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1. Why do we feel? (How do we make it stop?) by YellowxBlue

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   18 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Post-Season/Series Finale
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • College
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Will Byers Is Not Okay
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Will Byers is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • they’re both a mess
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Oral Sex
   • Anal Sex
   • Anal Fingering
   • Punishment
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Guilt
   • Trauma
   • Dry Humping
   • Frottage
   • Hand Jobs
   • Restraints
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Panic Attacks
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Mental Breakdown
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • I swear
   • Dubious Consent
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • HEAVY internalised homophobia
   • Post-Canon
   • Canon Compliant

   Summary

   The five stages of grief are supposed to be easy. It’s a clear-cut path to move on, but the path isn’t always as clear as it’s made out to be.

   For Mike the road is jumbled and messy and violent and his life begins to rapidly spin out of control when after five years after theUpside Down has been destroyed he sees Will again.

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