[tender emotional music playing]

the main sources of trauma for mike were being in danger and losing the people he loves.

i finished the fic i've talked about and thought about for a month it seems.

it's kind of heartbreaking but i wanted to explore the idea of how will's traumas affected him and his feelings.

so here it is:

if you (n)ever

byler, 5,4k words

unrequited love but not your typical one-sided byler

i know many wouldn't like to read something sad as this but i would really appreciate it if you do! <3

comments and kudos are very welcome too!

idk how this would work for el tho. poor girl lived in a lab half of her life and the other half she was fighting monsters what's she even going to remember 😭

will tho... he's not going to remember disappearing in the upside down (that's a yay). but i would want to see him interact with mike who DOES remember... mike would be overprotective of will and will would blush unknowingly cause his crush on mike is still there... the Possibilities™ of this au....

also the Angst?? will finding out mike jumped off a cliff when he was missing and he didn't even remember being missing... and hopper being "dead"?? nobody tell el that would crush her ...

BUT if they happen to remember all of it by themselves... THAT would be gut-wrenchingly heartbreaking...

and now you'll be thinking about this too so i'm not alone in my misery

by stranger writers