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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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19 May 2026
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Will is junior in college when his friends notice a quiet, nerdy boy who keeps staring at him and they dare Will to ask him out. The date goes very well and Will's friends don't believe him until they accidentally overhear the pair.
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15 May 2026
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Michael Wheeler had fought monsters and an evil wizard from another dimension when he was only 12 years old.
He had watched his hometown split apart right before his eyes when he was 14 years old.
He had lived through what most described as the “end of the world."
He had almost lost the boy he loved more than life itself to a mysterious shadow monster hellbent on destroying the world when he was 16 years old.
And yet, the faint line on the test in his hand staring back at him at 19 years old was the scariest thing he had ever faced.
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When Mike and Will are a little too reckless during Spring Break of their Freshman year of college, the consequences are bigger than expected.
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11 May 2026
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(Or, How Mike the Brave, after Long Fighting, Slayed the Five-Headed Dragon)
Five times something goes terribly wrong when Mike and Will try to have sex, and one time they figure it out.
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11 May 2026
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At twenty-two, Mike’s life is far better than he ever thought it would be. He graduated from The University of Chicago in May, after getting his diploma in English, and his entire future being at his fingertips (something he always thought he would be terrified of) feels almost exhilarating.
He loves his apartment back in Chicago and it’s horrible winters, he loves his shitty car that’s dented to hell and back. He loves sitting at his typewriter as novel ideas flow from his fingertips. He loves that he finally did it, he escaped Hawkins. It’s something he’s proud of even four years later, because he left and grew into himself and didn’t become his goddamn father like he was always terrified he would. He loves that he healed enough to willingly return to his godawful hometown for his sister’s wedding.
More than anything else, he is completely and utterly in love with Will Byers.
And that is something his best friend can never, ever know.
OR: the party returns to hawkins for jonathan and nancy's wedding in 1993, and mike is sick of pining after his best friend from a distance
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11 Apr 2026