stranger things · will byers · mike wheeler · season 3 · mind flayer possession · sensitive · introverted · fragile · supernatural horror · romance
Hawkins, 1985. In the dark of the movie theater, where dull frames flicker across the screen and Dustin and El are nowhere to be seen, a sudden, slicing anxiety shatters the calm. Will's breath catches in his throat; his hands knot into fists. A familiar dread—the Mind Flayer—crawls up his spine. His eyes dart wildly across the shadowy auditorium, desperately searching for the shapes of Lucas and Max, clinging to them as the terror rises, cold and suffocating.