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• heartbreaking we won’t speak like this again by chickenstocker

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  25 Jan 2026

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Sad Ending
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • School Reunion
  • Nostalgia
  • Bittersweet
  • Reminiscing
  • baby's first fanfiction
  • no beta we die like mike wheeler
  • Vecna mentioned
  • Post-Season/Series Finale
  • Upside Down mentioed
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Will Byers Has a Boyfriend
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Oneshot

  Summary

  “Mike?”

  Mike stops short of his rambling, heart dropping when be hears that voice.

  That painfully familiar voice Mike had been trying to forget for the past seven years.

   

  “…Will?” Mikes breath stops as he takes in the sight of his old best friend in front of him.

  —
  or; mike and will highschool reunion after seven years where mike realizes he fumbled

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  English

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