Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. Butterfly Effect by thirdfloor

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   04 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Post-Season/Series Finale
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Not Really Character Death
   • POV Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Supernatural Elements
   • Slow Burn
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Lucid Dreaming
   • Therapy
   • Nightmares
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Temporary Amnesia
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Survivor Guilt
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Falling In Love
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Mike looks at me and I reach a single hand out toward him, my shoes touching the base of the stairs.

   He mouths something I can't read, then his thumb presses down on the button. What did you say, Mike?

   I’m drowning under the weight of the nightmare. But I don’t think I want it to end if it means losing the last place he still exists.

   I can feel the heat of the explosion scorching my face.

   I think I always will.

   or: Will Byers has been given a re-do by fate, two years after Mike Wheeler sacrifices himself to close the gate for good.

   Is this really a dream?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   9,087

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Comments:

   18

   Kudos:

   112

   Bookmarks:

   36

   Hits:

   2,402