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Once I Ran From You (Now I Run to You) by arsonsmatch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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That’s because he’s my boyfriend, Mike!” Will shouts.
“And us?” Mike presses, a sick sense of deja vu creeping coldly over his brain.
Will exhales sharply, “We’re friends. We’re friends! You made sure of that. So I don’t know why you’re so mad at me!”
“Because it was supposed to be me!”
Will blinks, “What are you talking about?”
“I’m mad because it was supposed to be me!” Mike shouts it desperately, like a plea, like this is making him go crazy, and fuck, maybe it is, “After everything—at the end—it was meant to be me. Not him. I don’t want it to be him. I want it to be me.”
Or, Mike doesn't realize his own feelings, until Will's are staring him dead in the face. Vecna's gone, they're nearing the end of their senior year, and all of a sudden Will has a boyfriend. Everything goes downhill pretty quickly from there.
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16 Feb 2026
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ough a heavy hitter. spent the whole day reading it too godbless
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As a kid, Will only communicates in glances, gestures, and closeness.
Mike learns his language without realizing it’s something special.
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Carlton loves his boyfriend. He does so, so much. To degrees that his friends have sometimes called ‘unhealthy’, though none of them have ever been with anyone as pretty or as intelligent and fascinating as his Will.
Every long term relationship needs to spice things up every once in a while, right?
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Once, when they’d been kids, they’d been inside Castle Byers, and they’d pretended they were a knight and a cleric. Would you save me? Will had asked. If I was in trouble?
And Mike had answered, Always.
But now he’s the danger. Will’s at his mercy. What a cruel twist of fate it is, and Mike is the cruelest monster of them all.
Mike discovers a lot about himself in the scope of six months. Mainly, that he’s a terrible and selfish person.
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Mike lets out a frustrated groan and knocks his head back against the seat—like Hopper’s the one being cryptic here.
Mike’s voice cracks slightly when he repeats, “He hurt Will.” More urgent this time. More desperate.
“Okay. I get that,” Hopper says slowly. “But it doesn’t explain why—”
Mike cuts him off, sharp. “If Will didn’t tell you, then I’m not telling you.”
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When Hopper gets a call about that damn Wheeler kid, he's pissed. Until he realizes what exactly he's dealing with.