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I Just Know that Something Good is Gonna Happen by LaneyAvril
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“You look like shit,” she says.
Mike huffs out a breath. “Nice to see you too.”
“You’re not eating,” Max continues. “You’re not sleeping. And you’re doing that thing where you pretend if you don’t say it out loud, it’s not real.”
He turns away, grabbing a soda from the fridge and holding it like a shield. “I’m handling it.”
Max watches his hands shake.
“Funny,” she says. “That’s what I said right before I almost gave up.”
Or: High school keeps moving while Max struggles to reclaim her own life. From quiet afternoons with Will sketching in the corner to the restless, haunted presence of Mike, she witnesses her friends’ grief, guilt, and longing in sharp detail. Halloween brings everyone together, and suddenly, small victories—like rolling across a room or sharing a moment of truth—feel like survival.
(Title from Cloudbusting by Kate Bush)
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Will looks down at the sheet, fingers worrying the edge. “I thought we were being careful. Taking our time.”
Mike swallows. “I thought I was too.” He lets out a small, sad breath. “I was wrong.”
Will looks back up. “So what are you saying?”
Mike’s chest tightens. This is it. The place where he either steps back—or finally names the truth.
“I’m saying I need something to change,” he says. “Or I’m going to break.”
The words hang there, bare and undeniable.
Will’s eyes flicker. “I don’t know if I can give you what you’re asking for. Not yet.”
Mike nods. He’d known this answer was possible. Knowing doesn’t make it hurt less. It reminds him of the same words he said in that coffee shop three years ago.OR: A post-canon, slow-burn Byler story about growing up unevenly, loving at the wrong time, and finding your way back to each other once you’ve learned how to stay.
(Title from the song Nauseous by Conan Gray)
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“I—I would tell you.” He says reflexively, but he doesn’t take it back. The words are true. He hears Mike’s breath catch and his hand twitches. “I just wouldn’t want you to– to pity me. Or see me… differently.”
“I would never.” The response is instant. “You’re strong. I’d never pity you. I… god, how do I explain?” Mike turns his body to face Will head on and grabs his hand properly. Will feels a shiver run through him, but he squeezes back all the same. “I’m sorry. I’m so fucking sorry, for what you’ve been through, whatever it is. But it would never, never make me look at you differently.”
“Promise?”
“I promise."
Or: Will breaks down after the events at the MAC Z and trusts Mike to help him pick up the pieces.
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22 Feb 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
OR
After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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20 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
or
Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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19 Feb 2026
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Three months have passed since the night that Mike’s friends decided to read his personal letters to Will amongst themselves as some form of distraction against Vecna. Three months since the Upside Down started bleeding into Hawkins. Three months since Will and Mike confessed their feelings for each other and got together.
Three months since their lives had irrevocably changed, with secrets revealed, accusations thrown out, and confessions uncovered, the Party and Company are now faced with the task of fixing broken trust and bonds well simultaneously stopping Vecna from destroying their world as they know it.
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The aftermath of Mike’s friends invading his privacy and finding out things they weren’t supposed to and the aftermath of Vecna opening the four gates.
(Sequel To "Sincerely...")
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- Part 2 of Between The Lines
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17 Feb 2026
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While looking through Mike’s bedroom for an extra sleeping bag, Dustin stumbles upon a box of unsent letters from Mike to Will. Not knowing why they were unsent, Dustin decides to take them to Mike’s basement to read.
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The Party and Company read Mike’s unsent letters to Will.
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- Part 1 of Between The Lines
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12 Feb 2026