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1. Held Close All The Time (Knowing It Was All For You) by fiorexlovette for willbynight

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   07 Apr 2026

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Robin Buckley
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Will Byers Has Internalized Homophobia
   • The Picture of Dorian Gray References
   • Giovanni's Room References
   • Carmilla's References
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Neil Perry Appearance
   • Mike Wheeler Reads The Picture Of Dorian Gray
   • And Think About Will Byers
   • Queer Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Lives
   • Queer Themes
   • I Wrote This While Listening to Ethel Cain's Music
   • No beta reader
   • Bisexual Nancy Wheeler
   • there had to be only 3 gays
   • suddenly there's 6 or 7
   • Platonic Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   Guilt was eating him alive. If only he could open his mouth, maybe he wouldn’t feel this lonely. But he wasn’t perfect like Will. He was ugly, disgusting, and a moster. His father thought so too. Why keep fighting what’s true? Will was magic in this ugly world, and he couldn’t ruin him. Not when he left him alone in the rain too many times.

   Maybe the only cure was sleep; the nightmares gave him something to fight, and there his life wasn’t so depressing. Here Will continued ditching him, he was avoiding his friends, his family wasn’t perfect, and he was a fucking homosexual.

    

   Or

    

   Mike reads queer books (that Will finds in his basement) and think about his gay best friend

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,677

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   15

   Bookmarks:

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