vacillator, tiger lily: mike & will re-imagined.
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“I'm trying my best.”
“I know.”
“At everything.”
( The world makes clay out of Will and he doesn't want to be put back together, just held. This time he lets himself have it.)
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[i will] dislocate my jaw to fit it all in by vvalentine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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"You gotta say it like you believe it." He points out, catching Mike's eyes for a moment. Mike swallows. His throat is dry, burned from nothing.
"I don't believe in anything, I think. I just know that crazy shit happens and we survive it."
"You think it's a weakness." Will says, more for himself than Mike. But his voice is steady and loud enough for both of them to hear. "Believing."
(In all intricacies, Mike learns that his fear is an animal. His anger is an animal. His jealousy is an animal. Spit-soaked teeth, Will at the center.) — a character study.
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matryoshka (why do you leave me with watercolor eyes) by vvalentine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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Mike is like a statue across from him, the only sign of life being the slight hitch when he inhales. Will blows the air out of his throat through pursed lips, and his body is starting to malfunction. It always thinks sadness has to be followed up by panic, that's what it has been conditioned to. His heartbeat speeds up fast and he's thinking about car crashes again.
Everything's a ram raid. He's both the car and the storefront. He can't believe he let Mike inside knowing what it would cost him.
(Mike comes to find Will in New York. A ten hour drive, heart offered. Will makes decisions.)
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He extends a hand towards the sorcerer, long and lined with an exhausted, unnerved shiver. Will’s face changes, first wondrous and now ever-confused, brows downward, lips slightly pursed as if something unjust has occurred and made him the target. Mike swallows a hard breath. Spring is warm and merciful, and yet somehow this room is so cold, warmth carved out of its stomach.
He bores his eyes into Will. Pleads, silently, for him to offer his hand back if he wants to avoid humiliation for the both of them. Nobody denies the Prince. Nobody kneels where they must not.
( The war is over. Mike, always a knight first and prince second, washes up new and is tasked to relearn his role in the kingdom. But wounds are wounds, and some stay open. Some may never close again. )
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