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Ao3 ORIGINAL!

After defeating Vecna, Mike finds himself lost in a world of paper and ink. He writes, some days more than others, but all for the same reason-to forget what happened with El. His writing quickly grows on him, beginning to shape his thoughts into sentences and stories that publishers find interesting enough to share with the public. Time flies past him, and the adult world becomes a part of his daily life. Contact with Will breaks, and the two childhood best friends become something they both silently feared: strangers.
But life has its ways to join two paths again. And when Will divorces Carlton, his daughter and he find themself heading to Will's childhood town-Hawkins.
And when their daughters meet in an unexpected way, old memories float back to the surface, scratching a wound that they both thought had stopped bleeding. But maybe it always bled, just not as much as others at that time.

-THIS IS NOT A SLOW BURN-