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Is This Ache I’m Feeling in My Heart Wrong? by May11037
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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Mike finally pieces together all the hints Will has given him, but is it too late?
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
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(The ages don’t align with the time but they are late 30s) Mike’s kids, Willow and Ellie, ask Mike to go with them to a Chappell concert, he says sure and when he gets there and Chappell tells her fashion designer to come on stage for a moment for the outfit, someone Mike doesnt expect comes out
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09 Mar 2026
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Mike and Will have never met, but fate intervenes when a new floral boutique opens in town. Mike enters looking for a birthday present for Nancy but he leaves with a crush he can’t ignore. It's a journey of heartbreak and healing, proving that even in the toughest times, love still finds a way to prevail.
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08 Mar 2026
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“Are you having a fucking episode right now?” Max says, furrowing her brows. She doesn’t understand and Mike doesn’t know how to make her. He can’t say it out loud, not in full.
“I didn’t love her because she wasn’t who I wanted her to be.” He admits in a rush of words. 'Because she wasn't Will' goes unsaid.
or: max and mike as steve and robin in robin's coming out scene
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09 Feb 2026
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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28 Jan 2026