19 Works by icepools
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‘cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you by icepools
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2022
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“I’ll be there though!”
Lucas smiles bitterly. “Yeah, you and no one else.”
Will blinks. “What do you mean? We’re all going.”
“First I’m hearing of it, then.”
“Of course we’re all going, Lucas! This is your big game! We’d be crazy to miss it.”
“Yeah, except Mike and Dustin are blowing it off to go to the last Hellfire meeting.”
Will’s mouth opens, closes, opens again, closes again. His stomach flips and makes him feel empty and sick all at once.
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i don't wanna be here anymore (it all tastes like poison) by icepools
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jul 2022
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“I’m still here, Max,” she whispers. There’s no one else here, so she could speak up if she wanted to, but the moment feels too private for that. Too vulnerable. “I haven’t left. None of us have.” Physically speaking this is a lie. People have come and gone and continued on without Max. But El does not hold this against them. She knows that, even if they are physically in their homes, they are still thinking about Max, hoping and waiting just like El. She is just doing it differently.
“I’m not going anywhere.” Her voice wavers a little bit, perhaps from a lack of use over the last few hours. “I’m staying right here, for as long as you need.”
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what if i told you i feel like i know you? by icepools
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2021
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“What do you say, Byers? You up for a drive?”
Will laughs again, softly and intimately. His cheeks are flushed from both the chill of the night, and the excitement of a new vehicle. He runs a hand along the bright red exterior of the truck, an excited glint in his eyes. “Yeah. Sure."
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When they get home, Lucas practically runs into the house, throws their coat and backpack on the ground in the front entrance, and makes their way to the basement where they keep their craft supplies.
They’re gonna make Will the best Valentine ever.
or: two valentine’s days, ten years apart.
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there's glitter on the floor after the party
girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby
candle wax and polaroids on the hardwood floor
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Holy fuck.
That. That is a new kid. Lucas knows this for certain. They have never seen this boy in their life, certainly not on this bus, and this bothers them deeply because holy shit.
or: lucas is probably in love with the new kid who sits next to them on the bus.
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Sometimes Will Byers has bad days.
He has days where he is not happy, nor content, nor somewhere in between. The bad days are the lowest of the low. He can’t really smile, not comfortably. He stays in bed, skips school if he has it. On the very worst of days he can’t even talk. Bad days do not turn into okay days.
Today is a bad day.
or: will has days that are better than others. for those days that hurt just a little more, he has lucas.
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tonight i’m gonna dance (like you were in this room) by icepools
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Aug 2020
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“Is that the last of your stuff?” Lucas asks softly. Will can picture them perfectly; arms crossed, leaning against the doorframe, small smile on their lips but a frown in their eyes.
“Yeah. Last, um, last one. All taped up,” he forces out a little humourless laugh. Lucas does not return it.
“Fuck. Okay. That’s good.” they mumble, but it’s clear that they’re lying. Trying to make today easier than it’s going to be.
or: the byers are moving away.
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Lucas has created a list. Three things to follow every day. Or, in other words, Lucas’ plan for hiding the fact that he’s in love with his best friend.
It goes a little something like this:
1. BE! SUBTLE! (this should be obvious by now but you’re not great at this one)
2. Don’t tell anyone in the party (except maybe Max)
3. Do not, under any circumstances, tell Will.or: lucas isn't as subtle as he thinks he is.
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He takes Will’s shaking hands in his own, holding them gently, but still enough that Will can feel it.
“Will?” No response, physical or verbal. Will’s breathing gets quicker. “Will, baby, please look at me. I can’t help you if you don’t look at me.”
or: will panics. lucas calms him down.
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"Why are you crying?”
This question seems to take a lot out of Lucas. He hums and sniffles and hiccups some more before answering. “You.”
or: lucas calls will late at night with something important to say.
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The first thing Will says, after (thankfully) a greeting, is, “Would you say you’re a good kisser?”
Which, naturally, throws Lucas for a bit of a loop.
or: will doesn’t know how to kiss. lucas, apparently, does.
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Because for a very large amount of El’s life, there was Max. They were there to walk to school, or drive once they were old enough. They were there to sneak into the Byers house at night and pretend they didn’t wake Will with the amount of noise they made, slipping into El’s bed easily. Like they belonged there.
And, shit, they did, and they do, and Max belongs here with El but they’re not here.
or: el misses their hands. and then she misses more.
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when his family cancels christmas on him, lucas finds refuge in the local bookshop. thankfully, will, the boy working there, doesn’t seem to mind all that much.
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“Hey, you’re okay. Breathe with me.”
And Will does, or at least tries to. He allows Lucas to take his hand and place it on top of his chest, allows himself to feel the way Lucas breathes and try to match it.
or: will has nightmares. lucas makes them easy.
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When Will smiles over at Mike, his heart does a weird flipping thing that he can’t describe. It’s nice, though, and he wants it to happen again.
Mike doesn’t know it at the time, but this is the day he first fell in love.
or: five times mike fell in love with will and one time will fell in love back.
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“What’s gonna happen to us on Monday?” Dustin asked suddenly, sitting up, “I don’t know about you, but I consider you guys my friends,”
“You mean will we still talk to each other? Like we are now?” El pressed. He nodded.
“You want the truth?” she asked, wiping a thumb across her under eye. He nodded again. “I don’t think so.”
or: six teenagers break the social boundaries of high school during saturday detention.
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Will was gay. That much he knew. He just didn’t know that today would be the day he was going to come out for the first time.
or: will shares his secret with the most important people in the world to him.
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They were 15 when they had their first kiss.
or: el and max dance, kiss, and fall in love.