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1. there's something wrong with michael wheeler by lovelyautumn

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, M/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   09 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Lucas Sinclair
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • The Party & Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & The Party
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • The Quarry (Stranger Things)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Memory Loss
   • Dreams
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Minor Injuries
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Hive Mind

   Summary

   The Upside Down is leaking into Hawkins. Spores float down from a sky full of ash and smoke. Mike goes to sleep the night after he gets home with Will beside him on his bedroom floor. He wakes up from a dream and finds himself somewhere unexpected. Is Vecna hunting him, or is Mike going crazy?
   or
   a post season 4 / alternate season 5 fic where mike is not having a good time while the world is ending.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   21,887

   Chapters:

   5/12

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   72

   Bookmarks:

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