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Something Old, Something New, Something Yellow, Something Blue by ayybyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2026
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“I’ll stay in Hawkins… At first, I mean. It wouldn’t feel right, you know?” Mike said, while sipping the last remnants of his beer. All eyes were on him. Will felt his heart racing. Mike? Alone in Hawkins? Lucas and Max were still here for the time being, but still. A little thought started to nag at the back of Will’s mind.
“Are you sure, Mike?” Will asked, a worry in his voice, placing a hand where their knees met. Mike inhaled slightly, looking down at Will’s touch. “What are you gonna do in the meantime?” Lucas chimed in. “Don’t know. Maybe find a job, bridge the gap. Maybe apply to some college, I don’t know. Visit Nance in Boston? Get my driver’s license? I don’t know.”.
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Mike stays behind in Hawkins, not being able to move on from El's death, grief, guilt and sorrow accompanying him while Will moves to New York City to go to college and pursue his dreams.
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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?
Season 5 rewrite with a focus on Will's mental health, filled with tender moments, angst that leaves you staring at a wall, and action that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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21 Feb 2026
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thousand nights (i survived without you) by dreamculture
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Mar 2026
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It‘s been almost three years since the last Dungeons and Dragons campaign in Mike’s basement and Will Byers is living his best life in New York City. At least that is what he‘s trying to tell himself…
When a wedding invitation from Hawkins reaches him, his heart skips a beat. Of course he has to go back and see how everyone is doing, especially Mike.
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20 Feb 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid
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16 Feb 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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12 Feb 2026
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"I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."
The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.
There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.
Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"
Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.
Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.
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16 Jan 2026