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    homesick. by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    13 Oct 2024

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    Mike hates this time of year.

    The leaves have all fallen, covering the ground like puzzle pieces in their rightful places, so the trees are bare, naked, and dead. It hasn’t yet snowed to round out the rugged edges of the town; there are still sharp edges everywhere Mike looks — and trust him, he looks — and it feels like the atmosphere is eternally toying with him by turning dark with rumbling clouds, only to dissipate within an hour. It also gets dark at four p.m. for no reason other than to piss him off.

    The world is, Mike decides, no better now than it was when it was ending.

    mike's been living in hawkins since the world stopped ending, even though his friends left him behind.
    well, maybe living isn't the right word.

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    15 Jan 2026

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    how could you do this to me I'm sobbing so hard I can't breathe how dare you

    mike driving will to the airport and hesitantly asking him to stay, bcs he's here, and will belongs with him
    and then will says, I can't stay here, because I don't hate myself, can you say the same for yourself?
    I was sobbing so hard I needed to take breaks what the fuck "how could he forgive himself for not dying when he was 12" ...

    Will saying he thought that when mike kissed him, it meant mike realized he doesn't belong here as well, that he doesn't hate himself that much anymore, and then him saying, well I guess I was wrong
    what the fuck
    what the fuck

     

    But then I realized that if I stayed the freak that got possessed that one time, that’s all I was ever going to be,” Will continues, blissfully unaware of Mike’s mind working at one hundred miles per hour. “And then it’s like, why the fuck did I fight so hard to survive in the Upside Down if I was going to act like I never left?”

    oh my FUCKING god the tears started flowing after this I was sobbing and choking oh my god

     

    He didn’t want to die; he wanted to live, to spend a day doing more than just surviving. Will was right when he said that Mike never escaped hell — he was living like he was still in the apocalypse, like he was fighting every day to keep surviving, and in a way he was , even though he didn’t have to anymore.

    Actually insane wow, he's never wanted to die, he just wanted to stop surviving, he wants to live I'm unwell actually

     

    Mike looks up at him then, at this beautiful boy that has never stopped fighting, that continues to look at the sun even though the monsters that lurk behind him in the shadows are arguably worse than Mike’s. Mike wants to live, above all, but he really wants to live a life that has Will in it. “I love you,” he says, and then hot tears run down his face as he wraps Will in a hug. “I love you so much, I’m sorry for hurting you.”

    He wants to live he wants to live a life that has will in it bcs he loves him so much 💔💔💔💔

     

    adding on, the fact that canon mike wheeler stays in Hawkins is going to haunt me, I loved how this fic tackled that your hometown isn't just a place, sure it gave you all these happy moments and made you who you are, but it's also shackling and hurting you and your best move should be to leave 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

    this fic was so beautiful, it was so emotional and so hard hitting it really hit the spot for me wow

    ALSO I loved the madwheeler friendship here wowie I also loved that it was the girls who managed to finally push him out of his comfort zone and book a flight for him

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    cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by for afterglowsssss

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    19 Jun 2025

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    "Tell me a secret?"

    Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.

    Will is a terrible person.

    I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.

    "I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."

    Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.

    "Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."

    or

    They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.

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    18 Aug 2025

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    HOLY FUCK CHAP 5 IS THE BEST PIECE OF LITERATURE IVE EVER READ

    Mike reading out his unsent letter to will

    There was not a second of reading this in which my eyes were dry, I don't rmb a time in which I've cried like this in a long time I was full on sobbing it was hard to even get through this omfg this chapter is the peak of what writing can look like

    I wish I could copy and paste this entire letter onto here and omg I wish I could experience it again in the future bcs it's genuinely one the best things I've ever read

    Back the to concept of the fic in general, this is one of the most realistic depiction and characterisation of them I've ever read holy fuck vecna taunting will with visions of them happily together every night???? new torture methods just dropped wtf and his reaction to it every morning...my heart breaks every time I read his pov

    And the highlight is definitely mike characterisation omg I loved every mike chapter I could feel his insecurity his determination his NEED to make everything better and I could see and feel how hard he was trying to fix everything plsss give these children a break 💔

    omg the first scene where he found out he forgot will's birthday..my heart shattered alongside his wtf
    the late night convos these peeps have, and will's self hatred and how he thinks the world is better off without him?????? GIVE THEM A BREAK AND PLS SOMEONE GIVE THEM HUGS NOW

     

    and the best thing is they end up okay at the end, which I all anyone has ever needed 🫶🫶🫶🥹🥹🥹

    See, this Mike is a lot different than the Vecna-induced one. He’s not perfect, not by any means, he still talks way too fast, he doesn’t braid flowers into Will’s hair, they still argue over stupid shit. The real Mike doesn’t call him sweetheart nearly as much, but he’s also way more protective. He doesn’t leave Will’s side if he can help it, he shows his love rather than says it, but when he does say it, it’s quiet and intimate. Just for the two of them. He’s tired of the world demanding for his feelings to be its business.

    See, this Mike, the real Mike - he’s just for Will. It’s simply an extension of the Mike Will’s been the one to exclusively get glimpses of since their childhood.