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Will Byers follows the Byers code and picks up smoking just like everybody else. Bumping into a certain Jock he paid no mind to.
P.S. hard canon divergence, but this still kind of takes place right before season 5 and during. The 18 months of living with the wheelers. Time is wonky and I don't want to fix it, they still go to school. Will has premonitions and visions as his foreshadowed powers. Chance is a little shit.
Dubious feelings from Will about Mike.
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10 Dec 2025
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He’d been prescribed Benzodiazepines by his psychiatrist for sleep, and despite them not helping whatsoever to reduce the nightmares he continued to re-fill them for the few months they’d been in Lenora. Each night, he’d take his medication and try to sleep, each night he’d be back in the bathroom with the loopy feeling and killer headache. Some nights, he’d take more medication to knock himself out and some nights he’d spend cooped up in the bathroom, staring off into the distance fading in and out of consciousness. Sure – they’d left Hawkins, but he’d never forget the things he’d seen and gone through.
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Will can't sleep and 'accidentally' overdoses on his medication a week before he's scheduled to go to Hawkins for the winter break. When he gets there, he realizes just how much has changed.Ft: Byclair friendship and WillEl sibling dynamic
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01 Dec 2025
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Will steps into the woods. Birds chirp around him, and squirrels run up the trees. It's been six months since Vecna was finally defeated, and now everyone is finally beginning to settle. Everyone except for Will. He can't seem to get out of fight or flight mode, and everything's been wrong. His body feels off, heavy and achy, while his concentration is shot. No one noticed when he stopped showing up to things, stopped answering his radio. El will chatter every night about what her and Mike were up to that day.
And it seems to take all of Dustin's energy to keep moving, and to show up himself. Lucas is with Max, and no one noticed when Will started to fade into the background. He knew if he stopped trying, this is what would happen. He knew as soon as he had to beg for their attention. It's ok though, he's always known his place. And now it's fine for him to step back, and let them all breathe without him. Every morning he takes another walk like this one, trying to chase away the ache in his joints that make it hard to move. Part of him knows that he should say something, that this isn't normal pain.
That something is seriously wrong, but he can't bring himself to.
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- Part 5 of Stranger Things Mix Tape
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27 Nov 2025