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He’s planning on turning around and going to the bus stop. It’s not even that far. Really, that’s what he’s thinking, he swears, but his feet seem to have other plans. In his head, he’s walking towards the street.
In front of his eyes, Will Byers opens the door.
I love you, Mike thinks, like he always does.
“Hi,” he says.
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Mike runs away from his house, and goes home.
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11 Mar 2026
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Mike feels—fuzzy, a little bit. Not from the wine, because he didn’t have much, but just from the day itself. From his realization. From the certainty that he can’t go back, after this. He’s let himself feel it. He’s let himself decide. From today on, there’ll just be the time before he knew he liked Will, and the time after.
Without really thinking about it, he swipes over to his messages. His and Will’s pathetic last conversation is still there, Will’s gracious apology and Mike’s fumbling acceptance. The screen blurs in front of his eyes; light and color and sound. He types:
Do you ever think about us?
He presses send.
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11 Mar 2026
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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09 Mar 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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09 Mar 2026
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you can take me (hot to go) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler walks into a gay bar… and it’s not the start of a joke.
It’s the start of learning how to exist without apologizing for it.
Newly out and still kinda terrified of taking up space, Mike is sure everyone will clock him as an intruder the second he steps inside. But instead of judgment, he finds Will Byers. His quiet confidence, the kind that doesn't demand anything, makes Mike feel safe in a way he's never felt before.
One conversation turns into hours. Hours turn into something that feels dangerously like connection. The air between them turns electric, charged with something neither of them names.
Nothing happens.
But everything changes.
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08 Mar 2026
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one last time (after that i’ll let you go) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Mar 2026
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Mike is leaving Hawkins for college. But before he goes, there’s someone he still needs to talk to.
And so he stays for one last goodbye.
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08 Mar 2026
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In a desperate, last-ditch flail of an effort to salvage the situation, Mike grabbed Will’s arm.
The silence veered from heavy to charged. All of Mike’s attention surged into his hand. He felt like the entirety of his consciousness was suddenly located in the place where his skin touched Will’s.
What the fuck, thought Mike for the second time in ten minutes.
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After first using his powers, Will falls unconscious—and stays that way. Refusing to leave Will's side, Mike reflects on the last year and a half while he waits for Will to wake up.aka mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate, FEATURING: wound cleaning, bed sharing, disco, Jealous!Mike, queer literary analysis, & the most horrifying eldritch specter of all (gay panic). Canon compliant through S5 Vol 1.
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07 Mar 2026
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something better than these broken parts by odysseus_day
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a lot of problems with where his life has ended up, but his most prevalent at the moment has to be just how irrevocably stupid his decisions have started to become.
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Or, in which it takes almost a decade post-finale for Mike to finally accept what he's spent his whole life running from... but better late than never, right?
(Featuring: messy post-college Byler, platonic soulmates Madwheeler, and Mike Wheeler's severely unmedicated BPD)
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05 Mar 2026
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touch me with a kiss, feel me on your lips by jeaanmoreau
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2026
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“Is it cause you used to have a crush on me?” Mike asked, abruptly.
“What!” It was Will’s turn to blush harder, giving him a glare reserved for Mike Wheeler and Mike Wheeler only. “No. God. That was ages ago. I’ve been past that for a long time.”
Mike motioned like he’d made his point. “See? So? It wouldn’t be weird.”
So, Mike likes guys. Fine, Will can live with that. Except now Mike's worried about having fallen behind and would really like some help practicing how to kiss a guy from his also-into-guys best friend. And Will is trying really, really hard to be a good mentor to him, so what is he going to do, say no?
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05 Mar 2026
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lonely touch (where do I put my heart?) by silverdragons33
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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“You’re not rotten,” Mike says, vehemently. “You’re a good person, Will. The best.”
Will’s eyes are dark in the low lighting of the cabin. A gust of wind knocks against the window, but they’re both too caught in the moment, in their cocoon of eye contact and soft understanding and warm hands knotted together on the couch.
“I don’t think that’s possible for you to know,” Will whispers eventually, mouth quirking up into a halfhearted smile. “Or have you met all five billion people in the world?”
“Doesn’t matter,” Mike says quickly. His eyes are stuck on Will’s smile, but he can’t quite make himself join in on the joke, not this time. “You’re the only one that matters.”
Will’s smile drops. “Oh.”
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Will struggles to come to terms with his new-found powers. Mike is in awe (and also maybe in love).
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- Part 1 of where do I put my heart?
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03 Mar 2026
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“So he is just… in my life,” Mike said with disgust as he noticed how pathetic the weight on his chest felt. “In my house. Using my face. With Will.”
The cleric’s expression tightened. “Your friend.”
“My best friend,” Mike corrected too sharply. The moment the words left him, the flare of jealousy turned into embarrassment. He couldn’t remember when he grew to hate how he sounded when the subject was Will.
William’s gaze held steady. “Do you not want him there because you fear for your friend, or because you fear what your friend might feel?”
Mike’s mouth opened, then closed. The question hit too close to the thing he’d been circling for years without touching.OR: Mike wakes up in a paladin’s body, face-to-face with a cleric who looks exactly like Will, except this Will speaks in oaths and shows him a kind of affection he doesn’t feel he deserves.
Back home, someone else is wearing Mike’s skin, saying the things Mike has never dared to say out loud.
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28 Feb 2026
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“I hear you’re giving out love advice.”
“That’s the show,” Will croaks.
“Hm,” says Mike. “Well, maybe you can help me. There’s this person I—I’m interested in. A friend. A really good friend.”Or,
When Will is forced to sub in as the host for Steve’s cheesy dating advice show on the Squawk, he receives some interesting calls.
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27 Feb 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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26 Feb 2026
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Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.
Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’
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25 Feb 2026
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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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25 Feb 2026
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Freaky Friday (It's Tuesday Mike!) by Nymphadoragreenleaf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2022
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Mike thought pretending to be his best friend, after they inexplicably switched bodies, would be a piece of cake.
After all they're best friends. How could he possibly mess this up?
Pretty easily apparently, if everyone's reaction to Will getting a date with a girl is any indication.
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22 Feb 2026
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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonverbal autistic, and Mike has allusions to also being autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
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22 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler does not like to be fucked in the ass.
But he currently is. Metaphorically, spiritually, and, as far as his living situation is concerned, quite literally.
He’s being fucked over by the rent prices in the East Village. He’s being fucked over by the pollen count currently turning his sinuses into a war zone. And most importantly, he is being fucked over by the man currently standing in his living room—a man who looks exactly like him.
A man currently kissing Will’s knuckles.
"Kill me," Mike whispers into the collar of his Mudhoney sweatshirt. It smells like three-day-old American Spirits and tragedy. "Just kill me now."
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In a grimey 90s East Village apartment, Mike and Will are beating the "world's most repressed roommates" allegations until THE Paladin!Mike moves in and starts to treat Will like a sacred relic. Jonathan is being a total freak behind the lens, recording the whole disaster for a thesis project that’s basically just him being a professional voyeur/hater of his brother's love life.Bookmarked by alexiswrite
18 Feb 2026
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"How could you use my own commitment issues against me like that?" The two keep dancing, Mike's hands resting on Will's waist and Will's arms placed over Mike's shoulders, staying close to keep up the act for his admirer.
"Maybe it's a sign you should actually work on them," Will chides. "You're gonna run out of people in the city if you keep going like this – I'm surprised you haven't propositioned me yet." Mike knows it's supposed to be a joke, but there's something in Will's voice that makes him think again.
When Mike doesn't respond, Will asks, "Why haven't you?" He wishes he could see the expression on Will's face right now. The question has always had a clear answer, but he doesn't know why it's making him pause now. He shakes himself out of it.
"I actually like having you in my life."
Mike realizes he's in love with Will. Will asks Mike to be the best man in his wedding. Chaos ensues.
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17 Feb 2026
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They're Not You (A Bravebyers One Shot) by Eggsbaconcheese
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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My first entry into the Bravebyers verse
Paladin Michael attempts (and fails) to console Will after a night terror, making it clear that Mike is the only one who can really be what Will needs.
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15 Feb 2026