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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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06 Mar 2026
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The Byers have been living at the Wheelers' for eighteen months now.
Will falls asleep on Mike's chest every night. They whisper about apartments in Chicago and cats and a future where they don't have to hide.
For now, this room, this bed, this boy — it's enough.
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05 Mar 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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12 Feb 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during Nancy’s graduation dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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27 Feb 2026
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Will had been in love with Mike for the past two years. They had met in their first year of University and were now living together, sharing a room.
Every fleeting touch, every small gesture, left Will questioning whether their friendship meant something more, or if Mike was just being Mike.
But when he finds himself posting a comment to the university's gossip page an unexpected bond is formed.
He now has to navigate this new bond with an anonymous guy and his growing love for his best friend.
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Will and Mike both message each other on anonymous accounts, unaware that the person they are falling for is closer than they think.
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- Part 1 of O Castle (my castle)
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01 Feb 2026