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“Go ahead,” Mike’s older self says softly. He puts his hand on Mike’s shoulder again, and Mike looks up, only to find his older counterpart smiling. There’s a knowing look in his eyes, and immediately, Mike understands. “Ask me.”
His older self still remembers exactly what he wants to ask right now.
“Am I happy?” Mike whispers. “In… in the future, am I… are you… are we happy?”
In the aftermath of the disastrous painting revelation, Mike has a chat with a visitor from the future.
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- Part 6 of random hiatus fics
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14 Nov 2024
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“Don’t shut me out.”
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What?
The world stops spinning, there is nothing past the walls of Mike’s room; Will does not know what this is about. He does not know why Mike sounds as helpless as he is, Will does not know why there is a stomach-dropping silence lingering between them. Will does not know. The world is ending. The world, their world is ending, and Will does not know how to fix it.
He is facing Mike on the mattress before he really even realizes it, and words sit idly on the tip of his tongue, burning in place.
“I don’t understand."
And then Mike’s eyes– those alluring, resentful eyes – draw back to his in hesitance, glassy with tears and wide with a type of fear and frustration and surprise that Will had never seen before, not ever in the almost ten years he’d known the boy. “You’re shutting me out again,” he says in a whisper, and Will can hear the vulnerability of Mike Wheeler’s voice, the younger part of himself somehow making itself evident.
Will wants to scream.
or: will byers and mike wheeler don’t understand each other again(or at least, will doesn’t), and the world is ending.
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25 Aug 2024
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On November 6th, 1986, Will Byers fell asleep alone.
On January 7th, 1984, Will Byers woke up to see three younger versions of his best friends asking him if he felt okay.
Spoiler Alert: He didn't.
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Why did Will wake up almost three years in the past? Why January, in particular? Was Vecna back, and this a curse, or did he really travel back in time? A parallel universe, maybe?
But he didn't have time to dwell. Trying to act as normal as he could, watch as Will tries to find his way back home without letting the others help, and without letting on that he wasn't the Will they know. He could figure this out himself.
… It's only a matter of time before he breaks.
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23 Aug 2024
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i was going to make a joke about time travel but nobody laughed by iry
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2024
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At 16, Will Byers thought nothing could surprise him anymore, but he didn’t take time travel into account. Now he’s stuck on the other side of his infamous disappearance, trying to herd his twelve-year-old friends into planning a rescue mission for… himself?
Meanwhile, Mike Wheeler is having a crisis. Multiple crises actually, but the current and most important one is finding Will Byers who claims he's from the future after Mike just saw Will Byer’s dead body getting pulled out of the lake.
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˙uᴉɐldɯoɔ oʇ ƃuᴉoƃ ʇou ʎluᴉɐʇɹǝɔ s’ǝɥ ʇnq 'pǝɹɐǝddɐ sɐɥ ɹǝlǝǝɥM ǝʞᴉW ɹǝplo uɐ ʎɥʍ puɐʇsɹǝpun ʎllɐǝɹ oʇ ǝʌᴉʌɹns oʇ ƃuᴉʇɥƃᴉɟ ʎsnq ooʇ sᴉ sɹǝʎq llᴉM 'ǝlᴉɥʍuɐǝW
˙pɐǝp ɯᴉɥ ʇuɐʍ ʇɐɥʇ lᴉʌǝ ɟo sǝɔɹoɟ ʎuɐɯ ǝɥʇ ʎq pǝllᴉʞ ƃuᴉǝq ɯoɹɟ 'ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝƃɐ 'sɹǝʎq llᴉM ǝʌɐs oʇ ƃuᴉʎɹʇ ɟlǝsɯᴉɥ spuᴉɟ 'ƃuoɹʍ ǝuoƃ uoᴉssᴉɯ ǝnɔsǝɹ ɐ ɹǝʇɟɐ ʇnq 'ʎʇᴉlᴉqᴉssod ɐ sɐ lǝʌɐɹʇ ǝɯᴉʇ ʇno pǝlnɹ ʇ’upɐɥ ɹǝlǝǝɥM ǝʞᴉW '9Ɩ ʇ∀
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22 Aug 2024
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Home for Christmas (Please Have Snow and Mistletoe) by Julia_Skysong
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2023
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He hadn't asked for a picture. That felt weird, for some reason, but now it was clearly a mistake. He should have asked, so he could have a heads up. That way he could have readjusted the image of Will in his head so he didn't feel like passing out at the sight of him.
Will had gotten hot.
Like, objectively speaking. Not in a romantic way. Mike wasn't gay. Not that there was anything wrong with that. Will was gay, he had told everyone about a year ago, but Mike wasn't. Still, he could recognize a person's general attractiveness level. He could still recognize that El was pretty even though they were no longer dating and he didn't have any feelings for her.
But Will was off the charts. And Mike was having a hard time processing this. Like what do you even say to your now hot best friend you haven't seen in 638 agonizing days, without sounding gay, but his newfound level of attraction is the only thing currently in your head?
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The Hopper-Byers visit for Christmas, and the Party is determined to give El all the fun snowy winter experiences she never had. But Mike is having a *slight* crisis when he realizes how much his best friend has changed, and how much he can't stop thinking about it.
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21 Aug 2024