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  1. Public Bookmark 69

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    It’s embarrassing how close his current reality is to daydreams he had when he was eight years old. All he does every day is go to school, see his friends, and plan heroic recon missions to help take down the Big Bad. His best friend lives in his house.

    Mike wakes up every day to the chaos of adults shouting and doors slamming and feels completely content.

    And then the guilt hits him.

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    16 Jan 2026

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    It's not even like Will is some godlike specimen. His skin is olivey and a bit summer-tan, and he has floppy, honey-brown hair and a few moles smattered adorably across his face and arms, but he is very much just a boy. Average height, average build, symmetrical face. He's wearing jeans and a Zelda T-shirt and plain white Vans. But he gives Mike an awkward half-smile and a wave as he introduces himself at the box office, and Mike can actually feel himself get stupider.

    Will and Mike meet working at their local movie theater, and Mike is so into Will — particularly his hands — that he almost gets fired.

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    16 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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    16 Jan 2026

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    And when I was shipwrecked,
    I thought of you.
    In the cracks of light,
    I dreamed of you.
    It was real enough
    To get me through.
    But I swear
    You were there.
    evermore - Taylor Swift

     

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    November 6, 1983. Will Byers goes missing without a trace and is later found dead, leaving behind a brokenhearted family and group of friends. But things aren't always what they seem in Hawkins, Indiana.

    Author's Note: Don't worry: this series is NOT abandoned, and I'm hoping to come back to it here in 2026!

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    15 Jan 2026

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    Will doesn’t know how they got here. Ten months ago, things were good. They were good. Mike was his friend. Mike was the one person who treated him normally. Like he was his old self again.

    But then again, normal boys don’t die for a week and come back. When normal boys die, they stay dead.

    Things Will knows, things Will doesn't know, and things Will learns, in time.

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    15 Jan 2026