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“You never said anything?” Michael whispers. He knows the answer before Will even speaks.
“How could I? What difference would it have made?”
All the difference in the world, Michael thinks, but he understands that isn’t what Will means. The watchful eyes of Michael’s order and of the gods would have made it impossible for anything beyond the lines of camaraderie to flourish between them.
In the dark stairwell, pressing up against the wall and away from beam of silvery moonlight, Michael leans his head down to the delicate shell of Will’s ear and whispers:
“The eyes don’t reach here, do they?”
Or: Sir Michael and Will the Wise find themselves breaking oaths and making promises
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09 Apr 2026
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Public Bookmark 390
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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28 Mar 2026
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A Flower That Resembles You by perexcri for notebooknonbinary (AwwKeyboardNo), Himynameis4, cherryisgone, lesbianbellaswan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2023
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Having lived in exile from the citadel since he was twelve, Will knows well the necessity of having a daily schedule: wake up early, gather materials, make tinctures and poultices for clients, take care of the garden, and never use magic when your hands will do just fine. These are the tasks he lives by until one ordinary day when he wakes up late, and it all spins out of control. He goes to the garden in the evening, far past his usual time, and finds an unwelcome visitor stealing his food and flowers. It only gets worse when he learns this man has been visiting every night for the past several months, unbeknownst to Will, and his eyes look just a little too familiar.
And once it becomes clear his unwelcome guest isn't going to stop his nightly visits anytime soon, Will is forced to choose between pretending as if they're strangers or divulging the peculiar past they share, between wearing a mask and allowing the truth to be told.
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- Part 1 of flowers and light
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24 Mar 2026
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The second year of college was supposed to be simple—shared apartments, late-night talks, the kind of quiet normalcy they’d fought so hard to earn.
Mike and Will have always been inseparable. They are roommates now, like it was always meant to be. Like nothing could touch them anymore.
Except something has.
Will has been seeing someone—Andrew—for two years. And somehow, Mike knows nothing about the guy. At least not in the ways that matter. Not in the way Will tells him everything else.
At first, it was just small things. A hesitation, a flinch, the way Will would go quiet whenever Andrew’s name came up—if it came up at all. Then there's the unexplained bruises, the tension in every stolen glance, the avoidance, and the way Will seems to shrink into himself when Andrew is near.
Mike can feel it, something is wrong.
Will has always needed Mike. That’s never changed. But now, whatever he’s hiding is pulling him under—and Mike might be the only one who can see it happening.
The only one who can stop it.
If Will lets him.
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10 Mar 2026
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10 Mar 2026
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Will just shakes his head as he looks over Mike’s decorations. Mike’s wall is just as nerdy as Will would expect, and it warms his heart. There’s a map of Middle Earth right above Mike’s pillow. Will rolls his eyes at the One Way sign that Mike brought from his room back home. Right out the window, which was where Will wanted to throw it. He goes to scan the rest of the wall, but something catches his eyes. Something familiar. A cold feeling surges from his head, down his spine, and to the bottom of his feet.
Why did he bring that?
Of all the things he could bring? It had to be that? THE painting. This was going to be a terrible year. Will still had yet to tell Mike the truth about that painting, and now his best friend just had to go and bring it?
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Returning from vacation, Will settles into new life at NYU with Mike. Surely nothing could go wrong with sharing a small dorm with the guy you were in love with, right? A new guy shows interest in Will, which seems to irritate Mike. On top of that, old shadows creep back in with familiar faces. The first year of college is not going as smoothly as Will would have liked.Bookmarked by Faceplant
10 Mar 2026
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**Taking place following the End of Stranger Things Season 5**
The party all go their separate ways for college, Mike stays behind in Hawkins. Haunted by Eleven's death and ...repressed feelings
Mike isolates himself from his friends for over a year before finally deciding to confront the things that keep him up at night.
Mike decides to visit Will at school in Chicago. He doesn't stick to their plans and runs into Will... and Carlton at a club. Needless to say this causes... issues.**The first few chapters are shorter, and mostly backstory to fill in the blanks in between the end of S5 and the beginning of my story!**
This is a byler love story, but it will be angsty and very very slow burn, there will be smut eventually. Your patience will be rewarded! ;)
UPDATE: Thank you all for the love! This story gets pretty dark but at the end of the day this IS a Byler LOVE STORY. These two Will have a happy ending... eventually ;)Series
- Part 1 of Fire in My Heart
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10 Mar 2026
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“Will,” The name falls softly from Mike’s lips, pained. “I don’t think I will ever really like anyone who you’re with, if it’s not me. Especially not if it’s… him.”
“I know,” Will mumbles, adjusting the way he’s lying down so that he’s even closer to him than he was a couple of seconds earlier. Mike continues to play with Will’s hair, delicately wrapping the strands around his fingers. “I just wanted to hear you say it.”
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Mike and Will reunite at a wedding after years of not speaking, where they learn that time can’t bury emotion.
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03 Mar 2026
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I Won't Say It if You Won't Say It First by delusionalhemlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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Will finally makes eye contact with him again, a smile playing on his lips. Mike’s eyes dart down to them for a split second, then back up. “Okay.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I mean, whatever, right? We live together, for God’s sake, and we’ve known each other forever. Who cares if we have to hold hands for three days, too?”
“Exactly,” Mike says too quickly. As stupid as Robin’s plan had sounded when she’d proposed it, now that things were falling into place he found himself eager to get it underway. Treat Will like royalty. Easy.***
Three whole days Will’s heart hasn’t known whether to swell or break or rupture like his appendix. But he’s being discharged tomorrow, so it won’t be an issue for much longer, so for now he just pretends that the hand on his arm wants to be there. Because Will Byers-Hopper has never been chosen on purpose, and until tomorrow, he can pretend that this arrangement didn’t come about under duress.
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New York City, October, 1989. Things have been better since Will moved away from Hawkins and Mike followed him. Until Will's appendix bursts and, in the chaos of getting him to the hospital and finding a medical proxy, Mike accidentally tells the doctors he's his boyfriend.
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Summer break, two years after graduating high school. Will and Mike almost kiss, and everything changes. They find themselves on a journey together after a mysterious clue. They have no choice but to finally confront what’s been going on between them for years.
“I keep showing up,” Mike says. His voice doesn’t break, but he feels like it should. “Even when you try to throw me away.”
Will flinches, and Mike hates himself for it immediately.
“I didn’t- ” Will says, and his eyes drop. “I didn’t throw you away.”
Mike’s mouth twitches. Not a smile. Something sadder. “You threw the letters away.”- Language:
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14 Feb 2026
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“I just- I don’t understand why he has to come, is all.”
“Mike,” Lucas said over the phone. Exasperated. “They’ve been together for two years. Of course, he’s going to come.”
Mike took what felt like his hundredth breath during their short conversation. “Right. But like, I thought the idea was to keep it small. You know… only the people who know. To keep El safe.”
Or: 5 years after the epilogue, Lucas and Max are getting married and have invited the Party and company to stay at his grandfather's lake house the week leading up to it. Everything is great, except that Will is bringing his boyfriend.
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08 Feb 2026
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The photo showed Will and Mike, standing side by side, arms interlocked together. A perfect peachy sunset was spread out dramatically behind them, as if it were posing too. Mike was looking at the camera with a goofy smile on his face, probably laughing at something Will had said.
Will, on the other hand, wasn’t looking at the camera at all.
Just Mike.
Written across the bottom of the polaroid in black permanent marker were the words:
“Just Like Heaven.”
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A few years post-finale, Will tells Mike that he thinks El really is out there somewhere.
But all Mike can seem to think about is Will.
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08 Feb 2026
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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08 Feb 2026
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William believed solitude was enough.
He lived in a small cabin in the mountains, far from people and from everything that had once hurt him. His days passed in silence, accompanied only by birdsong and the quiet of the forest.
Everything changes when two strangers interrupt his life, asking for his help: their friends have disappeared after an attack by a creature that should not exist. Cracks between worlds. Monsters. The Upside Down seeping into reality.
By agreeing to follow them, William not only steps back into the darkness, but also into bonds he thought he had left behind…
and into people worth venturing into the darkness for.
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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05 Feb 2026
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The love triangle with Tobias ended, and Mike and Will just celebrated their six month anniversary. Life is good.
Until Venca comes back, and starts possessing Will at random times, making him act out of character, making him sabotage his relationship with Mike. Because if Will doesn’t have Mike, Vecna can take him.
And the worst part is, Mike is starting to believe it.
Especially when Vecna starts getting Tobias involved.
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- Part 2 of Tobias Universe
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29 Jan 2026
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1991 in New York City. Will Byers has adapted to his new life. Fully accepting of himself and thriving. Majoring in art with good friends, a stable family unit and a loving boyfriend. He’s left the past behind him.
Until the past shows up unannounced at his favourite bar one Tuesday night after 15 months of radio silence.
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Will has finally moved on and Mike joins him on a bar stool one night in 90s New York to throw him off balance.
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29 Jan 2026
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Set in 2007 Hawkins, a recently divorced father of two — Mike Wheeler — bumps into his old friend Will at his workplace, Hawkins middle, where he’s the substitute teacher for a class hosting his eldest daughter and Will’s son.
Will had moved to New York in the early 90’s when Mike got married to his ex-wife, Kimberly, and they lost touch—not have talked in over 15 years. Will expressed his reasons for moving may have been triggered by Mike’s choice in romantic partner and Mike is quick to admit his disapproval of Will’s ‘boyfriend’.
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28 Jan 2026
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Season 5 episode 8 rewrite from the moment “Friends? No thanks. Best friends” showed how cowardly the Duffer brothers are.
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28 Jan 2026
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You Got Me Wrapped Around Your Finger (Do You Have To Let It Linger?) by Ladie_Bugg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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“Mike?”
“Yeah, sorry I uh- I mean no.” He stutters, trying to force the words out.
“What?” Will looks down at him, raising an eyebrow in confusion.
“No.”
“What do you mean no?” Will asks, his expression changing from confusion to something that almost looks like shock.
“I- sorry, yeah I’ll- I’ll help.” He replies, shaking his head, in disbelief that he couldn't even last ten seconds before immediately caving and doing as Will asked.
“Wow.” Max scoffs in amusement, clapping her hands dramatically. “Look at that Wheeler, you almost did it, you almost said no to Will. Very proud.” She sarcastically praises.
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Max makes fun of Mike for doing whatever Will wants so Mike tries to prove her wrong but fails miserably.
Will finds it funny and tests just how much Mike is willing to do for him.Bookmarked by Faceplant
25 Jan 2026