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The thing is, Mike knows.
He’s known for the last eleven months, two weeks, and eighteen days. He’s known since it became impossible for Will to hide it, when the darkness almost killed him.
They just don’t talk about it. He doesn’t care that Will doesn’t like girls, or that he used to like some nameless boy a long time ago, back when they were kids, or somewhere in the blur of growing up.
Kids have crushes all the time. Silly ones. They fade like childhood bruises. Dustin liked Max once. No one brings it up anymore. No one even remembers.
But now, as the movie plays on and Bellamy leans closer to whisper something to Will, all Mike can do is think about it.
Or, after the end of the world, Mike Wheeler thinks he’s managed to go back to normal. Even if Eleven is gone. Even if Hawkins will never be the same.
Until Will makes a new friend and Mike realizes he can’t outrun forever the feelings that follow. -
They said the end is coming. I find myself running home to your sweet nothings by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Oct 2025
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"So," Mike asked softly, closing the book but keeping his arm around her. "How was your day today?"
El shrugged, her usual response. "Meh."or
El is trapped in the cabin again, but the visit from her favorite person makes it better.
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November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.
Together, even across dimensions, right?
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Will should’ve realized this sooner. The fifth anniversary of the start of all of this, the day he was taken, was just four days ago. It passed by harmlessly.
That should’ve been a warning sign.
Now Will is paying the price for his naive, yet blissful, ignorance as he dangles between the balance of his two worlds.
One of home, one of nightmares.
El's grip on his bloody hand is tight as she tries to pull him from perdition.
Looking up, he can see El’s face flushing with strain, her limbs shaking. She’s tired. They’re both exhausted. After everything she's done in the past few days, he knows she's spent. Her powers can’t–
She can’t save them.
Will can't be saved this time.
But he can save her.
He inhales, taking in his last breath protected by a night of blanketed stars and faraway brown eyes, and exhales.
Will let go.
And he falls away from Eden.
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eight months into quarantine, will finds himself thrown into mike's orbit. a lack of discretion forces their habits and routines to overlap.
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Слишком резкие, слишком импульсивные, чужие друг для друга, как всегда и мечтали.
Собственный разум играет злую шутку, крутя в голове одни и те же мысли, одно и то же имя, врезающееся в память с противным скрежетом. Отстранился быстрее, чем ожидалось, как будто их связь ничего не значила. Если насколько безразлично, почему задевает до самых краёв?- Language:
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The world is ending. Hawkins has fallen. The Upside Down has won.
Months after the invasion, Steve Harrington is one of the few left alive, stuck inside a military compound with the remains of his broken found family. Every day is a fight for survival, a fight to push back the creatures that have destroyed everything.
And then it all goes to hell.
A routine supply run turns into a massacre. Steve barely escapes with his life, taking shelter in the last place he ever wanted to be—the Creel House. Fueled by grief, anger, and the unbearable weight of everyone he’s lost, he destroys the grandfather clock that once haunted Max Mayfield’s visions.
And time shatters.
When Steve wakes up, Hawkins is intact. The world hasn’t ended. But something is wrong. The date is November 6, 1983. Will Byers has just gone missing. And Steve Harrington might be the only one who can stop the end of the world before it even begins.
But changing the past comes with a cost. And as Steve soon realizes, just because he’s gone back in time doesn’t mean things will turn out better. Some things can’t be fixed. Some things were always broken. And some things—if messed with—can break even worse.
PART ONE COMPLETED.Series
- Part 1 of The Hollow Hour
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Hawkins has been put in a complete lockdown following the infiltration of One through the bleeding of the Upside Down into the Rightside Up - while the train of Mike’s thoughts have been unleashed ferociously upon himself. Confusing thoughts and ideas - especially involving that of his best friend, girlfriend, and a particular painting - have pushed him somewhat distant from Will Byers and the others in the party. Through the months of quarantine, however, he attempts to strengthen the bond he shares with his first ever companion in order to protect him and the fate of the world from the grasp of Vecna - all the while navigating the halls, academics, and heartbreaks of his hectic junior year of high school.
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The Rest Of The World Was Black And White (But We Were In Screaming Color) by joycesjournals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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The world around them is crumbling but Will is fighting something alone. Something deep inside. Until he tells his mother. She tells him something he wasn’t expecting at all.
(Will comes out and she hits him with the uno reverse card)
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Joyce and the kids are hiding out in an old barn while Hopper and El are in the upside down, desperate to get her powers back. A loud banging on the door has Joyce ready to fight, but when the door opens she’s relieved beyond belief.
Based on the first teaser of season 5, the scene of mother holding the axe in particular. Mothering is mothering.
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you could absolutely break my heart by wayward_sherlock for qulizalfos
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Apr 2025
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He’s aware, distantly, that something about this isn’t right; Mike has never been so open with his touches, so willing to give Will even just a fraction of the affection that he wants. Will’s been fine with it – has forced himself to be fine with it, to be grateful for the minimal attention Mike gives him – but now that he has Mike’s fingers gently scratching his scalp, he can’t stop himself from leaning into the touch.
It’s wrong, probably – and definitely selfish – of Will to take advantage of Mike when he’s obviously not in his right mind; he feels guilt claw in his stomach just as readily as butterflies flutter, and he can’t help but let himself have this one thing, these gentle touches among an apocalypse, a bit of tenderness in a world that has only ever been harsh to Will.
Will has a chat with Mike...from another universe. (missing scene from the other fic in this series!)
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- Part 2 of we're in love.
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Fourteen months ago, the world ended.
Or at least, Eddie's did.
Make no mistake, he made it out alive. The bats didn't get the best of him as much as they had tried to, but when the rifts in Hawkins cracked open and the Ghouls began to appear, Eddie's world as he had known it was well and truly ripped apart.
Because... well because... Eddie hasn't seen Steve since.
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A post-apocalypse AU
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Ceilings by 100clovers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), ceilings - Lizzy McAlpine (Song)
29 Nov 2024
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Will did not want to reveal his love for his best friend in the car while they were both soaking wet.
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The car ride back home was quiet. After we walked down that hill, none of us had anything to say. The air kept something hidden. Silencing the many thoughts that would be swirling in our minds behind our tongues. I sat in the middle seat between El and Will, and Jonathan drove. Will looked puzzled– as we all were. But I could tell there was something else that was off as he glassily eyed the driver seat.
I bumped my knee with his, he whipped his head up at me– his olive eyes wide and glossy. “You alright?” I whispered, breaking the wall of silence that separated us.
He blinked a few times. “Um– yeah. Yeah. I'm alright.”
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This fanfic is about Mike and Wills time during the vecna-pocalypse. Kind like one-shots because they are spread out, but they are all connected. Theres going to be a lot of byler scenes tm- so stay tuned!!
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- Part 1 of The Rightside Up
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Kinktober Day 16: Sex Pollen
On a supply run, Jonathan runs into an unexpected face.Series
- Part 16 of Kinktober 2024
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like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird by Monstrous_Femme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Aug 2024
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In 1993, Nancy falls asleep on Barb's grave and wakes up in 1985. From there, she finds herself completely unstuck in time.
It's also a love story.
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Of course she didn’t know what it meant back then, just chalked it up to lucky guesses and quick reflexes—logical and easily explainable. It stopped being simple luck the night she was patrolling with Robin and Will—checking out the location from her most recent vision—and a demodog launched out of the darkness exactly as she had seen in her head. It stopped being a case of basic quick reflexes when that extra breath of time stretched out and slowed down around her until everything was silent and still and she could walk up to the creature and shove her pistol into its gaping maw while it leapt in creeping slow motion towards her friends—towards Robin. She pulled the trigger and it dropped dead to the ground with a hole in the back of its skull before the other two even knew it was there, confused as hell about how Nancy just seemed to shift ten feet to the right instantly. Nancy Wheeler had never really been quite normal, but now she knew it.
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Or, Nancy has some new abilities, Hawkins is locked in quarantine, new monsters show up, Vecna has a terrible plan, and Nancy has to make some terrible choices to figure out what it all means for her and everyone around her. -
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It’s been three years since the world cracked open, and hell on earth crawled out. The monsters are gone, but the world is forever changed. There’s a banished boy in the woods, and a girl without a name.
There's darkness at the edge of town.
There are hunters in the woods.
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Another Stray (Love The Bones) by Azriel (Oonionchiver)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Nov 2023
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Eddie is still completely naked.
Steve thumbs his cheekbones, sighs to himself and tries to get it together. ‘Let’s get you dressed, yeah?’
Eddie cocks his head, up blinks and then seems to mimic what Steve thinks is his own expression.
A fond, tired smile.
Steve chuckles, shakes his head.
Another stray, he thinks, though his heart has other ideas.
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- Part 16 of Gift Fics
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You Can't Start A Fire (without a spark) by ronancableNPC
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2023
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After Vecna is (temporarily) defeated and Eddie Munson survives, Eddie moves in with Steve and some of his friends as Hawkins prepares for the battle that they know is coming. Living together makes them safer, sure, but it also has unforeseen consequences.
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survived all those long lonely days by faithfulcat111
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2023
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Jonathan knew it was a problem that he was missing large chunks of his entire (albeit short) childhood and couldn't properly explain what made him panic. But having someone there when he reached the other side, that was far more than he ever expected.
Written for Stonathan Week 2023 and July Break Bingo
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- Part 7 of Stonathan Week 2023