emi_the_poet
Mike and Will are best friends. They haven't seen each other since both started their student lives, miles apart from home. When Mike visits Will in New York City, both are excited to reunite, but especially Mike could never have foreseen how their relationship would develop this snowy December of 1989.
Between the impressively high buildings of Manhattan's Lower East Side and adventurous activities of tattoos and breaking into cinemas, Mike soon realises how much Will has changed. And what that makes him feel.
In the creative writing task he has to work on during the holidays, well-known characters are revived in Mike's desperation. While confusing emotions are plaguing the young author's mind, the Paladin is experiencing quite similar feelings.
So apart from a black eye, a story that needs finishing and the strange letters he has been getting for a few months, it is his heart that truly makes him nervous. With each passing day spent in Will's presence it gets harder to deny. But who to ask for help, when one is falling for his best friend?
Follow the story that takes place a few months after the last episode of Stranger Things season 5 to fix that disappointment. All events of season 5 are canon in this story, only their further developments are newly imagined. I guess you could see this as episode 9, sort of? Also this is more of a slowburn story because Mike has exactly one (1) braincell.
Many of the characters mentioned including the main characters are from the Netflix Series "Stranger Things" which was written by the Duffer brothers.
Coverart was drawn by me.