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sometimes people grow apart, and that's life. and sometimes they grow together again, and that's life, too.
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09 May 2024
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“Well, it was nice meeting you two,” David said. He leaned forward towards Will, and gave him a single, light pat on his head.
“And I’ll see you around,” he said softly.
Will blinked up at him in a daze, eyes wide and cheeks gaining a tint of pink again.
Mike stared, stunned. Did he just touch Will’s hair? Mike was the only one that ever did that!
Mike's semester takes a serious turn when—
A) He realizes he's in love with his best friend
B) A popular handsome senior takes interest in said best friend, and he can't stand it- Language:
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13 Dec 2023
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11 Oct 2023
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“No, there— don’t make this weird, dude!"
“Stop that!” Will shrieks, floodgates bursting open. “Stop calling me dude, or man, or— just—”
“What should I call you?” Mike’s tone becomes sharper. “Honey? Sweetheart? Baby?”
Will shrinks a little into himself.
“God, Will— can you just be normal? Just be normal.”
Will tries unendingly to figure things out. Someone makes it especially hard for him.
OR: Will Byers spends his life navigating the blurry lines between friendship and something more.
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- Part 2 of on the way home
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- 10/10
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07 Oct 2023
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“And I know, it’s not your fault. Trust me, I haven’t forgotten.”
Shit. Mike was really hoping that would never come up.
“I know, I know, I know it’s not your fault. But you know what?” Will steps closer, “it doesn’t change the fact that it feels like your fault.” With a shove on Mike’s shoulder, he painfully adds, “it feels like it’s all your fault.”
When everyone suddenly masters the art of communication, Mike and Will give it a shot. They don't get it right on the first try.
OR: 5 steps Mike takes towards the truth, and 1 leap Will makes towards destiny.
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- Part 1 of on the way home
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- English
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- 80,513
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- 10/10
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09 Aug 2023
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a cruel summer with you by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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“Oh, come on,” Will says, struggling to keep his voice neutral in a different way. His mouth is dry, and he hates Mike for it even more. “Is this what it’s going to be like this summer?”
Mike looks back at him, considering, lips pursed in an effort to shut down the smirk that Will knows is fighting to break free. Will doesn’t dare to let his gaze catch there, focusing instead on holding Mike’s stare, because this, too, is a game.
Five years into a rivalry with bittersweet origins, the only thing Mike and Will want is to beat each other at this summer’s camp counselor competition. But being back at camp is dredging up old memories, and as Mike and Will lose momentum and gain something else entirely, it becomes increasingly clear that one summer can change everything.
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- Part 5 of in the quiet of the night
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- 13/17
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26 Jun 2023
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After playing his part in preventing the end of the world, Mike thought senior year would be a piece of cake. Compared to fighting monsters and keeping government secrets, how hard could it be to deal with regular family drama, looming college decisions and his suddenly blaring obsession with staring at his best friend?
It's a gradual realization that he may have never wanted the things he thought he did一and some things, he may have wanted all along.
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17 Jun 2023
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Where Were You (When I Was Lonesome) by Concerned_terrapin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2023
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He didn’t really understand why someone would want to go to a cemetery for a birthday party, but hey, maybe Will was a bit of a weird kid.
“Hey Will.” Mike called, his voice gentler than he had ever heard it.
He whipped his head around, scanning the rows for another figure, desperately looking for Will. It didn’t really click until Mike stepped forward and knelt beside a grave, placing his perfectly imperfect cake in front of a well-kept headstone.
Oh.
Will Byers is dead.
So how the hell did he end up stuck haunting Mike Wheeler's basement?
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31 May 2023
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15 May 2023
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A fat raindrop splashes on Mike’s cheek, slips down his face and down his chin; falls on his neck to disappear inside his damp shirt. Leaves behind the scorching trail of Will’s gaze on his skin.
Mike tightens his grip on the soda cans when Will’s adam’s apple bobs up and down, considers closing his eyes and tipping his head back, let the tepid rain speck his face, soak him to the bone.
A kiss in the rain would be romantic, right? Date appropriate.
“You should get back in the car.”
or; Michael Wheeler and the mortifying ordeal of being in a car with a beautiful boy.
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22 Apr 2023
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must be a devil between us by els bloody rollerskate (regina_mary)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2023
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Don’t assume that because every gate was closed by your telekinetic girlfriend before the world split in two everything will be okay. Your best friend might become a new target of this monster four months later on summer camp and be in grave danger.
Or do. He’ll have to die.
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Ever since November 1983, when Will Byers went missing, shit has just gone downhill for Hawkins, tragedy after tragedy afflicting a once peaceful town.
For the first time ever, Mike Wheeler, is at peace – he’s going to Camp Hero in the summer of ’86, where the high-schoolers of Hawkins bond for a summer of “totally rad, epic fun”. The only thing that could possibly spoil it? His best friend, Will, happens to be attending camp too, as well as his girlfriend El – the two people Mike was trying to avoid; the sheer level of awkward tension between them driving him insane.
Mike’s trying his best to ignore Will and even worse, ignore the feelings for Will he tried to repress, too. However, when his assumed-dead dungeon master, Eddie Munson, steps foot on Camp Hero on one midsummer night, Mike knows he must get over his tension with Will and El and reunite his friends to destroy Vecna, once and for all.Bookmarked by bluefires
29 Mar 2023
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Mike boards the ship of dreams, the Titanic, shackled to his fiancé by an arranged marriage. Upon arrival, he's expected to marry her, and so short on time, Mike jumps to drastic measures to escape this reality; but in running from his problems, Mike instead finds love in an aspiring artist who saves him in every way a person can be saved.
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Titanic AU, but make it byler
(inspired by @cherbearsz on Tumblr)
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29 Mar 2023
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“Sometimes you need to fall.”
Will looked at him, his eyes scanning Mike as he thought.
“God, Mike, that’s a pretty fatalistic point of view.”
“Why?” He chuckled. “I mean it, you know, you gotta hit rock bottom to start getting back up for real.”
The past year things had been… weird, in many ways. And apparently for Mike is just going to keep being weird: this time he is doing everything right. After the gates opening in Hawkins the entire town was evacuated, and Mike suddenly found himself living far away from all his friends.
But he keeps in touch, they have a routine. He is doing everything right, but El is the one pushing away now.
And Mike feels lost, away from everything he thought he once understood. Never so alone since it all started.
At least Will and him are talking again.
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11 Mar 2023
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09 Mar 2023
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Mike's parents have an agenda for him, one he wants to avoid following. He doesn't want to go to college. He doesn't want to get a girlfriend or get married. Mike wants to sit in his room all day and play his guitar. That is until his mom forces him to bring a date to a family celebration, and he thinks of a brilliant plan to piss his parents off. He forms an alliance with the new kid, Will Byers, in which he agrees to go with Mike to his family dinner, and they pretend they're dating.
They planned the fake dating part at the dinner party, but what happens when they keep the facade up to help Will?
What happens when Mike and Will start becoming good friends? Or even scarier...What happens when Mike starts catching feelings?
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Mike and Will start a fake relationship to piss off Mike's parents but they end up becoming more---Slow burn.
Modern-high school AU inspired by clowncultcentral
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07 Mar 2023
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Sometimes, I still order pizza without olives, he wants to say. Sometimes, I write to you. For you. Sometimes, you're the only person I want to call. I still have my watch. I saw a poster for The Cure and thought of you, two months ago. It’s on my wall. Do you still like horror movies? Everything reminds me of you. You’re all I think about.
Mike shakes his head. "I think about you all the time."
Will frowns. "Don't – don't say that."
"Why not?" Mike questions, shifting where he sits. "It's true."
December, 1993.
For the first time in four years, Mike and Will speak to each other.Bookmarked by bluefires
11 Feb 2023
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I Wanna Be Anything You've Lost (That You Might Be Looking For) by scout_thewise
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2023
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It's been six years since the Upside Down declared war on Hawkins, Indiana and lost.
Will left his hometown after graduation, determined to get to know himself in New York City.
It's 1992, he has a great job as a florist at The Secret Garden, and life is beautiful and fulfilling. He wouldn't change a thing.
No, not even the fact that he can't have the boy of his dreams. He'll deal with that.-or-
Someone familiar has been hired at the coffee shop below his loft, and Will's avoidance tactics are taking a rough blow.
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06 Feb 2023
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This will be the best spring break ever? Yeah, right. Not only is Mike Wheeler struggling to maintain his relationship with El and his friendship with Will, he's also apparently cursed by some "thing" called Vecna. On the bright side, it doesn't seem to reach him in California. Downside? They can't stay away from Hawkins forever. Oh, and did he forget to mention he's also somehow a murder suspect? Because he is.
How can things get any worse?
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19 Jan 2023
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"A paladin who has broken a vow typically seeks absolution from a cleric who shares his or her faith or from another paladin of the same order. The paladin might spend an all-night vigil in prayer as a sign of penitence, or undertake a fast or similar act of self-denial. After a rite of confession and forgiveness, the paladin starts fresh."
or, a few hours after delivering his father’s eulogy, Mike Wheeler punched his former best friend squarely in the face.
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- 14/14
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Bookmarked by bluefires
05 Jan 2023
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Adora knew better. In theory, she knew better. She knew that watching videos of your ex-girlfriend was a mistake. It was cataclysmic, the way staring at Catra on the screen made Adora fall apart all over again. It didn’t matter that their relationship ended two years ago, the wound reopened, Adora still sought it out.
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A YouTube exes AU.
Bookmarked by bluefires
21 Jan 2022