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Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper, Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair, Suzie Bingham/Dustin Henderson Characters: Will Byers, Mike Wheeler, Joyce Byers, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Suzie Bingham, Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington, Original Characters Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, There Are Creatures Beyond The Upside Down, Gay Panic, Mutual Pining, Yearning, byler, Internalized Homophobia, 1980s, Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, Jealous Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers, Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler, Will Byers Cheats on Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend, Will Byers Has Powers, Will Byers-centric Summary:
The Summer of 1988. Hawkins is calm, but something's strange. Something feels off. Will Byers, now eighteen years old, gets the same feeling he had as a child: the air tastes metallic, like a storm about to speak. But it's different this time.
There's SOMETHING out there. Something older than The Mind Flayer. Deeper. Smarter.
And IT knows how to make contact with Hawkins through Will.
The Seraphim, a different form of entity from Dimension X, has found an entrypoint into the human world through Hawkins. And no one is ready. Least of all, Mike Wheeler.
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OR, I'm writing a Season 6 to fix what The Duffs ruined.
















