If only - |Stranger Things| [EDITED]

Description from the original fic, edited:

Will Byers has been having nightmares for a while now, they seem to be getting more and more real with each new one, until he wakes up one night and realizes they weren't nightmares at all. They were always just a way for Henry to torture him, again and again, until Will breaks.

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So, back in 2022 when season 4 volume 2 came out, I wrote a fic. Back then, I had almost no views and didn't assume people would read my stuff. But, for whichever reason everyone decided to only read that one fanfiction.

Said fanfiction was just an exuse for me to write a rewrite where El and Will ran into each other instead of Will being taken and El spending the night in the woods, because I realized they were both there and couldn't get the idea out of my head.

In the first fanfic, I didn't even check for plotholes and just posted it as I went, it's not even beta-read or edited and I'm more than certain there are many, many gramatical and other errors. Because, like I said, I didn't expect people to read it at the time. However, everyone reading my stuff seems to be only reading that one fic and it's bugging me deeply, because to me, it's trash (compared to my newer stuff, like "Lights").
And because I hate it when authors unpublish or edit works I read before, I'm doing a remastered version in a new, separate book, to fix what I wrote 3 years ago. Hopefully, the curse of everyone only ever reading that fanfiction will be lifted and I'll be allowed to sleep peacefully at night.
Cover by my sister: @WindowPico
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The season 5 ending annoyed me enough to get me out of writer's block and finish editing this (which I started working on on November 15 2025, and just finished today, yay!).

I'll be posting daily until the final chapter (chapter 17), then the story's finished.