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• The Choice Was Mine (I Didn’t Think Enough) by madssfd

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  15 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley
  • Jonathan Byers
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Soft
  • Hurt
  • Mild Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • elmax - Freeform
  • byler
  • Vecna's Curse (Stranger Things)
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Sad
  • Eye Trauma
  • Eye ripped out
  • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • more pain
  • Eye of vecna
  • Title from a Blink-182 Song
  • Adam’s Song

  Summary

  Mike Wheeler and Will Byers are with the party again, and everything seems perfectly fine. Suddenly, the lights begin to flicker, and everyone begins to think this through.

  Will doesn’t understand the pain that’s going through his body, and Mike just wants to help.

  Eleven helps take his eye out, and Will is left in pain.

  OR

  Vecna comes to visit the party through Wills eye and Will Byers can’t catch a break.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,073

  Chapters:

  1/?

  Kudos:

  32

  Bookmarks:

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