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• you're the one I see, even with the lights out by alexaafterrain

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  31 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Tension
  • Childhood Friends
  • pretend season 5 never happened
  • They'll figure it out eventually
  • when there's a will there's a way
  • Mutual Pining
  • Mixtape
  • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • Pre-Season/Series 05
  • Song Lyrics
  • Flashbacks
  • Switch POVs
  • Unreliable POVs
  • Clingy Mike Wheeler

  Summary

  It's winter in Hawkins, Will is living with Mike, and they're not talking. How could things be worse? The Party (plus the teens/adults) all stay at the Wheeler house while the parents are gone. Things can't be worse? Mike and Will have to share a room after a big fight. Will had nightmares around the anniversary of a dreaded day, and things are tense. How bad could it be?

  Or: Mike and Will figure out a lot about themselves and each other while in close proximity.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  14,157

  Chapters:

  11/?

  Kudos:

  10

  Hits:

  225