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Will looks down at the sheet, fingers worrying the edge. “I thought we were being careful. Taking our time.”
Mike swallows. “I thought I was too.” He lets out a small, sad breath. “I was wrong.”
Will looks back up. “So what are you saying?”
Mike’s chest tightens. This is it. The place where he either steps back—or finally names the truth.
“I’m saying I need something to change,” he says. “Or I’m going to break.”
The words hang there, bare and undeniable.
Will’s eyes flicker. “I don’t know if I can give you what you’re asking for. Not yet.”
Mike nods. He’d known this answer was possible. Knowing doesn’t make it hurt less. It reminds him of the same words he said in that coffee shop three years ago.OR: A post-canon, slow-burn Byler story about growing up unevenly, loving at the wrong time, and finding your way back to each other once you’ve learned how to stay.
(Title from the song Nauseous by Conan Gray)
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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- Part 1 of landslide
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20 Mar 2026
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“Do you ever think about what it would be like to kiss your Mike?” Goth Mike's expression turns serious as he stares directly into Will’s eyes.
Will’s mouth quivers. “Uh- I- Um-”
Goth Mike waits patiently for his answer. Will steadies himself with a deep breath and gazes ahead. “I used to a lot." He shrugs. "I try not to anymore, because we’re just meant to be friends in our universe.” Will tries to say it as though he’s happily accepted the reality. It doesn’t hurt any less. “But… it still happens sometimes,” he whispers.
Goth Mike looks at him with pain behind his eyes. “Do you want to know what it’s like? Right now?”
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Will is swept off his feet by alternate versions of Mike while Mike fights for his life to face the question of why they aren't together.
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22 Feb 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of gootbai miek
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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21 Feb 2026
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This is a stranger things season 5 rewrite/making Byler happen. Some stuff from the show will be the same but a lot of it is gonna be different and new stuff is added. I had like 17 ideas of things I wanted to happen in it so I’m taking it into my own hands.
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04 Feb 2026
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(A memory of) the cleric and his personal paladin by lightofdawnn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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When Will was taken by a darkness beyond the world he returned changed..
4 years later, now nineteen, he's training to be a cleric. He carries magic that both sustains and scars him, watched closely by a Crown that needs his power but does not trust him.
He hasnt talked to Michael Wheeler in three years.
He had bound himself to the throne, obedience, silence, and sacrifice as a Paladin. Where Will bears the weight of what he endured, Mike bears the weight of what he chose to give up.Whatever happened to Will. Whatever he had done. It had changed the trajectory of their lifes. But somehow it always forces them back together.
Two people who must decide how much of themselves they are willing to lose to keep each other, and the kingdom, from breaking.
This is a slow-burn fantasy novel type of fiction! Please enjoy what we all know byler is. A beautiful love story. Get ready for twists and turns. There are very few !! OCs just to make the Fantasy world possible. But its centered about the characters we love.
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29 Jan 2026
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you burn me (to help me not burn myself) by pinkmattresswhore
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Will now lives in the Wheelers basement. With how occupied Jonathan is and the situation he's in with Mike, he is basically alone. Will never liked the feeling of being alone and its getting to the point its unbearable again. He doesn't want to turn to Mike for help, he doesn't want to see him for the most part, but sometimes things happen for a reason.
Angst that has a happy ending.
inspo from the song "treehouse" - Alex G
There a bit of self harm, please do not read it you are uncomfortable! <3 -
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"No, Mike, we're friends–" Will chokes out as the latter pulls him closer.
“–best friends,” Mike corrects him before he places his lips on Will's.
Or; Lucas and Max are finally getting married and among all things, Mike and Will did miss each other. Very very much.
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Six months after the start of the Vecnapocalypse, Will lies on the floor of Mike Wheeler's room, crying himself to sleep over the boy a few feet away.
i made an audiobook! listen here: https://on.soundcloud.com/EJZehb3r3kfJncp66
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It's been four years since they graduated high school and went their separate ways. Will is getting ready to graduate art school in NYC. He's built a life to be proud of in the city, but he can't help feeling like there's something thats holding him back from truly feeling like he belongs.
When the party reunites in Hawkins to celebrate their graduations, the sudden appearence of a ghost from Will's past makes him start to question everything he knew to be true.
After so many years, can things ever be like they were? Does he even want them to be?
(Basically trying to fix the mess the duffers left us with…)
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I Tried To Hide The Feeling (But I Just Can't Lie That Way) by kaeted
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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"The lips Mike caught himself staring at earlier were now against this annoying mouth-breather dumbass Carlton’s. Mike felt actually sick now. He had to go, he couldn’t keep looking at this anymore. He rushed away from them, no idea where he was going. But he was going, even despite Will calling his name multiple times. Now he felt even more sick, so sick, he needed, something, anything, he felt like he was going to-…"
In which Mike is trying to find the girl of his dreams at a party, and sees Will with his new boyfriend. Mike hates his guts.
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“Well…” Will trails off. “It’s not just about how close you are. Like. There are other things that separate the three of us from you, you know.”
Mike frowns. “What do you mean?”
Will raises his eyebrows. “You’re straight, Mike.”
“Oh,” Mike says. “Right.”
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Or, Mike walks in on his sister making out with Robin Buckley, and everyone keeps assuming he's in love with his roommate.- Language:
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07 Jan 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of lalala
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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07 Jan 2026
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“Since when do you smoke?”
The words hit Mike like a wall. He sucked in a breath too fast, coughing as the smoke caught in his throat. He bent forward, hand over his mouth, sputtering.
“Shit,” he muttered, his voice coming out low and rough as he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
He looked up slowly, and the boy standing in front of him was a version of Will that Mike had not yet gotten used to.
Jesus, when did he start smoking? It felt like a lifetime ago. As he thought about it further, a small realization hit him.
He started smoking the night that Will left for California.
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Will moves back from California, and when he and Mike end up living together, they realize how much they’ve both changed, and must figure out how to navigate the tension, awkwardness, and unspoken feelings between them.
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06 Jan 2026
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Patches of skin on Mike’s back are completely numb, the nerve endings there being irreversibly damaged by Henry’s flaying, but he knows Will is running his hand up his back. He’s taking in the scars, how the skin is still dry there, and flaking off because Mike can’t reach to rub the salve Dustin gave him into his back.
Mike likes to think he’s strong, that he’s not a coward, but he can’t help the words that come out, “Please stop, Will.”
He hates the way his voice sounds. So soft, so defeated.
Will pulls his hand back, letting Mike’s shirt fall back into place. His hold on Mike’s arm loosens a little, and he guides Mike over to the bed, sitting down.
He lets go of Mike’s wrist and puts his head in his hands as if someone died.
Will turns his gaze up to Mike, and finally asks, “Who did this to you?”
This work is part of a series called "You Want Him, But I Made Him." I recommend you read it in order for some context.
Series
- Part 2 of You Want Him, But I Made Him
- Part 9 of Byler Fics
- Part 21 of Song Fics
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04 Jan 2026
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Mike is assigned to be Will’s body guard, and all hell breaks loose. They fall in love as they process their trauma and make it to the other side together.
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04 Jan 2026
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The screaming is unusual.
Will’s nightmares rarely announce themselves like this. They usually arrive quietly, in the form of a locked jaw, trembling limbs, a desperate, instinctive commitment to silence. His fear is usually swallowed and choked back, even in slumber.
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Or, Will starts screaming in the night. Of course, Mike is there to comfort and protect him. But that’s just friendship… right?
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This is my love letter to Byler. Who in my heart end up together no matter what. It’s an exploration of genuine emotion, care, shared trauma and love in a friendship and how that can develop into something more. Something they’ve both waited a long time for.
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- Part 1 of Pockets of Safety
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04 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler ran away from Hawkins as soon as he got the chance, wanting to get away from the trauma surrounding it. Unable to face his friends after realizing they’re all healing while he isn’t, he goes to the farthest place imaginable – Arkansas. After enrolling at the University of Central Arkansas, he cuts contact completely with everyone in his life. Mike thinks that he’s finally escaped all traces of his past life, but soon has an unwelcome intrusion in his otherwise peaceful life.
After finally accepting himself, Will Byers had excitedly enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, ready to take on the world. He soon realized that his passion for art didn’t translate well into the schooling for it, and that the East Coast wasn’t as carefree as he’d thought. After getting out of a bad relationship, Will finally had enough and moved back with Joyce and Hopper to find himself – in Guy, Arkansas. Attending the nearest school for his new major in nursing, Will is excited to have another chance at a clean slate, this time abstaining from any romance until he’s finally found himself. This proves to be more of a challenge than he thought, though, when he finds his missing childhood crush at every turn.