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Mike wakes up—no, that’s not right.
Mike isn’t awake. Not now. Not yet. Maybe not ever again.
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- Part 2 of Come Sleep
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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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- Part 1 of Come Sleep
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How am I going to play this? I could fall back on old habits. I could sneer. I could insult him. That always worked when we were in school, but now I fear he’d see right through it. The act only worked then because it wasn’t an act. Not at first, anyway. I did, at one point, actually hate him, and he never had any reason to believe that had changed.
Now, though. Now he knows that was all fake, that I was just overcompensating to hide my true feelings. Now it’d only be a sign to him that I’m hiding something. That I still care. That I’m still hopelessly, tragically in love.
I can’t let him know that. Not after I broke up with him.Or: Two-odd years after the events of Carry On, Simon and Baz have broken up and gone no-contact. A chance encounter unearths old feelings.
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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10 Dec 2025
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Every evening, Mike Wheeler drives down the highway and tries to get his best friend back.
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09 Nov 2025
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I Never Find Out 'Til I'm Head Over Heels by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 May 2017
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Wherein Mike believes he’s being obvious, Will doesn’t know what he believes, and the pair of them could use a lesson or two in effective communication. Somehow all of this has both nothing and everything to do with five years' worth of school dances.
(This piece was written for the Stranger Things Big Bang)
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28 Oct 2025
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The kidnapping attempt fails, but it’s not the Mage’s only scheme. Eighth year begins. Tyrannus Basilton Pitch returns for the start of term – and finds his roommate missing.
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01 Dec 2024
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Simon is stuck in juvenile care over the summer. He's lonely, disillusioned, and desperate to talk to Penny. But when he makes a Snapchat to try to contact her, he ends up talking to the most unlikely person.
He never thought he and Baz could be friends. But as the summer unfolds, two boys become best friends, companions, and support in more ways than they ever expected.
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29 Nov 2024