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you looked back at me once (but i looked back two times) by IIBreathlessII
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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After everything that they had been through together, Will Byers is sure one thing remains unchanged: his feelings for Mike Wheeler are one-sided. Though he's living in the Wheelers' basement, he tries his best to get over Mike and fully accept himself with the help of Robin Buckley. Mike, meanwhile, is struggling with emotions he doesn't yet understand and a twisting feeling in his stomach at the thought of Will and Robin getting close so quickly. Misunderstandings grow, jealousy simmers, and buried feelings refuse to stay quiet as the boys figure themselves out.
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12 Jan 2026
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His hands were cupping his face, the pressure of his fingers against the wound making him scream again. He couldn't see, his eyes blurred with tears and pain in a way that made everything fuzzy,
No… wait… only one of his eyes was bouncing around wildly, eyeing the snarling Demogorgon that was sniffing at the fresh splatter of blood on its claw. He was watching it, a keen rising in his chest when he realized that it was only out of one eye.
It was- It must've been the blood that was making it hard to see, the blood was gluing his eye shut, that was why he couldn't see. He cried out when the Demogorgon turned back towards him, flinching away when it roared in his face, tensing like it was about to lunge.
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The Demogorgon got to Mike a few seconds earlier, claws ripping through fragile skin and now Mike had to fight to heal and adjust while trying to rescue his sister from an inter dimensional monster. Which is actually pretty hard when he's in pain, drugged to the gills, and can't stop blurting out things that he would really rather not. Case in point: the Quarry, the box of unsent letters in the back of his closet (Ironic, yes, he knows) and his embarrassingly massive crush on his best friend.
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- Part 4 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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11 Jan 2026
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If I fell into your arms (could I trust you to make no sound?) by litlbud95
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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Mike took a deep breath and attempted to say it as plainly, as monotoned, as normal as possible. Will was his best friend after all.
“I want you to kiss me, Will.”
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Mike just wants to get better at kissing- for his girlfriend, of course.
Will is willing to help.
Things change in unexpected ways.
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11 Jan 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)
16 Jan 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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10 Jan 2026
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Claudia makes up a bed for Steve on the living room couch. She’s kind—fussing over him, making sure he has enough pillows and blankets, insisting that he stay here as long as he wants. Steve watches her double-lock the front door and check on Dustin at least five times before she goes to bed. Steve doubts she’ll really sleep.
Steve’s grateful, and it’s comfortable, but he’s not going to sleep, either. Not while Dustin is alone in the other room.
He hopes Dustin doesn’t have any nightmares. He hopes his face doesn’t hurt too much, and that he doesn’t wake up with a splitting migraine. He hopes he isn’t crying himself to sleep. He knows he probably is.
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Steve & Dustin navigate their anxieties about each other, after everything.
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09 Jan 2026
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Steve can’t seem to make himself leave Max’s letter at home.
The envelope sits heavily in the front breast pocket of his bomber jacket—he had to fold it, across the middle, to fit, and now he can never quite get it to lie flat, even when he takes it out and smooths it down against the table.
He’s taken to wearing the bomber jacket everywhere, even though it probably makes him look like an idiot most of the time, and even though it could really use a good wash. It’s the only jacket he has that ensures the folded envelope stays flat. He doesn’t want to risk any more damage than he’s already done with the everyday wear of his fingers against Max’s scribbled Steve.
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Steve deals with Max being gone, and with the letter she left him.
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- Part 1 of things were different
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09 Jan 2026
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Across the room, between two people talking animatedly, was Mike.
He wasn’t looking at Will. Not yet. He was laughing at something someone had said, his head tilted back slightly, one hand running distractedly through his hair. It was a familiar gesture, too familiar, and it hit Will like a punch to the stomach.
He tried to look away, really. But that was precisely the moment Mike turned.
Their eyes met.
It wasn’t some grand cinematic moment. No music lowered, no crowd vanished. It was just a glance, maybe a second too long, long enough to recognize each other, to realize that yes, it was real. That it wasn’t a memory, nor a hallucination caused by alcohol.
Mike’s eyes widened slightly. Surprise, recognition, something dangerously close to relief.
Will felt his heart surge in an instant, a sharp beat that stole his breath. The heat in his cheeks returned, stronger, and the room seemed to close in around him.
That was enough.
Will dropped his gaze abruptly, as if burned. He rose from the couch, almost tripping, leaving the empty cup on the table with an ungraceful thump.
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06 Jan 2026
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you'll know it's all because of you (we can do whatever we want to) by bylerologist
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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“Mike, I need you to come get me, please. I need to get out of New York- I want to come back to Hawkins.”
That was all Mike needed to hear before quickly muttering out an,
“I’ll be there tomorrow.”
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06 Jan 2026
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“I don’t ever want you to think that I don't want to be around you.” Will looks over, searching Mike's face. It was riddled with sincerity. He thought they had ended the conversation, but Mike had his final thoughts to tell Will.
“Don’t you ever think like that again. I will always want to be around you. I-” He cuts himself off. He takes a deep breath, finding Will's gaze again. “You’re my best friend Will. Everyone else is great, but if it came down to it, it would be you. It’s always been you.” Will couldn’t break eye contact. Mike was passionate about it, to the point where Will actually believed him.
“Friends?” Will holds out a hand to shake, trying to lighten the mood. Mike stares down at his hand with a scoff, looking back up to him.
“Friends? No thanks." There's a pause before Mike pulls him into a hug. His voice is low and peaceful now as he speaks into Will's ear. "Best friends.”
While the words felt like acid in an open wound, the hug felt like a breath of fresh air. They would never be more than best friends.
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Mike and Will are long lost childhood best friends.
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05 Jan 2026
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05 Jan 2026
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“Hello?”
“Will?” he could recognize that voice anywhere, even if it was more slurred and manic than it normally was, “It’s Mike.”
“I know,” Will rubbed his eyes, unsure why his childhood best friend was calling him from Indiana at 4 in the morning, “what do you want, Mike?”
“Come to Hawkins for Christmas,” Will was sure that was more of a demand than a request, “You can stay in the basement, or my room, or even Nancy’s. She probably won’t come home for Christmas, she never does.”
“Mike, it’s 4AM, what are you–”
“Just say you’ll come.”
“I’ll come.”
⋆.˚༚ ────── ⋆.˚༚ ❅ ༚˚.⋆ ────── ༚˚.⋆
Will left Hawkins behind for the bigger and better things of New York City, until he got a drunken call from Mike on the night of Halloween, begging him to come home and visit him for Christmas.
Now it's Winter Break, and Will's driven over 10 hours to spend Christmas with the Wheeler's, only for all but Mike to be no where to be seen.
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04 Jan 2026
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1987 went to shit. Vecna brought on what may well be the apocalypse, and Steve fought it to the end. Literally.
Death was supposed to be a one-way street. But knowing a girl with super powers had a tendency to change the game. So when Steve opens his eyes to a beer-soaked bathroom on Halloween in 1984, Nancy calling him 'bullshit' all over again, the universe might forgive Steve for thinking he was either a) in Hell or b) going cracked. But Steve didn't have time to freakout. Not when El finds him and asks that he help her change the events of the future. Not when he's the only other person she managed to drag with her for chance number two.
OR: A time travel fix-it, where 1987 Steve is dropped back into his 1984 self. And now he has to deal with that plus the impending apocalypse on the horizon. But he'll be fine, right? Because, as El informs whoever asks, Steve's 'The Babysitter'. So he gets to work. He can cry later, when he's done.
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03 Jan 2026
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Mike's parents have an agenda for him, one he wants to avoid following. He doesn't want to go to college. He doesn't want to get a girlfriend or get married. Mike wants to sit in his room all day and play his guitar. That is until his mom forces him to bring a date to a family celebration, and he thinks of a brilliant plan to piss his parents off. He forms an alliance with the new kid, Will Byers, in which he agrees to go with Mike to his family dinner, and they pretend they're dating.
They planned the fake dating part at the dinner party, but what happens when they keep the facade up to help Will?
What happens when Mike and Will start becoming good friends? Or even scarier...What happens when Mike starts catching feelings?
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Mike and Will start a fake relationship to piss off Mike's parents but they end up becoming more---Slow burn.
Modern-high school AU inspired by clowncultcentral
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02 Jan 2026
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“What does it look like to grow into something without knowing what it is yet?”
In the quiet aftermath of Where the Bikes Were Left, Mike and Will begin to shift toward each other in ways neither of them fully understands.
This story follows the milestones of that slow, gentle change, the first shift, the almost‑confessions, the jealousy, the arguments, the domestic softness, the touches that linger, and the words they’re finally brave enough to name.A companion to WTBWL, tracing the small moments that carry them from maybe to more.
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- Part 2 of Where The Bikes Were Left
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31 Dec 2025
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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31 Dec 2025
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Mike has a nightmare and asks Will to tell him a secret, a nice one, to keep his mind off it.
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30 Dec 2025
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been sleeping so long (now i'm wide awake) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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“Well, maybe not, Lucas says, rolling his eyes, “but I know that worrying isn’t going to do shit for Will.”
“Funny — I could say the same thing about Max,” Mike retorts.
A scowl forms on Lucas’s face, and he goes tense, like he’s bracing himself for a full-fledged fight. “That’s different,” he starts to say.
Then, suddenly, he stops.
It’s as if someone has clicked the PAUSE button on a television, and Mike watches as his best friend goes still. Recognition flashes across Lucas’s face, and his brow furrows as he looks up, meeting Mike’s eyes. And though he doesn’t say anything, Mike can tell the exact moment when it clicks.
“Oh, shit,” Lucas breathes.
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In the aftermath of Will's newly unlocked powers and Max's escape from Camazotz, Mike confides in Lucas about his newly realized feelings for Will.
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24 Dec 2025
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Mike has a habit of looking at Will's lips.
Will is going crazy as a result.
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24 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler is on a mission.
Someone out there is breaking his best friend’s heart, and Mike is absolutely determined to find the girl responsible and put a stop to it.
...If only people would stop looking at him like he’s the world’s biggest idiot—and actually take him seriously—this would all be a lot easier.- Language:
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- 3/3
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23 Dec 2025
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Mike wakes up to Will being held at the center of the ruin, and realizes too late that some battles aren’t fought with weapons. Some are fought with whatever you refuse to let go of.
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5x4 goes in a different way. What if Vecna exposes Will to Mike?
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23 Dec 2025