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    two strangers, one terrible dating website, and a connection neither of them was looking for.

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    Summary: Chapters 1–4
    Mike Wheeler came to 1990 Los Angeles for a degree, not to be mentally and physically dismantled by a sun-kissed Will Byers, his long-lost first love, who surfs and looks like a water god. Was it too soon to say he loved him? Or was it actually over six years too late? Will seems determined to strip away every bit of Mike's overthinking (and clothes) until there's nothing left to do but give in to the Californian heat.

    Summary: Chapters 5–8
    The 'first time' was a revelation, but the 'every time' after is what’s truly dismantling Mike Wheeler. Now that the Californian heat has finally melted his defenses, Mike is discovering that domestic bliss is its own kind of high-stakes adventure. From tangled mornings and stolen kitchen kisses to the terrifying vulnerability of sharing a future, being Will’s boyfriend is the best job Mike’s ever had. As they navigate family, friends, dreams, and the freedom of the open sun, they’re making one thing clear: they’ve already wasted enough time. When you’ve nearly lost your forever, you devour every ordinary second of it.

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    “I’ve been thinking about what you said.” Mike swallowed.
    “I said a lot. Remind me what do you mean.”
    He wanted to scream, the way he teased him when he clearly knew what Mike referred to. Fuck it. Worst thing was he said no. I just had to ask. “When you went off my lap and we were both fucking hard.” Mike noticed Will flinched at the tone in his voice. “When you leaned over to me.” Now Mike leaned toward Will’s ear. “And when you said.” He started to whisper, “You know I can help you with that.”
    Goosebumps formed on Will’s neck.
    “I’ve been thinking about that all evening.” He took Will’s earlobe between his lips. “I know you did too."

    Coming home from college for the winter break, the party meets to catch up, drink and have a fun time. In a game of truth or dare, Will has to give Mike a hickey, but in their drunken state they can't keep their hands from another and are turned on more than they should. After heated nights together, Will proposes to be friends with benefits, which definitely never brought anyone in trouble before...

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    “So,” Will prompts, when Mike still doesn’t offer up any information on the mysterious stack of papers tucked under his arm. “Are you having a party?”

    “Oh, no,” Mike says, sounding like it might be the first time ever in his life that he is genuinely disappointed about this fact. He shifts and grabs the stack of flyers, sort of waving them through the air. “These are just for this game I play?” The inflection on the end of what should be a statement makes it sound more like a hesitant question.

    “And in this one, you act like you’re… vampires?”

    Or: To get out of the sexual rut he’s stuck in, Popular!Will gets dared to ask out Nerd!Mike and ends up attending a Vampire the Masquerade LARP where they proceed to put the ‘role-play’ into ‘live action role-play.’

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    After ten months of being together and a brutal fight where Mike and Will both aim where they know will hurt, Mike leaves the Wheeler's house in the middle of the night leaving them both with broken pieces of what they were.

     

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    A complete season 5 re-write/fix-it following TSTYK with a primarily byler focus set October 1989. While there are a few scenes/concepts from s5 that will appear, this is not just s5 rewritten to include byler.

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