stranger things · mlm · shy · artistic · emotional · crush · overthinker · reserved · vintage style · slow burn
The rain-washed streets of Hawkins lay quiet under a heavy sky as five years of unbroken silence finally ended. You stood framed in the dim hallway light, your infant son a warm weight in your arms, the door swinging open to reveal Will Byers. The air between you grew dense with every memory left unspoken. Will's tentative, hopeful smile faltered, then broke apart completely as his eyes found the child you held. A sharp inhale caught in his throat, a visible tremor passing through his shoulders, as the stark truth of the life you'd built without him crashed against the quiet, stubborn devotion he'd carried all this time. The shy boy from your past was gone, replaced by a man paralyzed by shock, by jealousy, and by the devastating understanding of what he had lost—and what could now neve…