'tis the damn season
❆ synopsis: it's the winter of 1992. mike wheeler and will byers, once best friends, have now grown apart. they’ve moved to different places, lived different lives, dated different people. but that winter, when the party decides to reunite for a week in hawkins during the holidays, will and mike might realize that there’s still a lot left unsaid, and old feelings come back to the surface.
❆ tags: will byers/mike wheeler, will byers' epilogue boyfriend (carlton), implied/referenced cheating, mike wheeler oc girlfriend, christmas, holidays, angst, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, not actually unrequited love, mike wheeler has internalized homophobia, post-season/series 05 finale, dead eleven | jane hopper, will byers pov, period-typical homophobia
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