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1. Something Soft, Something Wrong (held too tightly) by zozomochibear

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Other
   • Work in Progress

   14 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler Needs Therapy
   • Will Byers Needs Therapy
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Enabler Party
   • unhealthy relationship dynamics
   • Boundary Issues
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Overprotective Mike Wheeler
   • Anxious Mike Wheeler
   • English Is Not the Author's First Language
   • Survivor Guilt
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Toxic Mike Wheeler
   • Toxic Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • codepency
   • Everyone Needs Therapy
   • i guess
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Everyone Loves Will Byers
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • No beta we die like Barb
   • Smut
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Established Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Slow Burn
   • Gaslighting
   • still working on how to write explicit gay smut since i still dk how gay sex works in detail still researching
   • but sex is not the focus here so sorry if you're expecting that

   Summary

   Will nearly died after the final battle, spending almost two months in a coma while the rest of Hawkins waited helplessly for him to wake up.

   Those months changed everything.

   For Mike, losing Will once was enough to destroy him. Watching him lie motionless in a hospital bed day after day left him terrified of ever letting Will out of his sight again. So when Will finally wakes up, Mike clings to him harder than ever. Protective at first. Then possessive. Obsessive. Controlling.

   And the others let it happen.

   The Party remembers how empty everything felt without Will around and how scared they were that he would never wake up. They saw how broken Mike was while waiting for Will to wake up. So instead of calling Mike out, they support him and help convince Will that all of it is normal and only because they love and care about him.

   Even if it means manipulating Will into believing the same thing.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   32,542

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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