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Don't be Afraid of the Clocks (they are our time) by TashaTasha
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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"Nobody was really thinking in that moment. Not Will, and certainly not Mike. Ten years down the line and three glasses of wine deep, Mike would proclaim that it was simple science—Magnetic attraction. North and South meet halfway to the west.
The closer you place them, the more likely they’ll collide
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Will gets some new (totally not gay) friends, and Mike is a jealous, needy loser. Coming out, crying, and sappy confessions await.
This Fic is meant to be an intermission between Season 4 and Season 5, with the assumption that Vecna doesn’t return with full force until all the cast are 18.
Mainly Will Byers POV but some chapters are Mike because he is also very fun to write.Bookmarked by Nesly
18 Jan 2026
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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
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- 78,119
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- 14/?
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15 Jan 2026
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It should be him kissing Will. Holding and doting on him. Mike can feel something ugly stirring in his chest. His nails dig crescent moons into his palms, and he comes to the terrifying realization that he won’t rest until it’s true.
Mike really, really doesn’t like Will’s new boyfriend.
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- English
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- 8,533
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- 3/3
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14 Jan 2026
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.
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- English
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- 8,126
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- 1/1
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13 Jan 2026
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“Well, it was nice meeting you two,” David said. He leaned forward towards Will, and gave him a single, light pat on his head.
“And I’ll see you around,” he said softly.
Will blinked up at him in a daze, eyes wide and cheeks gaining a tint of pink again.
Mike stared, stunned. Did he just touch Will’s hair? Mike was the only one that ever did that!
Mike's semester takes a serious turn when—
A) He realizes he's in love with his best friend
B) A popular handsome senior takes interest in said best friend, and he can't stand it- Language:
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- 12/12
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13 Jan 2026
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Reunidos en el sótano de Mike, el grupo de amigos comienza un juego de Verdad o Reto, pero cuando llega el turno de Will, en un momento de pánico este dice estar enamorado de Steve Harrington.
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Mike es el ser más celoso y sobreprotector con Will, el cual no soporta la idea de que su mejor amigo tenga un enamoramiento en alguien que ante sus ojos es un idiota que no lo merece.Bookmarked by Nesly
12 Jan 2026
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“You seem to be doing just fine for yourself.”
Part of Mike means it to be a sharp and defensive quip, but it comes out as sad as it really is. Will’s eyes are glassy and round and unfairly innocent. Big doe eyes pinning Mike in place. Mike can never escape their gaze.
“What else am I supposed to do?”
Wait for me. Mike can’t say that. He’s been selfish enough. He should’ve said it months ago, should’ve sat Will down and told him everything at graduation, but he didn’t. Now he’s too late. He can never grasp the time that slipped away from him.
or: Mike visits Will in college and realizes just how much has changed. Will is moving on. Mike can't do the same. Everything has changed, except that Mike is still in love with him.
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11 Jan 2026
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The love triangle with Tobias ended, and Mike and Will just celebrated their six month anniversary. Life is good.
Until Venca comes back, and starts possessing Will at random times, making him act out of character, making him sabotage his relationship with Mike. Because if Will doesn’t have Mike, Vecna can take him.
And the worst part is, Mike is starting to believe it.
Especially when Vecna starts getting Tobias involved.
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- Part 2 of Tobias Universe
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- English
- Words:
- 136,100
- Chapters:
- 26/26
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09 Jan 2026
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The world is ending, which means for the time being, Will is living at the Wheeler’s house with Mike and El. Which means his life is once again a third-wheeling roller rink nightmare, and he’s basically invisible to Mike.
Until Jonathan gives him $20 to go to an art sale, and he meets Tobias, a guy just as into art as he is.
It’s not long before him and Tobias start dating.
And then suddenly, Mike’s paying attention to him after all.
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Will gets a boyfriend. Mike doesn’t like it.
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- Part 1 of Tobias Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 120,535
- Chapters:
- 26/26
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- 2,683
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06 Jan 2026
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When bad boy Will Byers gets expelled from school in the second half of his senior year, his mom uproots their lives from Queens, New York to her hometown of Hawkins, Indiana.
As if that weren’t bad enough, they move into the guest house of Joyce’s childhood best friend, Karen Wheeler, and her picture-perfect family.
This should be interesting.
*this story is complete*
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- Part 1 of When Worlds Collide
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- English
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- 197,650
- Chapters:
- 57/57
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05 Jan 2026
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I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love (Tonight) by indistinctive
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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“I know we’ve had to hide this for so long from everyone, and I know that even though we’re graduated now, we still will probably have to hide it from so much of the world. And with school being out now and everyone about to go to different schools and everything, it just, I just, I don't wanna lose what we have. I don’t wanna lose you.” Chance says, with so much sincerity, it makes Will's heart hurt.
After the DND game after graduation, the party decide to go to the party. Will meets a familiar friend. Mike gets mad.
Will and Max are best friends your honor.
Canon Compliant with STS5 Finale!
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04 Jan 2026
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Lucas doesn’t believe in coincidences. That much is a given. Most especially now that Max is still hospitalized, so he has more time to really observe the people around him and willingly take charge in uncovering certain mysteries smaller than the upside down and much closer to him than he thinks. He eventually starts picking up on things he’s always been skeptical of
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Sometime during the 18 months, Lucas is finally choosing to believe he’s in fact NOT crazy and that Mike Wheeler is exactly what Lucas has always thought he was (a homosexual)- Language:
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- 90,116
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- 17/17
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04 Jan 2026
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It's 1993, and Will is free, have a boyfriend and is happy, but that isn't enough, right?
Not when he still can get something from Mike.
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- 2,118
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- 1/1
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02 Jan 2026
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"You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. And by the time you understand it, it’s already too late.”
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02 Jan 2026
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The Party plays a combo game of Kiss, Marry, Avoid/Fuck, Marry, Kill. This causes Mike to spiral into his repressed feelings for Will that explode like a volcano. Especially when Mike’s still dating El and Will gets a boyfriend after coming out to everyone during the battle to save Hawkins. Will tries doing the right thing - But see Mike? - Well sometimes best friends can be bad influences and enablers. Sometimes your bestie can be your worstie, too.
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30 Dec 2025
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Will has been the one thing running on Mike's mind for years. He's always tried replacing his feelings of infatuation with hate, but lately his methods haven't been working so well, and most recently he let himself slip a little too far. That's okay, it's not like it meant anything, and it's not like anyone will find out.
But if anyone did, Mike isn't opposed to fixing the problem hands on.
Part 2 out now
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- Part 1 of Tainted Love
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29 Dec 2025
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In 1971 Mike and Will were born. In 1976, they met by a swing. In 2002 they finally got married. But between and after all those events, there were many other moments. Happy moments, sad moments. Moments of doubt. This story follows the story of their love through snippets of their life together and before. Moments that all put together, led them to be endgame.
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- English
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- 31/?
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29 Dec 2025
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And – that feels awfully revealing, so he adds, “I like the suit.”
Mike brightens, and he’s just a step or two away, now, and Will could reach out and touch him. “I’m glad,” he says, “I was – I was hoping you would.”
“Oh.” Will really wants to kiss him. “Well, I do.”
Mike beams. “Good.”
“Good,” Will echoes, feeling at a loss for what to say, but it doesn’t seem to matter when Mike’s grin only widens, and then his hands are on Will again, like they always seem to be, lately, and Will has no protests when they’re only a few inches away from each other.
Mike has been acting strange, and, if Will didn't know any better, he'd almost think Mike was flirting with him.
Thankfully, he knows better.
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- 1/1
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29 Dec 2025
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“Just to be sure, you – what were you agreeing to?” Mike blurts. “Like, was it the seeing other people thing, or the kiss – the practice kissing thing? I was – I’m just making –”
“The second one,” Will forces out, feeling awkward to his very bones. “The – practice.”
Mike, somehow, turns even redder. “Right. Yeah. Okay.”
Mike offers to teach Will how to kiss.
It goes well, all things considered.Bookmarked by Nesly
29 Dec 2025
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,203
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 729
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27 Dec 2025