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1. Slow Motion (I'm Watching Our Love) by girlfrom_nowhere

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   15 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Slow Burn
   • Pre-Season/Series 05
   • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
   • MWTFDYD Gate
   • Paingtinggate
   • Basementgate
   • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler
   • Karen tries
   • Period-typical Homofobia
   • Mike Wheeler has Internalized Homofobia
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Gay Panic
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Lucas Sinclair ships Byler
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Underage Drinking
   • Coming Out
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Living Together
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Love Confessions
   • First Kiss
   • Making Out
   • Mutual Pining
   • an insane amount of yearning
   • Idiots in Love
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Confrontations
   • Conflict
   • Miscommunication
   • An Insane Amount of Angst
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Beta Read But We Still Die Like My Sanity

   Summary

   "When are they arriving, again?" Dad asks the table, annoyed as always.

   "They said they were stopping by around five," mom responds. "I honestly don't know why you are acting like it's a terrible thing, Ted. You agreed to this."

   Truth is, I don't know how I even got to convince her to let the Byers live at home. All I remember was saying that Will and I should share my room, Joyce and Jonathan refusing, saying they would put us out—which I thought was ridiculous—and mom, days later, telling me and Nance to clean up space in the basement for them.

   [...]

   "They're here!" Holly comes running from the living room, screaming with joy. "It's going to be so much fun with more people here at home!"

   Dad rolls his eyes, "sure will."

   Series

   • Part 1 of Melodrama

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,085

   Chapters:

   1/30

   Kudos:

   2

   Hits:

   9