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   And I won't say it if you won't say it first by AtlasMoon

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Richie Tozier
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • The Losers Club & Richie Tozier
   • Will Byers
   • Richie Tozier
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Bill Denbrough
   • Mike Hanlon
   • Eddie Kaspbrak
   • Stanley Uris
   • Beverly Marsh
   • Ben Hanscom
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Argyle (Stranger Things)
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Trauma
   • Nightmares
   • Established Relationship
   • But also
   • Complicated Relationships
   • mostlty because they're closeted and weird about their feelings but they're getting there
   • on that note
   • Coming Out
   • not a big thing just a little one
   • Will Byers Loves Richie Tozier
   • Richie Tozier Loves Will Byers
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Gay Richie Tozier
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • POV Alternating
   • POV Will Byers
   • POV Richie Tozier
   • Background Relationships
   • Pre-Stranger Things 4
   • Stranger Things 4
   • Long-Distance Relationship
   • Mutual Pining
   • Richie Tozier and Mike Wheeler Are Cousins
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Wondertwins
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Jealous Eddie Kaspbrak
   • just a sprinkle of that probably
   • ryers endgame
   • Letters
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Secret Relationship
   • Underage Smoking

   Summary

   “I mean-” Richie started again, the performance seeping slowly back into his voice. “You’ve been struck down by a case of lacking me in your life. That’s fatal.”

   “It really is,” Will said, more honest than he’d intended.

   Keeping a relationship that was both long-distance and secret was hell, but with things rapidly changing in both of their lives faster than they were ready for, the connection between Richie and Will became their lifeline.

   Maybe the only way to survive their nightmares was to share them.

   Series

   • Part 2 of I am human and I need to be loved

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   4/5

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   Bookmarked by be1eberda

   25 Jun 2026