8 Works in Comatose Will Byers
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Darling, Darling, Darling, Darling Willow by Idk_12333333322
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Mar 2026
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A swap au where Will swaps with max but also genderbend wahoo
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Tormented by memories of El, and haunted by a song constantly playing on the radio (courtesy of an old friend), Mike Wheeler hears that his best friend is hospitalized from a nasty car crash and comes rushing to his side. While Mike awaits his bedside for Will to wake up from a coma, he is left with nothing to do but sit and think about his past, and what the rest of his future will look like if he has to lose Will too.
All the while, receiving scathing glares from across the other side of the bed by Will's boyfriend… as well as suspicious looks from the wife sitting right beside Mike.
When Will wakes up, he's met with an irritated boyfriend, and a determined Mike who seems hellbent on rekindling a flame that he put out years ago. And, oh yeah! Can't forget Mike's wife who apparently didn't know Will existed. Fun times!
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“You make this place feel alive, you know,” Henry says one morning, passing Will a clean glass. The compliment settles warmly in his chest, purring like a cat.
Their days become a predictable thing, but Will can’t help but find the predictability comforting. Time starts to blur around the edges, and the days don’t end so much as they… loop. Meals repeat. The light that streams in through the windows always looks like late afternoon, warm and yellow. Eventually, he stops checking the clock. Nothing changes when he does, and he has nowhere to be, anyway. Nothing pressing. No reason to rush. All he has is right here, warm and solid against his back.
Trapped inside a carefully constructed reality, Henry offers Will a life he knows he could never have in the outside world. As fragments of the apocalypse his friends are fighting begin to bleed through the facade, however, Will is forced to confront what exactly Henry is keeping him from, and all it's costing him to stay.
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Hawkins won its battle against Vecna, but the saviors paid a heavy price. Blood can only be washed away with more blood, and that's how they lost their wizard.
Will, a friend, a brother, the most powerful weapon of all.
Mike never got over it, and he still sits at his bedside every day to talk to him about them. -
there is no sweeter innocence (than our gentle sin) by thescribbles
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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“ the youngest shot back in surprise, yanking his hand away from will as if he was burned. a look of guilt etching on those strong features—just like nancy, those two looks so familiar yet different. “
or which; jonathan and mike finally have a one on one conversation while will’s in a coma that leads to mike confessing his truth.
[a coming out story]
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There are so many words Mike has yet to say, all meant for Will. Like how the flowers have blossomed so beautifully now that the Upside Down has vanished, or how he thinks of him whenever a new X-Men issue is out; how could he not?
There are so many unspoken truths, painful secrets that make Mike's cheeks burn at night as he thinks about them till the break of day; things he has yet to share. Secrets he's embarrassed about, for how could he not be?
And there is no one to convince him that everything is fine or to hold him close when he's about to fall. There is no longer the emerald glow of Will's eyes in his own when he searches for it; simply shut eyelids on pale skin and a steady breath that proves he's alive. For days on end, he finds his way back to the hospital every morning. There, he'll meet and write him, and he'll wait; he'll always wait for him. As long as there are words, he'll wait. Until he wakes up again.
Or: Will is in a coma and Mike visits him every day.
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poor little liddy, she wishes it was dark (but it's never really dark in LA.) by Pear_is_lost
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2023
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"Will’s beautiful tan skin was pale and sickly, his eyes beautiful hazel, shining with innocence now closed with red scars tracing down his face."
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vecna got will instead of max.or or
Mike mourning his boyfriend.!please point out grammar or punctuation errors!
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“I don’t know why I talked her out of it. I already knew.”
“You already knew what?”
“That there’s a reason you haven’t been spending time with El.”
“What’s your point? That I should be spending time with my girlfriend instead of my dying best friend?” Mike asked.
“Mike, do you like Will?”Or, Max helps Mike come to terms with his feelings for his potentially-dying best friend.