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• Waiting Drives You Crazy by unscratchable_itch

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/F, F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  24 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
  • Mike Wheeler/Original Female Character(s)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • "Carlton"
  • Original Characters
  • Alternate Universe - College/University
  • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
  • Cheating
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • it's 1995
  • music-heavy
  • grunge mike
  • Artsy Will
  • they go to nyu
  • Yearning
  • Angst
  • Fluff
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension
  • Unresolved Romantic Tension
  • so much drug usage
  • slur usage (plot relevant)
  • Not Beta Read
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • Dry Humping
  • Choking
  • Sexual Repression
  • Fingers in Mouth
  • Avoidant Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Clingy Will Byers

  Summary

  It's his junior year of college, and somehow Will is still deeply in love with Mike Wheeler. He thought he had moved on when he started dating Carlton, but that deep want in Will's chest never went away. Not even when Mike got what felt like the perfect 'cool' girlfriend. Not even when Mike kept pushing Will away and telling him he wasn't gay.

  And it certainly wasn't helping that Will kept finding himself ending up in Mike's bed.

  Or; another cheating, toxic byler in college AU

  Timeline adjusted

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  100,304

  Chapters:

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