Between us //BYLER

After the world is saved, no one talks about what comes after.

Hawkins is quieter now.
The monsters are gone.
The scars are not.

Will Byers has always lived between worlds-between words he can't say and feelings he doesn't know how to name. Art is the only place where he feels honest. Safe.

Mike Wheeler has always been certain about one thing: staying. Even when everything else feels like it's slipping through his fingers.

They're best friends.
They always have been.

But some distances aren't measured in miles.
Some silences are louder than screams.
And some love grows so slowly, so quietly, that you don't realize it's there until it's already changed everything.

Between us is a slowburn Byler fanfic about healing, growing up, and learning that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is say the truth-out loud.