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you're my vice, you're my muse (you're a nineteenth floor view) by writer_sometimes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jun 2025
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will pushed one of mike’s boxes to the side, “can you clean this up? i want this half of the room to be for my stuff.” mike raised his hands in surrender.
“rest of the space is yours, picasso.” he gestured to the bed. his music was still blaring from the speaker and now there was the horrifying scrape of boxes across linoleum to accompany it, “what’s your medium? charcoal, paints…?” he drifted off, clearly unable to name another medium of art, “...crayon?”
will shoved his bedsheets into each corner of his mattress, barely looking up, “silence. try it out sometime."
the music paused shortly after.
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or will byers meets mike wheeler in a room of darkness. he's loud, messy and slightly socially inept. he's already had the worst last year of his life and he does not need one more thing, or person, piling onto that.
so he's cold. he's icy. he leaves passive aggressive notes on their minifridge (but if mike would just put his socks AWAY).
but the two are destined to be a lot more than just mutually hated roommates. and it all begins with an anonymous radio show Late Night Caller.
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09 Jan 2026
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“Can you look at me?” Mike’s voice sounds strange. Thin.
Will slowly turns around. His eyes land comfortably on Mike’s chin, but he feels the boy’s eyes digging into his eyelids, so he forces himself to look up. This cannot possibly be what Will thinks it is. It can’t. Mike might tell him about recurring nightmares that’ve been bothering him, or the anxiety that’s been eating him up about his hospitalized parents, or maybe he’s going to start complaining about his withering relationship with El, but it cannot be that, right?
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Mike doesn't waste any more time repressing his feelings for Will. Breaking limbs with his badass mind powers is enough of a cue for him to confess.
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09 Jan 2026
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.
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05 Jan 2026
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“Order’s up!” a voice calls from the direction of the kitchen window. Will glances up instinctively, and —
Oh.
Oh.
Standing right in front of him, partially obstructed from view by the orders hanging from the kitchen window, is a boy.
A really, really, really attractive boy.
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It's taking everything within Will to survive the very first Byers-Hopper Family Roadtrip ™️. Luckily for him, meeting a cute boy at a roadside diner might just help.
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04 Jan 2026
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“Okay, okay, it’s counting down,” Mike says, still squirming and trying to give Will extra space. “Shit, sorry; this thing is tiny—”
“It’s okay!” Will reassures. “Mike, it’s fine—”
CLICK!
Or:
Will and Mike try to take pictures in a photobooth. Naturally, chaos ensues.
Series
- Part 26 of random hiatus fics
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04 Jan 2026