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Will Byers is very good at surviving things that should kill him.
Loving Mike Wheeler might be the hardest one yet.
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Post Season 4, Mike and Will find each other in a friends with benefits relationship. As time passes and the final battle with Vecna nears, tensions rise. Can Will survive his love for Mike long enough to survive the darkness that wishes to break him?
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you turn around and say (take my breath away) by athousandcas
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jan 2026
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The gang goes to Stacey's party after graduation. Mike avoids the truth all night until, in a game of Truth or Dare, Will confesses his first crush.
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He doesn’t have to justify it or ground it in reality, he just knows it to be true before he opens his eyes. Will.
“Why are you…” Mike trails off, his eyebrows draw together as he takes in the face hovering above his, “…me?” He genuinely is perplexed now. Not shocked. No, Mike thinks his ability to be shocked is probably zero at this point given the state of his world. But he’s definitely confused. The boy above him looks on in horror and disbelief. Although the face is certifiably, completely Mike’s face, the expressions and eyes are easily identifiable to Mike as belonging to Will Byers.
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Mike and Will get FreakyFriday-ed but with more angst and yearning. Post season 5 volume 1, with some artistic liberties with canon + a sprinkle of s5 v2 rewrite
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Part of my 'Hot Mess AUs' but this one came from this list.
Prompt: “It's 4 am and I'm drunk as fuck in a mcdonalds and you have been watching me trying to eat this burger for 30 minutes” au
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- Part 2 of Hot Mess AUs
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I saw this list of 'hot mess au' prompts and decided to write them since I wanted them so badly.
This prompt is: "I asked a staff member and they said you've been coming to the pound every day to play with the dog I'm taking home today and that's why you're getting weirdly emotional" AU.
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- Part 1 of Hot Mess AUs
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Letters to Will (Live from New York) by sofishortcake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jan 2026
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“Thanks for taking care of me, Mike. I didn’t mean to drink this much.” Mike locks the dorm door behind him with a quiet click. He turns to see Will swaying against the wall. “You know, I could’ve had Carlton walk me back. If you wanted to stay at the party.”
Mike laughs, low and sharp, taking a deliberate step closer. “Yeah, I bet he would've loved that. And, please... stop saying his fucking name, okay?” His voice rises, strained with a tension he can’t hide. Other names in Will’s mouth twist his stomach in ways he can’t explain.
Will swallows, gaze dropping. “Sorry, I just meant…I’m so happy you’re here, but I know you’re not just here to see me, and you probably want—”
Mike cuts him off without a second thought. He grabs Will’s arms, and shoves him lightly but firmly against the wall. Their chests collide, faces inches apart, the air between them charged and electric. Will freezes—but Mike doesn’t back down. “Will…you have no idea what I want,” he whispers, eyes dropping to Will’s lips. Every shred of control he’s ever clung to around him melting.
And there truly must be something in the NYC air, because Mike from Hawkins would have never dared to do what he does next.
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01 Feb 2026
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In the midst of searching for Holly and the incoming battle against Vecna, Will is suddenly taken captive by the military for reasons adjacent to the manhunt directed at Eleven. Turns out, Will has other powers, untapped and suppressed by a chunk of his childhood he doesn't have any recollection of.
Sure enough, hell breaks utterly loose—with Mike and Eleven at the helm of the chaos. They are getting Will back one way or another, all else be damned. Though, unbeknownst to them, Will is also in the middle of piecing together an untold part of himself, along with a discovery that might make him choose to sacrifice his freedom. Completely.
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01 Feb 2026
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Will knew something was wrong back in Lenora. He just didn't know how to confront everyone. How do you even begin telling your mom, brother, and estranged best friend that they had missed your birthday?
A story in which Will is being forgotten by those he loves.
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29 Dec 2025
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Merlin can't pinpoint the day his name on Arthur's lips held such power over him. Who would have thought that Merlin would grow to chase and cherish the sounds?
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27 Mar 2015
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“I swore to never even consider the use of magic again for as long as I live Merlin, not since my father. But this is you and you've always been the exception haven’t you?”
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26 Mar 2015