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    “And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”

    Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”

    What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?

    “Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”

    The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.

    “Maybe something here wanted you back.”

    Or, a fix-it fic modern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .

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    11 Jan 2026

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    As children, their height difference had always been something that made Will’s stomach flip-flop in that familiar, weightless manner. Fluttery, before he had ever known what it meant.

    Mike would never loom over him, ominous and terrifying like adults were.

    Now, with a few years and a handful of growth spurts between them, the difference isn’t as obvious. If Will stood up at full length, he’d meet Mike’s eye with ease. But Will has never learned how to control himself around Mike. So he makes himself smaller, without really meaning to.

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    Four times someone points out Will acting weird around Mike, and the one time Mike asks him about it.

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    09 Jan 2026

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    1989. Senior year.  

    It took nearly three years of growing apart, but Will Byers has finally gotten used to life without Mike Wheeler. He has El, he has Max, he has his art, and, as of two days ago, he has a full ride to art school in Chicago, so things are good. Right? So when Mike climbs through his window one night and stumbles back into his life, Will’s not prepared for the resurgence of old feelings—and even less prepared for the possibility that they might not be as hopeless as he always thought. With the expiration date of graduation looming, Will has to figure out not only his future, but what exactly he and Mike are to each other.

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    09 Jan 2026

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    Death might be here for Will Byers, again. This time, it is formless. This time, it sidles up right alongside his heart, and it asks him, in an approximation of a language that does not contain words, do you give up?

    No— no, he does not.

    "Will? Will, come on, please, say something—" Mike's rambling by his ear, clutching onto him like a fishing line.

    "Mike," he makes his lips say, because saying Mike's name is as natural as breathing.

    Mike's looking at him with wonder-slackened lips, and Will's looking back, couldn't look away even if he wanted to.

    death has come for will byers more than once. unconditional love just so happens to have come more.

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    08 Jan 2026

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    “don’t touch him,” max says immediately.

    “i’m not—i’m just—he’s hurt. he looks hurt.”

    dustin drops to his knees in the sand, hands up, palms out, like he’s approaching a wild animal. “okay. okay, hey. hey, it’s fine. you’re fine. nobody’s dead. i mean— you’re not dead dude whoever you are. which is good. great, actually.”

    the boy’s good eye snaps to him.

    dustin’s stomach flips.

    “holy shit,” he whispers. “holy shit, it’s you.”

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    07 Jan 2026