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Will blinks. Mike is looking at him with an amused look on his face, wide-eyed and a little pink across the bridge of his nose, and God, okay, Will wants to–
“Um,” he says instead. “Huddling? For warmth?”
“For warmth,” Lucas echoes, and then looks back at Dustin again. “Huddling. For warmth.”
“Like penguins,” Mike offers, and then rests his head on Will’s shoulder like this is supposed to be helping, or something.
Will Byers and the harrowing experience of being snowed in with your mom, your almost-stepdad, all of your friends, and your (kind of) (secret) boyfriend.
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25 Dec 2025
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“Don’t worry, I’ll do it,” Mike protests weakly, but Will ignores him. “You need to rest, yeah,” he continues softly, swallowing audibly at the thought of Will’s fingers on him again.
“I want to take care of—” Will mumbles, fumbling for gauze and bandages, his focus wavering. Mike notices the flush creeping up Will’s cheeks, bright and vivid against his otherwise pale, tired skin. And it warms something inside Mike, just a little, because Will wants to take care of him.
or; Mike is confused, and maybe Will offering to take care of his wounds after their encounter with Vecna only makes things worse.
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17 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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05 Dec 2025
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my advice is always ruin the friendship by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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“Have you noticed the signals?” Robin asks softly.
Will freezes. He’s quiet for one… two… three moments, before slowly, he lifts his head and meets Robin’s gaze. His eyes are still wide—full of an understandable uncertainty but also a hope that’s so infectious that Robin can’t help but smile.
“I… I think so,” he confesses. “I… I don’t know if they actually mean anything, but… but everything you said to look for… all those signals…”
His voice trails off, and Robin offers a wry smile, finishing the thought for him, “They’re definitely there.”
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The one in which Robin witnesses a snowball become an avalanche.
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04 Dec 2025
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But I know, if the world turned upside down / Baby, I know you'd always be around
“Mike?”
It’s a whisper, but it’s filled with something so earnest, so true, that it strikes through Mike’s very core. Rips apart at his chest, with the familiarity of it. The way his name sounds in this younger Will’s throat, soft and gentle and so, so relieved.
“Will,” Mike says back, matching his whisper. “Hey, Will, it’s me. Mike.”
“But—” Will frowns. He’s so unsure, Mike wants to cry for him. “You’re so tall.”
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Or, when Will is possessed by Vecna and trapped in his own mind, Mike is the only one who can save him.
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02 Dec 2025
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Robin leaned closer, voice gentle. “All I’m saying is, it’s okay to like him. And it’s also extremely, painfully obvious.”
Will froze. “…to who?”
Robin’s grin stretched slow and wicked. “Only to me. Because I understand. He doesn’t know, don’t worry. Because that boy? Dense. Like, heroically dense. Historically dense. Scientists are going to study him.”
Will huffed, cheeks burning. Will’s eyes darted involuntarily to the centre of the room. Max and El were squished together on an armchair. Mike was sprawled on the carpet with Dustin and Lucas, waving his arms around dramatically as he argued about which Star Wars film was objectively the best. His hair was a mess. His cheeks were flushed. He was smiling.
And Will felt that stupid expanding warmth in his chest that he couldn’t get rid of no matter how hard he tried.
💕💕💕💕
Post-Vecna, Will and Robin continue to bond. Robin knows Will likes Mike. Mike thinks Will likes Robin.
One jealousy spiral, several misunderstandings, and a lot of pining later… they finally kiss.
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01 Dec 2025
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Stuck in the Closet (at the WSQK Radio Station) by MelTDOWN07
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Dec 2025
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But he thought he was okay. After almost losing both his parents, after losing his sister, after everything that happened, he didn’t feel anything; he was too focused on the mission ahead, on protecting Will and Ms. Byers and Lucas and Erica and Robin and all those kids that he didn’t stop and sit down to think. And, yeah, he thought he was okay because he didn’t need to think about it; once his sister was home safe, and his parents got better, everything would be okay, and he wouldn’t have to think about it.
(After the events of s5 ep4, Mike's totally one hundred-percent fine! Why are you asking?)
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01 Dec 2025
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So you you hang in the lights by runsonmatcha (var_ineedholywater)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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Will leans in, lips twisting into a smirk. “What’s your beef with Robin?” he asks, amused. He’s looking up at Mike through his lashes, his face dimly lit by the basement lamp.
“I…” Mike trails off.
Will quirks a brow. “Mike?”
Mike blinks rapidly. He shifts in his seat, awkward and obvious. “You two have been like… best friends.”
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(Post vol1 s5 When everyone returns to the Wheelers house Mike and will have a talk)Bookmarked by Hatzel
01 Dec 2025
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Right after Will’s powers awaken, the Party hides out in the old radio station trying to make sense of everything. As Will explains what happened, with Mike glued protectively to his side, Robin watches them and realizes something Will hasn’t said out loud yet.
Mike isn’t Will’s Tammy Thompson. He’s his Vicky.
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Or: Robin realizes she was wrong, and Mike realizes it’s always been Will.Bookmarked by Hatzel
01 Dec 2025
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And want grows stronger (Deeper than the truth) by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Nov 2025
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Because Robin’s words kept circling through his mind, looping over and over like a song he couldn’t turn off.
A brush of the knee. A bump of the elbow. A shared look.
Little signs. Little hints. Little pieces of something that looked a whole lot like possibility.
And with Mike lying next to him right now, their shoulders nearly touching, their hands inches apart on the bed, Mike watching him with those soft, searching eyes, it was impossible not to wonder if maybe, just maybe…
Those signs were already there.
💕💕💕
Will’s spent years loving Mike Wheeler in silence. After Robin’s advice and a lifetime of mixed signals, he decides it’s time to finally find out whether Mike loves him, too. Spoiler alert, he does.
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01 Dec 2025
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“You said I was bad at managing my time between my girlfriend and my best friend but you’re basically doing the same thing.”
“Girlfriend?!” Will spits out, thoroughly shell-shocked.
“I don’t get it! You could’ve told me you had a crush on someone, I would’ve—and when did you ever talk to Robin? You move to California and all of a sudden you’ve got all these girls hanging off of you and you’re interested in older girls—“ Mike’s voice embarrassingly cracks. He decides to quit while he’s ahead before he delves into the forbidden.
In the wake of the apocalypse, Mike and Will find their way to each other.
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02 Nov 2025
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Mike can't sleep. It's raining, it's cold, and Will is shivering in his sleep again. He can't do anything about it. At least, that's what he thinks.
Will hasn't had a good night sleep in years. First it was the Mind Flayer. Now, Vecna is always there, right behind his eyelids, tormenting him with images he'd rather keep safely tucked away in the recesses of his mind. With the Upside Down bleeding into the Rightside Up, his sense of what's real and what's all in his head is getting harder to decipher.
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A getting together fic laced with insomnia.
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02 Nov 2025
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i just wanna be a part of your family by paladinsbrainrot
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2025
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"For one," Mike sighs, propping onto one elbow to look at Will properly, "Holly definitely has a crush on you."
Will squints, just barely, lips curling up in amusement. It takes Mike an excruciatingly long time to detect what exactly Will thinks of this matter, but what comes out is soft, mellow, and not particularly to Mike’s enjoyment: "That's kind of cute."
“It is not,” Mike hisses, and Will shoots him a grin. “She always talks about you, always giggles whenever you talk to her, and because she's like, incredibly adorable, and you’re so good with kids, I'm going to be trailing behind you guys like an absolute loser because she totally hogs you.”
"Wait," Will blurts, brows drawing close. "Are you jealous?"
Mike Wheeler is many things, but he is never jealous.
Except — maybe this time he is.
(Only a little bit.)Bookmarked by Hatzel
02 Nov 2025
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skip the conversation (when you already know) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Sep 2023
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“People liked me there,” Will says after a few minutes, staring up at the tragically blank ceiling. “In Lenora, I mean. It was- weird.”
Mike snorts, letting his head loll to the side so that he can see Will’s profile, illuminated in the early evening light, tanned skin and freckles and wide hazel eyes still staring contemplatively skyward. Mike wants Will to turn his face and look at him, wants that wide-eyed gaze on him, wants to swallow every breath that Will exhales.
At the same time, he’s not sure he’d survive something like that. He’s already barely keeping it together, just looking at him.
“It was weird,” he echoes, faintly amused. “That people liked you?”
Will’s eyes flick to him just briefly, and Mike’s heart rate increases by one thousand percent. “You know what I mean.”
the one where mike and will missed each other, and they talk about it, and then they kiss about it.
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14 Oct 2025
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The world is quite literally ending. His girlfriend just broke up with him. Mike can't stop thinking about Will.
“Will can stay with me.”
Will looks up from the spot he was looking at on the floor. “What? I can?”
“Stay at my house tonight.”
Will plays with his own fingers. He’s always fiddling with his own fingers, touching his hands. Mike can't stop looking at them. “What? Mike, why? I’ll be okay here.”
“It’s just one night,” Mike says, a little loudly, a little desperate.
“Okay,” Will replies, a little loudly, also a little desperate, a little too fast like he had been meaning to say yes the entire time. “Yeah… Yeah, I’ll stay over.”
And now they are here. Both sitting on Mike’s bed, with the most crushing tension hanging over them. Mike wants to die in it.
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13 Oct 2025
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Will Byers finally snaps and slaps Mike Wheeler across the face
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13 Oct 2025
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Disconnected by calmb4storm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow
24 Dec 2025
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Panic begins to run through his veins, speeding up his pulse and his breathing. “I can’t– why don’t I remember it? I don’t remember any of it.”
Mike blanches. “Any of what, Will?”
Jonathan’s hand is on his knee. Both of them are too close. He can’t breathe.
“The Upside Down. I… I can’t remember any of the Upside Down.”
OR: A Will Byers-centric speculation of ST5! Based on trailers, BTS footage, and some scenes from The First Shadow.
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13 Oct 2025
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“Just to be sure, you – what were you agreeing to?” Mike blurts. “Like, was it the seeing other people thing, or the kiss – the practice kissing thing? I was – I’m just making –”
“The second one,” Will forces out, feeling awkward to his very bones. “The – practice.”
Mike, somehow, turns even redder. “Right. Yeah. Okay.”
Mike offers to teach Will how to kiss.
It goes well, all things considered.Bookmarked by Hatzel
12 Oct 2025
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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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11 Oct 2025
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Waste A Moment (It's Only Love) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2025
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Mike’s love for Will was a weakness they couldn’t afford anymore.
He was thinking this as they left his old room, descended the staircase, flashed their intention to leave through the kitchen light and received confirmation from Joyce and his mom. He was thinking this as they stepped back out into his garage, where he finally opened his mouth and said, “Am I too late?”
Will, a few steps in front of him underneath the lone garage light, turned. “What?”
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Where Mike and Will get stuck in the Upside Down and somehow, that's not their biggest problem. Mike's timing, however...
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09 Oct 2025