15 Bookmarks by ElleinnetGrace
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“That’s not an answer,” said Jonathan, his eyes narrowed. “You haven’t been doing what I think you have, have you?”
“What?” asked Will, “Coursework?”
“Mating with Mike.”
Will had picked up his satchel full of art supplies that he’d left in the living room earlier that day, and at these words he dropped it with a resounding crash.
“Mating with Mike?” he repeated disbelievingly, “Are you insane?”
Will spends the day in Mike’s nest, unknowing of the implications. Everyone else spells it out for him.
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But Will hated alphas. Few people knew about it, and it didn't matter, because the main thing was that Mike knew. He was sure.
So why the hell was his best friend right now in their shared apartment with that alpha asshole?Or:
Mike is sure that Will hates alphas, so he decides to hide his secondary gender. But his beliefs are shattered in the first year of college.
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Will Byers’s Guide to Ensnaring an Alpha in 5 Easy Steps by eredmes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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For the first time, being wanted back doesn’t feel like a fantasy he's invented to torture himself. Someone will want him; that much is practically a given. The realization has crept up on him slowly over the past few months, in subtle glances from strangers and knowing smiles from other omegas in the hall.
He is, apparently, desirable.
But, if that’s true, and it’s not ridiculous to imagine someone actually wanting him, then why has he been acting like his only option is to sit around and hope Mike trips over the realization himself?
Mike is many wonderful things, after all, but observant is not one of them.
After he presents, Will decides he’s done waiting for Mike to figure things out on his own. It’s time to take matters into his own hands, for once.
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What started as harmless tickling unexpectedly shifted into something more serious.
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“For the love of God! Mike, I haven’t had an orgasm in like two fucking weeks! That’s what’s wrong!” Will snaps. Mike’s eyes go wide. He opens his mouth to reply, but he closes it again. The silence between them is heavy for a moment. Like they’re both weighing what Will just admitted. “And you have been driving me fucking insane with all this touching. I don’t know what’s happening, but it needs to stop.”
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Will chuckled against his neck, and it sent shivers down his spine. Mike squeezed him tighter, taking a deep breath.
“Stay here tonight,” Mike whispered.
“I can't,” Will sighed.
“Please” he tried again.
"Carlton's waiting for me”
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After a year without Will, Mike came to the realization that he needs him more than anything. But it's only when he moves in and sees Will with his new boyfriend that he understands he needs Will in a different way, one that could ruin their friendship.
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say you love me to my face (am i what you needed?) by hxllcatspangled
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2026
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"It's complicated," Mike says.
"Well, make it less complicated!"
Dustin throws his hands up. "Yeah, are you guys dating, or are you fighting? Because there's no way you're just friends anymore."
Will opens his mouth. His eyes are wide and a little scared, and Mike doesn't like it, but he looks back anyways.
His brain is doing the thing where it moves faster than he can follow it. Two options, Dustin said.
Will's mouth is still open. Mike thinks about fighting, and his brain slams shut. Nope. He thinks about everything Will said four days ago. If those are the only two options, Mike already knows which one he's picking.
"We're... dating," Mike says.
Or, Mike Wheeler decides that fake dating his best-friend-turned-hookup is a better option than losing him.
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He was only meant to stay temporarily, now he can't bear the thought of ever leaving.
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Mike Wheeler has spent the last four years of college wandering aimlessly through life. He'd followed Will to California, only for Will Byers, his best, most trusted friend, to slowly phase himself out of his life. And frankly, he'd seemed happier without Mike. What was he supposed to make of that?
But then, Mike discovers some things about himself. He starts to find the pieces that he was looking for. And... what is Will supposed to do with that?
(aka: a post-canon "mike finds his way back to will eventually" 90s college fic, in which will byers gets to scream at mike a lil like he deserves, and mike gets to prove himself in return)
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we started dating before i even knew i loved you (please don't forget me) by lokal_agenda
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jul 2026
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Will sucked in a breath. “I know… we got attacked by a bunch of demos and bats. I was really overwhelmed, and I kept seeing through the monsters’ eyes—it was awful. My head hurt so bad, and then I got grabbed, I think, and… that’s all I really remember. Until waking up here.”
Mike swallowed hard, looking down at the white tile. He wasn’t sure if it was a good or bad thing that Will didn’t recall anything after passing out.
“Do you remember Mike saving you?” Max inquired, a faint grin reaching her lips. Mike blinked, turned to Max, then risked a glance at Will.
The boy was smiling faintly at Max, a blank look on his face. “Mike? Who—Who is that?”
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When Will gets injured during the final battle and ends up losing some of his memory, Mike struggles to come to terms with the fact that his best friend forgot him. In an attempt to recover Will's lost memories, Mike tries to remind him of their adventures together, and accidentally-on-purpose tells Will that they're secret boyfriends. Once Will's memories return, he decides not to say anything, just to see how far Mike is willing to take the charade.
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Bookmarked by ElleinnetGrace
16 May 2026
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“So… Have you and Mike fucked yet?”
Will nearly spits out his drink. “What?!”
Max rolls her eyes. “Sorry, I forgot how you two are.” Her lip turns up, as she draws out her next words in an exaggerated fashion.
“Have you made love yet?”
The one where Will is sexually repressed, and he's quite literally losing his sanity over it.
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11 May 2026
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“I was scared,” Mike says abruptly. Will looks up. “To tell you. About the, um, liking guys thing.”
He stares at one of Will’s older drawings on the far wall. It’s the two of them, Mike the Brave and Will the Wise, facing off against some formidable beast. Mentally, he scoffs. He’s never felt less like Mike the Brave than he does right now.
“Not like you’d have reacted badly, obviously. But I felt like I’d missed some kind of metaphorical window, and the longer I didn’t say anything, the harder it felt to bring up. So I just… never did.”
“And that’s why you stopped writing?” Will asks hesitantly.
“It’s part of it,” he admits. “The other part is that I was pretty miserable, and I didn’t want to put that on you.”
After losing touch over the fall semester, Mike comes face-to-face with Will for the first time in months while home for winter break, forcing him to confront a number of things he’d rather avoid. Naturally, they end up sleeping together. Repeatedly.
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19 Apr 2026
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Bookmarked by ElleinnetGrace
08 Apr 2026
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The summer after graduation, Will learns how to move on, and Mike learns how to live with change.
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07 Apr 2026
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i wanna love me (the way that you love me) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Mar 2026
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Mike wakes up in Will's body.
Will wakes up in Mike's body.
Despite the chaos and confusion, their friendship takes a romantic turn when they learn how to see themselves through the other's point of view.