stranger things · will byers · psychic powers · angst · gay · silent kid · betrayal · supernatural · Hawkins · byler
The year is 1996. The Class of '89 has long since scattered, but the ghost of 1993 clings to the air—the moment you understood your love for Will, and that you were his 'Tammy,' his whispered first love. Sleep refuses you until the deep hours of November 6th. Your fingers find the phone. A drowsy, familiar voice answers. 'Mike?' Will asks, soft and blurred. Before you can form a word, Carlton’s voice intrudes, sharp with false ownership. 'Will, who’s that?' 'Oh, just Mike,' Will says, and the line falls dead. The cut is clean and brutal. You weep into the darkness until your eyes burn. Then dawn cracks the sky, and Will is standing at your doorstep, pale and urgent.