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if everyone has someone (then the math just isn't right) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2025
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El’s mouth twists to one side, the way it does when she’s about to deliver bad news. Mike’s gut sinks further. “Will’s bringing Andy home for the holidays to meet everyone.”
Logically, there is only one possible context behind all of this, but that does not mean Mike is willing to believe it before he has to. “Right,” he says, feeling vaguely on the verge of hyperventilating, “and- El, who the fuck is Andy?”
At this, El’s expression of thinly veiled pity shifts into proper shock, her eyes going wide and round. “Oh,” she says, “oh, dear.”
Mike comes home from his first semester at college with a plan: to make Will Byers his boyfriend. Unfortunately, it appears someone else has already beaten him to it.
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nothing lasts forever (but let's see how far we get) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 May 2025
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“I’m not moping,” Mike sighs, sounding objectively pretty mopey, “I’m just…”
Their sides are already all but pressed together, thanks to the relatively narrow space the bed provides, but Will nudges his thigh into Mike’s too, just to complete the line. “Just what?”
Mike sighs again, this time more frustrated than dejected. “Well, it’s weird, right?” he asks, rhetorically Will assumes, “because we’ve been obsessing for ages over how to save the world and get back to normal, but now that it’s actually happened, I’m realizing that none of us ever talked about what getting back to normal means.”
“Ah.” Will smiles to himself a little. “You want a plan.”the world stops ending. mike has some feelings about it.
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starving works (when it costs too much to love) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2025
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“No,” Mike says forcefully, and then, with a frustrated sound, “I mean- yes, I don’t know. What I mean is, it’s bullshit that you had to deal with that, and it’s bullshit that you have to deal with-” here he gestures wildly to, Will assumes, the general shitshow that their lives have become, “all of this, and I just…” he sighs, and lets his hand fall to rest on top of Will’s. The contact, the casualness with which he initiates it, surprises Will so much that he stops trying to strangle his pinky finger with the couch thread. “You should have the things you want,” Mike says, squeezing Will’s hand.
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how will i know (if history repeats itself) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 May 2025
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This is something that, probably, someone with more objectivity on the situation than Mike would categorize as not normal. Personally, though, Mike isn’t all that pressed. Not when it’s so undeniably pleasant. He’s fine being abnormal about Will if it means not ruining this for himself.
After a few minutes, Will props himself up on one elbow, looking at Mike with sudden urgency. “Mike,” he says, blinking slowly at him, and Mike pauses the show again, arching an eyebrow at him.
“Yes?”
Will grins, all crooked and boyish and brilliant in the soft glow of the living room lamplight. “Let’s make out.”the one where they're exes who still kiss sometimes, but not, like, in a weird way.
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this natural thing that you've undone by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Apr 2025
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“Do I,” Will starts, haltingly, eyes darting back and forth between Mike’s own like he’s already searching for the answer, “make you nervous?”
Mike exhales, his shaky breath too loud in the space between them. It’s hard enough to sort through his own feelings where Will is concerned; it’s another thing entirely to attempt to explain them to Will himself. He looks at Will’s face, the planes of it softened in the darkness, and tries to draw forth the answer closest to the jumbled mass of the truth. “Yes,” is what he lands on, followed by, “maybe. I don’t know.”in which will visits mike at college and mike has an agenda that yields... mixed results
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still got it by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy), wayward_sherlock
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Aug 2024
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take the long way home by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
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12 Mar 2024
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the start of forever by cannibalismyuri, delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2023
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In which Mike and Will are each other's muses, and their classmates would never let them forget it.
Two stories about how much inspiration and snooping noses sticking themselves in Mike and Will's business can do for a relationship. Not that they'd ever tell the aforementioned noses that.
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one thing after another by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
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15 Feb 2023
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if it was an open-shut case by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2022
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byler college au!!
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smoking cigarettes on the roof by wayward_sherlock for delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Sep 2025
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Will had climbed up to Mike’s window with a practiced ease, and while he always felt bad about waking Mike up from his much needed sleep, Will needed him, needed his soft and gentle touches, needed to know that Mike was alive and that he could keep Will safe from himself.
And now, Will feels more than just safe – he feels content. He’s sitting on the sloped roof of a house he’s known like the back of his hand since he was six with his legs curled up to his stomach, head resting on his knees, as he watches the love of his life blow smoke from his lips.
will has a nightmare the fall after the world goes back to normal. mike is there for him, always.
Bookmarked by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
11 Sep 2025
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so stupidly sweet and it’s for MEEEE god bless us all
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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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Bookmarked by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
02 Dec 2024
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so sweet so gut wrenching so perfect but would i expect anything less from ao3 user pseudologia no i would not
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Three years after moving to California, one Will Byers shows up - read: dimension-teleports or something - back in Hawkins. In the corner of Mike's bedroom. In the middle of the night. Turns out this is a bad thing, namely for Mike and Mike's sanity.
or: Will is having Upside Down Related Issues, and Mike is only helping because it's his duty as a friend. As a friend, seriously.
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23 Aug 2022
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i took my love and i took it down by tellthatbrokebitch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Mar 2024
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Just as something brushes against his leg, he throws himself forward and meets open air.
Time seems to slow. It’s a cliché, but it’s honest, and he’s trying to be honest with himself these days.
So honest that, as time slows and the wind rushing past him seems to slow as well, he admits that in a way, this is what he’s always wanted. To take control of his own fate, have a say in what becomes of him. To disappear, for good this time. Hopefully they won’t find his body. And what does it say about him, that the idea of disappearing forever and leaving everyone he loves with nothing fills him with a fucked-up sense of relief?
Will pictures his mom’s face when she hears he’s missing. And Jonathan’s. And… his friends. El. Mike.
Will Byers, missing. Again.
Dead. Again.
For good.
Fuck.
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It’s been three years since the world ended. Three years since the spores began to fall, infecting people and turning them into mindless, horrifying monsters that preyed on the living. Three years since they’ve been able to relax. Three years they’ve been holding their breath, hoping against hopelessness that the nightmare will soon end.
a s5 zombie-apocalypse au
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It's not even like Will is some godlike specimen. His skin is olivey and a bit summer-tan, and he has floppy, honey-brown hair and a few moles smattered adorably across his face and arms, but he is very much just a boy. Average height, average build, symmetrical face. He's wearing jeans and a Zelda T-shirt and plain white Vans. But he gives Mike an awkward half-smile and a wave as he introduces himself at the box office, and Mike can actually feel himself get stupider.
Will and Mike meet working at their local movie theater, and Mike is so into Will — particularly his hands — that he almost gets fired.