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Zuko nearly died after the Agni Kai with his father, so Iroh took him to a Fire Sage temple and prayed for mercy on him. Agni blessed him, and he left soon after, not to hunt for the Avatar, as his father "requested" but to avoid being used in war, as Ozai was sure to do upon the discovery that he'd been spirit-touched.
He went to the Sun Warriors, where he learned how to hone both his firebending, and how to use the powers given by the blessing. Add to that a dragon, and then he left for the Earth Kingdom "to find his destiny."
And then the Avatar comes back and he helps him and his friends steal from pirates, unknowingly of course. It's just all downhill from there.I couldn't write a summary if my life was at stake. Also story title from the Mitski song, 'Heat Lightning'
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- Part 1 of And so the sun was loved.
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02 Sep 2026
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Running to the frontlines from a childhood he never had. Taking a bat to the wall with his son in the next room. Having an affair with the spitting image of his dead wife.
Eddie knows he’s never been good at grieving, knows he’s never been good at losing what little he allows for himself in the first place. This is why he also knows his coping mechanisms can’t possibly get any worse.
Buck, as he so often does, makes him reevaluate his assumptions.
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Evan Buckley dies behind a wall of glass. It’s a shame that when he’s revived not three minutes later, no one is informed.- Language:
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20 Jul 2026
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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07 Jul 2026
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Separate Ways - Hearts Broken in Two by Flurryofstarz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2022
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He came to California to make things right. This was supposed to be the best spring break ever, after all. Except, in true Mike Wheeler fashion, things don't go as planned and he messes up all over again. El's gone, Will's pissed at him, and they're being chased across the country by a bunch of people with guns. None of this would have happened if Mike could do something right for a change. And then, finally, a golden opportunity presents itself.
Mike's made a million mistakes, but this isn’t one of them.
Or, a depressing story of self-sacrifice based in season 4 of Stranger Things.
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- Part 1 of Worlds Apart
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07 May 2026
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Mike Wheeler's life is interrupted when he's bitten by a demobat in the Upside Down and is suddenly turning into a vampire.
The title of this work is from the song Take Me to Church by Hozier
(Warning: This story contains explicit chapters that will be marked. Please read the tags before reading)
This is written with the awareness that the actors are adults, otherwise I would not be writing this if they were portrayed by minors.
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08 Apr 2026
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promise i am awake, promise it's warm by percyandthepen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2025
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A sick, ugly, twisted part of Mike wonders if his nose has to start bleeding before someone notices he doesn't wanna be around anymore.
It’s stupid. It’s so incredibly stupid it hurts, and Mike knows it. He’s sixteen years old. He can handle the thoughts and the darkness and how bad it gets each and every winter, like clockwork. He doesn’t even need help, not like he thought he used to. He learned what real hurt was the fall Will went missing.
He just…feels like it never quite stopped hurting.
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Mike is depressed. He doesn't quite think he deserves to be, most of the time. Will disagrees.
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26 Feb 2026
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never cried to them, just to your soul by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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The last time he’d stood this close to the edge, Will had been gone, he’d thought he was dead. Nothing had mattered anymore, except protecting his friends, keeping those he had left safe. He hadn't wanted to live then, not without Will. He didn’t want to live now. Not because Will was gone—he was just across town in Mike’s room, probably not thinking about him or where he was for even a second—but because he didn’t deserve to. Because he was wrong, because he was sinful, because he didn’t matter, because nobody needed him and they never had. He’d just wanted them to need him because he’d needed them.
All he ever did was hurt the people he needed. Why would anyone ever need him? He was–
“Mike, where the hell are you?” Will’s voice latched a tether around his chest, pulled him back, pushed down his younger voice, silenced Troy and James.
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It's October 1986, the Byers have been living with the Wheelers for 3 months now, and Mike can't sleep through the night, waking to nightmares and struggling to reconcile his growing awareness of his feelings for Will with the expectations of everyone around him. It all comes crashing down around him very quickly and suddenly (though it was a long time coming).
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26 Jan 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 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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19 Jan 2026
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The Great Mike Wheeler Character Revival by Jinbobjapacolypse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jan 2026
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“I- I don’t like girls.”
Mike freezes in the doorway and feels the air catch in his lungs. Whether that’s on purpose or not, he’s unaware. Maybe blocking his airway is his body's way of doing him a favor, making him invisible to this conversation that he was very much not invited to. He takes a stumbling step back as quietly as he possibly can, which is difficult in his growing state of panic. He needs to make his escape immediately before being spotted, but all too soon, it’s too late. Joyce redirects her gaze to the doorway at the sound of his shuffling footsteps, and the shock in her expression inevitably prompts his best friend to turn around.
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Alternatively, a rewrite starting at the coming out scene and attempting to implement my favorite fan theories and fix the hot mess the Duffer Brothers created.
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13 Jan 2026
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“You, uh, cut your hair.” Is the first thing El says, wonder in her voice as she picks at a strand of his now much more even haircut. “You never said you cut it!”
Mike feels Will’s eyes burning into him when he smiles at her, trying his best to look sheepish, “It was on a whim, didn’t think it was important.”
There's a lot he hadn't told them and a lot he hopes they never find out.
Mike Wheeler believes he can change, or at least he hopes he can, because otherwise there's no way he'll ever be able to fix himself before his girlfriend and his best friend come back and figure out what a freak he's become. But maybe change isn't up to him because everything he does seems to make matters worse, including the way he just can't seem to stop thinking about his best friend.
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Mike deals with internalized biphobia in the best way he knows how- by almost ruining everything with his best friend and then kissing him, because yeah, he knows how to make good choices.
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08 Jan 2026
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But I know, if the world turned upside down / Baby, I know you'd always be around
“Mike?”
It’s a whisper, but it’s filled with something so earnest, so true, that it strikes through Mike’s very core. Rips apart at his chest, with the familiarity of it. The way his name sounds in this younger Will’s throat, soft and gentle and so, so relieved.
“Will,” Mike says back, matching his whisper. “Hey, Will, it’s me. Mike.”
“But—” Will frowns. He’s so unsure, Mike wants to cry for him. “You’re so tall.”
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Or, when Will is possessed by Vecna and trapped in his own mind, Mike is the only one who can save him.
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07 Jan 2026
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Beauty was in the eye of the beholder, but Mike disagreed.
There was no world where anyone could argue that Will was only beautiful to certain people, because that simply was not true.
Will had been personally crafted by Aphrodite herself and Mike knew, without question, that if a blind person were to press their fingertips against Will's face and dragged them across his skin, they could tell that the boy poured heart-stoppening, maddening beauty from every single one of his pores.
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Ever since Henry died alongside the Upside Down, Mike spent his nights listening to the breathing of one Will Byers right next to him on his bed.
Mike stared, and he wanted.
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30 Dec 2025
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okay so are the curtains blue for a reason or what (this is a metaphor) by sunflower_J
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Dec 2025
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Now, someone walked into the room. A boy, awkwardly standing at the side of his bed, looking over him worriedly. His hair was brown and scruffy, and he had big baby doe eyes and a yellow-and-blue horizontally-striped shirt like a cartoon character. The window was lighting him up like he was important to Mike’s narrative. The curtains are blue, thought Mike, this boy is light. I love metaphors. Maybe he was high on the pain meds. Upon seeing him, Mike felt a great affection, a great peace. Plus, he had long eyelashes. Mike almost giggled to himself. He was definitely a little high.
“Hi.” breathed Mike.
“Hi.” he said, hesitating.
“We’re friends?” Mike asked hopefully.
Or: During the Party's final battle with Vecna, Mike is gravely injured and loses his memories. He wakes up in a hospital only remembering a handful of inconsequential little things, like how much he loves a boy who seems like light.
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29 Dec 2025
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After entering the hive mind, Will suspects their next clue lies within a familiar spot. Unfortunately for Mike, this exploit catapults him into his worst fears...
In more ways than one.
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28 Dec 2025
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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: A buzzy post-vol 1 fic in which Will finally grows more confident, only for the hivemind’s possession to take it all away again. Mike may be the only one who can bring it back. And the two of them might be the only ones who can save the world.
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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23 Dec 2025
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When Buck, a Paralympic sprinter, agrees to go on Dancing With the Stars, he wonders if he's just made the worst decision of his life. But his love life is dead, his social life even more dead, and he doesn't know what to do with his life in the aftermath of the Paralympics, so why not jump headfirst into this opportunity?
Eddie has been a professional dancer on the show for years, but after a recent divorce and a disappointing showmance, he's fallen out of love with his job, with dancing, with himself. He has no hope for the next season, until he meets one Buck Buckley.
The pair feel an instant connection, but will it be enough to see them through the trials and tribulations of the next eleven weeks?
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A Buddie Dancing With the Stars AU
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18 Nov 2025
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You Never Really Knew Me (And I Don't Want You To) by SilentFootsteps
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
16 Apr 2025
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The Buckley parents are back in town, and like a bad omen, Buck's chronic pain flares up.
or, amputee!Buck and the mortifying ordeal of your parents not realising you lost your leg.
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21 Apr 2025
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Because Eddie Diaz is top of his class at compartmentalizing, but, not when it’s Evan Buckley they’re talking about.
Another pop-up window.
This time there’s no talking involved. Just…
Buck making gingerbread houses with Christopher on their coffee table.
And Buck waiting with him for Christopher to slide down the pole at the station during his first visit.
Buck gets shot to protect Eddie, gets stuck on a bomb and gets a boyfriend. All in a day. Meanwhile, Eddie recalls their whole friendship before he realizes that it’s actually been a relationship all along.
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17 Apr 2025
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all you can take with you (is that which you've given away) by Elgney
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
12 Feb 2025
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“I didn’t know it was you.”
Buck huffed out a loud sigh. “Me either. Surprise, I guess. My first name is Evan. Is that all you wanted?”
“No, I—I wanted to say thank you. I don’t know how—how I can ever repay you—”
“Jesus,” said Buck, and he raked his hand through his curly hair in clear frustration. “I didn’t help a kid during a tsunami so that someone would pay me back for it.”
“No, no, I know you didn’t, I just—” Eddie broke off when he saw Buck open his mouth.
“You don’t . . .” he started, shifting his eyes back to Eddie. “You don’t talk to him like that, right? What you said to me, in the locker room,” Buck clarified, impatient. His clear blue eyes pinned Eddie like a specimen in a lab; some low form of life that was so incomprehensible people had to study it. “You don’t say shit like that to Chris, do you?”
Eddie felt the blood drain from his face. Somehow, in a life full of bad choices, he'd never felt regret quite so acutely. Buck didn’t just think he was an asshole; Buck thought he was a bad father.
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In a world where everyone's timing is just a little off, Buck and Eddie take a few more missteps on the way to finding each other.
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11 Apr 2025
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there it is again, sitting on my chest (makes it hard to catch my breath) by Elgney
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
24 Mar 2025
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“I just—I don’t want you to be alone,” said Eddie, softly, like an admission.
Join the fucking club, Buck thought. It was funny, but none of his laughs were coming out right tonight. “I am alone, Eddie.”
“Buck, I—”
“She wants my kidney.” There it went; Buck never could keep anything inside. Could never keep the feelings contained, could never stop them from spilling out over the people nearest him. “That’s what fucking happened, okay? My dad needs a kidney donor and they remembered why they bothered having me in the first place. Is that what you wanted to hear? That my parents finally found a use for me after all these years?”
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A request from his mom tears open old wounds for Buck. From 800 miles away, Eddie tries to stitch him back together.
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25 Mar 2025