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Continuation of Write to Me and Escape.
John's Lost Weekend happens with Paul in 1973.
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Paul was laying on his side, hands folded under his cheek. His back facing John. While he laid flat on his back, staring at the ceiling.If someone decided to wake them up early, it would be very compromising. But that would be a later problem for them. He's too tired to think about it too much. Paul sighed, and flipped to the other side, facing him. He was bluntly staring and breathing quietly.
“What?” John whispered. Paul had an unreadable expression on his face. John turned to his side to face him too. The moonlight drifting in from the window hid the color of Paul's eyes. They were hazel. People tried to pin it down to one or another. Brown or green, but they were hazel. Always shifting from the sun's rays. In the absence of the sun, his eyes were brown. Dark brown, almost black. Glinting with white spots from the moon's shine. He could still see a small shine of green and felt satisfied knowing what should be so clear.
He knows what he wants to say. Hazel eyes gave it away easily.
I love you.
...OR: the one where John runs away with Paul to California circa 1973
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- Part 2 of Write To Me And Escape
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Write to Me and Escape by canthardlywait
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band), Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (Song)
18 Aug 2025
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Summer of 1973. An ad is posted in John's local tabloid. Misunderstandings ensue. Paul has plotted a plan to get him back. They cut through all that red tape.
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- Part 1 of Write To Me And Escape
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Stanman fic I felt compelled to write since stan is one of the only guys cartman doesn't talk a lot of shit about. They bond over issues. They talk shit.
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Write To Me And Escape by canthardlywait
Fandom Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (Song), The Beatles (Band)
18 Apr 2026
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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“Hey, Mike?” Will asked. “Why now?”
Mike was silent for a long time, so long Will thought he wasn’t going to answer at all. “I just… I don’t know. How can I move on if I don’t know for sure? I can’t stop thinking that if she is out there, if I was right, and I don’t even try to find her, then maybe I really didn’t deserve her.”
A year after graduation, Mike decides to start a search for El and asks Will to come with him. Their friendship hasn't been the same since Will came out and Eleven disappeared, so Will agrees, kicking off a complicated journey that brings them back together. Will is in college, trying to move on, and Mike is idling in Hawkins, torn between his past with El and his confusing feelings for Will. As the search brings them closer than either ever imagined, Will and Mike grapple with first loves, moving on, and growing up together.
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22 Jul 2026
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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08 Jun 2026
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There’s something wrong with Will.
It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.
No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.
Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.
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20 May 2026
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If you like horror, very graphic, visceral, body horror. Then this is the fic for you. The way that this was written was so VIVID. I cannot understate that, it is VERY DETAILED. This was on par with the book lapvona or compound fracture w how detailed the body horror is and the internalized homophobia aspect. ESPECIALLY pertaining to Will's trauma, it is SO WELL WRITTEN. Everything about this story was so captivating, once I started reading it, I could not put it down. This author is so talented at writing horror. The angst is SO GOOD. UGH. Life changing. Unforgettable.
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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14 May 2026
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OH MY GOD. FUCK. this one is so good and ugh perfectly encompasses Gothic horror. The music choices are peak and everything written about Will's character is amazing. If you wanted to read the perfect fic about a will was never found au then this is it. Kudos to the author x10000000
REALLY good angst. Chapter 19 UGH. This fic gave me chills and I did cry, I wish it could be adapted into a movie or something because this fic is just that cinematic. It sucks you into the terrifying reality of surviving in the upside down along with coping with the aftermath and trauma.