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“A card?”, Will asks, tilting his head a little, “What card?”
Sure, Mike thinks, as if this hasn’t been embarrassing enough already. He can see it in Will’s eyes, that he knows what this is about and he’s daring Mike to ask it out loud for whatever reason. To let this personal humiliation ritual reach its full-circle moment, making it clear that Mike is disappointed that he’s not Will’s Valentine this year. He’ll get back at him for this, someday.
Mike takes a deep breath. “You know, every year you write me a Valentine’s Day card and every year you give it to me four days before I’m supposed to open it. Why not this year? Why didn’t you give me a card?” There. He said it. He asked him. Lucas’ leg taps up and down anxiously, eyes still focused elsewhere but clearly monitoring what Will has to say.
Will shrugs, casual as ever, “Why didn’t you give me a card?”
Mike blinks, “What?”
Will looks at him as if this had been obvious all along. “You’re right, Mike, every year I give you one and every year I receive nothing in return. I just thought you might not want one anymore.”
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15 Feb 2026
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Mike visits California for Christmas break. He doesn't expect for Will to have changed so much.
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13 Feb 2026
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I Wanna Feel Guilty (I Wanna Feel That It's Wrong) by DJyapyap
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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"You’re everything to me, Will.”
And suddenly it all crashes over him. Years of feeling seen by him, of being close to him, of never being able to say it aloud. Will's anger falters, and his fists drop. “I...I can’t.” He whispers, voice cracking. “You’re supposed to be with her, Mike. You can’t-”
“I can’t help it,” he says, voice barely above a whisper. “I can’t help how I feel about you.”
Everything stops. Will's anger, frustration, and fear all collide into one unbearable, aching, quiet truth; Michael Wheeler loves William Byers, even when he shouldn’t, even when he’s supposed to be with Jane.
And the worst part? Will loves him back.
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After everything Hawkins and California has thrown at them, Will and Mike are back home, but nothing feels simple. Mike is always there for Will, quietly protective, a little dense, and more attached than anyone realizes. Will notices everything, but he’s learned to keep most of it to himself.
As the days pass, small gestures start to carry more weight than either of them admits. Meanwhile, Eleven(Jane) begins to notice the way Mike looks at Will, and her quiet observations may be the push that changes everything.
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13 Feb 2026
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At once, all of the pieces come together, and Mike isn’t sure he likes the shape they take. It’s like someone has taken a ball of red string into his brain and begun connecting years of memories he has worked so hard to ignore.
The painting. The red string reaches for another memory: El’s letter from that spring. All the shared looks that were meant only for the two of them. That day in the rain. Each shoulder bump. Every unnecessary brush of the knee.
Crimson yarn stretches into the recesses of his mind: The way Mike would always sit just a touch too close. The way Will would always let him. How lost Mike felt the year Will was in California. How he could never find the right words to say. The weird feeling Mike got in his chest when he saw Will at the airport, and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. The worst week of his life, back in 83’. "If we both go crazy, at least we’ll go crazy together, right?"
The string loops back around and grabs one final piece of the puzzle: Tammy motherfucking Thompson.
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Mike’s junior year begins with an avalanche. This is what follows.
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13 Feb 2026
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After surviving monsters, mind flayers, and the Upside Down, the Party finally has time for something normal: weekly D&D.
What starts as harmless in-character banter between Tayr the Brave and Will the Wise turns into painfully obvious flirting, except neither of them realizes it’s real.
Everyone else at the table does, everyone else is suffering.Ancient magic, bad decisions, and one very ill-advised resurrection later, the line between game and reality disappears entirely.
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13 Feb 2026
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You Can Bite My Neck Just A Little Too Hard by iloveangstwithhappyendings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Feb 2026
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“Be my fake boyfriend,” he said quickly, not giving Will time to react. “It makes sense. We’re childhood friends. Everyone loves friends to lovers. My mom especially. We already live together. We can say we fell in love while dorming.”
“Fine,” Will said quietly. “But you’re driving Saturday.”
Or, Spring break is creeping up and the Wheelers still haven’t accepted the fact Mike is gay.
Good thing Will Byers is his childhood friend, roommate, and the perfect fake lover! What’s the difference between pretending feelings are fake and pretending they don’t exist?
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08 Feb 2026
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“Dustin! I do not need a plus one—that’s my point! I don’t need one. So would you please do me the honor of coming to the wedding with me?”
Dustin glared for a beat longer. “And half your cake?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Fine.” Dustin glared a little more. Finally, he grinned. “I would be delighted to accompany you to your mom’s wedding.”
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Joyce and Hopper: planning the perfect wedding.
Also Joyce and Hopper: forgetting Dustin Henderson's invite.
Will: “I can fix this.”
Mike: “I hate that you fixed this.”Bookmarked by Timber_Shadows
08 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike come from two completely different worlds.
Mike, a pureblood, a vampire by birth, distant, mysterious, solitary and independent with a few exceptions, could not be more different from Will, a sorcerer, extroverted, family-oriented, open and sociable.
Vampires and sorcerers have never gotten along due to a long history of being mortal enemies.
Could anything change between them when their worlds are forced to meet?
A Byler Enemies to Lovers that you won’t be able to resist sinking your teeth into.
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06 Feb 2026
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“So. Logical conclusion?” Dustin grinned down at him, pleased. “You’re in love with Mike and heartbroken that he and El made up. You’re welcome.”
Will sighed. “Dustin, I already knew I was in love with Mike.”
Will Byers is not avoiding his friends—he’s just busy.
Busy avoiding Mike Wheeler, busy lying about homework, and busy trying (and failing) to get over the boy he’s been in love with for years.
Unfortunately, Dustin Henderson has noticed. And he has a plan.
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06 Feb 2026
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spit swear by poorlittlegreenie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
15 Feb 2026
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Will bites his lip and nods, looking down at his shoes again so Richie won't see how hard he's holding back a giddy smile.
Everybody in the party knows everything about him. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to keep a secret from Mike for a little while.
It's kind of exciting. Sneaking in a boy Mike hates.
Will shakes his head, trying to clear Mike from it for the night. Only when he looks back up at Richie, Richie has this conspiratorial smile on his face, like maybe Will isn't the only one eager to piss off Mike Wheeler.
OR: the concept of Richie Tozier being Will Byers' dirty little secret and Mike Wheeler being so jealous he can't breathe. Byler endgame.
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Bookmarked by Timber_Shadows
06 Feb 2026
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Mike and Will are roommates at NYU. Mike is a raging alcoholic, and drinking is the only thing numbing the pain of his all-consuming obsession with Will Byers.
CHAPTER 7 WILL BE COMING BACK BUT I NEEDED TO COMPLETELY CHANGE IT FOR CHAPTER 8 TO WORK HEHEAnd for some unbelievably fucking stupid reason, his hand shot out beside Will's shoulder, slamming flat against the door to hold it in place, caging him in, and god, he was too fucking close now. He knew it by the way Will's breathing changed, a sharp, panicked inhale, and a wild look spread over his face. But his eyes were betraying him, flicking between Mike's mouth and his eyes like he couldn't decide which fucking sin to commit first.
“Mike… we should talk,” Will said, clearly flustered as all fuck.
At least, that was Mike's interpretation. And god, was he one selfish, fucking evil bastard, because now he was dropping the match and he was going to light this fucking bathroom on fire with him and Will in it. He leaned in further, his lips a breath away from Will's.
“Fuck talking.”
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06 Feb 2026
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After years of unresolved feelings, Mike and Will finally have everything they ever wanted. They were officially in a romantic relationship.
They’ve always been a package deal whose hips were practically sewn into each other, so why is Mike’s clinginess a problem now?
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An omegaverse Stranger Things season 3 rewrite without the ‘DL’ in Mike Wheeler.
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04 Feb 2026
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Will is at a party enjoying his new college life, living in peace after leaving Hawkins behind. He´s happy, he has a boyfriend who loves him and his life is starting to feel his again. Until he sees Mike at a party in California and everything changes. Old feelings and memories coming back to him. And this Mike looks nothing like the Mike he left in Hawkins...
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Will and Mike reunite after a few years and they have a friends-with-benefits relationship behind Carlton's back.
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02 Feb 2026
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“You want to live with me,” Mike repeated, dumbly.
“Yes, that’s what I just said, Mike.”
“With me?”
Will made another annoyed sound. “I’m going to change my mind if you don’t stop.”
Mike and Will haven't talked in two years. But when Will calls Mike from his little NYC apartment, letting him know that he's just gone through a breakup and he needs a new roommate, can they repair their relationship after all this time?
or: Mike and Will's friendship had been seemingly ended by a fight. Mike still lives with his parents while Will makes a name for himself in NYC. However, Will reaching out gives them the chance to be friends again... and more than that, too, if Mike can figure himself out.
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30 Jan 2026
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A few years ago, Jonathan Byers made waves for being the first omega in years to be publicly claimed in the middle of Hawkins’ High hallway. His mates? None other than King Steve and Queen Nancy, both alphas finally staking their claim.
In 1988, Jonathan’s younger brother Will finally decides he’s ready to look for a mate. With Vecna dead and everyone safe, including El, he thinks he’s finally ready to try being a real teenager again.
The school’s alphas have been waiting for this. Let the courtships begin.
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28 Jan 2026
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“There is no way that is a real thing!” Will says, though it comes out more squeaky than he intended.
“Well, fine if you’d rather be cold.” Mike drawls pulling away slowly, taking his warmth with him.
“No!” Will says a little too fast. “I mean, I guess a ‘penguin huddle’ is better than getting frostbite in the woods.
“It's scientific!” Mike says. Slowly and gingerly resting his head on Will’s shoulder, like he expects Will to push him away at any moment. “Okay, so I’m thinking that we should explore Will the Wise’s backstory more-”
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The memory turns sour in his mind, Will didn’t understand how he lost that Mike so quickly. It was like he was an entirely new person now. Two different Mikes existed in his head, His Mike and new Mike. He knew even back in the Spring that Mike wasn’t his alone anymore, he was El’s
-Or, Will's fight with Mike causes his powers to develop in ST3 instead of 5. How will Mike fight his internalized homophobia when his best friend becomes a superhero? A slowburn that explores abuse, love, and friendship across the show.
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28 Jan 2026
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It’s the summer of 1993, and Will Byers, armed with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and powers he’s gotten much better at controlling, is doing his damnedest to make rent for his shoebox apartment in the Lower East Side. Between his day job at the MoMA gift shop and late nights bartending at a popular local establishment known for its drag shows, he attends ACT UP demonstrations and works toward his dream of one day making a living through his art.
All this should, logically, leave very little time for lingering, clandestine feelings for a childhood friend, but Will’s lovesickness for Mike is something he was never able to fully shake, and the fact that Mike’s name keeps popping up everywhere thanks to a bestselling sci-fi novel is not helping one bit.
Unbeknownst to Will, Mike Wheeler has been harboring secrets of his own. Secrets that have been bleeding into his writing for years. When his publisher floats the idea of turning his bestseller into a comic book series, he knows there’s only one person on earth he trusts to do the illustrations for it. And maybe, just maybe, he’ll find a way to write the two of them a happy ending.
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28 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is content with his quiet life...mostly. He has a teaching position at Quantico, a comfortable home, and his best friend Mike, whose presence has always felt like enough. He’s done with the work that once cost him his sanity. He’s done with the blood, the patterns, the way violence used to settle too easily into his bones.
Then Jim Hopper, head of the Behavioral Science Unit, shows up with a case he can’t solve alone. Girls are disappearing without a trace, and Jim needs Wills help. Will knows what saying yes would mean. The sleepless nights. The unraveling. And Jim would never stop at one case — he would keep coming back, asking more of Will than he could afford to give.
But Mike is moving forward. Building a life that doesn’t quite leave room for Will anymore.
So Will takes the job.
And in doing so, he steps back into a world where love, obsession, and violence blur together and where the most dangerous thing he might uncover isn’t the killer, but the truth about himself and those closest to him.
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27 Jan 2026
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By the time Will realized something was missing, it was already too late.
The change came quietly—the Party drifting, the laughter fading, the spaces growing wider. Yet to Will, the past still felt close. Like yesterday. Like it could all be fixed if he just reached out.
So Will stayed. Holding on. Hoping. Believing.
Until someone stepped into the space he didn’t even know was empty.
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26 Jan 2026
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Will Byers presented earlier than others , doctor Owen said it was because what he encountered in the upside down all the trauma causing his emotions and hormones to mess up and cause him to present earlier than the rest of the kids in his grade. And to top it off he presented as an omega. An omega.. And worst of all he was in love with his best friend. Mike Wheeler who is dating his sister which sounds horrible which he knows it is but he simply can’t help it he’s been in love with Mike since they were 13 and he’s trying so so hard to get over him since he knows it’s wrong and because Mike isn’t like him.
Dustin and Will are two best friends hopelessly in love with their two best friends. The only bad thing is that they're dating each other , Dustin and Will both come up with a plan to fake date each other until they're both over the couple so they don’t ruin the friendship.- Language:
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25 Jan 2026