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1. Going Crazy Alone (unless you wanna come along) by SilverArrows24

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 May 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Patty Newby
   • conformitygate
   • Mike thinks he's going insane
   • he's like Joyce with the Christmas lights
   • but on steroids
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Vecna gets Vecna'd
   • The Play actually gets addressed
   • Dungeons & Dragons References
   • Mike thinks he got friendzoned on the tower
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Mental Breakdown
   • will also has a breakdown
   • Depressed Mike Wheeler
   • because this is Conformitygate
   • this got way more angsty than I intended
   • The Party Goes to Stacey Albright's Graduation Party
   • The usual amount of miscommunication in a Byler story
   • beta read by my friend's cat
   • the one with two braincells fighting to communicate
   • let's actually give Dustin and Mike some screentime together
   • Autistic Mike Wheeler
   • that kinda happened by accident ngl
   • D&D used as foreshadowing
   • Will Byers Finds Out Mike Wheeler Jumped Off the Cliff
   • Making Out
   • Neck Kissing
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Bad Time

   Summary

   “You know, I really did hear her.”, Mike whispers. Pauses. “I feel like I’m going crazy.”
   A very long silence blankets them. So long that he tenses.
   Eventually, Will hesitantly asks “Do you need help? Real help? Like, we can get you someone to talk to?”
   Mike feels his world crash down.
   Because Will didn’t say it back.

   El is dead. The Upside Down is gone. Mike Wheeler needs to move on. That's what everyone tells him.
   But how can he, when someone keeps sending him messages? When reality around him doesn't make sense? How can he, when he's going crazy and nobody believes him?

   Series

   • Part 2 of Byler Rewrites

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   52,901

   Chapters:

   13/13

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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