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1. Hold My Life: Lake Michigan, June 1990 by velvet_shiver

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   29 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley
   • Top Will Byers
   • Bottom Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Is So Smart
   • Period Accurate Attitudes
   • 90s
   • Post Epilogue
   • Mike Wheeler is a Musician
   • Mike Wheeler is a Rocker
   • Will Byers is So Confident
   • Will Byers is So Strong
   • Closet case
   • Mike Wheeler in Denial
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Everything Has Changed Yet Everything Is The Same
   • First Times
   • Afraid To Talk About It
   • Companion Piece
   • Mike wheeler is exploring
   • hand stuff
   • Will Byers is Down Bad
   • be quiet they're going to hear us
   • mike does not know he's freaky yet but trust we're getting there
   • Mike Wheeler Is an Idiot
   • Light Angst
   • First times....with a guy that is
   • mike also doesn't really know he's a bottom yet ok this is just the beginning
   • smoking weed
   • drinking a little
   • byler

   Summary

   Mike spoke softly, running his hand down Will’s arm. “Do you wanna do it again?”
   Voice shaking and lips turned down, Will said, “Don’t fuck with me, Mike.”
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   The inciting incident for Part 1: Lake Michigan, June 1990. Here it goes!
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   Quick author's note (04/18/26): Originally, I was going to have Part 2 be a collection of one-shots, deleted scenes, and new stuff for this work. I changed that approach because I realized how that could be problematic for tagging and organization. Updates will come in additions to the series overall. See series notes and end notes of this work for more detailed info!

   Series

   • Part 2 of Hold My Life (Until I'm Ready To Use It)

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