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1. don't you wanna ride it? (educated horses) by cumaddict71

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   08 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Eddie Munson
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Angst
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Self-Destruction
   • Will Byers Whump
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Will Byers Has an Eating Disorder
   • Self-Harm
   • Dissociation
   • Codependency
   • Obsessive-Compulsive
   • Drug Use
   • Character Study
   • Will Byers Has PTSD
   • Sexual Trauma
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Arousal non-concordance
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Toxic Will Byers & Max Mayfield
   • Toxic Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Smut
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Fixed Dynamics
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   "You do keep coming back."

   Maybe that's the problem.

   Months after leaving Lenora behind and moving in with the Wheelers, Will finds something comforting in ruining himself on purpose—until it becomes the only thing he knows how to do.

   Max meets him where he is. Mike keeps pulling him closer.

   Until none of them can tell who is pulling whom under.

   OR:
   Thirteen (2003) but make it toxic byler, toxic madwise and shared self-destruction mistaken for intimacy.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   88,659

   Chapters:

   11/?

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