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   underbelly by vvalentine

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   07 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Alternate Universe - 2000s
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Character Study
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Trauma Recovery
   • will's trauma is intentionally kept vague and non-graphic but just a heads up
   • Insomnia
   • Mental Health Issues
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • but also a fear of intimacy
   • Touch-Starved
   • First Kiss
   • Making Out
   • and they're both super tired
   • in the literal sense
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Feelings Realization
   • mike wants will in ways that would incapacitate the average person
   • Bittersweet
   • thank you cico buff by cocteau twins
   • Class Differences
   • Fanart

   Summary

   “I'm trying my best.”

   “I know.”

   “At everything.”

   ( The world makes clay out of Will and he doesn't want to be put back together, just held. This time he lets himself have it.)

   Series

   • Part 1 of vacillator, tiger lily: mike & will re-imagined.

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   English

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   15 Dec 2025