the more i think about byler being trapped in the upside down the more i crave it with every fiber in my being. like, will getting captured again and mike following him into the gate voluntarily? and them walking through what exactly happened to will, but he doesn’t have to relive it alone. and the fact that it's just them means they can be exactly who they want to be, even just for a few days.
when they rest they have to take turns sleeping so that the other can be lookout. we would get to see mike watching will sleep like it’s a fucking taylor swift song? sign me up.
because it’s stuck as the day that will went missing we get serious exposition of his ptsd but mike is always there to ground him again, talk to him, dare i suggest, even hold him?
what if they pass by the quarry in the upside down and talk about mike jumping into it? and will doesn’t let him gloss over that even though mike tries to pass it off as no big deal. just will taking mike’s pain seriously and letting him know that he doesn’t have to be alone?
what if they’re searching for another gate when they start to have The heart to heart? and then one of them spots a gate and they have this moment of ‘oh yeah, the real world.’ and of course they go through the gate because of survival and their families and friends but there is a little bit of them that wished it could have just been them, alone, to say what they’ve never said, uninterrupted.
and then what if in the rightside up mike keeps trying to get back to that more romantic dynamic they had in the upside down, or at least finish their conversation, and will just keeps pushing him away? because he’s spent so long believing that he and mike could never be together? and then they got a little too close to being real and he let himself get his hopes up–but getting back to the rightside up in that crucial moment shocked him back to that reality of ‘we can never be.’
but for mike, it made him realize that, 'maybe we could be.'
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