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“What did you pray for?” Shanks asked, poking at the baby fat filled cheek. Luffy swatted at him with a scoff.
He pursed his lips, “For Ace.” He said, casually, like it hadn’t swept the rug from out under Shanks and caused his gait to falter, entirely. He was frozen, in response. Luffy continued for several seconds until he realised the adult at his side was no longer there. He turned, perplexed, watching Shanks with a befuddled expression. Shanks held no rebuttal. “What’s wrong?”
“Why…” he almost didn’t want to ask. “Why Ace?” Luffy’s stare was long and hard. And for the first time, since meeting Luffy on that fateful day, all the way past the chaos of the Grandline, in the waters of the East Blue—Shanks could not place the expression that overtook Luffy’s supple features.
Alternatively, the story where Shanks and Luffy take steps on an arduous path to closure.
Promptober 2023 - Day Twenty-Four - "Glimpse"
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- Part 24 of Promptober 2023
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Coby would blame the fact that he'd had a few pints that night and the fact that the Revolutionary had been leaving lingering touches every time they'd run into each other over the last few weeks for everything that happened to him tonight.
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16 Oct 2023
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If you had told Coby that a pirate was going to break into a marine ship to kidnap/save him, well. He wouldn't have called you insane, because his life was crazy enough for something like that to happen.
But he would have expected that pirate to be Luffy, not one of the Emperors.
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- Part 2 of Coby-centric fics
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06 Oct 2023
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Koby's Awful No-Good Very Confusing Day by okiedokeTM (madelinescribbles)
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
30 Jun 2025
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This is so much bigger than him, Koby realizes, like a bucket of ice water pouring over him. Five minutes ago he saw Luffy get unceremoniously executed by Blackbeard. He didn’t even get a chance to help. And now he’s years back in time, with a laundry list of very vague instructions about what not to do if he wants to prevent that, given to him by a ninja version of himself that kissed him on the mouth.
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- Part 1 of The KANGVCD Extended Universe
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12 Sep 2023
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“Are you free tonight?”
Will blinks and gapes a few times. “What?”
“I’m going out with my sister and her best friend tonight. We’re going to a pub.” Mike moves forward, and Will’s breath hitches. “You could join us. It…could be fun.”or
Mike follows his sister to England to write articles about the celebration of the Silver Jubilee.
There, under the pale British sun, he meets Will.Day 5 of Byler Week 2023: Secret Identities
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- Part 5 of Byler Week 2023
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In the Eye of a Hurricane (It's You and Me) by Julia_Skysong
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jul 2023
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Will actually stumbled forwards, clutching the table to keep himself standing. His mouth had gone completely dry, and the blood rushed in his ears, drowning out Lucas, Dustin, and El's confused and panicked responses as they confirmed what Mike was seeing. Even in the Upside Down Will had never felt this cold.
No. No no no no no.
He fumbled for the radio Dustin had set on the table.
"Jonathan..." he gasped, his voice cracking in all the wrong places as he physically had to force it out. "Jonathan, why...why am I with dad on the security tape????"
There was a moment of stunned silence. "...what?!?!" Jonathan sounded like he had been punched by their father again. "At the lab?? You were at the lab with him?"
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Lonnie Byers is a royal piece of shit. Will finds out he has powers and understandably has a meltdown about it, and Mike helps him through it.
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come back to me and forgive everything by dragons_like_smores
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 May 2023
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Will wiped his damp eyes with the back of his hand and then looked back at Mike. He said, with a wobble in his voice, “I just don’t want to go. I know it’s stupid, it’s only a month and I’ve done it before, but Jonathan was always there, and now he won’t be. And I’m going to miss you so much. I’m going to miss everyone.”
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Will spends every July at Lonnie’s due to his parents’ custody agreement from their divorce. Fueled by a heartsickness that he doesn’t quite have a name for yet, Mike does his best to make things better.
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12 May 2023
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.
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“Do you think we could learn to love each other?” Will asks, and that question feels like something intimate and afraid and vulnerable and hopeful all at once.
Neither one of them looks at each other. If they did, Mike thinks, then this question might become an answer neither one of them is ready to give. A confession that this – this might just be something real.
“Yeah,” Mike breathes, and his heart beats so loudly, so nervously, in time with Will’s own. “Yeah, I think so.”
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In the aftermath of a nearly thirty-year long war between their kingdoms, Prince Michael of Corazzia’s hand is offered in marriage to Prince William of Luzios—otherwise known as the Shadow Prince. Together, the two of them must learn to reconcile their own differences to forge a new path to peace and restore their two kingdoms left broken apart by war.
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- Part 1 of the light inside your heart
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the gaps and the silence by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Mar 2023
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They fall silent for a minute, staring up at the sky together, and then;
"Oh my God, I had such a crush on you back then," Mike says, laughing a little, and sounds so easy with it that it takes Will a couple of seconds to process. He's so casual, using the same tone he just was when they were talking about what nerds they were back then, like it's just another fact, something as intrinsic to him as everything else they've just been talking about, and Will-
Will might be having a stroke, actually.
will and mike reunite five years after their friendship ends
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02 Apr 2023
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somethin' about you (that i will always recognize) by andiwriteordie for strangeswift
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Apr 2023
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“I’d find you in any life,” Mike adds, a sad smile tugging at his lips. He reaches over and takes Seven’s hand, intertwining their fingers together. “If I knew you back then… before all this happened… I would’ve done everything I possibly could to find you.”
I know, something deep inside his heart and mind whispers.
And then, for some strange reason, the whisper becomes something new: Because you already did.
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When Mike finds a mysterious boy in the woods who remembers nothing about himself, he never expects to fall in love.
And when Seven meets Mike Wheeler out in the middle of nowhere, he never expects to find a home.
Life has a funny way of surprising both of them.
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02 Apr 2023
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The boy regards Mike for a moment, trailing his eyes over his face with an intensity that warms his cheeks, “D’Artagnan will not harm you,” the boy says gravely.
Mike’s cheeks redden further, caught off guard, “What?”
The boy frowns glancing quickly at the shield before meeting Mike’s eyes once more, “The dragon. D’Artagnan will not harm you,” and then as if he had not just said the most insane thing he possibly could, “but I suggest you set up your camp in a safe location anyways. The woods can be dangerous at night.”
“ What? ”
Mike embarks on a quest to rescue his estranged childhood best friend from the claws of a vicious dragon only to be derailed by a strange protective shield and an even stranger magic user.
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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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02 Mar 2023
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KICKING MY FEET AND SCREAMING THIS IS SO GOOD
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“Are you actually a werewolf?” Will jokes, having read too much supernatural literature, but Mike freezes and his eyes widen once again. The joke did not land as well as Will had originally hoped.
Bad joke, bad joke, dammit!
“Uh—”
“Sorry, sorry.”
OR; In which Will is a tired Denny’s worker, goes inside his bubble a bit too much and crushes on a questionable customer.
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If anyone had asked, Mike would always say his favorite season was fall.
Could you blame him? There was just so much to love about it – the shifting hues of amber, bronze, and ruby that adorned the falling leaves in Central Park; the dwindling temperatures that brought relief from the sticky summer heat; the feel of a new knit sweater against the fresh gales of fall breeze. The gloomy sky and crisp air perfectly synthesized into the type of atmosphere that let Mike justify another cup of coffee, and hell, he’d take that over the glaring sun and thick humidity of New York summers any day.
What was there to not love about fall? Honestly, he couldn’t think of one thing even if he tried his hardest –
Oh. Right.
His boyfriend hated the fall.
OR: With the upcoming anniversary of Will's disappearance, Mike hatches a plan to make the next two days a little more tolerable.
OR OR: Will, entirely from Mike’s eyes, and the love he knows will never fade. -
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Love is a fickle thing.
At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.
Love is a fickle thing.
Just not for Mike.
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After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.
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time can't stop me quite like you did by agustplz (shout_out_lou)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2022
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Mike’s been waiting 737 days for this exact moment, always too intimately aware of every single second that’s passed him by since he disappeared. “You’re alive,” he tells him, stupid and reverent. This time, it seems to get through to Will. He watches the hard exterior recede, exposing the gentle warmth that Mike has always admired
“I’m alive,” Will repeats. “I’m alive.” He lets out a hysterical giggle and suddenly he’s the one falling into Mike, limbs tangling and hands clutching at each other until he can’t tell where one of them ends and the other begins. “And you’re here. You came for me.”
Will’s fingers dig into his forearms. Mike swallows the instinctive I would always come for you on the tip of his tongue.
OR: Even after watching Will get trapped in the Upside Down for good, Mike never stopped believing he was alive. After stumbling upon a gate two years later, he takes a chance and learns to finally follow his heart.
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“Sometimes you need to fall.”
Will looked at him, his eyes scanning Mike as he thought.
“God, Mike, that’s a pretty fatalistic point of view.”
“Why?” He chuckled. “I mean it, you know, you gotta hit rock bottom to start getting back up for real.”
The past year things had been… weird, in many ways. And apparently for Mike is just going to keep being weird: this time he is doing everything right. After the gates opening in Hawkins the entire town was evacuated, and Mike suddenly found himself living far away from all his friends.
But he keeps in touch, they have a routine. He is doing everything right, but El is the one pushing away now.
And Mike feels lost, away from everything he thought he once understood. Never so alone since it all started.
At least Will and him are talking again.
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bury me in metamorphoses (with galatea, my sweet) by hiscleric
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2022
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It’s been seven years since Will Byers vanished from Hawkins for the second time; seven years since he picked up his life, moved across the globe, and finally settled. He had found himself in a small town outside of Dublin with no desire to be anyplace else. He was happy. Ireland was great — beautiful sights, decent weather, and it was far. So, so far.
But when past feelings bubble from under the surface and start to poison his creative endeavors, he doesn’t think things could get any worse.
Seeing Mike Wheeler at his local grocery store quickly proves him wrong.
OR: Running away and the reunion of a lifetime.
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10 Sep 2022