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Used to Be One of The Rotten Ones (And I Liked You For That) by RebelliousClause
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jun 2026
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"I just—I couldn’t live without you, Will. It hurt too much. Every day, waking up, going to school, knowing you weren’t there. Do you know how much it hurt every time I saw something that you liked, or wanted to tell you, only to remember I couldn’t? I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat—it was like, like a limb had been severed from me. Like what happens to soldiers, where their limbs are gone but they can still feel them? That’s you.
“You can’t blame me for wanting to reattach my limb, Will.”Or: Three months ago, Mike lost his best friend. Three months later, he’s found a way to bring him back from the dead.
But Will didn’t want to be brought back. Mike can’t lose Will again. And as Mike tries to convince Will to stay, the boys find themselves under suspicion from a crazed basketball team that will test just how far they’re willing to go for each other.
Until death do us part, right?
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14 Jun 2026
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Kiss Me Like a Secret (Buried Too Deep) by nightstirrings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jun 2026
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"Tomorrow," Mike said, fingers drumming the wheel too casually. "Same time?"
"Yes, sir." Will’s fingers gripped the door handle, but his body didn’t move.
Don’t make me go back.
Mike leaned across the console, cupping Will’s cheek. His thumb swept the apple of Will’s cheek, lingering. "You did so well today."
The praise lodged in Will’s ribs, sharp and sweet.
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Will is assigned Mr. Wheeler as his tutor, and he doesn’t expect much.His life quickly begins to change.
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14 Jun 2026
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His other eye held a sense of familiarity to Mike. The color a soft green. He looked at his nose, at his mouth, at the mole over it.
Wait.
...What?
He looked back up into his eyes. The same eyes he had looked into on their last day together.
His stomach dropped. He was going to be sick.
He traced his face yet again as his mind simultaneously remembered every picture of Will.
Pictures Mike had been studying meticulously ever since he died.
That’s right, Will died.
Will is dead.
He's supposed to be dead.
He kept repeating the sentiment in his head, but it didn't matter. All the details matched. Sure, his features had become older, but it was still him. It was still-
"...Will?" Mike whispered, terrified the sound of his voice would somehow make him disappear, make this not real. Instead, it appeared as if Mike speaking awoke something in Will as Will’s emotionless eyes suddenly shot up along with the shotgun flying back up into his hands, shooting right past Mikes head, straight through the tree he was still leaned against.
Or: A Will Byers was never found AU, until he was
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13 Jun 2026
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A different kind of understanding begins to expand in Will’s middle, disconcerting and terrible. Something that no person should feel, ever. Something that he feels regardless. A fucking certainty that being killed would be better than whatever comes next. Because the killer presses his knife to Will’s throat once more, fits it into his open wound in an act that could read as mockery, or a slow, torturous continuation, but when Will winces, nothing happens. The silence kills him, hurts him and revives him all in one toxic cycle. Then, the knife is pulled back… Sheathed again.
And the killer reaches for Will’s hands… slow… languid… the time’s on his side and the Byers house is not alive.
He grabs them. Laces their fingers and moves them above Will’s head. It stretches Will’s body off the stairs--
And in, the killer leans, and in a distorted voice, whispers--
“I can love you, Will.”
Thirteen vicious murders in Hawkins almost lead to a fourteenth. Will was supposed to die on that night. He interested the killer for reasons that are hardly as simple as they're made to seem, and the story of why Mike wants Will has its roots in what happens when love and obsession meet.
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13 Jun 2026
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Mike moves to Indianapolis for college and starts spiralling, missing his childhood best friend and being reminded of him everywhere he goes.
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Season 6 fic
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12 Jun 2026