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• the beating of our hearts is the only sound by 5echoniner

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

  11 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • feel guilt white boy
  • tower scene rewrite
  • Fix-It
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • and is trying to convince himself he doesn't
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • But he doesn't know it yet
  • POV Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
  • dawg look how the duffers massacred my boy
  • Tammy Thompson Haunts the Narrative
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • for now
  • unrequited love introspection sigh
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Canon Rewrite
  • kinda it's only like one scene
  • Unreliable Narrator Will Byers
  • take a shot every time will says a blatant lie
  • Episode: s05e08 The Rightside Up (Stranger Things)
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • lowkey
  • Repressed Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • mike is almost uncharacteristically clueless icl
  • MWTFDYDgate (mentioned)

  Summary

  Mike and Will find it much easier to be honest with each other—and themselves—when they're alone.
   
  or

  if the suffer brothers won't write mike and will having a conversation about their relationship that's not a complete nothingburger i'll do it my fucking self

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