Cross_your_mind
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Mike Wheeler’s ultimate guide to a college crashout by Cross_your_mind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Winter, 1989. Will and Mike share a dorm room at NYU, and the proximity is killing Will slowly, four walls containing everything he wants and can never have. When Will finally gets a boyfriend, Mike begins to unravel: paler, thinner, more vacant, joints constant, nights away multiplying. Will tells himself these things aren't connected, tells himself a lot of things that taste like lies. But some truths are too big to stay buried.
This is now DUAL POV, so please check if you've got chapters to go back and read x
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There's a heatwave in Hawkins, and Mike is dying. It has nothing to do with the way Will's shoulders fill out his shirt now. by Cross_your_mind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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There's a heatwave in Hawkins, and Mike is dying. It has nothing to do with the way Will's shoulders fill out his shirt now, or how summer at the Wheelers' house means they're together again after a year apart. Nothing to do with the stolen glances or the way his heart hammers when they're close. The Party is growing up, popularity, house parties, and saving the world. Some things get in the way of friendship. And some feelings are impossible to ignore.
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Picks up from Season 5 Volume 1- Dual POV
Eighteen months of growing closer, and Mike can no longer ignore what his heart has been screaming, but Will is unravelling. His powers are consuming him, turning him into something he doesn't recognise, something dangerous, and Will is left with an impossible question: how do you save someone when loving them is what puts them in danger?
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as high as i might (i can't get that high) by residentrookie for static_radio
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
08 Jan 2026
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Hayden cuts himself off at the sound of something he hears so rarely, he’s almost sure he’s imagining it. He scans the room, looking for the source, and sure enough, his eyes land on his target.
There, nestled in between two of his teammates on the couch, is Shane Hollander.
Laughing. Out loud. Audibly.
Like, he’s actually fucking laughing, not the fake laughs he forces out to make other people more comfortable. In fact, he’s laughing so hard, he looks like he might cry, and Hayden would be delighted by the sight of it if he weren’t so fucking concerned. Shane Hollander doesn’t laugh at parties. Shane Hollander barely laughs when he’s actually happy, and he’s never happy at parties. So what gives?
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Shane Hollander accidentally gets very high. That's it, that's the fic.
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13 Jan 2026
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Pain Has a Memory by Buddiology
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
30 Dec 2025
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After a sudden, crippling migraine causes Shane to collapse at home, Ilya returns to find him unconscious and surrounded by scattered pills, spurred by Anya’s urgent warnings.
The scene plunges Ilya into old fears as paramedics rush Shane to the hospital. With Yuna and David at their side, Shane slowly regains consciousness to help the family weave comfort, reassurance, and unspoken love through the quiet moments between fear and recovery.
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13 Jan 2026
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During the 'easier' episodes Ilya can manage.
Usually he can gather enough strength to get out of bed, even if it's just to slouch around the cottage or outside. He'll eat whatever Shane puts in front of him. He'll put on a brave face when Yuna and Dave come over to visit. And then when the evening rolls around he's so exhausted he falls asleep around eight.
The 'heavy' episodes are harder.
Ilya will spend most of the day sleeping. He will eat small bites of whatever Shane gives him, sometimes nothing at all. Showering is out of the question. If it's a particular bad episode, he won't even leave the bed.
Shane is scared to leave Ilya alone during the 'heavy' episodes.
He knows Ilya wouldn't hurt himself on purpose. But he also knows that depression is very complex and sneaks up on their victims when they're most vulnerable.
Or, Ilya experiences a bad depression episode. Shane is there to catch him when he falls.
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13 Jan 2026
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tipping point by ultravioletdaydream
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Dec 2025
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Shane said he would be home by midnight. Ilya only had to hold on for a couple more hours. He thought, fleetingly, that he wasn't sure how the day had spiraled so enormously out of his control. One goddamn day alone and he was at the edge of the abyss. Everything hurt.
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Ilya navigates the expanse of his mental illness over the course of one bad day.
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12 Jan 2026
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Sound of sirens, rush of pain (I almost thought I heard you call my name) by 17darwinism
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Dec 2025
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"He imagined Shane would be similarly unforgiving if Ilya took his own
life. Not that Ilya ever would. Unless he couldn’t help it." (The Long Game)or,
Two years after being diagnosed with depression, Ilya wants to commit suicide.
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- Part 1 of Please, God, I'm finally loved
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