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the heart (it was always you) by Abyss_In_WonderLand_likes_sexy_cannibals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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Mike still had one more thing on his mind that’s been eating at him. It wasn’t that crazy of a question to ask. They had nothing better to do anyway. Also, they were friends and friends usually talked to their friends about these kinds of things, right? This could just be one friend asking another a simple question. Anyone would’ve done the same. To fill the silence, make the wait shorter. And he used to talk about El a lot, so it only made sense to give Will an opportunity to do the same.
"So who was it?" It came out in one frantic mess of a phrase that even Mike himself barely understood.
Will jumped a little, startled. "What?"
"Um, you said you had a crush on someone," Mike said, already failing spectacularly. "Who was it? Anyone I know?"
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Or; Mike and Will really need to talk, but Vecna trying to kill them keeps getting in the way.
An alternative Stranger Things finale, told by Mike.
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“There’s no way!” Mike half-shouts back as they near the living room. One dance was already enough for him tonight.
“You’re drunk and you’re dancing!” Will remarks.
“Correction, I’m buzzed! You're drunk and dancing, and now you’re wanting to force your agenda onto me!”
“You danced earlier? What’s so different about it now?”
You.
Why did Mike Wheeler ever agree to go to a party with Will Byers when all they've been doing recently is fighting. Now he's drunk, annoyed, and forcing every bone in his body not to do something completely and utterly stupid.
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02 Feb 2026
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This is so beautiful 😭 Will Byers deserves the world, and Michael Wheeler finally realizes it.
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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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01 Feb 2026
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““Will-” Mike whispered, years of sadness and loss and a million other things Will couldn’t understand splaying across his face. Will gently pulled away his hand, something tearing deep inside him as he did. It was the hardest thing to do, to leave that warmth behind.
“I’m a little tired now,” he said, voice thick with unshed tears, not daring to look at Mike, knowing that if he did, nothing would stop him from doing something they would both regret. He walked back across the room and sat on the edge of the bed. For a moment Mike just stood where they’d been, still and unmoving. Will had to use every shred of energy he had left not to get up and go to him. Mike’s shoulders dipped in resignation as he slowly turned around. The darkness masked his expression, but the silence was enough.
For them, Will supposed, silence had always been enough. It would always have to be.”Or: After Nevada, things are not the same. Mike is confusing, though this is not exactly new. Still, there is an earnestness; an honesty that wasn’t there before. Electric glances, small confessions: nothing feels as simple as it used to. Timing, it seems, has never been on Will's side. Or... has it?
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01 Feb 2026
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Max hums, “Just say hi, Mike. It’s just Will. He’ll be happy to see you.”
“Just Will.”
"Mhm," Max grins, “despite the new look, he’s the same boy.”
Mike shivers, “And the other one?” he knows he ought to hide his grimace. To pretend to be happy for Will. Who did he think he was to be bitter about his friend finally finding love? That’s exactly what he needed to stop being: bitter. But he can’t help it. Mike has been nothing but bitter for the past four years, and now, this is not helping. Not helping at all.
“That’s Carlton!” Max says, looking at Will, her eyes sparkling, “I’m so happy for Will.”
“Uh-huh,” Mike says, looking at them. Now Carlton’s whispering something into Will’s ears. And it feels like he shouldn’t be seeing any of this. It’s such an intimate moment. The way Will gasps and shivers, the glimmer in his eyes, the way Carlton smirks. He smirks. He is smirking. What is wrong with him?
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Mike sees Will with a boyfriend at Lumax's wedding, and he realizes he messed up badly. So he decides it's time to get Will back.
(then they get freaky lol)
(and yes, Will folds for Mike immediately because, of course, he does!)Bookmarked by Vavoom_Sorted
25 Jan 2026
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He’s thinking too much. He never used to think this much. At least not about himself, and about himself in relation to other people, and about the impression he leaves on them, what they might think of him. "Oblivious" his sister used to call him, and it’s only now that he has come to the conclusion that that oblivion had been a luxury.
Because now, he can’t stop thinking. And it sucks. It really fucking sucks. What did he do to deserve this? Why did he have to wake up one day and realize that Will got hot? It’s so unfair.
And it wasn’t a gradual thing either. He really did just look at Will one day and… bam. Words aren’t enough, he thinks. Any retelling of that moment would need to contain sound effects.
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It's not Mike's fault that Will doesn't like girls. It's also not Mike's fault that Mike doesn't like girls. It IS Mike's fault that he's being an idiot about it. But it turns out alright in the end.
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- Part 4 of Unrelated Stranger Things Shorts
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25 Jan 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid
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19 Jan 2026
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: Yet another buzzy post vol 1 fic where Will grows more confident, Mike short-circuits over it, and they save the world together !!
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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19 Jan 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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15 Jan 2026
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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08 Jan 2026
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i’d love to see me from your point of view by unidentifiedblackthorn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jul 2022
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Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.
“I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.
“Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”
“Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”
Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”
“Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.
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Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.
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- Part 1 of nobody's ever loved me like you do
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07 Jan 2026
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
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Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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- Part 1 of devotion | Indiana University
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06 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler isn't gay.
Or at least, he wasn't, until he made out with Will Byers.
----When he turns around, Will is already on his bed, because of course he is.
He’s sitting the way he always does– sprawled just slightly, one knee bent, hands braced behind him like he owns the place. Like they are normal. Like they haven’t crossed some invisible line that Mike can’t stop obsessing over.
Something around Mike’s lungs tighten painfully.
God, he wants to kiss him.
He wants to close the distance and press his mouth to Will’s and feel that soft, familiar warmth again. Wants to see if it still feels like lightning. He wants to know if it feels different now, with the sun still up and the house awake and the world very much watching.
----part 2 of chicken (i dare you to)
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- Part 2 of truth or dare
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06 Jan 2026
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With the Byers back in Hawkins, the tension was getting harder to ignore. As Will desperately tries to move past the truth, Mike must learn to accept it. It takes time, it takes space, it takes tears. But maybe, somewhere along the way, they'll decide they're better going through it together.
Or// the post s4 angsty byler slowburn we all need
Determined to update this as much as possible :)
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04 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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13 Dec 2025
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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- Part 1 of The Cadence Opus
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20 Nov 2025
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How many wizards does it take to blow up a wall? by Agcurrant
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Apr 2024
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Remus Lupin is doing his best so as not to agree to his friends's risky plan to blow up a wall at Hogwarts in order to steal ingredients for their next prank, yet he fails miserably due to the persuasive influence of Sirius Black. Later some alcohol, really shitty music and shared cigarettes lead him to some bad decisions.
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09 Aug 2025
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“Wait, hang on,” interrupted James. Was he hearing what he thought he was hearing? “Are you telling me… that you charmed the broom closet… into a snogging room?!”
“Not just any snogging room!” replied Marlene with delight. “It’s so we can all play Seven Minutes in Heaven!”
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What happens when two people, one madly in love, the other in denial of his feelings, accidentally stumble into a magically enchanted broom closet with no way out?
*** Edited to include a short Epilogue.
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- Part 1 of Idiots in Love
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29 Jul 2025
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When Lily and James find out Remus has a not-so-subtle crush on someone and start questioning him about it, Remus thinks it can't get much worse.
But when Sirius joins the conversation... Well, things get siriusly awkward.Set during their Order time.
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- Part 3 of Crush Confessions!
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04 Jul 2025