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His other eye held a sense of familiarity to Mike. The color a soft green. He looked at his nose, at his mouth, at the mole over it.
Wait.
...What?
He looked back up into his eyes. The same eyes he had looked into on their last day together.
His stomach dropped. He was going to be sick.
He traced his face yet again as his mind simultaneously remembered every picture of Will.
Pictures Mike had been studying meticulously ever since he died.
That’s right, Will died.
Will is dead.
He's supposed to be dead.
He kept repeating the sentiment in his head, but it didn't matter. All the details matched. Sure, his features had become older, but it was still him. It was still-
"...Will?" Mike whispered, terrified the sound of his voice would somehow make him disappear, make this not real. Instead, it appeared as if Mike speaking awoke something in Will as Will’s emotionless eyes suddenly shot up along with the shotgun flying back up into his hands, shooting right past Mikes head, straight through the tree he was still leaned against.
Or: A Will Byers was never found AU, until he was
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13 Jun 2026
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A different kind of understanding begins to expand in Will’s middle, disconcerting and terrible. Something that no person should feel, ever. Something that he feels regardless. A fucking certainty that being killed would be better than whatever comes next. Because the killer presses his knife to Will’s throat once more, fits it into his open wound in an act that could read as mockery, or a slow, torturous continuation, but when Will winces, nothing happens. The silence kills him, hurts him and revives him all in one toxic cycle. Then, the knife is pulled back… Sheathed again.
And the killer reaches for Will’s hands… slow… languid… the time’s on his side and the Byers house is not alive.
He grabs them. Laces their fingers and moves them above Will’s head. It stretches Will’s body off the stairs--
And in, the killer leans, and in a distorted voice, whispers--
“I can love you, Will.”
Thirteen vicious murders in Hawkins almost lead to a fourteenth. Will was supposed to die on that night. He interested the killer for reasons that are hardly as simple as they're made to seem, and the story of why Mike wants Will has its roots in what happens when love and obsession meet.
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13 Jun 2026
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Mike moves to Indianapolis for college and starts spiralling, missing his childhood best friend and being reminded of him everywhere he goes.
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Season 6 fic
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12 Jun 2026
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Nothing in the World That I Ever Wanted More by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Leviticus (Movie 2026)
12 Jun 2026
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"You want me?” Mike's eyes were dark, and Will was speechless. He swallowed the awful feeling that was rising in his throat, trying to utter something, to somehow deny it.
Mike was looking at him in a way he never had. Like he was something foul.
“Did you really think I wouldn’t notice, Will?” He breathed, so slowly that Will was sure his heart would be a second off beat forever. “It's always been so obvious.”
“I’m sorry Mike, I’m so sorry. I don't.. It’s not-”
“Don’t make it worse, now you just sound stupid.”
They were standing close, and it was a proximity Will had craved since he knew what want even was, but something was wrong. Will moved sideways to slip away, looking his best friend in the eyes, and a horrible cold began pooling in his stomach. It wasn’t Mike.
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Following the splitting of Hawkins, Mike and Will find themselves stalked by a shapeshifting supernatural entity that cruelly terrorizes them by taking the exact form of the person they desire most: each other.
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11 Jun 2026
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Will is a young gay man committed to Lazarus by his father. Traumatized and alone, he's assigned to Cell 44—right next to Cell 45, where Mike lives. Mike is infamous: violent, isolated, feared by patients and staff alike.
Through late night conversations, Will learns fragments of Mike—his sharp wit, his cruelty, his unexpected tenderness. Mike teaches Will to breathe through panic attacks after his traumatic conversion therapy sessions. But Mike also pushes Will away, warning him to stay distant, insisting nothing good comes from getting close to him. A psychological tension between horror and attraction, exploring whether a monster can be capable of tenderness—and whether Will's inability to fear Mike makes him brave, broken, or both.Bookmarked by balletmonkey0208
11 Jun 2026