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1. i bet on losing dogs (i'm losing by their side) by annie_dot

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Suzie Bingham/Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Drinking
   • Drunk Will Byers
   • Original Character(s)
   • all pairings besides the main one are minor so don't get scared
   • emotional cheating
   • internal monologue as a weapon
   • Miscommunication
   • Pining
   • will pines like he's paid for it
   • Guilt
   • did anybody say emotional whiplash?
   • Crying
   • Mentions of Panic Attacks
   • no beta we die like eddie
   • Cheating
   • how is yearning not a tag?
   • mike wheeler yearnsssss like it's his day job
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper

   Summary

   Mike’s hands were pulling him in before he even had time to process the whole interaction, and somewhere, deep, buried by shame and hurt and fucking hearbreak, 15-year-old Will is standing in an airport, holding a freshly painted picture, about to see his best friend for the first time in a year, and the two Wills merge, and something clanks and clicks and heals, and Will closes his eyes and breathes in shakily, nostrils attacked by the scent of the man in his arms. His fingers dig into Mike’s shirt, a little desperately, more than a bit pathetically.

    

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   Four years after leaving Hawkins, Will is back for Max and Lucas's wedding. He has a plan: get drunk, avoid Mike Wheeler as much as he could, and flee as soon as possible back to California.

   It all backfires.

   Language:

   English

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