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   I was the boy on your side by Nehm

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, F/M
   • Complete Work

   18 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Ted Wheeler
   • Wholesome
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • graphic smut
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Relationship-centric
   • Byler-Centric
   • Romance and Fluff
   • minimal angst
   • Slow burn at first then Smut
   • Coming of Age
   • First Kiss
   • First Time
   • Happy Ending
   • Teeth rottingly sweet
   • Passionate
   • Mutual Exploration
   • Mutual Pining
   • Mike Wheeler Yearner
   • Protective and obsessive
   • they switch once
   • Tender sweet and loving
   • Aged up characters
   • both are eighteen
   • fake out death
   • Season 5 Canon Divergent
   • Lawless byler

   Summary

   Will Byers loves Mike Wheeler. But Mike Wheeler does not love Will Byers. It's what Will decides to believe to protect himself. The moment he makes that known, the world does everything to prove him wrong.

   The world is Mike.

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   English

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