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• In Lost Time by starana

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers & The Party
  • Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Will Byers & Lucas Sinclair
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
  • Will Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Alternate Universe
  • Alternate Universe - Human
  • Coming Out
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Depression
  • Anxiety Disorder
  • Mental Health Issues
  • still set in the 80s but no upside down stuff

  Summary

  After six weeks away, Will Byers returns to Hawkins, the only place he's ever known as home. However, nothing feels quite the same. In particular, Mike Wheeler won't stop staring at him with this odd, concentrated glint in his eye. Read more to explore Will's journey back home.

  I am really bad at summaries, sorry; I'll probably edit this later.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,627

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  19

  Bookmarks:

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