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• Floating by Lesbylers22

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  28 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Richie Tozier
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Richie Tozier
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Beverly Marsh
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • POV Will Byers
  • Gay Richie Tozier
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Byler Crumbs
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Teen Angst
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Past Trauma
  • Soft Richie Tozier
  • But also
  • Richie Tozier is a Little Shit
  • Post-IT (2017)
  • No Vecna (Stranger Things)
  • Aged-Up Character(s)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

  Summary

  At the end of the summer of 85 the Byers move to the small town of Derry.
  Will is struggling internally, with his feelings and the aftermath of everything that happened to him.

  But surprisingly, he meets someone who understands him better than he thought someone could.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,056

  Chapters:

  4/?

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