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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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deep blue, but you painted me golden by andiwriteordie, kidovna
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2025
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Will’s voice trails off, and he runs a hand over his face. Mike waits a few moments to see if he’ll say anything else, but when Will doesn’t, he takes a shaky breath and tries to find his own courage.
“And you thought, what?” Mike whispers. “That - that it wouldn’t mean as much to me if it came from you?”
Will flinches. He’s still turned away from Mike, and there’s a desperation in his voice when he whispers back, “Mike, please…”
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After returning to the Wheeler house, Mike finds out the truth about Will’s painting.
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"Mike…" his voice comes out so low that he barely hears. "You don’t understand, do you?"
At last, Will turns his face toward him. Mike freezes.
The green eyes, intense and expressive, are wet. He has forgotten what it is like to see Will’s tearful eyes up close, and the image touches something deep in his heart. His hands, once warm, turn cold, and the chill that rises from his stomach to his throat seems to grow stronger. He swallows hard, Will’s face close, all of him far too close.
"I don’t… understand?" Mike asks, still lost in the flashes coming from Will’s eyes. His gaze drops to Will’s mouth, pink and trembling, just like the rest of his body.
"No, you don’t understand", Will says, shaking his head. "You never understand. You’re so stupid."
Mike does not react. He keeps staring at Will’s mouth, fighting against that desire that has lived inside him for God knows how long.
"Stupid…" he repeats, until he realizes what he just said. "Wait. What?"Or
Will and Mike return to the Wheelers’ basement after what happens at the Mac-Z. It is cold, but the feeling inside them is warm and corrosive, eating through everything until it spills outward.
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Mike and Will procrastinate coming out to their friends and families, so they sneak around a lot. One time they mess up and get caught though. Everyone deals differently with finding out about them. Hopper for example crashes the fuck out.
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- Part 4 of random byler one shots
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“Don’t worry, I’ll do it,” Mike protests weakly, but Will ignores him. “You need to rest, yeah,” he continues softly, swallowing audibly at the thought of Will’s fingers on him again.
“I want to take care of—” Will mumbles, fumbling for gauze and bandages, his focus wavering. Mike notices the flush creeping up Will’s cheeks, bright and vivid against his otherwise pale, tired skin. And it warms something inside Mike, just a little, because Will wants to take care of him.
or; Mike is confused, and maybe Will offering to take care of his wounds after their encounter with Vecna only makes things worse.
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i just may be a daredevil (can you feel my heart?) by coopermyagent for hannibalismus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jul 2024
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Will doesn’t have anything to lose anymore, and Mike can’t lose him. The two go hurtling towards an inevitable precipice where the only option might be to go tumbling down together, limbs grappling for each other, flesh melding, and heartbeats syncing in time.
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Will’s composure cracks and beats up their middle school bully, finishing the job Mike started. :)
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“Don’t you ever wonder?” Mike whispered.
“About what?”
“What…‘good’ means. O-or just about it, in general.”
Will’s lips quirked up in a smile. A bitter one, but he hoped it wasn’t showing.
“Do I ever wonder about…kissing? Mike, I’m sixteen, of course I wonder about it.”
“It’s just,” a frustrated noise escaped the other’s throat. “You never talk about it.”
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or, a Party discussion turns into the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. And maybe let out some repressed feelings as well.
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While Will is about to enter the stage to receive an interview, Mike notices his anxiety, so he gives him some advice. The results, however, are not quite what he intended.
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“I know about the painting, Will.”
It was as though his heart stopped. No one can imagine the pain of heart failure, let alone a broken heart. If he had to imagine, Will Byers would say the pain he felt in that moment could compare. Time altogether stopped; he didn’t even bother to look at his watch for confirmation. Mike’s words sounded like they were underwater.
The two boys stood under the dark overcast of clouds, a dramatic setting for their eventual argument.-
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Max is finally awake,
But Mike can't focus on anything except William Byers.
Aka, Mike having an existential crisis over Will.
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Immediate post-volume 1 ending, Mike's thoughts and word vomiting
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The Byers have been living at the Wheelers' for eighteen months now.
Will falls asleep on Mike's chest every night. They whisper about apartments in Chicago and cats and a future where they don't have to hide.
For now, this room, this bed, this boy — it's enough.
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Will Byers lays restless after the night it all went down only to be met with a knock on his door. While trying to sleep he's kept up by the man his heart has been so devoted to for years.
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boy, you turn me (inside out) by stilesospoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
29 Nov 2025
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they laughed again, the taller pushing his shoulder into Will’s to playfully shove him. his hands then came up to wipe away the residue of tears on his own face.
then he went serious, ceased all of his laughing and pressed his lips into a line. did he really wanna talk about it ? he needed to. he needed to get it off of his chest. the worst case scenario is that he finds out his best friend secretly hated him.
“I’ve been thinking about California.”
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Mike isn't able to sleep, plagued with an idea that Will secretly hates him.
He takes shelter in the kitchen where he has a thoughtful conversation with Nancy before he's thrown into a spiral and has to talk to Will himself.
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the morning after will and mike became boyfriends. ♡︎
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Friends dont lie (but we're not friends) by EveryandAnyJikook
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Nov 2025
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Post episode 4 of season 5
Mike sits in his room, while Will is passed out back at the radio station. And suddenly, the painting somehow feels important again.
And for once Mike isnt afraid to ask.
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I'm obsessed with everything that happened in volume 1 and I just couldn't stop thinking about what happens next. So I wrote my first byler fic. Hehe. Hope you enjoy
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Basically, if Robin were to catch Mike and Will kissing instead of Will catching Robin and Vicky.
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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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"I live in your house, Mike," he said, crossing his arms defensively. "I thought you'd already have enough of me."
"I don't." Will jumped at Mike's voice, head whipping back around to face him. "Come on, Will! You talk to Holly more than you do me. You're always doing those— those ugly craft projects with her, and I didn't even know you liked crafts, and I didn't know you liked Holly more than me, either. I don't know anything about you."
Will blinked at him, mouth agape. "They're not ugly," he said, weakly.
"They are." Mike glared at Will harder. "See? I didn't know you lied now, either."
The Byers spend their first year with the Wheelers. Will learns how to handle Mike, and Mike learns how to handle change.
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