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Mike and Will find themselves trapped in an escape room the first time they meet. Everything that comes after that is rather unexpected.
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"So after being with her for years, you couldn't even tell her you loved her when she needed it the most?" Will spat back at him.
"I kept looking at her and seeing you. God you look so much alike, whenever I was with her, I kept thinking about you."
"No, don't put this on me. It's not my fault you couldn't tell Jane you loved her," Will replied. "Not even when she was killing herself to save us."
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Will wished it had been him instead of Jane.
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“Snooping, Mike?” Will let out as he stocked the fridge full of his vitamin waters and other healthy necessities. Mike never remembered him caring about his body, but he knows he sure did.
“Oh, no… I-“ Mike uttered, “I was just fixing it. Falling, uh… it was falling.”
A laugh snuck behind Will’s throat, eventually escaping. The sun from the window above the sink cuddled closely with his Brunette hair and gracefully made its way to Mike’s cold eyes.
Will was the sun, so much that Helios would go as far as to envy a mortal.
“Yeah, Mike, I’m sure.” Will walked over to where Mike was kneeling, standing over him. It wasn’t intimidating… no, it was calming.
The curtains from the kitchen window flapped against the white stone around it. For a second, they sat there. Mike desperately wanted to lock his eyes onto one singular part of Will, but he couldn’t. Every inch of him was radiating in a way he had never seen before. At that moment, he wasn’t real. Nothing was real.
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Five times Will and Mike tried to keep things a secret, and one time they finally say it out loud, without hesitation.
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Will really wants to get over Mike before summer is over.
After Robin presents everyone with the idea of a lake house, both best friends are stuck having to share one trailer on the road, quickly realizing that the space is too small to contain their feelings and the summertime heat.
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The boy turns around, and Mike thinks he must be seeing things. Ghosts, maybe, because that would be the only rational explanation.
All he can do is stare directly at the boy standing before him.
A boy he used to know very well.
What the hell is Will Byers doing at Indiana University?
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In which Mike Wheeler, the captain of the Indiana University hockey team, is forced to help run a skating training camp over winter break to avoid suspension and to participate in the playoffs.
It’s bad enough that he has to miss the vacation he planned with his best friends, but when the figure skater running the camp turns out to be Will Byers, his estranged best friend turned worst enemy, Mike thinks he might actually be the unluckiest person in the world.
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He had spent his life trying to be good enough, so maybe God would stop looking at him like something unfinished. When the Wheelers move into town, Will’s quiet Appalachian world begins to rot at the edges. In a town built on shame and scripture, desire becomes it’s own haunting.
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Heavily inspired by Ethel Cain’s album, “Preacher’s Daughter”
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"I really like being like this with you. It feels safe. Does it have to be more complicated than that?"
Will chews his lip and looks between Mike’s eyes. “I guess not. I feel safe with you too.” He laces his fingers behind Mike’s neck.
“I want this, and I don’t care that you’re a boy. You’re just Will to me.”
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Will has never been kissed. Mike realizes he wants to be the one to kiss Will. As summer progresses, Mike discovers through a dangerous amount of sun exposure, a bottle of aloe vera, and a silver necklace that he wants more than just kisses, and maybe he always has.
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It’s New York City’s hottest summer on record, and Mike and Will land the perfect post-grad serving job in one of the city’s finest restaurants. They’ve got loads of cash tips, two shiny new college degrees, a cigarette in each hand, and the whole city at their fingertips.
What starts as a sex joke written on an order ticket evolves into passing dirty notes with no goal other than embarrassing each other in front of customers. The sneakier, the filthier, the more absurd, the better.
Sometimes I think Chef should put you on the menu. You already look good enough to eat. -M
You’re so fucking greedy, I know you would devour me. -W
The lines of the joke blur when their smoke breaks in the alleyway start heating up into something else entirely.
Or: Mike and Will can only ask for what they really want when it’s in note form.
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Mike Wheeler is a mess. Nearly thirty years old, a closeted virgin, and secretly in love with his childhood best friend. What better way to turn things around than to spend his thirtieth birthday with the Party playing D&D? When Will casts an overpowered Zone of Truth spell, Mike fears the campaign is over. Except the spell doesn't target the NPC holding the key to victory—Mike is the affected creature.
What starts as an innocent evening filled with adventure quickly devolves into a humiliating display of lust as Mike answers the Party's questions about his sexual preferences and his feelings for a certain someone. Even worse, he comes to find that Will is more than happy to get him alone to continue the interrogation.
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“Let’s roll for it.”
“I already have to tell you the truth if you ask,” Mike says.
“True,” Will smiles. “But this is more fun, right? A proper persuasion check?”
“Okay,” Mike breathes out. “I’m- I’m still the DM, so… You roll for persuasion. Let’s say the Difficulty Class is ten. That’s fair, right?”
It might as well be a five, hell, maybe even a two. Mike’s too eager, too fucking desperate to not be persuaded by any suggestion of his.
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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"Why are you blushing, Byers?", he mocked, in this annoying confusing tone.
"It's probably the alcohol", he lied.
"Oh… so your cheeks blush when you drink?", he mocked again, in the same tone, "That's nice to know… What did you have?"
"A few jello shots."
"What flavor?", Will was about to answer, but his chin was held gently, getting him to stop in his tracks. His lips opened up slightly, obeying the soft push downwards Mike's fingers applied to it, "Let me see", he whispered, getting closer. The youngest squeaked in surprise when the other's tongue licked his own in a quick movement, "I don't think I got it", and he did again, this time keeping his tongue inside Will's mouth, kissing him.
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will's roommate, mike, likes to get people out of their shell.
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- Part 12 of byler
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There I Saw You Standing (must've been a holy light) by olivewritesthings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Where are you going?” Hopper asked.
“My base? Are you guys coming or do you want the flower dogs to eat you?”
“Flower do- oh, demos.”
“What the hell is a demo?”
“Demogorgon? From that game your friends like, ‘Dungeons and Dragons’?”
“I don’t have ‘friends.’” Will said, wrinkling his nose and almost recoiling at the idea. “At least, none I remember.” He whispered, looking away before shaking his head and continuing on the tracks. “And what’s Dungeons and Dragons? It sounds like a fantasy book.”
OR: Will Byers was never rescued from the Upside Down
A/N: Do not repost without permission. DM for translations. Fuck generative AI. I have never and will never use it to write my fics in any capacity, I just update quickly because I have no life. I do not support Noah Schnapp, but unfortunately I have a habit of fixating on things with problematic people involved. Free Palestine
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- Part 1 of Psammalah
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The Name I Want To Hide Behind by Abyss_In_WonderLand_likes_sexy_cannibals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 May 2026
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"Um, Mike?" Dustin suddenly said, bringing attention to himself again.
"Yeah?" Mike distractedly replied as he finished coloring a giant, red B. It was only slightly out of lines.
"Why do you have a notebook about Will kissing some guy?"
The words didn’t even register for a second and then the meaning of them hit Mike all at once. His head snapped towards his desk where Dustin was sitting and he felt his stomach drop.The desk drawer was opened. There was a familiar notebook in Dustin’s hands and he seemed to be flipping through with a particular expression on his face.
Oh no.
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Or; Mike starts writing self-insert fanfiction about his best friend.
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August 1990. Chicago.
Mike Wheeler has spent a year missing Will Byers. Will Byers has spent a year becoming someone Mike might not even recognize.
After staying behind to take care of his family, Mike Wheeler is starting college a year late. After a year of distance, unanswered letters and missed calls, they’re now sharing a new city, a dorm, and are forced to face all the feelings they thought they had left behind.
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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What happens when you accidentally overhear your best friend getting banged left and right? Naturally, if you're Mike Wheeler, you jerk off to it.
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Mike Wheeler realizes he's mega-attracted to William Byers, his best friend of fifteen years. They live in a shoebox apartment in NYC, where he can hear every thrust and moan through the cardboard walls. Mike runs to Max, who helps him to devise a plan to get into Will's pants. If he doesn't manage to do it by the end of a ten-day period, he forfeits his love, pride, and a lump sum of money. Mike is incredibly awkward, but he's a stubborn man with a journal and a dream. Will he secure Will's affection, or will he be relegated to the cuck chair for all of time and eternity? Only time will tell.
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Almost three years into being roommates at college, Will starts to notice that Mike is willing to do anything for him... like, literally anything. He decides to test Mike, to see how far he's willing to go just to make Will happy.
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Something happened between Mike and Will during winter break of ‘89, and they haven’t spoken in four years. When Mike moves to New York for grad school in 1993, he is finally starting to figure himself out, and he wants to fix things with Will. He has no idea where to begin, so he writes a play about it.
Will has been building a life for himself in NYC as a painter. He has a boyfriend, volunteers with an AIDS housing program, and pays his rent by acting in other people’s plays – including, as it turns out, Mike’s.
A story about the damage of being loved before you’re ready, and about trying to make your way back (with a little help along the way from your meddling older siblings).
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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