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1. love is a gentle thing (yours is thicker than a velvet ring) by cosmicsapphic

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Eddie Munson
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • POV Will Byers
   • Temporary Amnesia
   • Memory Loss
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • he just doesn't know it
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Song: American Pie (Don McLean)
   • Everybody Lives
   • well mostly everybody

   Summary

   He had a life before this. He knows that. He is a teenager, and teenagers have memories.

   So why didn't he?

   Or, a fic I wrote when I was bored and crying at night and wanted fictional characters to feel my pain.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,027

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Comments:

   3

   Kudos:

   5

   Hits:

   57