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Will wakes up from a wisdom teeth extraction with absolutely no idea what's going on. Mike is in for one hell of a ride.
Or, Modern day college AU where Mike takes care of Will because of course he does
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12 Apr 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of gootbai miek
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Summer break, two years after graduating high school. Will and Mike almost kiss, and everything changes. They find themselves on a journey together after a mysterious clue. They have no choice but to finally confront what’s been going on between them for years.
“I keep showing up,” Mike says. His voice doesn’t break, but he feels like it should. “Even when you try to throw me away.”
Will flinches, and Mike hates himself for it immediately.
“I didn’t- ” Will says, and his eyes drop. “I didn’t throw you away.”
Mike’s mouth twitches. Not a smile. Something sadder. “You threw the letters away.” -
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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12 Apr 2026
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This Doesn't Feel Like A Sin by Eggsbaconcheese
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Starling Girl (2023)
08 May 2026
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“You prayed?”
Mike sniffled, chuckling as he said, “Yeah, don’t look so surprised. You saw me.”
I saw you?
“At the altar this morning,” Mike finished, unaware he had answered Will’s inner question. “And I just… I couldn’t find a reason that God would put this in my life and not want me to have it. I feel like.. I’m closer to Him in being closer to you, because… I don’t know Will, it’s just a feeling. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’ve been praying on it so much and it.. This doesn’t feel like a sin, Will. I swear, it doesn’t. It did before. Before I prayed and I saw you, laying in the grass with me that Sunday and I just felt so seen by you, and it scared me. I was so terrified, Will, I thought that fear was going to kill me. But, knowing you, seeing all those things in you that I’ve wanted so much for myself… things that I have now, because I’ve known you… I’ve never felt like that. How could God not want that for us?"
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Retelling of "The Starling Girl" with Mike Wheeler and Will Byers as the main characters.
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12 Apr 2026
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“Hungry,” is all Mike manages to get out. Will can hear each ragged breath scuttle up and down his chest. He squints at Mike, the boy refusing to break eye contact, staring intently at Will. The emptiness from this morning is back.
Will scoots up in bed and shimmies out of his blanket cocoon, placing his hands on the sides of Mike’s arms. “Are you feeling sick?” he questions gently. Something’s not right.
Mike shakes his head and once again, opens his mouth with a brief pause before speaking. “I’m so hungry, Will.”
Mike gets a little too into the occult. After a ritual-gone-wrong, Will has to piece together a decades-old mystery to save his best friend's life.