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Strange things were always happening in Hawkins, Indiana. Kidnappings, murders, disappearances . . . the 80s classics. But this time is different. This time, homes are melting into the ground, ash is falling like snow, and soldiers roam every street, hunting for something they can't name. This time, mothers swear they saw men with flowery heads eating out of trash cans at night and fathers go to work in hazmat suits.
This time, the lightning between thunderclouds is red.
Strange things were always happening in Hawkins, Indiana.
But there are stranger things, still.
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In which I attempt to right the wrongs of Stranger Things Season 5 in the true sci-fi horror spirit of previous seasons.
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09 Feb 2026
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After years of waiting for Mike to see him, Will decides to stop waiting.
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The party goes to Stacey Albright’s after lasagna, and that night turns the summer of ’89 into something Will never expected.
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03 Feb 2026
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Will raised an eyebrow at his friend's antics, then dropped his eyes to where he knew Dustin had reached a hand out towards him.
“This summer, we stick together. You and me, Byers.”
Will grinned, taking Dustin’s hand and shaking it. “You and me, Henderson.”
A rewrite of S3:
The night Dustin gets back from Camp Knowhere, he brings the Party up to the highest point in Hawkins to set up Cerebro. He thought that his friends would be excited to have him back-- even if it wasn't the most entertaining to sit on a hill and talk into a radio with no response, he thought they would at least wait for him before going home. He thought it was going to be the best summer ever.
Instead, he finds himself and the one friend that didn't leave him, Will Byers, intercepting a weird Russian transmission.
And, well... if he couldn't have the best summer ever, at least he and Will would have an eventful one.
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01 Feb 2026
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Will never thought his life would play out like a film. He was just the background noise, the extra on set. He never expected to be the kind of person movies make the main character. The kind of person who gets swept up in a story to be told.
Then Mike showed up, and the scenes started feeling like they were his.
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or: Will Byers moves to Hawkins from California, gets an after-school job at the video rental store, and meets Mike Wheeler — who, it turns out, might be checking out more than just movies.
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30 Jan 2026
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Please don't leave me (I'll always need more) by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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“Did you know?” he asked at the last moment, voice cracked and warbly from crying. He hadn’t sounded that young in years.
She hesitated for one painstaking moment, and at last replied, “No, Mike.”
She almost closed the door, but stopped again.
“I am sorry,” she whispered, remorse staining her voice, and quietly closed the door behind her.
Three days after graduation, Will disappeared in the dead of night with nothing but a note left in his absence, and Mike's heart left with him.
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29 Jan 2026
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The voice came out a bit snarky, in a way that was far too recognizable. “Well, not your landlord, clearly.”
Will could have dropped the phone. “Mike?”
Mike’s voice on the other line hesitated this time. “Yeah. It’s me.”
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The year is 1994. The gates to the Upside Down closed nearly seven years ago. Jane Byers-Hopper sacrificed herself seven years ago. Will Byers is a jaded and overworked painter living in New York City, and has not been in Hawkins since graduation, back in ‘89.
That was, until, he receives a call from an old friend about fulfilling a promise made back in 1987; to finish their D&D campaign that they'd started in the midst of the war. Seven years of night terrors begin to bleed into his own reality as he returns home, and Will is forced to face the music that he has been running from for as long as he can remember.
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- Part 1 of byler? i hardly know her!
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29 Jan 2026
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the time problem (maybe this time we'll get it right) by GodsFavoriteUser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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They were finally free. The sky had returned to its natural blue, the ground closed up, and the fog of black smoke no longer hung over Hawkins. Mike had to keep reminding himself of that fact. Everything was perfect.
Maybe too perfect.
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Post season 5 fix-it, where everyone was Vecna'ed and the world did "end," and now they have to figure out how to get back home. But the way to get home might suck more than if they were to stay in the messed up, distorted version of Hawkins. At least for Mike.
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25 Jan 2026
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After proclaiming himself an Atheist one night at the dinner table, Mike's parents exile him to an Evangelical Summer Camp for one last summer before college.
But this year is different. On top of rejecting his faith, he can't stop thinking about the mysterious boy working as a caretaker.
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- Part 1 of Indiana Summer
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16 Jan 2026
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"Chance bit the inside of his lip. Truthfully, part of him believed Jason’s Hellfire theory was a desperate story fueled by the grief of losing Chrissy, but the more Chance watched Hawkins fall apart, literally, the more he felt his old logic snap into place. Maybe Jason had been right, the town had a wound and something crawled out of it, something that hid in plain sight. Chance didn’t believe in revenge, the Bible says justice belonged to God or the law. But, if there really was an evil in this town, wouldn’t it be just as evil to do nothing about it? To let it happen?"
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After losing two of his friends in the Hawkins “earthquake,” Chance joins a church grief group that believes Will Byers is the vessel for Satan. To prove them wrong, Chance agrees to befriend Will, but the closer he gets, the more the lines between faith, fear, obsession and love start to blur.
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10 Nov 2025
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The Upside-Down seeps further into Hawkins day by day. Some changes are good: Max wakes up.
Some changes are bad: Mike realises he's been lied to.
Will is faced with a decision, and no matter what he chooses, everyone else will face the consequences.
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09 Nov 2025
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Cross my heart, won't tell no other by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Oct 2025
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“I won’t tell him,” she says softly. “Any of them. About any of it.”
Will looks up with surprise. “Why?” he asks.
Nancy just gives a tight smile, but in her eyes, something deeper brews. “You keep my secret, and I’ll keep yours,” she responds.
Will doesn’t really understand much about Nancy Wheeler at all. But Will’s happy to be her secret keeper, so he nods.
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At the end of the world, makeshift living arrangements push the unexpected together, and a new Byers-Wheeler alliance forms.
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31 Oct 2025
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i’ve never done this before, can you help me out? by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 May 2024
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Mike’s wanted to do something like this for awhile. Excited, and expecting to get his dick wet in a way he’s always fantasized, however falling for this guy with the pretty eyes laying out on the bed… he wasn’t expecting that.
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02 Sep 2025
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On November 6, 1983, Will Byers vanished. On November 12, he was rescued by the wrong people.
Sometimes he wondered if he’d have been better off staying in the Upside Down.
A Season 1 AU in which Will is not saved, he is simply taken from one hell to another. At Hawkins Lab, his new prison, he endures unthinkable torture and develops skills he never could have imagined. With every day that passes, he finds himself wondering if he will ever be rescued. Back at home, his friends and family continue the search. But after years pass and still no news, their hope is dwindling. Only a fool would keep holding out.
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06 Dec 2024
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Left His Heart There in the Sea by Concerned_terrapin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2024
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“Mr. Byers! I was hoping to catch you. This is Dr. Owens, from Hawkins National Laboratory.”
Will pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, already feeling a headache beginning to form in his temples. "I’m kind of in the middle of a lecture here, can this wait?”
“I’m afraid it can’t. We need your assistance urgently.”
“And why do you need me?” Will was unable to suppress the bitterness in his tone, “You’ve got plenty of experts and doctors on your staff. I’m just a grad student, and I’m halfway across the country. What could I possibly do that no one else could?”
Dr. Owens cleared his throat on the other end of the line, “You’re the only one who’s been there and made it out alive. Honestly, we could use your expertise. We’ve caught a specimen. A live one. And you’re definitely going to want to see this.”
Or, it's 1998 and the Upside Down is still alive and kicking, and something new just came out.
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28 Jul 2024
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“Did you make a wish?”
“I didn’t have time,” says Will, despondency emanating from him in waves.
“There has to be something you wish for,” Mike needles him, knocking his shoulder against Will’s.
“Yes.”
“What is it?”
“I guess… I wish that we were two other people; two people who don’t have to say goodbye.” Will glowers at an indiscernible object, bracing himself on his side to face Mike again.
Will is leaving Hawkins. Mike tries to figure out how to accept that.
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20 Jun 2024
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confidants but never friends by kyberuuu
Fandoms: Degrassi, Degrassi the Next Generation, Degrassi: Next Class
16 Feb 2023
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It’s winter break, and Zig and Miles are both recovering from hard break-ups, but find a surprising comfort in something unexpected.
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A post-Next Class story about making unlikely friends and even more unlikely lovers.
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10 Jun 2024
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“Are you free tonight?”
Will blinks and gapes a few times. “What?”
“I’m going out with my sister and her best friend tonight. We’re going to a pub.” Mike moves forward, and Will’s breath hitches. “You could join us. It…could be fun.”or
Mike follows his sister to England to write articles about the celebration of the Silver Jubilee.
There, under the pale British sun, he meets Will.Day 5 of Byler Week 2023: Secret Identities
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- Part 5 of Byler Week 2023
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20 Mar 2024
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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05 Mar 2024
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Years after the final battle between Hawkins against Vecna, everyone settled - moving on with their lives. When Will and Mike grow closer, they bring it to Eleven hoping for mercy. She gives more than that, forgiveness and understand. Starting their relationship as Will moves in with both Mike and Eleven.
One day, a year after Will moves in. Eleven and Will feel the shift. A flicker. Something in the balance as Henry reaches out by the means of Will. Seeking his own forgiveness in the destruction he created. Offering up himself to the ones he's hurt as penance.Bookmarked by ToTryAgain
21 Feb 2024
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It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.
The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.
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08 Feb 2024