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It’s been a week since the start of senior year.
It’s been 37 days since Mike last spoke to Will.In a universe where the only horrors that persist are strictly mortal, Will finds himself stuck at a standstill while everything that's been lurking finally comes to head for Mike. The world can be a lonely place, but as long as they have each other they'll never really be alone.
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11 Jun 2024
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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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05 Mar 2024
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“If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.”As Mike breathed out the final words, Will knew, for the first time in certainty, that this was more than just a hookup. He knew they were more than secret meetings in the AV Club meetings or nights on the road outside of town. He knew that this was love.
He knew that Mike loved him.
Will felt his breath hitch as he squeezed Mike’s hand. He let out a breath, their eyes still tied together. Neither of them were smiling but their eyes were. Will knew that he didn’t have to keep pretending they were in love.
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Will and Mike are just hooking up behind closed doors but Will wants more. He craves more from the boy he's so desperately in love with.
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13 Feb 2024
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Mike kills someone for Will. He almost can't believe it. He almost can't believe how flustered he is.
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“Were you going to tell me?” Will says, not scared or shaken. A little nervous if nothing else.Mike blinked, grabbing his notebook and cradling it close, pencil back in his hand. He looked down at the words.
“Tell you what?” Mike hummed. Will’s heart beat was loud. It sounded like two boys on Halloween, in a yellow basement and the same secrets. “If this is about Max’s birthday present, I was going to tell you I just happened to tell Dustin and Lucas first-”
“About Troy.”
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08 Feb 2024
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Mike saw him the second he entered the cafe, and the world stopped spinning.
He was standing at the counter, a jean jacket over a faded band t-shirt and a polite smile plastered over his cheeks. Just the man he remembered. The man he had been looking for for the past five years.
or, will doesn't remember anything, and something is very wrong
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30 Jan 2024
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The Wheeler’s lakehouse was a two-story wooden building with white siding and blue shutters on each of the little windows. It sat on the edge of a large blue-green lake, a long backyard full of tall tufted grass that ended in a wooden dock extending out over the water. Will had been to the Wheeler’s lakehouse twice as a child, once when he was eight and again when he was sixteen. Now, he was twenty-nine and pulling up to the long driveway of the house in his beaten-up Ford Escort, his stomach in nervous knots that he was trying to calm with a half-full can of ginger ale.
or, four months after one byers/wheeler couple breaks up, another gets married. and, of course, will and mike are both the best men. and, of course, there is a plot to get them back together. nothing goes to plan.
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02 Dec 2023
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Ever since his best friend Will Byers was murdered back in 1985, Mike Wheeler wanted nothing more than to leave his hometown of Hawkins, Indiana and never look back—only each and every year he’s forced to make an exception when it comes to the holidays. And when Mike visits for Christmas in 1995, his mom asks him to help clear out some junk in his room and down in the basement before he returns home to Indianapolis. But when he comes across an old trunk containing his Supercom walkie-talkie and ham radio, he discovers something strange that has the potential to change everything…
(or an AU inspired by the movie “Frequency” from 2000)
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01 Dec 2023
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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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01 Dec 2023
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The skyline above Mt. Hawkins was clear, and the setting sun cut through the cold November sky, bathing the fire station’s cab thickly in orange light. Will Byers' long khaki-clad limbs curled into a chair by one of the south side windows, glass extending from floor to ceiling on every side of their home. Will balanced binoculars in one hand and a notebook in the other, scribbling. On the other side of the room, Mike Wheeler flopped onto his bed, radio in hand.
or, it is 1963, and Will and Mike are rangers stationed at a remote fire lookout tower in the mountains. Will goes missing.
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28 Nov 2023
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a goddamn blaze in the dark (and you started it) by gleefulbrie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2025
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"Perhaps I am a gentleman in sinner’s clothing... but I know my love is not a crime."
➺ When William Byers is commissioned to paint a portrait for the wealthy soon-to-be-weds, Michael and Jane, he finds himself upon the Massachusetts coast, entangled in a messy web of family secrets and an unexpected love that changes his life, for better or worse.
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- Part 2 of in every universe (au series)
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13 Oct 2023
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Mystery Work
Part of Silliest
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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12 Oct 2023
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I'm a Wreck (Without You Here) by oldfashionedmorphine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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Mike has been living 2,200 miles away from his family and hometown for the past fourteen years. He rarely visits, but when he receives heartbreaking news, he’s forced to return home for a funeral. It’s in this unfortunate chapter of life that Mike must come to terms with the consequences of abruptly running away from home and perhaps reconnect with the one person he’s tried his damnedest to forget about.
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11 Aug 2023
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09 May 2023
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Mike never expected a tattoo would be the reason he got dumped and was now homeless.
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22 Feb 2023
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When Will accidentally blurts out the secret he’s been keeping in front of the entire party, Mike is forced to confront his own secret head-on.
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Two losers in love navigate being gay in the 80’s, together.
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25 Jan 2023
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“I’m sorry,” Mike breaks the peaceful silence, “About not asking you to be my best man.” He elaborates at Will’s curious head tilt, “I know we always said when we were younge-“
Will cut him off, unwillingly to linger on broken promises “It’s fine, Mike. We’re not as close as we were when we were kids,” Will shrugs like it doesn’t hurt, “It happens.”
Mike stares at him with a pained expression that Will can’t place. Guilt shone in his eyes before he averts them, “That’s not why I didn’t ask.” He mumbles into his chest.
“Scared I’d outshine the groom, then” Will aims for levity wincing as it falls flat.
Mike sits in quiet contemplation beside him still avoiding facing him as he gazes out to the trees swaying in the breeze on the outskirts of the property.
“I thought it would be for the best.” He whispers so quietly that Will can barely hear him, “Kinder.”
Will felt the stone that first appeared back in middle school settle itself firmly back in his gut, pressing into the soft walls of his insides.
“Will-“ Mike takes a deep breath, ready to ask a question they’ve both been avoiding for well over a decade, and turns to stare directly into his eyes “Are you in love with me?”
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25 Jan 2023
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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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17 Jan 2023
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05 Jan 2023
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In the spring months of 1987, Mike Wheeler is cheating on Eleven with Will Byers. They pretend it's fine, and Will tries to act like he's not in pain.
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03 Jan 2023
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27 Dec 2022