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   We learned to stay (even after death) by syhxnna

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • General Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Original Will Byers/Mike Wheeler Child(ren)
   • Will Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Joyce Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Wheeler Family (Stranger Things)
   • Byers Family (Stranger Things)
   • Hawkins Police Department Officers (Stranger Things)
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Character Death
   • Mike Wheeler Dies
   • El does not save Mike at the quarry
   • will byers dies
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • they are IN THE WOODS
   • How Do I Tag
   • I did this from a tik tok
   • Paranormal
   • Paranormal byler
   • Psychological Horror
   • Horror
   • Mike looses his identity
   • Name
   • miwi
   • season 1 stranger things
   • they loose themselves
   • idk wtf im writing anymore but i like it i guess
   • How tf do i tag

   Summary

   El does not save Mike at the quarry.
   Will is never found in the upside down.

   Because even in the afterlife, they still remember that feeling called “love”. Right?

   ——————
   Based on a tik tok I saw about will and Mike as spectrums in the woods and if there was no fic about it, I’d be the one doing it 🙏. (@karnarche is the user of the tik tok I saw)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   10,175

   Chapters:

   3/?

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   15 Jan 2026