if my heart stopped beating, would you let me know? (redux)

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• in fault lines by radzish

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M, F/M, Gen
  • Work in Progress

  09 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Pre Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Barbara "Barb" Holland
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Martin Brenner
  • Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rewrite
  • No Vecna (Stranger Things)
  • Alternate Universe - Time Travel
  • but it's a lot more complicated than that
  • This Is Not Going to Go the Way You Think
  • Background Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
  • Will Byers in the Upside Down
  • Role Reversal
  • Barbara Holland Haunting The Narrative
  • Blood and Injury
  • Found Family
  • small town horror
  • Stranger Things 1 Vibes
  • Stranger Things 1
  • Aged-Up Character(s)
  • only by a few years though; the party are all 14/15 instead of 12
  • Background Demogorgon (Stranger Things)
  • Demogorgons And Demodogs
  • Eldritch Horror
  • Body Horror
  • Mystery
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Trans Male Mike Wheeler
  • Trans Mike Wheeler
  • BAMF Nancy Wheeler
  • the stancy is for plot purposes and exists for the same reasons as canon season 1
  • it will not last. trust
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Will Byers Has a Bad Time
  • what i mean by that is a s1-s2 esque bad time
  • he's really going through it. sorry bud
  • POV Multiple
  • Will Byers-centric
  • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer Possessing Will Byers
  • the first chapter utilizes religion/church as a writing device but that aspect isn't really important for the rest of the story
  • if that makes sense
  • the internalized homophobia is homegrown baby
  • No Weird Time-Travel Age Gaps
  • Heavy Angst

  Summary

  Some things get worse before they get better. Some things just get worse.

  Will Byers falls between the cracks of a universe. Jim Hopper and the Maldonado family house a girl who knows more about alternate dimensions than she understands how to speak. Nancy Wheeler is going to find her best friend, no matter what it takes. Mike Wheeler is worried about his sister. Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, and (begrudgingly) Max Mayfield are worried about Mike.

  These things will all come together, in time.

  Series

  • Part 1 of if my heart stopped beating, would you let me know? (redux)

  Language:

  English

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