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1. The real story (that he can never tell) by Crazeytogether

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Closeted Mike Wheeler
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Miscommunication
   • Regret
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Not A Fix-It
   • One Shot
   • Will Byers Gets a Break
   • mike doesn’t tho
   • Sucks to suck
   • Warning you: this is first person
   • And yes I paralleled the rain fight what about it

   Summary

   After everything - the Upside Down, the trauma, the years - Mike realizes there’s a story he’s been telling himself wrong the whole time.

   This is the one he could never bring himself to say out loud.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,343

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   Comments:

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