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The Chimera and the Runaway Mimic by Ducky_Sqaud
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Apr 2026
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After the abrupt departure of his best friend, Mike Wheeler, Will Byers is sent a letter, inviting him to attend Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry. At this new school, Will and Mike seem to be mischief magnets.
Among these "mischievous" instances, they come across a strange girl, whom they find to be honing many "inconsistencies".
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The Party, aka the Chimera, go to Hogwarts!
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- Part 1 of The Chimera Chronicles
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15 Apr 2026
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Detective Mike, Do You Copy? by Chocolatecookie123
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
15 Apr 2026
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“Alright,” Will said. “If you’re betting the worst thing in the world for you—according to Dustin’s standards—I’ll bet the worst thing in the world for me.”
“Which is what, Will?” El asked.
“Hmm.” Will seemed to genuinely think for a moment. “The worst thing in the world for me is…”
His eyes flashed with triumph, and he quickly schooled his face into a pout, his voice coming out almost sultry, pitying. “Being one of those boys in Mike’s car.”
Or: Detective Mike Wheeler works at the 83rd Precinct in Brooklyn, New York. He hates just about everything except for his coworker, Detective Will Byers.
Not that he'd ever admit that.
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13 Apr 2026
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Will Byers is perfectly content with his adult life: his Manhattan apartment, his roommate who he is definitely no longer in love with, and friends he wouldn't trade for the world. So what difference does it make when his step-sister reappears after disappearing to California as soon as they finished college? Who cares that Dustin might have a thing for her, and Mike is suddenly being a better roommate, and Lucas keeps giving him this look like he knows something no one else does?
Certainly not Will. That's for sure.
OR: a friends x the party sitcom au
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13 Apr 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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08 Apr 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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30 Mar 2026
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Charisma Check (DnD is just an excuse for flirting without consequences) by Rogue_Mercury
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Mar 2026
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In one of their summer 1989 campaigns, Mike includes a mysterious, recurring NPC. A male tower guard who appears to be interested in Will. Will is confused and a little apprehensive at first, while Lucas, Dustin, and Max are very much intrigued.
The guard seems to be hiding something crucial to unraveling the mystery of the cursed river he watches over. Yet Will turns out to be the only one who can get him to talk... by charming him.
(Inspired by that one post “Was playing DnD and started flirting with the tavern keeper to get some info and at a certain point I realized I was just dirty talking with my buddy Ben.”)
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24 Mar 2026
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15 Mar 2026
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The Amazing Spidergirl by lenathewriter
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
05 Apr 2026
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In a world where the Avengers fly over New York City, Willow Byers is a normal 15 year old girl. Or was. Right before her sophomore year of high school, she goes on a class trip that changes everything... even her DNA.
Being superhuman was something she got used to over two years with the help of her best friend Dustin Henderson. But then her senior year starts and her ex best friend MJ (Michelle Jay Wheeler) comes back into her life, which makes her Spidergirl activities more... complicated.
Follow Willow Byers, Spidergirl, as she takes on life as an average high school girl turned superhuman while fighting villains that roam the street... and some villains that seem to be hiding where no one can find them.Bookmarked by PeripheralSalmonid
11 Mar 2026
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Darling, Darling, Darling, Darling Willow by Idk_12333333322
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Mar 2026
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A swap au where Will swaps with max but also genderbend wahoo
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- Part 1 of Lesbyler (bc i can)
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07 Mar 2026
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It starts with a shared crayon box in kindergarten and a friendship that feels as natural as breathing. From scraped knees and school dances to late-night study sessions and first apartments, they have always been each other's constant. This is the story of every single moment that led to the one where they finally got to build a family of their own. A tale of growing up, growing together, and the lifetime of love that started with a single "Will you be my friend?
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07 Mar 2026
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NOVEMBER 6TH, 1986
In the three years since Will Byers went missing, the town of Hawkins has been under constant threat of the creatures from the Upside Down. But now, eight months after Vecna has ruptured a giant rift through the town of Hawkins, that threat is about to reemerge. Unaware of Vecna's true plans and trapped under a military quarantine, our heroes will not only be forced to face the greatest evil from the Upside Down, but also overcome impossible odds, in order to save their town, and each other, one last time.
Written in a SCREENPLAY format, this fic operates as a diverging conclusion for the final season of Stranger Things.
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07 Mar 2026
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"I'm glad I went," Mike murmurs near Will's ear.
"Had fun?" Will asks playfully.
"Oh, yeah," Mike stretches sarcastically.
They stay like that for a little longer than necessary, then reluctantly separate, still looking at each other. Will can't hold the eye contact for long, and turns away, biting down a smirk.
"Goodnight, then," he breathes out.
"Yeah. Goodnight," Mike nods nervously and smiles. That same stupid dorky smile.
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The Party have one last fun summer together before moving away, everyone is alive and happy and in love and stupid.
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- 234,501
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- 22/?
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01 Mar 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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- 15/20
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25 Feb 2026
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make it all wrong (make it all right) by eviesjournal (vieclairo)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler is working at Scoops Ahoy for the summer, with his close personal enemy, Maxine Mayfield. It's rather bogstandard, until 'Surfer boy's pizza' moves in next door, and Will Byers makes his life a personal hell. Between questionable flirting (mind-games, obviously), a broken slushee machine and his twin sister dating Mike's best-friend, it becomes addictive chaos.
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25 Feb 2026
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It's 1997 and the ghost of Mike Wheeler walks back into Will Byers' life twice in one day: first in a Midtown coffee shop, then as the writer assigned to his graphic novel. Eight years of awkward distance now have a deadline. Collaboration is a special kind of torture when the person you're building a world with is the one who broke yours.
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- English
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- 124,313
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- 16/16
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25 Feb 2026
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“We’ll always be here,” El replies kindly. “If things are ever confusing, remember that, okay?”
Mike swallows the lump rising in his throat. His hands shake with vulnerability. The room feels a bit suffocating, but he can’t tell if it’s from fear or love.
He thinks it might be love.
He meets Will’s gaze. He sees an entire galaxy in his eye.
“You came back,” Will says simply. “You came back to us, and that’s all that matters.”
Season 5, but things don't go as planned. In fact, Mike learns that reality can fall apart in the blink of an eye, and promises are the only thing that can stitch it back together.
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20 Feb 2026
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“I was raised to be singular. Untouched. Entire.”
“And now I cannot take three steps without feeling you.”
Michael should have died the night the fleet burned. But when a forbidden cleric drags him back from death, an ancient bond binds their souls together.
War is rising. A marriage is demanded. And a voice inside Michael’s mind begins to urge him towards something corrupt, hungry and dangerous.
To be what the court expect of him he must kill the cleric.
But William is the only one who sees him—the real Michael.
A gothic, psychologically intense descent into power and identity, where love exists—but does not make things safe.
Or: Michael survives the fire, keeps the enemy who saved him, catches feelings he refuses to name, starts slipping under the court’s watchful eye, and is being possessed by something that likes him a lot more when he’s violent.
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15 Feb 2026
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And then Max knocks her beat-up red sneakers again Mike’s black converse. “We can just… pretend, you know?”
Mike furrows his brows, knitting them downward in bewilderment. “Uh, what?”
“To date, I guess.” Max lifts her head up to the sky again and the sun enlightens her orange hair and makes her spray of freckles more noticeable. “You keep the creepy guys away from me and I hide the fact you’re gay.”
And then she shines a toothy grin at him, and Mike can’t not grin back.
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13 Feb 2026
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It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.
The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.
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13 Feb 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.”
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fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .Series
- Part 1 of @burntsepia's fics collection
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10 Feb 2026