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i can run but i can't hide from my family line by 0shortcake0
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler never thought much about his parents. He was really only aware of their presence when they were having a screaming match down in the kitchen about how Mike’s grades were slipping or how he looked like a girl. It is always Mike’s fault these days.
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The time Mike’s feelings about his parents finally caught up to him, and how having a loving, amazing boyfriend can really help.
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calling everyone i know, is that a crime by strawberry_hiraeth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2026
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5 phone calls, one to each of his party. Will, Lucas, Dustin, Max, and the one who left for the waterfalls.
Mike doesn't want things to be left unsaid, even though these phone calls are pretty much a goodbye. He doesn't want them to think he's going to be gone forever. He just wants them to know he has to separate the past and the future to survive, especially now.
These phone calls end in a click and a dial tone he won't forget. He makes promises and hopes to keep them someday down the line. Just not now. Not for a long time.
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04 May 2026
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Mike's connection to a lurking evil reveals itself, and no one's quite sure how to stop it.
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- Part 2 of The Vanishing of… Mike Wheeler…?
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04 May 2026
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how? heart of a dragon (for my prayer has always been love) by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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“I— I wasn’t going to do anything. I was just… I was—”
“Please don’t do this with me,” Dustin cut in, swallowing thickly. Mike tried to ignore the pain in the other boy’s voice, but that didn’t stop a voice of his own deep down telling him that he’d fucked everythig up again.
“Dustin—”
“Don’t make me go through this again,” he said, quieter. The firmness in his voice had vanished, replaced by desperation and vulnerability. Dustin rarely spoke like that, usually opting for a more assertive voice, but that assertiveness had shifted into something softer. Mike could feel tears brimming in his eyes, because at least real dead people had the grace of not being able to hear someone pleading for their life. Mike, who only felt like he was dead and rotting, still had to be torn apart by caring words, and that was torturous.
A few months after the destruction of the Upside Down, Mike still hasn’t moved on from everything. On the daily, he finds it harder to climb out of bed. When he finds himself imagining death at Sattler’s Quarry, he doesn’t expect Dustin to find him, in the same spots they were in almost five years before.
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- Part 5 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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03 May 2026
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Robin Buckley hasn't been in the "destroy the Upside Down" business long, but it feels like forever. She's done Russians, secret bases, and the bone-snapping Vecna nightmare. She's got the Party figured out: Dustin is the brain, Will is the quiet one, Max is pure gasoline, Lucas is the reliable one, and Mike Wheeler is sarcastic, awkward, and apparently allergic to personal space.
It's been a month since Max woke from her coma, and the gang meets daily to plan Vecna's destruction. Which gives Robin plenty of time to notice that Mike is constantly touching people. Draped over shoulders, head in someone's lap (not sleeping, just lying there), wedged next to someone when three seats are empty, hanging off people's backs like a whiny backpack. And everyone lets him. They let him use them as pillows and give him things when he asks in that pathetic, pleading voice.
At first, it drives Robin insane. Why does no one set a boundary? But the more she watches, the uglier it gets: jealousy. Because Mike never does any of that to her. She's tactile, she likes touch more than she'd admit, but Mike has her flagged as a No-Contact Zone. Even Steve gets the full clingy Wheeler treatment. Everyone does. Everyone except Robin.
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- Part 2 of Yeah... it's just Mike.
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03 May 2026
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Max Mayfield was used to keeping people at a distance. She knew how the world worked: there were those who cared about you, and those who didn't. Mike Wheeler, it seemed, belonged to the latter—at least, that's how it looked when she tried to fit in with their group.
But something changed.
Suddenly Mike notices when she's too quiet. Suddenly he's there when she's hurting. Suddenly his hand on her shoulder is not an accident, but something taken for granted. He says the right words at the right moment, sees what she carefully hides, and acts as if she had always mattered to him.
Or Mike treats all his friends the same way he treated Will in seasons 1 and 2 — and that's how it's always been
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- Part 1 of Yeah... it's just Mike.
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03 May 2026