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come to me again (in the cold, cold night) by perexcri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2023
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In 1983, Hawkins went cold and dark; the infected rose up in its population, more came crawling to its borders, and when the quarantine settled in and the walls were built up, Will and his family hadn’t made it out. It had been by the skin of their teeth that someone had managed to smuggle them out to a life free from the cold, from gaping mouths with pointed canines hungry for blood, from the new population of vampires that had risen up among the world’s inhabitants. The infected who had grown cold had stayed locked up in places like Hawkins, and the world had been better for it.
In 1994, Will goes back to look for Mike–his best friend, lover, ex-boyfriend, and, at this point, a stranger for the better part of two years. There’s a token in his pocket he intends to use to get them out of Hawkins’ grip once and for all, but not before he finds out why Mike ran away to a place that had done so much damage to Will.
It’s such a shame they’re both keeping secrets, though.
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12 Jan 2026
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But he’s getting better. He’s getting better at it. Mike steps forward, and Will retreats. He’s getting better.
“You’re avoiding me.”
So, for Mike to barge into his room and demand an explanation for why Will has been pulling away – well, maybe he’s a little confused.Will finally rips off the band-aid. Mike won't let him.
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- Part 4 of fix-its
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12 Jan 2026
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Lonnie gave him a gun. Joyce gave him a camera.
A look at Jonathan's love of photography.
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12 Jan 2026
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“I can see just fine,” Will snaps. He doesn’t even want to have this conversation with Mike in the first place. If he did, it would’ve been a long time ago. “Why do you even care?”
“Why do I—” Mike splutters. “Because I care, Will! I care about you.”
Honestly — what was Mike expecting? That the past month didn’t happen? That they aren’t being weird again? The end of a literal apocalypse did more harm to their friendship than good, apparently, and it’s not something either of them can ignore.
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The world is no longer ending. Half of them have moved into the WSQK. Max is learning how to walk again, Mike is hanging out with Robin Buckley, of all people, and Will—
—still hasn’t told anyone that he can’t see out of his eye.
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12 Jan 2026
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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12 Jan 2026
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You Were on the Run, so You Took My Last Name by epilogueboyfriend
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Mike wakes up a decade in the future, a successful author and in a committed relationship with Will.
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A moment later, Will pulled back with his brow furrowed. He touched his cheek in concern. “You okay, Mike?”
Mike managed a jerky nod. “Yeah, fine. You’re just…” He broke off to clear his throat and finally lifted his hands to place them on the small of Will’s back. Perfectly respectable. His skin was smooth and warm. Mike’s thumb moved with the dip in his spine, tracing along the curve. “You know.” Hot and on top of me.
Will smiled, pleased at that. “I do know,” he said loftily, and Mike got the sense he really did, and frequently used it against him to get his way. “But I like it when you tell me.” He folded his arms across Mike’s chest and rested his chin there, blinking up at him innocently, yet expectantly.
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12 Jan 2026
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
Or, a
fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .- Language:
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11 Jan 2026
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“Can I ask you something?”
Will laughs a little, shaking his head with an expression of complete bewilderment. “You already have.”
“Something else.”
Will shrugs. Mike wonders what he’s thinking. “Go for it.”
“It might be weird,” Mike warns in a stage whisper. He isn’t sure what’s weird or not anymore. He has a feeling this question crosses the line, but the feeling isn’t strong enough to stop him from asking. Not with Will standing so close, looking so glowy and perfect.
“Whatever, Mike,” Will laughs. “It can’t be weirder than what’s already happened to-”
“Have you ever thought about us?”In which Mike Wheeler gets drunk, tries to kiss his best friend, and is generally an idiot. What else is new.
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11 Jan 2026
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Look Up and See Infinity (Keep My Feet On The Ground) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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It didn’t bother him, necessarily, that they had pretty much jumped right into what felt practically like marriage. After thirteen years of being best friends, and the last three of those living together, he supposed it wasn’t really that weird. But he hadn’t even taken Will on a date before they had stripped each other completely bare, emotions torn open and exposed, skin sliding against skin. And he didn’t regret it, even if they hadn’t had sex since then (because that’s what they’d done, right? Fumbling and inexperienced as it was, that’s what that had been), but Mike couldn’t shake the guilty thought that Will deserved better than that. Will deserved everything after the hell he’d been through, again and again, since he was twelve years old. Will deserved something normal, or as close as two boys could get to it.
“I deserve this,” Will told him, holding Mike close to his chest and absently playing with his hair. “I want this. I don’t need anything else.”
But damn it, Mike wanted to do something. It was important.
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Mike and Will go on their first date after defeating Vecna.
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- Part 6 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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11 Jan 2026
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Stained Glass Eyes (Colorful Tears) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Oct 2025
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For twenty-four hours, Max refused to say a word to anyone.
Six months. In six months, it felt like everything had changed, and at the same time, nothing had happened at all. Vecna was still in hiding, hurt and licking his wounds, only sending his monsters to keep Hawkins on its toes and remind them that the worst was to come. School had sort of resumed, but with so few students left in Hawkins, most everyone was studying at home on their own. Military had flooded the town, but the curfew wasn’t very strictly enforced, if at all.
And Max’s mom abandoned her without a second thought. Left her to die alone in a hospital, or to the mercy of Indiana’s foster care system, which was as good as a death sentence in Max’s former condition. If it weren’t for the Wheelers and Steve Harrington, there was no telling what would have happened to her.
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In which Max begins to figure out what life will be from here on out, featuring informal adoptive parents Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley, a devoted Lucas Sinclair, forever scientifically-inclined Dustin Henderson, and a subtly protective Mike Wheeler accompanied by endlessly entertained Will Byers.
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- Part 5 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
- Part 2 of In The Meantime
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11 Jan 2026
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“Can I hug you?” he repeated, voice smaller now. He desperately hoped that Will would say yes.
He didn’t want to, but he held eye contact with Will for as long as it took Will to search his expression. For what, Mike didn’t know, but after a long moment, Will finally nodded. “Yeah, Mike, you can hug me.” And Mike didn’t hesitate to haul Will back to his feet so he could hug him properly, full-bodied and chest to chest.
“I’m so sorry, Will,” he murmured into Will’s hair. “I’m so sorry.”
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In which Mike and El decide to end their relationship in favor of being friends, he punches Troy Walsh, and finally allows himself to feel what he feels for Will while they work on patching up their friendship so that maybe, someday, he can be brave enough to ask for more - not necessarily in that order. A bit of a prequel to the first fic in the series, though they can be read as standalones.
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- Part 4 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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11 Jan 2026
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Someone's Out There Waiting (Come Back To Me) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2025
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“She’s alive,” he mumbled to himself, barely noticing El cleaning the remaining blood from his face and sticking a bandage over the cut.
“Yes,” El agreed absently. “Lucas, I need your help.”
This is what finally caught Lucas’s attention, enough to fully draw him back to the present. El had never asked for his help before; he’d never imagined that she would ever need it. She quite literally had telekinetic superpowers, not to mention Mike’s unwavering support even after their breakup and Will’s steadfast presence as her adopted brother. What could Lucas possibly do?
“My…help?” he managed.
“I have an idea,” El said, stronger now, more firm. Something flickered in her eyes. Doubt, maybe, or perhaps fear. She continued anyway: “I think I know how to get her back, but I need you to help me.”
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In the six months since Max fell victim to Vecna, Lucas notices changes in his friends' relationship, El piggybacks into Lucas's head and brings him into the mindscape with her to find Max, and they find her in the midst of her memories, safe from Vecna but unable to escape on her own.
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- Part 3 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
- Part 1 of In The Meantime
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11 Jan 2026
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Everything I Ask For (That's All) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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Something Will had always known about Mike, long before they gained the ability to read each other’s minds, was that Mike could be a bit of a brat.
Something Will had always known about himself was that he was very much okay with it.
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After defeating Vecna and taking some time to get their lives back on track, Mike and Will move to Indianapolis and make a home of their own. If they pick up a stray dog on the way, well, neither one of them is complaining.
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- Part 2 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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11 Jan 2026
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Love From the Other Side (I Guess You Can Say Things Are Getting Pretty Serious) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Steve said. “I tried to make her wait until you woke up, I really did.” He tossed something in Mike’s direction, which Mike caught without thinking. “Happy birthday, by the way.”
Mike blinked. He’d completely forgotten, between Holly going missing, frantically searching for a way to get her back, and being possessed by Vecna himself. “Uh, thanks,” he said awkwardly, running a hand through his hair and looking down at what Steve had tossed at him. It was a Kit Kat bar. His favorite. He wondered how Steve knew that.
“Oh, right!” Robin darted forward and hugged him before he could react. He met Will’s eyes over her shoulder, but Will still had a hand covering his mouth and his expression was unreadable, aside from the red on his cheeks. “Happy birthday! There’s a surprise waiting for you in the kitchen. Anyway—mind reading. Totally a thing now, right?”
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Through "the power of best friendship," as Robin puts it, Mike and Will develop a telepathic connection when Vecna tries to take Mike. Neither of them are really upset by it, especially when it gives them the opportunity to finally destroy Vecna once and for all.
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- Part 1 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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10 Jan 2026
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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10 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler is coming apart at the seams.
Home is no longer a place he wants to return to, his friends are slipping out of reach, and the numbness he carries feels heavier than grief ever did. Paired with a lost friend on an English project, Mike is forced into a quiet, uncomfortable proximity with the past he’s been avoiding.
Their time in the library is strained and careful, marked by silences. Mike doesn’t ask the right questions. He doesn’t look too closely at his own unraveling. He just keeps moving, even as the ground beneath him disappears.
As nights grow colder and choices grow more desperate, Mike finds himself pushed farther from home than he ever meant to go. In a town full of ghosts and half-forgotten dreams, two boys circle each other in the aftermath of everything they’ve lost, both convinced it’s safer not to want too much.
Some lights are meant to stay distant. Others refuse to go out
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A group project in which Mike and Will are forced to come together.
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10 Jan 2026
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“You’re back,” Mike states as his wide eyes catch Will’s.
Will just tilts his head at him as he takes his seat. “Yeah, I said I would be.”
“Right, obviously,” Mike mutters before stabbing his chicken sandwich with his toothpick.
“What?” Will asks despite every inkling in his body telling him to drop this conversation and just pick up his burger. “Did you think I was just going to leave?”
“No, I-”
“Because I wouldn’t just…” Will cuts himself off before he can finish and looks down at his plate instead, the unsaid words resting bitter on his tongue. I wouldn’t just leave with no explanation. Not like you did.
----------After everything they've been through, it is Mike who rips off the final band-aid of their friendship. Years pass of Will pretending like he never thinks about Mike at all. Years pass of him forging his own life and finally letting go.
But when a young boy shows up at Will's apartment, it becomes clear that he'll never fully be done with Mike Wheeler.
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09 Jan 2026
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Mike shouldn’t have listened.
On the other side of a wall, he discovers something about Will that makes the past rearrange itself, words spoken years ago, silences he never questioned, and a truth that only seems obvious once it’s already too late.
Some things are loud even when spoken in a whisper. Some things are impossible to see, even when they’re right there.
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09 Jan 2026
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As his footsteps recede, Will considers it; a fleeting feeling of fuck it, the world’s already ending that quickly fades the moment he glances back over his shoulder, watching a blur of camo disappear through the doorway before it closes once again, softer this time.
“…So,” Joyce starts, bringing Will back to his senses. “You know you’re what?”
Fixing Will’s coming out scene because I’m still bitter.
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09 Jan 2026
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Before the last crawl, Mike overheard something he probably shouldn't.
There's a boy Will likes, and Mike doesn't know what to do with the thoughts of his best friend replacing him with this boy. Whoever he is.
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09 Jan 2026