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1. In the Darkness (I Would Never Leave) by PaladinSorcerer

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   05 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Vickie Dunne
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Unhinged Mike Wheeler
   • Crazy Mike Wheeler
   • Pennhurst Asylum
   • Will Byers in Pennhurst Asylum
   • Post-Final Battle Against Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Post-Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Hawkins (Stranger Things)
   • Post-Apocalyptic Hawkins (Stranger Things)
   • Satanic panic
   • 1991
   • Patient Will Byers
   • Government Conspiracy
   • Government cover up
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Eventual Smut
   • Mike feeds Will
   • Boys Kissing
   • Gothic Au
   • Mental Institutions
   • Institionalization
   • Possessive Behaviour
   • Obsessive Behaviour
   • Slow Burn
   • Sneaking Around
   • Sneaking Out
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Bisexual Mike Wheeler
   • Ghost Stories
   • Horror Elements
   • Mike Wheeler might burn Hawkins down
   • Mike Wheeler might kill someone idk yet
   • this will be gothic and dark and smutty
   • You Have Been Warned
   • Mike Wheeler stops at nothing to save Will Byers
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Service Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Power Bottom Will Byers

   Summary

   After Hawkins falls apart for a second time, the government decides Pennhurst Mental Hospital is the safest place to keep whatever Hawkins thinks still lives inside Will Byers at bay. Pennhurst is meant to keep him isolated.

   Unfortunately for them, Mike Wheeler has keys.

   Every night, Will sneaks out at midnight to meet Mike in the library, where stories, contraband comics, feelings, and dangerous ideas slowly twist into something more.

   And Mike Wheeler has a bad habit of getting what he wants, whatever the cost.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   16,403

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   35

   Bookmarks:

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