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1. As the world caves in by poetryler

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   31 May 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper & Dustin Henderson & Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Terminal Illnesses
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Sickfic
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Established Relationship
   • Grief
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay

   Summary

   Mike thinks his life is perfect — a quiet house, a garden, and Will.

   Until Will gets sick.

   Not all at once, not in a way that’s easy to understand. Just small things, at first.

   So Mike makes a promise.
   One wish. Every week. No matter what.

   “Hey, Will?”
   “Yeah, Mike.”
   “What do you want to do this week?”
   “Stay with you and go to the beach.”
   “Okay.”

   As long as they still have time.

   Or: Wills gets sick and only has a couple of months to live and Mike will make his last months as perfect as he can.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   18,483

   Chapters:

   7/?

   Comments:

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