14 Bookmarks by Knb_1228
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A sharp crack tears through the air. Mike flinches back, staring down at Will's lifeless body. He gets one last look before the ground is giving way beneath them, and all at once, they’re falling.
A shrill cry tears from Mike’s throat as he finds himself flailing through the open sky. A sharp crack of lightning shutters in the distance. Will's limp corpse contorts, dropping faster than he can. He’s screaming, unimaginable terror ripping through his body. He writhes, reaching for Will, crying the boy's name.
He’s falling, plummeting through a destabilized upside down and there's nothing he can do to stop it. He’s going to die.
Mike reaches out, eyes squeezed close. He tears the watch from Will's wrist, seconds before colliding with the Exotic Matter.
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Colliding with Exotic matter as the Upside Down collapses in on itself sends Mike hurtling through time. He’s given the chance to save Will before any of this starts.
But he can’t seem to get it right. Reliving moments throughout the years, helpless to warn Will. He just wants to keep him safe. Why can’t he keep him safe?
He’ll do this again and again until he gets it right. He won’t lose him again.
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06 Mar 2026
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One more Polaroid shot (guilty pleasure) by champagnetablet
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Mar 2026
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“What nonsense,” Mike whispered, but he kept the photo, of course.
He shoved it into the desk drawer, under a stack of old Marvel comics that he and Will still loved to read in their free time. Sometimes by roles. Sometimes Will read to him, allowing Mike to sleep on his shoulder, and for them, it seemed very ordinary.
Mike climbed under the blanket, turned off the light.
But sleep wouldn’t come.Or:
Mike receives his first Polaroid as a gift. Every single shot, without exception, contains Will's silhouette. Regardless, Mike plans to use these photos for his own personal enjoyment.
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Mike Wheeler working at the “Scoops Ahoy” with Max
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Will Byers working at the “Surf Boy Pizza” with JaneBookmarked by Knb_1228
05 Mar 2026
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Okay, maybe it WAS Mike’s fault that in the span of 24 hours, he was trapped in a Russian elevator with Lucas’s girlfriend, his little sister and her asshole friend.
But did it really have to happen when he was in this stupid sailor outfit??
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It’s the Scoops Troop! But, instead of our favorite pair of besties, it’s Max and Mike to take their place along with none other than Derek Turnbow and Holly Wheeler.
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28 Feb 2026
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And he’s good at noticing things; he knew when Erica stole any of his action figures. He knew when Dustin lied about being sick because he always sounded so guilty over the radio. He knew that Will and Mike had a special relationship. He knew that there was something El wasn’t telling them when Will was missing. He knew Mike clung onto her in a weird way. He knew that kids calling Will, ‘Zombie Boy,’ meant more than just him coming back to life. He knew when Max liked him. He knew when she was mad at him, and he knew when to leave her alone or beg her for forgiveness.
He knew that he was different. He knows that he’s different.
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So, he’s not stupid. Far from it, actually.
And that’s why he knows Mike is acting really, really weird.
(aka a fic about Lucas, Mike, how they parallel each other and their needs to conform; first part takes place in between s3 and s4, second part is s5 speculation)
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28 Feb 2026
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i can be needy (way too damn needy) by summerofsecrets
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Mar 2026
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Two months of long-distance has turned Mike and Will’s letters into a lifeline. But when Jane accidentally mails a letter containing Will’s private fantasies, the distance between Hawkins and Lenora officially catches fire.
What follows is an escalation of provocative Polaroids, a "ruined" letter, and an oversized Hellfire shirt that smells like home. Across a 1,500-mile phone line, the metaphors of "cleric and paladin" are finally stripped away, replaced by raw hunger and a promise: when Mike gets to California, he’s going to mark every inch of Will's skin.
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27 Feb 2026
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For the past 6 months, Mike Wheeler has been following Will Byers all around New York City—without Will knowing. But it's not in a weird way, like the stories Mike's heard about on television. The entire situation is just one big misunderstanding.
It started when Mike decided to drive all the way up to New York to reconcile his friendship with Will—they'd fallen out after Will moved away, and he desperately wanted to fix that. He’d made it to the city and managed to find Will, and was ready to get started on rebuilding their relationship right away. That’s when he ran into a small issue: for some reason, he was physically incapable of approaching Will. For days, he attempted to work up the courage to walk up to him, but it proved impossible. Days turned into weeks, and then months, and Mike was still stuck watching him from afar. Only now, he knew exactly where to find Will when he needed to.
He was growing fearful that he might be stuck in the shadows of Will's life forever. That was, until Will walked into a bookstore and found Mike working there.
OR: Yandere Mike Wheeler stalks Will Byers in New York Joe Goldberg style.
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23 Feb 2026
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Will Byers is very good at surviving things that should kill him.
Loving Mike Wheeler might be the hardest one yet.
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Post Season 4, Mike and Will find each other in a friends with benefits relationship. As time passes and the final battle with Vecna nears, tensions rise. Can Will survive his love for Mike long enough to survive the darkness that wishes to break him?
Season 5 rewrite with a focus on Will's mental health, filled with tender moments, angst that leaves you staring at a wall, and action that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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21 Feb 2026
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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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19 Feb 2026
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Mike loves almost everything about living with Will, except for Carlton. Will comes home late one night clearly upset, Mike asks about it. He tells Mike that sex with Carlton isn’t what he expected. Mike, being the good friend that he is, offers to show Will how good sex can be.
Or: Mike shows Will that he’s not broken, and that he deserves to be treated gently.
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18 Feb 2026
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Will Byers doesn’t consider himself brave. He considers himself a HD student with a low tolerance for vodka and a talent for leaving early. But bravery, it turns out, isn’t always loud. Sometimes it's handed out like permission slips at crowded college parties: permission to drink too much vodka, to flirt badly, and take a hit from someone else’s cola flavoured vape.
Or; College AU, Will "Ivy League" Byers/Mike "Teenage Dirtbag" Wheeler
(Vodka bottle fic)
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17 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 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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15 Feb 2026
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For a moment, everything fell away – the emptiness Mike felt, the ache of regret. All he could focus on, all that mattered, was Will in the doorway.
And then, Mike saw the bruise.
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Mike Wheeler is barely holding it together in the years after they defeated Vecna, haunted by regret and convinced that he destroyed his chances of ever revealing his feelings for Will.
He finally gets out of Hawkins to go visit Will at art school. Will – who now has his own place, and a boyfriend who sounds perfect in every way. Though, when Mike arrives, he realises that things aren’t as perfect as they sounded over the phone.
Featuring lots of Mike yearning, a sprinkling of angst, misunderstandings (both of them being oblivious), and even a little bit of 'fake dating'.
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11 Feb 2026
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07 Feb 2026
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"Is Will your boyfriend?" Holly asks, and Mike immediately chokes on the lettuce in his mouth.
"Wh- what?" he gasps, dropping his fork and swallowing back the salad that suddenly feels like cement in his throat. Holly's looking at him with a strange expression, like she's trying to figure something out.
"Will. Is he your boyfriend?" she repeats, even though Mike very obviously heard her, and the question doesn't feel any less shocking the second time.
"No!" He yelps. "No, why would you think that?"
Holly shrugs, taking another bite of spaghetti like this is a normal conversation and she is not slowly killing him. "Nancy calls him your little boyfriend sometimes, and Mom says he's your person, which basically means the same thing, and you live together and act like a couple and unpack groceries together, and- I don't know. Seems like it could be a thing."
holly visits college roommates mike and will, and has a few important questions for them
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06 Feb 2026