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• You know where to find me (and I know where to look) by Emmy37

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  11 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Robin Buckley
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Temporary Character Death
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Will Byers Has Powers
  • Mike Wheeler-centric
  • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Depressed Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Overuse of italics
  • Coming Out
  • Derealization
  • Canon Compliant
  • Kind Of
  • Mutual Pining
  • Protective Will Byers
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Angst with a Happy Ending

  Summary

  “Mike?” Will’s shoulders drop and relief floods through him when he catches sight of the curly black hair belonging to his best friend. The relief is short-lived. He’s standing facing away from Will and does not respond or turn to face him. Like he couldn’t hear Will at all.
  Any words Will intended to say died right there and then in his throat. Turning to face Mike, it feels like his world shatters. There he is, Mike Wheeler, standing with his arms slack at his sides, his eyes rolled back in his head. Will’s ears begin to ring and he lets out something in between a sob and a scream. “Mike. MIKE” Will grabs hold of Mike’s shoulders and shakes him. Hard.
  or
  Mike was cursed by Vecna and none of the finale was real.
  or
  Conformity Gate

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,487

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  10

  Bookmarks:

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