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Being away at college is easier than Will expected in some ways, and harder in all the others. As old wounds from the past resurface and familiar routines fall into place, Mike becomes the person he keeps turning to without meaning to.
It's probably nothing.
Until the lines between friendship start to look a little blurred.
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28 Apr 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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03 Apr 2026
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"This okay?" Mike presses his fingers down, ever so slightly. Will inhales sharply and nods, but strangely, Mike isn't satisfied. Because of this, he says something so, so stupid—
"Can you use your words for me?"
Another sharp noise escapes Will. Mike stiffens, tugging his hands away as he mentally calculates the flight cost for a one-way trip from New York to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, until Will leans back into his hands with a soft sigh.
"Yeah," he says, softly. "Yeah, it's— it's good."
When Mike touches the back of Will’s neck, Will loses himself. Mike, obviously, decides to abuse this.
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- Part 2 of between the sheets
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03 Apr 2026
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A plane brings Mike to California—and a milkshake brings him to Will.
or, Will’s the target at Rink-o-Mania.
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03 Apr 2026
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After Eleven dies, Mike Wheeler has no name for what he feels toward Will Byers, so he does the only thing he knows: he holds on too tight.
Same bed every night, his mouth on every part of Will except the one that would make it true. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps not answering.
It takes a paint-stained studio and a fight neither of them walks away from whole for the world to finally go quiet. Will stops hearing that day.
Two thousand miles apart, there's no clean version of this. Will is learning that leaving isn't the same as dying. Mike is learning that some things you break stay broken, and loving harder was never the fix.
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Mike Wheeler has OCD, Will Byers is too good at being needed, and the thing they keep doing in the dark only gets a name after Will loses his hearing and love has to learn a new language through their hands
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29 Mar 2026