) by Nehm

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
   • Alpha Mike Wheeler
   • Omega Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Heavy Angst
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • True Mates
   • Mutual Pining
   • Will's POV
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Anal Sex
   • Mike Wheeler is in Denial
   • Will Byers is in Denial
   • Male Omegas are considered second-grade citizens
   • Growth and self-acceptance
   • Self-love and self-image
   • College
   • Post Season 5
   • Mild canon-divergence as in El survived
   • Will walks Mike Wheeler like a dog
   • angsty sex
   • Rough Sex
   • Possessive Sex
   • Knotting
   • Slowburn kiss
   • Slowburn Relationship
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Mating Cycles/In Heat
   • Scent Kink
   • Mating Bond
   • Biting
   • Yearning
   • Eventual Service Top Mike Wheeler
   • Power Bottom Will Byers
   • magical butthole territory
   • Homophobic Language
   • Happy Ending
   • Mpreg in the final chapter
   • Mike POV chapters 7 and 8
   • roughly period typical homophobia

   Summary

   Will flees from Hawkins before people find out he's an omega.

   Will tries to flee from Hawkins before people find out he's an omega.

   Will fails to because Mike comes too close, Mike smells too good, and Mike's a latent alpha and then he's not. Then, he's an alpha that Will's pheromones triggered to present and Will will never admit he's his alpha.

   They'll never admit they're true mates, either.

   They don't need to.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   113,656

   Chapters:

   9/?

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