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   i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Paladin Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • post S3 kind of
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Devotion
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Both of them
   • will is loved and embarrassed and he deserves it all
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Bravebyers

   Summary

   “Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”

   Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”

   Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.

   [...]

   “He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.

   “Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."

   Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.

   Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.

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