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standing face to face with i told you so (i hate to say it but, i told you so) by carouselorelai
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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As Will inched his way up the stairs, each touch of his toe to the painted wood feeling like spoon on molasses, he resisted the overwhelming urge to turn his head around. To witness what he could softly hear was happening behind him. The boy knew he was far enough up the stairs to be out of sight but he couldn’t bring himself to gaze at the sight of his best friend quietly sobbing into his palms.
Will knew Mike needed space—or at least that's what he assumed the boy wanted—so he pushed his legs forward and tried not to wince at the muffled sound of devastation growing in the space behind him.OR
Mike has had eighteen months to think, and he came to quite a startling realization.
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.
Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’
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“Forever?”
Though the camera doesn’t catch it, Joyce and Jonathan exchange an amused look over the rearview.
Then, the footage splices, rapidly cutting through various points in life—Will and Mike’s first time hanging out at the Byers’; Mike coming over for Will’s birthday; Will coming over for Mike’s. Flashes of middle school that stretched into those final days before they left for Lenora. High school, graduation, moving day—the clips start blurring into one another as more pop up, but it stops on a clip of Mike and Will, probably around six years old, giggling as they try to handle the camera.
“We’ll see about forever, honey.”
(or, the one where jonathan byers has a lot of stocked up video footage from when mike and will were kids, and decides that the best time to reveal them is during his best man speech at their wedding.)
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“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” Peggy says, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
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- Part 3 of Not Easily Conquered
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22 Jun 2025
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The Thirteen Letters by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Dec 2014
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Womb to tomb, sweetheart.
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- Part 2 of Not Easily Conquered
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22 Jun 2025