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   Wash your face (hide your wrists) by Crowley_Supremacy

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Depressed Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Emotionally Repressed
   • Suicidal Mike Wheeler
   • Suicide Notes
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Has Self-Worth Issues
   • Self-Harm
   • Cutting
   • Self-Hatred
   • Getting Together
   • Boys in Love
   • Mike Wheeler Needs Therapy
   • POV Alternating
   • but only briefly
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • but before the epilogue
   • Set the summer before their senior year
   • Told mostly from Will's POV but pretty Mike-centric
   • Not Beta Read
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Sort Of

   Summary

   "Mike has been acting… weird. Cheerful, almost, in a way Will hasn't seen him since before Eleven died. Since before everything happened. 

   He's more carefree now, like the world won't collapse around him if he says or does the wrong thing. 

   It should be good that he's finally moving on, but it's unnerving, to say the least, and Will has a strange feeling settling in the pit of his stomach."

   Or

   Mike is extremely depressed and planning on doing something about it, but doesn't account for Will finding out about it.

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