everyday i think about mike and will almost dying in the room at hawkins lab instead of jonathan and nancy
still being the line to break the silence, but from mike instead of nancy. but mike telling will once he started liking should i stay or should i go and started subconsciously singing it around mike it became one of his favourite songs. and when he heard will singing it over the walkie after thinking he was dead, that it was the best thing he's ever heard.
will biting back like jonathan with the pink sweater but about mike's shitty knockoff outfit in california, because he felt like he was trying to be a different person; jane's boyfriend, not will's best friend. and him telling mike how much it hurt when he rejected his hug, blamed him unfairly at the rink and not paying attention to how jane was feeling. but always circling back and telling him how much he still appreciated mike wanting to be best friends and a team again.
they'd keep going and going like jancy but messier bc they're cripplinganxiety4crippinganxiety yapper4yapper but instead of things they dislike about eachother, it's secrets that they had kept in fear of hurting the other. about eachother's dad. names called that hit too close to home. letters never sent. the quarry.
and once they realise they only have a few minutes left to live, will asks mike to tell him just one last thing. because will's life started with hearing mike wheeler's voice, and he wants it to end the same way.
so mike tells will him and el broke up.
and will doesn't know what to say, or pretend to say, seeing as relief is redundant given the situation, and any hope of consoling his sister was gone. so he just sits and quietly mourns how when it came to love, they were both doomed from the start. and we would've ended will byer's last line to mike wheeler the same way it started: telling mike the truth.
"i know. that's why i broke up with her."
