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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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Sometimes, what a small town needs is a good love story.
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25 Dec 2025
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prepared for absolution (if you'd only ask) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2024
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Jonathan’s head lolls to the side, and he smirks at him. “I wasn't trying to insult you,” he says, “sorry. I just meant- I’ve been kind of aimless, lately, so. I guess I’m trying to say thank you. You’ve helped.”
Steve snorts. “What, because I’m another person for you to take care of?”
The joke falls flat between them, and Steve suppresses a wince as Jonathan considers him for a long moment. “Is that what you think you are to me?” he asks quietly after a beat, and Steve’s heart leaps up to somewhere in his throat.
Being friends with Jonathan is only weird if Steve makes it weird, right?
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25 Dec 2025
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feeling like the opposite by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
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01 Jun 2024
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“And I think,” Mike tries again, voice scratchy, eyes still locked on Will’s, “that that sort of thing is just- kind of irreversible, when you think about it. And no matter what happens, there’s a part of you that always stays stuck on that person.”
It’s funny, Will thinks, as he stares blankly back at Mike, how neatly it lines up. Maybe he and Mike are too similar for their own good. Maybe everyone does feel it the same way after all, no matter how different they are, or maybe it’s just him and Mike who love this intensely, and the universe is just torturing Will for fun with the knowledge that it will never line up for them in the one way that matters.
Mike clears his throat, blushing furiously. “Um. Anyway, can I kiss you?”
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25 Dec 2025
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Will Byers hasn’t seen all of his friends in the same room since 1994, and he hasn’t spoken to Mike Wheeler since 1995—the year he told him how he felt and watched their friendship fall apart. But when Max and Lucas buy their first house, they throw a Y2K New Year’s Eve party, dragging everyone back together for the first time in years.
Mike and Will are older now, different now, but when they see each other again—all sharp edges, awkward tension, and a lifetime of unresolved feelings—it’s like nothing ever changed. Except everything has.
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25 Dec 2025