Chapters: 6/20 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair, Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler, Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper, Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper, Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper & Kali Prasad, Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers, Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne, Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna, Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler, Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Characters: Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Lucas Sinclair, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Kali Prasad, Joyce Byers, Jonathan Byers, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Dustin Henderson, Nancy Wheeler, Holly Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Henry Creel | One | Vecna, Steve Harrington, Vickie (Stranger Things), Jim "Chief" Hopper Additional Tags: Fix-It, Volumes 2 & 3 rewrite, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Internalized Homophobia, Recovering from past abuse, Best Friends to Lovers, Psychological Trauma, mike is the heart, Henry Creel and Will Byers parallels & connection, dealing with THAT SA allegory, Will suffers and has a lot of trauma but hopefully actually gets catharsis this time, Slow Burn, this is a byler fic but there's also a lot of other storylines and plot threads too, Byler endgame, Season 5 Fix-It, Canon Divergence, Will Byers Has Powers, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Self-Worth, Identity, byler, paintinggate, Basementgate, birthdaygate, Stranger Things 5 Rewrite, Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2 Rewrite, Stranger Things 5 Finale Rewrite Summary:
Will Byers has a special connection to Henry Creel that no one else understands, and using it may be the only way to win. But weaponizing Will? It comes with a cost.
Eleven understands that cost better than anyone: the cost of being a weapon rather than a person. And as long as she’s able to protect people, it’s a price she willingly pays.
As Mike watches the world fall apart and realizes what sacrifices are demanded of the people most important to him, he refuses to accept a future where the price of love is self-erasure.
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OR: a Byler endgame season 5 fix-it centered equally on Mike, Will, and El. Starts toward the end of "Shock Jock."















