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"I have Ms. Kelly today," Max says, almost bitterly. "You'll be okay at lunch without me?" she says it sarcastically, like a joke, but there's an undercurrent of something else in her voice; for a moment, she almost sounds scared.
Will releases her hand, even as they walk out of the gym doors together. "Works out for me," he tells her, "I have that project for art I have to finish up anyways." He pauses, hesitates. "Will you be okay without me?"
Max takes a breath, and then gives him a shaky smile, one that doesn't quite reach her eyes. "I'll have your tape," she says, wiggling the wires of her headphones. "See you after school."
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or: a shared tragedy brings max and will together for their first year of high school in hawkins. they stay together, even as their demons rise again. a s4 rewrite, in which joyce is the one who dies at the end of s3 and thus the byers + el never move.
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20 Feb 2026
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“Hungry,” is all Mike manages to get out. Will can hear each ragged breath scuttle up and down his chest. He squints at Mike, the boy refusing to break eye contact, staring intently at Will. The emptiness from this morning is back.
Will scoots up in bed and shimmies out of his blanket cocoon, placing his hands on the sides of Mike’s arms. “Are you feeling sick?” he questions gently. Something’s not right.
Mike shakes his head and once again, opens his mouth with a brief pause before speaking. “I’m so hungry, Will.”
Mike gets a little too into the occult. After a ritual-gone-wrong, Will has to piece together a decades-old mystery to save his best friend's life.
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20 Feb 2026
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Mike returns to Hawkins after his freshman year of college, riddled with regret and eager to make up for the biggest mistake of his life - hurting Will. He quickly learns, however, that his estranged best friend is being kept behind a locked door. A locked door named Keith.
Now, Mike finds himself in a race against time to locate the key, desperate to free the boy he loves from the prison his abuser created just for him.
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20 Feb 2026
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“Will!!”
Joyce’s scream cuts through the desolate air of Dimension X. She drops to her knees, eyes fixed on Will, who’s on all fours, head hanging, chest heaving. His hands sink into the ash as his body begins to shake, sharp and uncontrollable.
Mike darts forward. “Will?! Will!! Are you okay?!”
The others follow, fear written across their faces. Robin kneels before him, reaching out. Her voice just above a whisper.
“Will?”
Slowly, he lifts his head. Green eyes are gone—replaced by milky white orbs staring into Robin’s blue ones.
Gasps ripple through the group. This isn’t Will. The gentleness is gone. The warmth Will carried has now shifted with a cold murderous look. As if the light was drained out of him. A smirk curls across his lips.
His voice is low, chilling, yet almost tender:
“I told you… every door you leave open, I walk through.”Vecna has found his way back home.
Will was never the target. He was the way in.
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19 Feb 2026
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“It started with me. It ends with me."
As the final battle approaches, Will Byers prepares himself to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop Vecna for good. Mike, who has discovered a secret he was never meant to find, refuses to let Will go without a fight.
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19 Feb 2026
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A phantom pressure crawls up his throat. For a split second he swears he can feel it again; the snake-like vine forcing its way down his windpipe, cold and invasive; the wisps of decay-filled air he manages between the ceaseless choking; the taste of dirt and blood and something electric yet all-consumingly dark and evil flooding his senses—
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A comprehensive (though byler-centred) rewrite of Season 5, starting from Will waking up from a dream where he relives/remembers what we see in those first five mins.
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19 Feb 2026
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Vecna gets to Will the MINUTE he is in range because that boy has trauma the size of Jupiter.
> “I sensed you the minute you came back into Hawkins. I sensed you years ago when you entered my domain, but I was not awakened then as I am now. I can help you, Will Byers. You can be normal. All you have to do is join us. I can fix you.”
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19 Feb 2026
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Oathbreaker, Oathkeeper by spiritofthewoods, SubeSuave
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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It is summer 1985, which means sunny days outside and having fun with your friends and girlfriend. Or so, that's what Mike Wheeler thinks. When Billy Hargrove gets flayed by the powerful entity known as The Mind Flayer, The Party must put their fun (and their fighting) aside in order to stop him. This leads them to discover that Hawkins, Indiana is being ruled by forces darker than just the Upside Down. Narrated by multiple POVs, Oathbreaker, Oathkeeper is a collaborative passion project between two writers, Oathbreaker is a partial re-write of the global hit Stranger Things. Set between season 3 and onwards, we explore an alternative sequence of events based on Dungeons and Dragons lore plus its technicalities, and the Stranger Things canon.
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19 Feb 2026
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The Wizard and His Love by all_things_fandom_and_stuff
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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The red lighting flashed again, and Will almost stopped breathing. The light had illuminated a tremendous shadow monster thousands of feet tall, spider-like legs spanning miles. It hovered over Hawkins like a harbinger of death. The light flashed again, and it turned to face Will, looking directly at him. The presence pushed at his mind, looking for a way in.
The light flashed one last time, and then he was staring at his normal backyard. Crickets chirped in the grass, and a gentle cool breeze floated in the air.
Will didn’t know how long he stood there, rooted to the spot.
Eventually, he went back inside.
He didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.
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A complete rewrite of all five seasons of Stanger Things from Will's POV. It will be mostly canon compliant until the later two seasons where I am planning on doing some major reworking of the narrative.
In my opinion Will is the main character and deserves a complete story. This is my attempt at it, and I hope you enjoy it.
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18 Feb 2026
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Billy had received a new order from the Mind Flayer, get rid of William Byers first.
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my attempt to make Will suffer a little more.sorry for any spelling errors english is not my mother tongue and thanks for the support
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18 Feb 2026
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who was that? (my lover from a past life). by creelbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
17 Feb 2026
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"He can save all of us! But he needs your help. You need to find him before he lets it in."
Memories blending, losing touch. Will is unsure of what's his mind and what's Vecna's. He is becoming the ultimate spy, the vessel that will ensure that the supernatural corpse that has tormented him and Hawkins for years expands his dominion into the town and planet he calls home. Will a minor slipup from the blur of uncanny recollections blow his cover, the shell of what was once Will?
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Will Byers realizes that harnessing Vecna's powers comes with a dire price.
— taking inspiration from Tame Impala's song "Past Life"
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18 Feb 2026
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my heart is in pieces (and so is my arm) by Himiko_Stay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Castle Byers rises ahead of him.
What’s left of it, anyway.
Broken boards jut from the ground at crooked angles, the remains of towers collapsed inward on themselves. Sheets hang in tatters, damp and heavy with rot. It’s smaller than it used to be. Sadder.
Will approaches it without slowing.
He lowers himself down, stiffly, knees hitting dirt and leaves. Then he crawls forward, hands pressing into the earth, shoulders squeezing beneath splintered wood. Inside, he lies flat on his back, arms at his sides, staring up at nothing.
He does not move.
The forest goes very still.
Or: Will Byers gets possessed. No help arrives. He must try and survive the Upside Down, again, as he fights through many close calls (how is he not dead?)
And the party lives with the guilt.(i cant do summaries, but this is before season 5 btw, was to chicken to post it before it came out)
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18 Feb 2026
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This takes place after the events of Season 3. Rewriting all of Seasons 4 and 5 in my own way because the Duffer’s ending sucked ass.
With Hopper’s “death”, Joyce takes El in as one of her own and doesn’t move to California. Will and El both start having weird visions, similar but different to the ones they had before. They figure out their visions along the start of freshman year of high school, hiding this all away from the party and their parents. As the year progresses, weird things start happening. Random deaths? Missing children? Nothing feels right, or does it feel like the same as before?
Who knows, maybe it’s just an unclear vision they both had.
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18 Feb 2026
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It’s hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you by CherrySolar
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler keeps running away from his feelings. Feelings that’ll cost him his relationships. The same feelings he’s felt since middle school. Not to mention, he’s also reverting back to his old ‘delinquent’ ways. He’s acting out: cussing at teachers, letting his grades slip, ignoring his friends, family, and girlfriend.
But, one scolding later, he’s now forced to balance school and his new job at Scoops Ahoy. Oh, and The Upside Down is still a problem.
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A season 4 fix-it, with Mike Wheeler and Max Mayfield working at Scoops Ahoy—except, Hopper was never kidnapped and the Byers still live in Hawkins.
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18 Feb 2026
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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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18 Feb 2026
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
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fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .- Language:
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18 Feb 2026
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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of a collection of us
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18 Feb 2026
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ahoy! (im glad i was spending it with you) by hotpotgateisreal01
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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“Hey Mike?”
He stopped. Max rarely spoke that softly around him, or called him something other than asshole.
“Yeah?”
“I’m glad I’m spending my summer with you.”
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What if Max and Mike spent their summer working at Scoops Ahoy after graduation?
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18 Feb 2026
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I Would Rather Not Go (Part One - The Eye) by catsinhats7
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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“Can you turn the radio up or bring it closer? It’s not working” El said about five minutes in. As the radio was brought closer, she let out a yell of frustration, casting the goggles off her eyes. They widened concerningly as she took in the flickering lights. Her eyes landed on Will.
And fuck. In Mike’s all encompassing anxiety over whether or not El could fend Vecna off in time to save Max, he had forgotten about Will.Will, who the universe had taped a giant ‘Kick Me’ sign to his back. Will whose eyes were rolled to the back of his head and Will whose nose was gushing blood all down his front.
And Will whose left eye was completely black.
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Or in the one in which Will gets superpowers and a job. Mike gets gay pining and a series of panic attacks.
And Vecna gets his Spy back.
(Part 2 is out and under way!)Series
- Part 1 of The Eye and The Hand
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18 Feb 2026
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Home is behind (the world ahead) by olivewritesthings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Feb 2026
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Death? Will wasn’t dead though.
“No.” The thing agreed. “You’re not. But your friends don’t know that.”
Will glared at the thing. He believed in his friends. If anyone could get him out of here, it was them. “Oh, William. You are so naive. Your friends cannot get you out of here if they don’t know you’re alive. They will forget you, in time. And you will forget them.” Will shook his head. He wouldn’t forget his friends. He wouldn’t. “You are not in control of your own mind for much longer.” The thing stated.
OR: Will Byers is never found. He goes a little crazy, a little feral, and then he finds something to help him.
A/N: Do not repost without permission. DM for translations. Fuck generative AI. I have never and will never use it to write my fics in any capacity, I just update quickly because I have no life. I do not support Noah Schnapp, but unfortunately I have a habit of fixating on things with problematic people involved. Free Palestine
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- Part 2 of Psammalah
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18 Feb 2026