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1993, Hawkins, Indiana.
A normal town, a normal childhood, a normal job, a normal home and a normal amount of self pity.
Mike, up until November of 1993, could proudly attach this list to himself. Everything was entirely normal.
Then the power starts going out every night, animals are found dead and mauled, strange creatures are lurking in the woods.
And the craziest thing of all - he starts talking to Will Byres again.
Will wants to be the perfect son. Not to his father, but to Hopper. Each day, the weight of his police badge gets heavier. When the police department receives one too many calls about supernatural happenings, Will decides to be the one to investigate, expecting to find nothing.
He wishes he found monsters and near-death experiences. And, of course, he did find that. But none of that was as overwhelming as finding Mike Wheeler stumbling through the woods like a make-believe detective.
Or:
Stranger Things if it happened ten years later. Will is a cop who wants to play by the rules. Mike is a librarian who wants to play detective. They're both missing something in life. The last thing they expected it to be was each other.