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• i want to live behind your teeth (so i can be closer to you) by notreallybrave

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  30 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Alternate Universe - College/University
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Light Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Platonic Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Fluff
  • Domestic Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Romantic Mike Wheeler
  • he tries to
  • Love Confessions
  • Pining
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Good Friend Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Sad Will Byers
  • I'm Bad At Tagging

  Summary

  Mike starts trying to show it before he knows how to say it.

  It comes out in small things—coffee made just right, hands that linger, moments that feel heavier than they should.

  Will notices. Of course he does.

  But noticing isn’t the same as understanding, and the space between them is no longer as simple as it used to be.

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  English

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