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Will gathers up all his courage into his sore arms, cradling bravery against his chest, holding it over his broken-and-then-healed ribcage. “Ever since I got back from the Upside Down, I’ve been in pain.”
“What do you mean?” Mike asks.
“It’s like I came back wrong. My body hurts pretty much all the time. It wasn’t that bad when it started, but it just kept getting worse and worse and now I’m just—” Will swallows the lump in his throat. “I’m crippled, basically. I’m sorry.”
Mike’s mouth opens and closes a couple times. “Hold on, did you say since the Upside Down? Three years ago?”
Will nods.
“And when you say ‘all the time’, you mean all the time?”
“The severity changes a lot, but yes.”
Mike looks… very concerned. “Even right now?”
It’s not funny, but he laughs. “Especially right now.”
or, Snapshots of Will's experience with chronic pain over the years, and how he navigates it with Mike.
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27 Apr 2026
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Will forced himself to stop thinking. The Upside Down was closed for good. Eleven had close the gate last year and saved them all. His mother, Jonathan and Nancy had taken the Mind Flayer out of him. There was nothing more connecting him to that place. He was clean. Purged. And those stupid chills he got from time to time in the back of his neck were just his brain messing up with him. It was him not being able to move on from what happened in the past. It was him not being able to grow the fuck up already.
Dustin clapped his hands, the sound echoing in the calm night, making Will snapped out of his thoughts. “We can become heroes, Will. Honest to God American heroes. Like freaking Red dawn or something.”
Season 3 rewrite in which Will listens to the Russian transmission with Dustin. Inspired by American Heroes by catchip2
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- Part 1 of Our way to the Rightside Up
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20 Apr 2026
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“Joyce, 99 out of 100 times– a kid goes missing, the kid is with a parent or relative.”
“What about the other time?”
“What?”
“You said, “99 out of 100” What about the other time? The one? The one!”
_______________________"I don't believe in coincidences. Not anymore."
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06 Apr 2026
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“Mike! What– What happened?” he shrieked. “Why can’t I barely see?”
Mike sniffled, still stood in his spot not knowing what to say or how to talk to the boy in front of him. “Will… I– I don’t—”
Both the boys were frozen in their places. Will felt extremely sick, almost like he was about to throw up in any second. He lifted his hand towards his face to feel what was running down it. It was blood.
Will let out a cry. “What happened to my eye?”
Hawkins, 1988. Will Byers is back at the center of it all; his powers are back, the Mind Flayer too, and something mysterious is happening in Montauk. All the while, he’s juggling family, friends, and feelings he doesn’t fully understand.
OR: a post-Stranger Things season 5 (major fix-it), character study of Will Byers, slow-burn Byler, Hopper-Byers-family dynamics
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04 Apr 2026
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When Eleven saves Will from Vecna she gets more than she bargained for when they wake up in the wrong bodies. Now to prevent Vecna from infiltrating the mind of his most perfect host the two of them must pretend to be the other.
Will grapples with the feelings that he’s trying to push away.
Mike wonders why it feels like he’s falling in love all over again.What will become of everything when Hawkins finally falls?
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31 Mar 2026