441 - 460 of 1,863 Bookmarks by Helpfullhariett
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
“You kept my painting,” Will says. Sure enough, there’s the heart on Mike’s shield, just as red as the day Will painted it. It was Will’s heart that he painted, maybe. It was also Will’s heart that he pulled out and molded into the lie he thought Mike needed to hear, halfway between Salt Lake City and a secret government bunker in Nevada.
Will’s heart is in his throat now, and in Mike’s hands, and on Mike’s wall, framed and carefully displayed.
They stand there in silence for a minute, Will on one side of the room and Mike on the other and too many years of radio silence in between. The quiet is so heavy it’s like a weight on Will’s chest, crushing him, applying pressure—but to a wound or to a bruise, he doesn’t know.
“Will,” Mike says. “Why are you here?”
(or, will has some realizations and a lot of hard conversations, and not every loss is forever.)
Series
- Part 3 of boys in bars
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
09 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
It's been nearly ten years since they saw each other. Ten years since they lived in the same state, much less occupied the same room. Ten years since they were friends; eight and a half since Will stopped referring to Mike as such, much less his best one.
Ten years, and here Mike is, and here Will is, and here’s the guy in the chinos who just bought Will’s first friend, first love, first heartbreak a drink. Here is what the poets call cosmic fucking irony, Will thinks: the setup for the world’s unfunniest a guy walks into a bar joke, and Will’s the punchline. Will’s been punched in the gut.
(or, after ten years of no contact, will encounters mike wheeler in a new york city bar, and he doesn't know what to do about it.)
Series
- Part 1 of boys in bars
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
09 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
'I tried to write to you Will. I really tried.'
'I know.' Will agreed, something lying just beneath the surface.
Will looked up at him, just like he always did, but there was no trace of the usual kindness and empathy. Instead, his face was cold, eyes showing no feeling and mouth curved up into a smug grin.
'What do you mean you know?' Mike asked quickly, voice breaking.
'You can't hide things forever, Mike. You of all people should know that.'
OR
Mike becomes the next victim of Vecna's curse and has to confront the truth he's been hiding from. Only one song can save him.
(Title taken from Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat)
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
09 Feb 2025
-
"but you should know that I'm sorry / for being careless with you" by DontDoDrugs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jun 2024
Tags
Summary
Mike Wheeler gets Vecna'd and sees some unpleasant shit. :)
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
09 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“Mike.” Nancy doesn’t want to interrupt, but Mike is saying the same things over and over, and she doesn’t understand, even though she wants to. “What the hell are you talking about?”
Mike breaks down again, sobs choking his words. “I’m talking about Will!”
Or
Mike & Will’s siblings have some heart-to-hearts.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
09 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,457
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 305
- Kudos:
- 3,834
- Bookmarks:
- 872
- Hits:
- 82,561
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
08 Feb 2025
-
A Heaviness in the Bones by sirsparklepants for deliciously_devient
Fandoms: Deadpool (Movieverse)
05 Feb 2025
Tags
Summary
Wade was examining Logan's hand with a focus he rarely bothered to give anything, holding the knife with a comfortable precision. He looked up and gave Logan a smirk as he brought the blade to his skin. "You might feel a slight pinch," he said, and started cutting.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
07 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Steve's drunk; Eddie's in dress. He's not going to get this kind of shot again.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
06 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“SAY YOU UNDERSTAND! SAY IT! SAY IT! ”
Max screams, there’s hatred in her eyes, one that he is very familiar with. Sharp and wild around the edges and though they might not be related, Billy could see Neil in her eyes. Maybe he’s seeing Neil not her. God if he could see him now, with Max threatening his balls with a spiked bat. She'd probably get a pat on the back. Or maybe it’s the black abyss clinging at the edges of his vision, muscles spamming from what ever drug is now in his system. He does and he hates himself for it.-------
or where Steve realises that Billy is hurting and doesn't know how to ask for help.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
04 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Billy is attending the highschool Winter Formal, much to his dismay.
He needs help with his tie and Susan lets her motherly instincts take over.
AKA, Billy experiences motherly love for the first time since his mom left.
(Set after season 2)
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
05 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Billy has always known that his life was less than desirable. He’d long given up trying to fix his broken relationship with his father and was instead trying to survive him.
After a rough encounter with Neil, Billy is offered a chance at a better life. A chance to be a normal kid.
But things have never been that easy for Billy.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 119,349
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Comments:
- 271
- Kudos:
- 787
- Bookmarks:
- 153
- Hits:
- 21,680
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
05 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Steve blurts, “I want your sperm.”
The words echo off of the bathroom tile and Eddie is as still as a statue. Nobody moves. Steve feels the mortification rising swiftly like water in a well and he wishes that he could drown in it. It doesn't let him, gathering in his chest and his cheeks and making his entire being tremble with its scope and scale.
Eddie’s quiet for probably ten solid seconds, his face utterly blank and impassive as he processes this statement.
Then he shrugs and starts undoing his belt.
Series
- Part 2 of ⟡ Anon's Omegaverse Works
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,389
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 207
- Kudos:
- 2,039
- Bookmarks:
- 485
- Hits:
- 18,393
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
04 Feb 2025
-
friend of my brother is my enemy (or something like that) by rosesgf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Aug 2022
Tags
Summary
Jonathan would never hear the end of it if Will found out what he’s doing, so he needs to be subtle. Just enough to get Mike to treat him better. Just enough to redirect things.
He settles on a stern, “Mike, I think we need to have a talk.”
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
31 Jan 2025
-
Now that I see your brother as my brother (is it enough?) by coreyfogelmanic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2023
Tags
Summary
"It's okay Mike, hey, it's okay."
"No it's not!" Which—okay—fair enough, it didn't feel very okay to Jonathan either, but he was so out of his depth right now. He'd comforted Will countless times, he'd comforted Nancy, El. Hell, he'd even comforted Mike a bunch of times when he was younger.
A lot younger.
He'd comforted Mike over a broken crayon, or a scraped knee, or Will being sick and not being able to go to school for a week—that one had required a lot of comforting—but that had been a long time ago and those were all just silly, trivial things kids cried over. Now Mike was crying on a dirty bathroom floor, blood tainting his arms, and Jonathan couldn't just give him a new yellow crayon to make him feel better anymore.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
29 Jan 2025
-
We Were Caught In Another... (Oh Brother) by PobodyNerfect
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
Nancy and Jonathan catch Mike and Will high out of their minds at the quarry.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
29 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“I don’t hate you, Mike,” Jonathan said quietly, and the words sent revulsion threading through his veins. Mike let out a choked noise, trying to pull away, but the arms stayed locked around him, caging him in place even when his shaky hands came up and tried to push him away. His breaths were quick and tight and he couldn’t do this, couldn’t let Jonathan hold him like this, like he was something to be cherished.
___mike wheeler is certain that jonathan hates him now, years of past history be damned. and—he should hate him, right? because mike was an awful person, really, and everybody knew it.
except jonathan insists that he doesn't hate him. even when mike tells him his worst secret.Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
29 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“You know exactly what I mean, Mike.” Will snaps, turning back around. He continues walking away from the front door—away from Mike—his pace increasing as he tugs his creaky old bike along with him.
“No, actually, apparently I don’t know anything anymore!” Mike jolts forwards, following Will—who has now left the cover of the porch and is being soaked in rainfall—and grabbing him by the shoulder. Will stops walking and turns around, but he flinches back as if Mike’s touch has burned him. Mike removes his hand. “I thought I knew that we were a team now; I thought I knew that things were good,” Mike continues, shivering and brushing his now wet hair from his forehead. “But here you are, telling me I’d like it if you were dead, trying to run away without even saying a word to me—do you know how that fucking feels?”
or
Will tries to leave in the middle of the night. Mike stops him.
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
29 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Mike and Will are back in Hawkins, and as the party desperately searches for a way to defeat Vecna, Mike grapples with his feelings. Suddenly, Vecna's curse latches onto Will with seemingly no warning and it seems as though all hope is lost... but is that really what's happened?
OR
will gets possessed but it's actually what mike is seeing while being possessed (I know it's complicated)
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
29 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
This is a terrible idea.
There’s no way anything’s happening again. And he can’t just smoke, knowing the results. Sitting here next to Munson, overheating and desperate for a hand down his pants that’ll do nothing to sort him out, is not an option. But when it hadn’t been subpar— when he hadn’t been alone— when it had been Munson’s hand around him— god, that felt like nothing else.
But he can’t do that again.
Then why the fuck are you here, Carver?
Series
- Part 2 of Sweet Leaf
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
20 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Being in front of a camera isn’t a pleasant experience — second only to standing in front of a mirror — but as Chrissy sits in her ruffled blue gown with her homecoming court crown atop her head, she feels strangely calm under the gentle guidance of the photographer.
Series
- Part 4 of [three sentence ficathon 2025]
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 236
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4
- Kudos:
- 9
- Bookmarks:
- 1
- Hits:
- 70
Bookmarked by Helpfullhariett
17 Jan 2025