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It’s been three years since Vecna’s defeat. Will has moved on. Gotten a boyfriend & is waiting on an acceptance letter from NYU to get into art school.
Mike, suffering from the loss of Eleven, is dealing with grief in totally, healthy, normal ways. By shutting himself out, from everyone, except Will.
But, he doesn’t tell Will anything. Will just knows. Because he’s Will. These two boys navigate their past traumas together drawing them closer then ever before.
Will’s boyfriend isn’t typically the jealous type, but when he figures out there a huge secret between them that he doesn’t know, he starts to wonder. Leaving a triangle of unknowns. Which we all know, never ends well. For anyone.
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11 Jul 2026
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Mike looked over at Will, his eyes nervous and bloodshot, “Did you and Carlton ever..”
“Ever what? Kiss?” Will asked, confused.
“No, uh..”
“Oh— uh, no, no we didn’t. We did kiss. But not that.”
“Ah. Just wondering.”
“Sounded more like a proposition to me.” Will said, obviously joking.
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Will Byers and Mike Wheeler get bored during their winter break and decide to start hooking up.
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11 Jul 2026
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In November of 1991, Will and Mike’s lives have moved in two very different directions. They’re no longer talking, but Mike is going to set that right. He’s going to see Will in New York.
Nothing can be prepare him for the version of Will he meets there, or how he makes him feel. Again.
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The Pyramid Club was one of the most iconic underground nightlife spaces in New York’s East Village, and by the early 1990s it had become a key hub for queer culture. In this fic, Will Byers is a regular.
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- Part 1 of 1991 Byler
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11 Jul 2026
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Hawkins never healed after Will Byers disappeared, and neither did Mike Wheeler. No body is ever found, and the Upside Down keeps returning in cycles that leave the group increasingly fractured by grief. Eddie’s death, Max in a coma, Hopper’s loss and return, and years of things they can’t fix or undo.
By 1987, another crawl goes wrong and Mike, Dustin, Lucas, are pulled into the Upside Down, separated and forced to survive inside the place that has taken so much from them.
Deep in the dark, Mike finds something impossible: Will Byers is still alive.
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A crawl into the Upside Down goes wrong in 1987, pulling Mike and the group back into the place that has haunted them for years only for Mike to discover that Will may still be alive deep within it.
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07 Jul 2026
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Even after seven years, three days is all it takes to change everything.
Despite being so close in high school, Mike and Will find themselves leading complete opposite lives only seven years later. Mike- a graduated, struggling writer who stayed close to home. Still wracked with the traumas of his past, he struggles to figure out how he'll fit into the world. In search of a life outside Hawkins and its memories, Will finds success through his paintings, travelling the country with a new partner and friends.
Just as Will's life is finally beginning to stabilize, Mike's curiosity gets the better of him and he visits Will at one of his art exhibits in the city.
The bandages of new life and beginnings wear thin, and feelings they each thought they'd repressed were so much closer to the surface than they thought. And suddenly, years of work is undone in three days.
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07 Jul 2026
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Mike and Will share a dorm room with a little problem...Paper thin walls.
Over the space of a few weeks, Mike hears things through the walls that make him feel a little differently towards his best friend.
Inspired by the incredible artwork by @_mikeystardust on X
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07 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler has built his career as a defense attorney on finding reasonable doubt.
So when he takes the case of Joyce Byers, who’s accused of killing her husband, he’s convinced of proving she’s innocent. The evidence is thin, the prosecution is overconfident, and Mike knows how to win.
What he doesn’t know how to do is ignore Will Byers, who’s loyal to his mother, haunted by his father, and far too good at keeping secrets.
And falling for Will might be the most damning evidence of all.
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07 Jul 2026
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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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06 Jul 2026
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Give Me One More Hour (I Don’t Want to Land Yet) by Flora_byler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is one of the biggest actors in the world. He’s used to people staring, asking for pictures, pretending not to recognize him. A eighteen-hour flight to Auckland is supposed to be the one place he can finally get some peace.
Will Byers is leaving everything behind. One-way ticket. Two suitcases. No real plan except to start over somewhere no one knows his name.
When everything that can go wrong does—and a broken seatbelt earns Will the last available seat in Business Class—they end up side by side for the longest flight of their lives.
Mike expects another fan. Will has no idea who Mike is.
Somewhere over the Pacific, between awkward silences, shared meals, sleepless hours, and conversations neither of them expected to have, two strangers begin to realize that maybe the person sitting beside them is exactly who they needed.
Or: a celebrity, a runaway, one accidental upgrade, and eighteen hours that change everything.
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06 Jul 2026
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Something happened between Mike and Will during winter break of ‘89, and they haven’t spoken in four years. When Mike moves to New York for grad school in 1993, he is finally starting to figure himself out, and he wants to fix things with Will. He has no idea where to begin, so he writes a play about it.
Will has been building a life for himself in NYC as a painter. He has a boyfriend, volunteers with an AIDS housing program, and pays his rent by acting in other people’s plays – including, as it turns out, Mike’s.
A story about the damage of being loved before you’re ready, and about trying to make your way back (with a little help along the way from your meddling older siblings).
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03 Jul 2026
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What the Night Takes (And How To Get It Back) by ClaudiaCreature
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2026
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It's 1992.
Will Byers and Mike Wheeler are college roommates at NYU... and attached at the hip.
When Will's nightmares take a turn for the worse, will Mike notice? Or will he hide his head in the sand?
Will Will ask for help when he desperately needs it? Or will he try to deal with it on his own?
Will either of them ever say out loud how much they need each other?OR
Will accidentally turns to sleeping pills when his nightmares get really bad and Mike tries to parent him too hard.
They cannot say out loud that they love each other, and the further Will falls into his drug issue, the harder it becomes to talk aboutAlso, Max is an amazing friend and basically becomes their buffer
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03 Jul 2026
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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
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30 Jun 2026
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Mike stares at the photo, whispering the words.
His name is Will Byers.
He has huge eyes, a gazillion moles, and a withering sense of humor.
He draws the best pictures.
He moved away when we were thirteen. His mother lives in Florida. He goes to school in Boston.
He is alive.
He was my best friend.
Mike remembers. They haven’t taken everything yet.Seven years ago, Will Byers went missing. After he reappeared, everyone—even his own family—started to forget him.
Now, it’s 1994, twenty-year-old Will is back in Hawkins, WA, and it is happening again.
A mid-90s AU set in the Pacific Northwest, ft.: slowburn Byler, mixtapes, flannel, witchcraft, moody weather, Nirvana, and a spooky eldritch forest.
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30 Jun 2026
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- Part 3 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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30 Jun 2026
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Will Byers doesn’t come home for Christmas, so Mike Wheeler goes to New York instead. What he finds is a version of Will he never imagined—and feelings he can’t keep pretending aren’t there.
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Will Byers is too cool for Mike Wheeler (and he’s goth)
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29 Jun 2026
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Mike finally looked over at Will. "Would you ever do it?"
Will sat up slightly, becoming more confused the further the conversation continued.
"Friends with benefits?" Will asked, still trying to process what Mike was asking him.
"Yeah."
“With who?” Will asked softly, his heart booming against his rib cage.
“With me,” Mike said casually, like he hadn’t just shifted Will’s entire world.
Or: Mike and Will agree to be Friends with Benefits while on a Summer road trip. What could possibly go wrong?
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29 Jun 2026
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I Won't Say It if You Won't Say It First by delusionalhemlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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Will finally makes eye contact with him again, a smile playing on his lips. Mike’s eyes dart down to them for a split second, then back up. “Okay.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I mean, whatever, right? We live together, for God’s sake, and we’ve known each other forever. Who cares if we have to hold hands for three days, too?”
“Exactly,” Mike says too quickly. As stupid as Robin’s plan had sounded when she’d proposed it, now that things were falling into place he found himself eager to get it underway. Treat Will like royalty. Easy.***
Three whole days Will’s heart hasn’t known whether to swell or break or rupture like his appendix. But he’s being discharged tomorrow, so it won’t be an issue for much longer, so for now he just pretends that the hand on his arm wants to be there. Because Will Byers-Hopper has never been chosen on purpose, and until tomorrow, he can pretend that this arrangement didn’t come about under duress.
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New York City, October, 1989. Things have been better since Will moved away from Hawkins and Mike followed him. Until Will's appendix bursts and, in the chaos of getting him to the hospital and finding a medical proxy, Mike accidentally tells the doctors he's his boyfriend.
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27 Jun 2026
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Dating apps aren't Mike's thing, until he finds out Will is using one. He can't let a bunch of trashy guys go after his best friend; he'll just make a fake account to scope out the situation. What could go wrong...or right?
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Mike creates a fake persona on a dating app to unknowingly flirt with Will.
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24 Jun 2026
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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24 Jun 2026
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Mike convinces the party to take a trip to a renaissance faire dressed as their DnD characters. Seeing Will dressed up makes him feel a certain type of way so he decides to channel his inner Mike the Brave persona to push the boundaries with his cleric friend.
Costumes, camping and drinking games help push Mike (and Will) to finally go for what they want…
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24 Jun 2026