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   uninvited, passing through by paisparker

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   16 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers & Holly Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Derek Turnbow
   • The Twelve Children
   • Joyce Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Robin Buckley
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Murray Bauman
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • D'Artagnan "Dart" (Stranger Things)
   • gothic heroine will byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Sad Will Byers
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Horror
   • Psychological Horror
   • Mild Gore
   • Creep Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Possessive Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Manipulative Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Stockholm Syndrome
   • kind of?
   • more like attempts at it
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Past Sexual Assault
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Stranger Things 5 Fix-It
   • Guilt
   • Obsessive Behavior
   • Psychological Torture
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Captivity
   • Gaslighting
   • Kidnapping
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Nightmares
   • Panic Attacks
   • not romanticizing abuse
   • No Smut
   • None - Freeform
   • First Kiss
   • Trauma Recovery
   • Love Confessions
   • No beta we die like bob
   • Not Henry Creel | One | Vecna Friendly
   • The Mindscape
   • rewriting what the duffers fucked up
   • Justice for Will Byers
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Holly Wheeler Friendship

   Summary

   Will wakes in a house that is not a house, in a family that is not a family, in the hands of someone that calls him beautiful but means it in all the wrong ways.

   When Henry Creel pulls Will into his perfect little world, it is not to kill him. It is to keep him.

   ; or, will byers is trapped in a dollhouse with a monster. as henry tries to build himself a perfect family inside his mindscape, mike is left in the real world, clinging to a boy who won’t wake up.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   7,166

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

   66

   Kudos:

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   25 Jan 2026