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• Now That I'm Grown, I'm Scared Of Ghosts by isitovernow

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  26 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • The Party & Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Mike Wheeler is a Little Shit
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • mike wheeler is trying his best okay
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • ALL these mfs need therapy
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • the wheeler siblings mean the world to me
  • platonic elmike for the win
  • vecna knows what mike is
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • they're stupid kids in love okay
  • crashout mike wheeler
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • trust the process okay this lowk gets a lot better after chapter 2
  • mike wheeler is pulling out his hair as we speak
  • Michael Is Stressed

  Summary

  Basically an extension fic starting at the end of s4, describing s5.

  "The world isn’t making it out of this one.

  Not the way it did every time before, at least.

  This time is different. The Upside Down is quite literally bleeding out into the Rightside Up, and there’s no band-aid they can put on this wound. Not this time.

  No, this time they have to heal the wound completely."

  Series

  • Part 1 of God Rest My Soul, I Miss Who I Used To Be

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  43,006

  Chapters:

  5/14

  Kudos:

  14

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  341