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• somehow, against all odds by approx2tbsp

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Chance
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Minor Characters
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Chance (Stranger Things)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Coping
  • Emotionally Repressed
  • Will Byers-centric
  • Stranger Things Spoilers
  • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • author's first fic
  • mentioned byler only
  • Bychance Endgame
  • FANON Chance
  • Not Beta Read
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Underage Drinking
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Homophobia

  Summary

  Will Byers is always there for everyone as they grieve for his sister. Yet, no one is there to hear his own, except for this random boy whom he somehow, against all odds, meets.

  Set during the 18-month period timeskip in Season 5 Finale Episode

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