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you took my heart (i was sleeping) (Mike's POV) by bookishgeek
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. With Will living in his house, Mike spends most of his time in his room, avoiding Will.
Then the power goes out—and Will is forced to sleep in Mike's room to avoid the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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10 Jul 2026
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And Will was in love with me.
Mike stared at the words he’d just written, the smell of the ink still dissipating in the air.
What? How did that get there?
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Mike, writing the story of his and El's adventures, suddenly hits on a sentence fragment that he can't for the life of him understand why he's typed.Series
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07 Jul 2026
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you took my heart (i was sleeping) Comic Adaptation by Kore_is_cool
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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06 Jul 2026
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Set immediately after the end of "The Rightside Up." Mike comes to terms with the tragedy that is growing up; Will calls him up to meet for a rooftop conversation.
Or: After resigning himself to a life of loneliness, Mike learns that he was Will's crush.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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28 Jun 2026