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we thought this place was haunted (it was just us) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Apr 2026
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Two years after his husband’s death, Mike Wheeler lives quietly in a cliffside mansion with his eight year old daughter and more ghosts than he knows what to do with. He doesn’t talk about the past.
Will Byers isn’t looking for love when he takes the live-in cook job at Rosecliff Manor. He's just trying to start over in a new town, with a new job and with the walls carefully built around his heart.
Living under the same roof wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But grief recognizes grief.
And sometimes healing looks a lot like falling in love.
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my promise could be your fiend (could be the smallest of signs) by s0ld_it
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
01 Apr 2023
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He staggered back over the edge, crying out. Just in time, Spiderman shot out an arm to grab him from around the waist, pulling Mike out of danger. Mike cursed himself, adrenaline pumping wildly. The superhero chuckled, getting them as far away from the edge of the rooftop as possible, before letting Mike go.
“You okay?” Spiderman asked, and Mike could almost see his grin of amusement.
Mike, on the other hand, was the epitome of embarrassment. “Uh,” He croaked. He felt like crying.
“Seriously, are you going into cardiac arrest?” Spiderman asked, putting a hand on Mike’s shoulder.
Mike felt himself flush deeper. “No. No- yeah. I’m fine. Thank you.” He looked at the ground. The right knee of his khakis was stained oil-black. How had that even happened?
“You sure?” Spiderman squeezed his shoulder. That was not helping at all.
“Yeah.” Mike nodded, and Spiderman released his grip. “Fine. Thanks for…” He trailed off. “Saving me. I guess.”
or, Micheal James Wheeler, an intern at a New York based publishing company, is in love with his best friend. Will Byers, a student majoring in visual arts, is Spiderman. As in THE Spiderman.
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Maybe Will decides that enough is enough, and lets Mike go. Maybe whatever persists between them dies slowly of benign neglect, until all that remains is shared trauma and dead memories that don’t mean what they once did. Or maybe he just never hears Mike’s voice again. He shudders.
But what if it's not too late?
Too late for what?
What do you do when the world fails to end? If you’re Will Byers, you build a life. If you’re Mike Wheeler, you build a tomb.
It’s been a decade since El disappeared, Mike is still trapped in his own head, and no one knows how to talk about it. Then, Mike does something impulsive, and sets in motion a chain of events that will cause Will to question everything he believes - including about himself.
Or: A story about grief, love, fate, freedom, and the things that hide in the dark (and maybe the light, too). This starts slow, but bear with me; I promise it doesn't go where you're expecting!
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- Part 1 of Crooked Timber
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Mike and Will try and have a little fun on Will's birthday. Their friends have other plans.
Or, how the party finds out Mike and Will are dating
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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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"I can't stop thinking about you in this," Will admits, blushing. "It's terrible."
The blue dress sways slightly, a shimmering, soft fabric that lures Mike in. His heart skips a beat at the thought of that fabric slipping over his skin.
Will wants to doll Mike up. Mike doesn’t know what to think.
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- Part 4 of between the sheets
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"You're dying." Mike's hands come up to clutch Will's shoulders. "You're literally dying right in front of me and you won't let me help you because you're worried about how I'll feel about it after. But I'm telling you right now, I don't care. I don't care if it's weird or awkward or whatever. I just need you to live. I need you."
Will can feel his resolve crumbling, can feel the way the desperation is eating away at his ability to think clearly. His body is screaming at him, demanding relief, and he's so tired of fighting it.
"It won't mean anything?" His voice is barely audible. "You promise it won't—we can just forget it happened?"
"I promise." Mike's voice is steady, certain. "We’ll stay friends—best friends."
The Byler sex pollen fic.
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21 Mar 2026
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something better than these broken parts by odysseus_day
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Apr 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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Just a minute away (from the place we wanna be) by heydoeydoey for pterawaters
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
11 Apr 2015
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I'm fine, Steve keeps saying. Fine is just a stopgap, though, intended to keep everyone at arm's length. It doesn’t mean anything, not really. It’s the word people use when they don’t want anyone to ask questions. Danny knows. He’s been fine, just fine, since his divorce, fine since moving to Hawaii, and totally, completely fine since Steve McGarrett pushed his way into Danny's heart.
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19 Aug 2024
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They'd agreed not to have sex again because it could fuck everything up between them. No matter that Danny was trying to cope with his brother's death, or that Steve had just been tortured (again) and his sometime girlfriend/stress relief had left him to stay in Afghanistan. The point was that they shouldn't. They really shouldn't. But it just takes one 'hey' to reduce all of that determination and will power to rubble.
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- Part 1 of There in Five
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15 Aug 2024
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Steve says he wants something casual. Danny's not on board with that.
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12 Aug 2024
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Danny's lived these past years, months, days knowing exactly who he wants to be with in the best of the worst possible ways. He does, he wants to be in Steve's bed, wants Steve in his, and he's thinking he'd really like that now. Now, as in, right now.
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10 Aug 2024
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As active as Danny's imagination was, however, as strong as all his fears could be at the thoughts of his little girl being taken away from him again, he'd forgotten to factor in one very important element: Steve.
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05 Aug 2024
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Danny gives in, freaks out, and comes to his senses.
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27 Jul 2024
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After 11 years playing shortstop for the New Jersey Knights, Danny Williams is traded to the Honolulu Warrior Kings, perpetual cellar dwellers of the American League West and the armpit of major league baseball. With a bum knee and a dwindling batting average, Danny knows his career is in its death throes. But as long as he can walk, he's going to play, and hey, at least Gracie still loves him. When All-Star power-hitting second baseman Steve McGarrett shocks the sports world by turning down a lucrative contract with his current team, the Monterey Bay Seals, to return home and play for the Kings, the team his late father helped build, everything suddenly changes. The Kings aren't the losers they used to be and despite Danny's glass knee, the double play combo of Williams-McGarrett keeps making the nightly highlight reels. Better yet, Danny is hitting again.
Only there's something Danny and Steve aren't telling anyone: They're more than just teammates. Much more. For Danny at least, it's a huge reason for his recent success and anyway, they're not hurting anyone. Besides, it's really no one's business but theirs.
Too bad it becomes everyone's.
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26 Jul 2024
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In the real world, life isn't always perfect. Sex isn't always phenomenal. Attraction isn't always what you were expecting. This story expands on the idea that neither Steve nor Danny has any prior experience when it comes to being attracted to, dating, and sleeping with, another man.
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24 Jul 2024
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Steve and Danny are kidnapped. After which there is too much swimming and too much rain and it's all very romantic. If you are Steve, that is.
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24 Jul 2024
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If it ain't broke, fix it anyway.
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21 Jul 2024
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Steve and Danny have a long day, get drunk, have sex, and avoid talking about it.
And that’s where it all started. That stupid t-shirt, stupid McGarrett, his long, stupid body spread out like it was Danny’s for the taking.
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21 Jul 2024
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That's Not Just Friendship, That's Romance by thismuchmore
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
14 Feb 2011
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Danny and Steve start out accidentally dating each other, and it turns into something more.
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21 Jul 2024