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    The young Lord Hans Capon had become quickly fond of the peasant blacksmith's boy thrust unwillingly into his service - not that he'd admit as much aloud.

    A too-drunk night lost in the woods presents a complication that may change things forever.

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    29 Jan 2026

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    Panic begins to run through his veins, speeding up his pulse and his breathing. “I can’t– why don’t I remember it? I don’t remember any of it.”

    Mike blanches. “Any of what, Will?”

    Jonathan’s hand is on his knee. Both of them are too close. He can’t breathe.

    “The Upside Down. I… I can’t remember any of the Upside Down.”
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    OR: A Will Byers-centric/Byler canon version ST5!
    (now a post-finale fix-it fic.)

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    08 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    He’s twenty-two in his room in the dark, holding the Christmas lights close to his chest, waiting, wishing, hoping, praying for anything.
    The lights flicker.
    Mike should call Nancy, he should call his sponsor, he should call Lucas, he should call Dustin, he should call Jonathan, he should call Max, he should call Jane, and he should call his mom.
    He should call anyone for help, tell them it’s getting bad again, call for anyone except for who he does-
    “Will?” He calls out, voice shaking, strangled, a question and a prayer.
    The room glows.

    or: Will Byers died in 1983, Mike Wheeler lost it. Ten years later he's talking to the lights again (nothing is really as it seems)

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    24 Dec 2025

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    It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.

    Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.

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    Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.

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    12 Dec 2025

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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...

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    10 Dec 2025