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only then i am human (only then i am clean) by rainstorming
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Nov 2025
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Will looked at him, making eye contact. He was so beautiful like this. His eyes almost sparkled in the light. Mike hadn’t been able to look away, lately. He had been stealing glances from across the room, staring at Will whenever possible.
He knew it was wrong, the feeling he got in his stomach when Will looked back.
OR: Mike and Will duck into a church in the Upside-Down to tend to wounds. Chaos ensues!
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ulovechlorine and VTOKKI wrote this because they decided that they’re so fed up with the way that canon treated Will Byers in Stranger Things: Season 5 that they pour all their hopes and dreams into a complicated sci-fi-thriller-romance-frankenstein Stranger Things: Season 1-inspired Byler Fanfiction (Will Not Found Alternative Universe) that takes place 4 years after (almost all of) the events of Season 4.
In other words, almost everything that transpired in the canon--after the start of the last episode of season 1--takes place without Will.
At this point, Dustin, Lucas, Mike, The Byers, The Wheelers... they all are starting to perceive it as a fact that Will Byers is dead, and gone forever.
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05 Jun 2026
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“You do like it,” Mike teases. “I can tell.”
“Obviously,” Will huffs. “You know what I like.”
Mike does. What a surreal feeling it is, to be the one who knows what Will likes. What makes him blush, or shy away. What turns him on. To be the only one who knows these things.
“Yeah,” Mike says softly. “I know.”
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Will becomes the patron saint of pretending to sleep with guys to help them come out of the closet. Mike isn’t exactly thrilled with the situation.
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03 Jun 2026
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“We haven’t done this since middle school,” Will says, voice barely above a whisper.
“Huh,” Mike whispers back. “Yeah, guess not.”
A couple years ago, Mike read a National Geographic article about a phenomenon called the polar night. In the farthest north and south regions of the globe, there are weeks, sometimes months depending on how close you are to the poles, where the sun does not rise above the horizon, plunging the world into a perpetual nighttime. Living in such conditions, the article had explained, can affect one’s circadian rhythm, heighten issues with concentration and energy levels, and cause a spike in depressive symptoms among local populations. Some resort to using light therapy lamps to mimic the daylight.
It was only after the Byers moved away, all those years ago, that Mike began to understand what the prolonged absence of the sun can do to a person.
The Upside Down is gone, and everyone has made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the not-so-end of the world, snowballs turn into avalanches. Sometimes it just takes time.
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The terrible, awful thing about finally getting what he wanted — namely, Mike — is that now he wants more, the selfish creature that he is. When he was younger, he’d been able to convince himself that kissing Mike, just once, would be enough to last him a lifetime. Foolishly, he’d thought that he could relish that single kiss and live a peaceful life, one where Mike was still his friend and nothing changed but his feelings would dissipate.
Instead, they grew; they’re still growing, Will fears, growing bigger and bigger each time Mike and him get together, because every sound Mike makes when Will kisses him makes Will want to find ten more little gasps and whines and groans, and each time Mike twists their fingers together and pants against his skin Will thinks about how much better it is than the time before.
will and mike are - something, and will's not entirely sure what. whatever they are, he wants more, but he's not sure if he can have it.
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24 May 2026
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Mike grins so widely that he displays each one of his baby teeth. "Open it," he says. "It's a card. I made it for you."
When Will gingerly peels the birthday card open, Mike’s uneven handwriting is displayed across the page.
The p’s in happy are backwards, the y wobbly and curled at the end, and the k in Mike is also flipped the wrong way. The word birthday is etched in their kindergarten teacher’s steady print, and it seems like she'd also added the punctuation for him.
Happy birthday, Will!
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Mike WOr: Will Byers' birthdays from age six to adulthood, told through cards from Mike.