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   Always Swore We’d Be the Exception by Avastarz

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • General Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   04 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Chance
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Joyce Byers & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers
   • Chance (Stranger Things)
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • others - Character
   • Kali Prasad
   • Chrissy Cunningham
   • background Dustin and Jane
   • background lumax
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Will Byers Deserves Love
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper is a Sweetheart
   • Protective Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Eye Trauma
   • Eye Gouging
   • yeah here comes the bad tags
   • Self-Harm
   • Abusive Relationships
   • Lonnie Byers Is His Own Warning
   • Past Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna is His Own Warning
   • The mind flayer doesnt possess Henry
   • will byers eye theory
   • except like different
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • Out of Character
   • Eating Disorders
   • Will Byers Has a Gun

   Summary

   The first time Lonnie locked him in his trunk, Will stayed there for so long that his lips turned blue and he couldn’t get his fingers to work. Jonathan had found him when he got home from school, panicking and calling his mom in a fit of tears.

   or,
   Will Byers goes through hell. Again. And Again.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   12,660

   Chapters:

   3/?

   Comments:

   14

   Kudos:

   137

   Bookmarks:

   24

   Hits:

   1,411

   Bookmarked by Beatrix666

   05 Jan 2026