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Mike jerks awake, sobbing and struggling to fill his lungs as tears flow down, wetting his face. He squeezes his eyes tight and pushes the heel of his hands into them to try and get it to stop. He can’t breathe.
His heart aches. Everything hurts, and there is nothing he can do to make it stop. His grief is never-ending and all-consuming. He can't imagine moving forward now that El's gone.
Through his own grief, Will somehow always finds a way to be there for him. Little by little, they go from crazy to grief-ridden to something next to normal. And maybe at the end of it all, learn to take more than just comfort in each other.
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"Who knew Prongs would put up such a fight just to see one girl" Sirius said turning "Alright there Evans?" he smiled just noticing that she was there. "I'm fine, whats wrong with Potter this time?" Lily asked just then James flailed his arms in an attempt to escape and had accidentally slapped Peter. "Isla Livingston slipped Prongs some strong love potion, he's gone mad for her," Remus said walking up to the end of Lily's bed.
Lily felt her eyes widen in surprise causing them to laugh. That took some serious guts, not only was it hard and against the rules to make and give someone a love potion, but James was also Head Boy. "Well, I didn't know there were girls that desperate, especially for Potter" Lily teased.
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Or James gets fed a love potion and Lily comes to terms with a few things as he's blabbing on about another girl.
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"When I go I want all the stuff in my brain stored in a giant ship"
There are many regrets the team has, from the early days as a team and right then as they lose one of its members and Lance gets to show that the information stored in his brain is better suited for a giant ship than that of a paper airplane.
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The gang goes out for karaoke and Keith gets some unwanted help from an even more unwanted guest.
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Will raised an eyebrow at his friend's antics, then dropped his eyes to where he knew Dustin had reached a hand out towards him.
“This summer, we stick together. You and me, Byers.”
Will grinned, taking Dustin’s hand and shaking it. “You and me, Henderson.”
A rewrite of S3:
The night Dustin gets back from Camp Knowhere, he brings the Party up to the highest point in Hawkins to set up Cerebro. He thought that his friends would be excited to have him back-- even if it wasn't the most entertaining to sit on a hill and talk into a radio with no response, he thought they would at least wait for him before going home. He thought it was going to be the best summer ever.
Instead, he finds himself and the one friend that didn't leave him, Will Byers, intercepting a weird Russian transmission.
And, well... if he couldn't have the best summer ever, at least he and Will would have an eventful one.
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27 Apr 2026
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Only You, All I Ever Knew (Extended) by 2lostinwonderland
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Apr 2026
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Will attends a baseball game with his friends and struggles with jealousy over the coworker Mike has been talking to a lot lately. But when the Kiss Cam highlights Mike and their coworker, Mike doesn't kiss her. He kisses Will.
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24 Apr 2026
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Slow-Burn, canon-compliant and set after season 4. Will Byers & Byler centric. If you like lots of feels and pining, a nice dose of spooky beasties, some silly character moments and seeing our boy Will kicking ass, taking names and coming of age, you're in the right place.
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It's two weeks after the fall of Hawkins and the Party are trying to figure out how to move on, find Max and stop Vecna.Will's heart is still breaking over Mike and El, but when those emotions awaken something decidedly more otherworldly and powerful he, and a strange new friend, have to confront what really happened in Hawkins on November 6th 1983 and what side Will himself is really on.
A fever-dream, mucho-feels, super long, semi-fix-it, version of Season 5.
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27 Mar 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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you could kiss a hundred boys in bars by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Will got shitfaced drunk for the first time in his life, that night in the Village. It was good to feel loose, dizzy, to leave the lonely boy shivering in the woods behind for a few hours. It was even better to feel eyes on him, wandering hands on the dance floor—to feel wanted, seen. He didn’t quite remember how he got from the club to the guy’s Chelsea apartment, but he remembered the rest. Hands, lips, muscled biceps. The pain, the stretch, the aching pleasure. The pre-dawn cab ride home. It was a wholly decent first time, all things considered. He told himself that in the dark, cold days that followed, hiding away in the studio, furiously working, avoiding all his new friends. The guy was nice; he used a condom, Will was 95% sure. Weeks passed. Will didn’t get sick. And the next time he picked up the phone and heard Mike’s voice on the other end of the line, he went out and did it again.
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19 Mar 2026