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EDIT: This is now a post s5 fix-it fic!
I wrote this in early 2025, then started to edit it to match the season, and now I'm taking it back to how I originally wrote it because Will Byers deserves everything. If you can't bear to read anything that feels like s5 at all, I recommend skipping to chapter 17.
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‘What do you do with so much beauty once you have it?’ Mike asked, the glint in his eye betraying the reverent tone of his voice.
Will looked at him. The morning sun was illuminating the side of his face, and Will could see all the tiny hairs along his silhouette, fine as filigree down his nose and growing coarser over his top lip and chin.
‘Someone very wise asked me that, once,’ Mike continued. ‘Years ago. But I didn’t have an answer, then.’
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Fall, 1987.
Will has been living at the Wheeler house for over a year, but as the anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, tensions between him and Mike are at an all-time high. Things come to a head in the middle of one of their missions together, when they find themselves seeking shelter from danger in a familiar cabin down by Lover's Lake...Series
- Part 4 of It Was Coming All Along