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• Futile Devices (saying nothing & losing everything till I get you back) by rinassong

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  14 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Miscommunication
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Secret Relationship
  • Making Out
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • starts out fluffy and then turns into angst
  • Underage Drinking
  • Slow Burn
  • Slow Burn Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Eventual Sex
  • Eventual Smut

  Summary

  Will and Mike rush into a relationship without working out their past issues. At first it's going great, until something happens that destroys everything. Everything that they tried to push down, comes right back up, like Mike's jealousy and Will feeling like he's a rebound.

  Can they come back from this?

  A story about two souls who love each other deeply, healing their past so they can be stronger together in the end.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,417

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  3

  Bookmarks:

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