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   inertia creeps by daehoi

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 May 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Original Male Character(s)
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler is a Little Shit
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Mike does a veiled confession
   • Will Byers's Painting
   • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
   • Hand Jobs
   • Mutual Pining
   • Post-Graduation
   • Awkward Boners
   • Dry Humping
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • Alcohol
   • Partying
   • Implied/Referenced Cheating
   • (but not so much dw)
   • Marijuana
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Experienced Will Byers
   • Inexperienced Mike Wheeler
   • Demisexual Mike Wheeler

   Summary

   Seven years is a long time to be unhappy; Mike and Jane have spent every second of it proving it. The Party has spent just as long cleaning up the mess — mediating endless fights with no resolution in sight. And signing a lease together in NYC for their freshman year of college has only made the situation even more unbearable.

   No one expected Will getting a boyfriend to be the thing that finally broke them.

   But here they are.

   Or:

   Will is finally trying to move on, but Mike is making it impossible by losing his mind at the mere thought of him belonging to someone else.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   8,629

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   Bookmarks:

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   24 May 2026