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1. a goddamn blaze in the dark (and you started it) by gleefulbrie

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   17 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Martin Brenner
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Alternate Universe - Historical
   • Alternate Universe - 19th Century
   • POV Will Byers
   • Falling In Love
   • Affairs
   • Arranged Marriage
   • (not between mike and will)
   • Secret Relationship
   • Forbidden Love
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Homophobia
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • No Smut
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Title from a Taylor Swift Song
   • Song: ivy (Taylor Swift)
   • Artist Will Byers
   • Wealthy Mike Wheeler
   • basically maurice meets portrait of a lady on fire with bridgerton sprinkled in there too
   • this is a byler fic! not mileven
   • Pining
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Slow Burn

   Summary

   "Perhaps I am a gentleman in sinner’s clothing... but I know my love is not a crime."

   ➺ When William Byers is commissioned to paint a portrait for the wealthy soon-to-be-weds, Michael and Jane, he finds himself upon the Massachusetts coast, entangled in a messy web of family secrets and an unexpected love that changes his life, for better or worse.

   Series

   • Part 2 of in every universe (au series)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   79,143

   Chapters:

   15/15

   Comments:

   264

   Kudos:

   448

   Bookmarks:

   142

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