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“Don’t you remember?” Lucas asked softly. “When we were kids? Like, sixth grade. We all said we’d be in each other’s weddings.” He chuckled. “And Mike called dibs on being my best man, and then you and Dustin started freaking out, because you were both gonna call dibs, so I said you could all do it. Remember? I need all my best men.”
Will puffed out his cheeks, running a hand through his hair. He already hadn’t lived up to that twice now. He’d missed Dustin’s wedding, he hadn’t even been invited to Mike’s (not that he’d expected to be.) This was his last shot.
And something about it seemed final. If he missed this, then that was it. He had no doubt they’d still try to reach out, but it wouldn’t be the same. He would’ve broken something he couldn’t fix.
He sighed.
“Okay.”
Ten years after the end of the world, Lucas and Max get married.
It's a mess.
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- Part 1 of To Hold Onto and Treasure
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14 Nov 2025
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Of Men and Monsters by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Nov 2025
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Will Byers still vanished on November 6th, except this time it wasn’t a Demogorgon that took him. No, this monster was all man. Now he's locked in a twisted serial killer's basement with no way to escape, until he begins to receive calls from Vecna’s previous victims through a disconnected phone.
When Jonathan stumbled across Nancy Wheeler with Robin and Steve while out searching for Will, he didn't expect to be pulled into their wild plans to save all their missing friends.
After spending over a year searching for the vanished kids, Hopper’s ready to give anything to find them. So when Joyce shows up at his door with an outlandish story involving flickering lights, Hopper figures he’s got nothing to lose by believing her.
Jane has had dreams all her life, dreams where she learns things she shouldn’t in an almost-Hawkins. When her best friend and brother go missing, she and the rest of the Party join the dangerous search to find them before time runs out.
The Black Phone made Stranger Things
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07 Nov 2025
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What We Are (The Feeling's Getting Stranger) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Nov 2025
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Mike reels back like he’s been slapped. “You really think that I wouldn’t have cared if it was from you?” he asks, voice low, expression torn open. It’s not fair for him to look like Will is breaking his heart in two, not when Mike started it a long fucking time ago.
“It was obvious you wouldn’t have,” Will snarls. Hating himself for it.
Mike swallows hard, throat bobbing. His hands are still shaking; hell, all of him is shaking. “Then clearly you don’t know me at all anymore.”
“Yeah, I guess I don’t.”
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In which Mike finds out the truth about the painting, Will accuses him of not caring about him anymore, and Mike proves to Will just how much he does care with a bundle of letters all signed with love. Features whipped Mike Wheeler, confident Will Byers, and completely over it Max Mayfield, with special appearance by smug Lucas Sinclair.
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06 Nov 2025
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"Will looks down at his left hand, curling it in and out of a fist. He thinks about Phineas Gage and Mr.Clarke telling them about the man with a spike through the eye. His hand isn’t really shaped like a spike, and this isn’t gonna be a stabbing. His breath shakes as he faces his reality. What he is about to do. What he has to do. He looks at the stained glass window to his left. It’s one he doesn’t recognize, but it’s beautiful."
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29 Oct 2025
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i could be your crush by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy), wayward_sherlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2024
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“Hi,” Will blurts out before he can stop himself, and he can feel his cheeks heat up in embarrassment so quickly it must be unhealthy somehow. “Uh -“
The guy shuts his phone off and reaches up to his ear to pull out an earbud. He shoots Will a grin, which does not help the whole blushing-crimson thing. “Hey,” he says coolly, and Will admires his composure while he wills the earth to collapse beneath him.
The guy quirks an eyebrow at Will when he doesn’t look away, then seems to take in his slightly disheveled and paint-stained appearance - he’d had his painting and drawing class just before he’d gone home, and had managed, as he always does, to get paint everywhere - because his smile grows a little softer, a little fonder. His shoulders relax against the bench, and Will lets out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding. “You get sexiled?”
misery loves company, especially when the company comes in the form of a cute English major.
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29 Oct 2025
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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
────in which, what was supposed to be two boys secret mission to dig up tunnels ends up with one digging his own eye out
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23 Oct 2025
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"Chance bit the inside of his lip. Truthfully, part of him believed Jason’s Hellfire theory was a desperate story fueled by the grief of losing Chrissy, but the more Chance watched Hawkins fall apart, literally, the more he felt his old logic snap into place. Maybe Jason had been right, the town had a wound and something crawled out of it, something that hid in plain sight. Chance didn’t believe in revenge, the Bible says justice belonged to God or the law. But, if there really was an evil in this town, wouldn’t it be just as evil to do nothing about it? To let it happen?"
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After losing two of his friends in the Hawkins “earthquake,” Chance joins a church grief group that believes Will Byers is the vessel for Satan. To prove them wrong, Chance agrees to befriend Will, but the closer he gets, the more the lines between faith, fear, obsession and love start to blur.
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21 Oct 2025
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he finds himself knee-deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
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21 Oct 2025
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Look Up and See Infinity (Keep My Feet On The Ground) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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It didn’t bother him, necessarily, that they had pretty much jumped right into what felt practically like marriage. After thirteen years of being best friends, and the last three of those living together, he supposed it wasn’t really that weird. But he hadn’t even taken Will on a date before they had stripped each other completely bare, emotions torn open and exposed, skin sliding against skin. And he didn’t regret it, even if they hadn’t had sex since then (because that’s what they’d done, right? Fumbling and inexperienced as it was, that’s what that had been), but Mike couldn’t shake the guilty thought that Will deserved better than that. Will deserved everything after the hell he’d been through, again and again, since he was twelve years old. Will deserved something normal, or as close as two boys could get to it.
“I deserve this,” Will told him, holding Mike close to his chest and absently playing with his hair. “I want this. I don’t need anything else.”
But damn it, Mike wanted to do something. It was important.
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Mike and Will go on their first date after defeating Vecna.
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- Part 6 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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20 Oct 2025
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Silence encompassed the graveyard. Vecna had nothing to say. No order to give. No whisper in Will's mind, ricocheting against the caged walls. It was just this - a gun and a crowd and Mike and Will.
"Will," Mike changed his tune again, his voice softening out until it rang like chimes in the wind, dancing its way through the silence, "come back to me."
Will's breath stuttered, and he blinked over at Mike, something deep and intrinsic and familiar pulling his gaze in that direction. Mike seemed relieved all at once, dry eyes welling up once more. He stepped forward, closer to Will, a dim candle springing to life.
"Will," Vecna imposed, snuffing the light out, "pull the trigger."
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14 Oct 2025
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To Belong and Be Loved by redheadosity
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
20 Jan 2025
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Going off to university means changes in every aspect of life. New living environment, new routines, and new relationships (definitely friends, but maybe more). The changes can be overwhelming, but when you have friends that go to the same school, it can ease things, or make things worse if they like to meddle. Follow Nico and Will as they start their college years and navigate the rollercoaster of campus life, friendship, family, and love. A new start does not mean the traumas of life simply end but finding that space where you feel you belong and finding those who love you even on the dark days, that's a happy ending that everyone can hope for.
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- Part 1 of Discovering How To Be
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13 Oct 2025
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“Stop doing that,” He mumbles, then, “What about bacon?”
“Stop what?” Mike whispers back, like a tease, breath fanning. He plants one deliberate kiss, just at Will’s jawline. “This?”
“Mike,” Will pulls in a gentle whine, to which he laughs back at, silent and more like a stuttered breath. “Stop. Bacon?”
“Yes,” He finally pulls back, sliding his hands from the counter, and to Will’s arms. He nods once, sighing. “Bacon is fine. I’ll wake the devil.”
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07 Oct 2025
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“You seem like a good guy,” Chance said with a smirk, voice low. “I-”
“Hey, Will?” It was Mike, of course it was Mike, interrupting the only time a hot guy may have ever flirted with Will.
“Uh, give me a sec, I just-” Will stumbled.
“Don’t worry about it, Byers, I better get to class,” Chance motioned vaguely down the hall. “I’ll see you around,” Then he had the audacity to fucking wink.
Will didn’t have the time to short-circuit because Mike was glaring suspiciously at Chance as he walked away. “Why, pray tell, were you talking to him?” Mike asked stonily.
Will clenched his jaw. “Why do you care?”
Mike sighed and shook his head. “I don’t.” He thrust a flyer in front of him, looking suddenly embarrassed. “We have a show tonight. Seven o’clock at this cool venue downtown.”
Will took it, silently.
“I want you to come,” Mike said softly, and for a moment none of the bad shit had happened at all, and they were just two kids staring at each other in a school hallway.
-Will might think it's really hot that Mike's in a band. Mike might've written a song about Will. Unfortunately, they're both total idiots and have been set on ignoring each other for months.
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26 Sep 2025
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Will gathers up all his courage into his sore arms, cradling bravery against his chest, holding it over his broken-and-then-healed ribcage. “Ever since I got back from the Upside Down, I’ve been in pain.”
“What do you mean?” Mike asks.
“It’s like I came back wrong. My body hurts pretty much all the time. It wasn’t that bad when it started, but it just kept getting worse and worse and now I’m just—” Will swallows the lump in his throat. “I’m crippled, basically. I’m sorry.”
Mike’s mouth opens and closes a couple times. “Hold on, did you say since the Upside Down? Three years ago?”
Will nods.
“And when you say ‘all the time’, you mean all the time?”
“The severity changes a lot, but yes.”
Mike looks… very concerned. “Even right now?”
It’s not funny, but he laughs. “Especially right now.”
or, Snapshots of Will's experience with chronic pain over the years, and how he navigates it with Mike.
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25 Sep 2025
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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24 Sep 2025
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I Will Follow You (Into The Dark) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Sep 2025
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Maybe One is right; maybe Will hates him, wants him dead. Maybe Will lied that night, months ago, when he promised Mike that he would never join One willingly, no matter what the bastard was telling him in the seemingly endless nightmares that plagued him. When he tried to make Mike promise that he would do whatever it took to end this, no matter what happened to Will in the process.
Mike wouldn’t make that promise. He just promised Will, in his own head, that if it came down to it, neither one of them would die without knowing the truth. And Mike can’t breathe right now, let alone form the words out loud, so instead, he begins to tap on Will’s hand. Familiar dots and dashes, determined to keep his promise.
I, he taps, unable to hear anything over the roaring in his ears.
Love, he taps, watching One move Will's mouth through blurred vision.
You, he taps, and something in those brown eyes flickers, just for a moment.
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In which Will is possessed by One and Mike figures, if he's going to die, he might as well pour out his heart anyway. (Spoiler alert: he doesn't die.)
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18 Sep 2025
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“I know you don’t like to talk about it, but— can you explain it?” Mike asked. “Your… episodes?”
His mute episodes, as Dr. Owens called them. Will wasn’t sure how to describe it. It was just… fear. A sense of doom. An inability. Something that was as instinctive as breathing.
“It’s like…” he said, then paused in thought. He was really no good with words. “Like, I’m stuck.”
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Will Byers was a bright, energetic, outgoing kid— until he wasn’t. His ability to socialize deteriorated slowly. No one thought it was anything serious; not until it was too late. His selective mutism had already taken over his mind.
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03 Sep 2025
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Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
“Take me.”
Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
“Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
“Deal.”---
Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
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31 Aug 2025
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There's something wrong with Hawkins, and Will can feel it.
Yeah, okay— so there's always been something wrong with Hawkins. But even this, Will thinks, is teetering on the edge between wrong and plain fucking crazy.
Holly’s found a new friend in an invisible man who gives her invisible toys. Nancy keeps looking at Will like she wants him dead, or maybe just out of her house. All the animals in Hawkins are acting more like possessed statues than actual animals, and Will keeps hearing a raspy, unsettling voice that seems to think he has some sort of power.
As for Mike, Will doesn't even want to think about him, because the guy is driving Will mad. And the bar for Mike making Will crazy is practically in hell, so that should say something.
Oh, right. Did he not mention the sleepwalking?
(Or; Will’s started hearing from a certain someone— think blonde hair, unnerving smile, limb-snapping tendencies— who thinks he has a certain power. Holly’s started hearing from a man who wants to take her to Wonderland.)
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26 Aug 2025
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They were supposed to win Nationals. Instead, they crashed into hell.
In the fall of 1994, the Hawkins High Tigers—an elite co-ed soccer team—boarded a private plane to Canada for the biggest tournament of their lives.
They never made it.
In 2019, the survivors live scattered, scarred, and silent. But when postcards begin to arrive—marked with a familiar sigil and a chilling message—old ghosts claw their way to the surface. Will Byers wants nothing to do with it.
This is a story about who made it out, what they did to survive, and the darkness they carried home.
AKA: Yellowjackets but it’s Stranger Things.
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- Part 1 of yellowjackets au
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25 Jul 2025