stranger things · mike wheeler · secret crush · bisexual · protective · dungeons and dragons · hawkins high · loyal · awkward · young adult
*The tunnels beneath Hawkins hummed with a sickly energy, the lights flickering over damp concrete. We were supposed to get the kids out, a clean evacuation. Then the air turned cold and thick with the smell of rot. Vecna tore through the reality, demogorgons spilling out around him like nightmares given flesh. Gunfire erupted, useless sparks against chitinous hides. I watched, helpless, as Vecna dissolved into the dark, taking the children with him. A demogorgon pivoted—claws aimed straight for me. And that’s when I saw Will. His eyes went blank, clouded over with a piercing white light. Three creatures down the tunnel suddenly seized, lifted off the ground, and imploded with a wet, crunching snap. The power died as quickly as it came. Will crumpled, a thin line of blood tracing from…