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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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21 Dec 2025
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
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“We have to kill him,” Mike finishes fiercely, and for a second, Will pictures him in full paladin gear, making the same speech in a castle, or a magical forest, or a dark dungeon. He’s every bit the boy Will’s always known, the one who stands up for his friends and his principles and never, ever backs down. Even when the odds are against them. Even when they’re impossible.
Will swears that he can feel electricity crackling in the air, Mike’s last sentence settling on the group like a physical weight. Everyone looks impressed: Jonathan, Hopper, even Owens. Will knows the look on his own face must be incredibly obvious, incredibly stupid.
He doesn’t care. That’s the Mike he knows. That’s the Party’s leader.
That’s the boy Will fell in love with.
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Stranger Things re-telling, but make it byler.
(Season 5 of 5)Series
- Part 5 of i know the end
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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I'll make the moon shine (just for your view) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Mar 2023
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Then he feels gentle taps on his skin.
* * ( I )
Will’s breath catches but he doesn’t move - the two singular taps might just be an accident, after all. It’s not like Mike’s ever had the chance to learn morse code. Not like Will did - with his drunk dad sitting at the table and the only open way of communicating with his mom being by small sounds left on the wood.
* - * * - - - * * * - * ( love )
Will feels sick. He tries to tear his hand away, but Mike doesn’t let go - clearly determined to finish the sequence.
- * - - - - - * * - ( you )
Their eyes finally connect, as Mike lets go of Will’s hand.
Will’s voice is faint and in contrast with white lights surrounding them, flickering lightly, as if in mockery. As if witnessing the end of it all.
"You know morse code?”
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Mike and Will are on a mission in the Upside Down, when the lights start to flicker.
Bookmarked by borredbyler
27 Mar 2023
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We Are All Fools in Love by JustMyName, perexcri, ThornyWords
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Pride and Prejudice (2005)
28 Feb 2023
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Fifteen years after being forcibly separated as children, William Bennet recognizes a familiar brooding face, plucked from another lifetime across a crowded ballroom. As his and Michael Darcy's paths begin to merge once more, they discover they are now separated by more than only time and distance, but faults which lie within their own hearts. Matters of pride and prejudice.
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23 Feb 2023
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“I think this is the universe unmaking itself.”
A chorus of shouting begins in the distance, so far removed from the two of them it could just be the river winding its way through the forest beside them. Will closes his eyes, pretends it’s the brook and he’s buried far, far away from everyone except Mike, and when he opens them again Mike is still there and the rest of the world’s population is not.
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or: mike & will at the end of the world
Bookmarked by borredbyler
18 Feb 2023
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“I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”
Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”
Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.
“...Would we?”
“Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”
Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.
In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.
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“Two shots ring out! BAM!-then a pause-BAM! Mike’s head snaps towards the sound, squinting his eyes to orient himself to the darkness. A guttural, pained wail echoes through the trees as if some forsaken wraith howls at him in this lonely forest, it’s voice sounding all too familiar. Then, a loud screeching roar follows close behind it. Another shot! Mike sucks in a wretched, frightened breath, his heart thrashing in his chest so hard that it feels as if it might shatter his ribs. Dread settles sickeningly in his belly.
"Will….”
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The one in which Mike gets to be Will's knight in shining armor.
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We Can Be Heros by annie_auyi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
30 Oct 2023
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Nothing makes Will question his morals more than when he finds out one of his friends is connected to the gang he's been trying to track down as Spider-Man.
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“We’re supposed to be a team.”
Mike’s hand falls from the door knob. Instinctively, he takes a step back, and he turns back around. The door closes gently behind him, and Mike stares at his boyfriend in surprise and in confusion. “What?”
“We’re supposed to be a team,” Will repeats, his voice trembling yet still a bit angry. His eyes are narrowed at Mike—defensive but still on guard, wounded but still ready to fight.
It’s familiar. Somehow, the two of them always end up like this.
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A year after the Upside Down’s destruction, Will and Mike are in what their friends like to call their “honeymoon phase.” But when a new problem arises and puts strain on their relationship, the two of them must learn what it truly means to work together as a team and to love each other well.
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Bookmarked by borredbyler
22 Jan 2023
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Will knows what having a crush looks like. He’s known it for years.
And lately, he's been seeing the signs on the face of one Mike Wheeler every time he looks at him. Maybe it’s always been there, but not to this degree.
In the last six months, though, the planets had aligned in some strange pattern, or the earth had been tilted on its axis by the hand of God, or something, because Will noticed it pretty quickly.
So, Will's finally decided to start testing the waters. For example: he has been flirting.
Well, okay…
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Bookmarked by borredbyler
16 Jan 2023
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Mike feels like a mistake. He's useless. All he does is cause problems and hurt the people he love's. He's not selfless like Will or brave like El. He's just some ugly nerd but Will loved him for it. Will loved Mike for who he is but he was scared, so he hurt Will and it killed Mike. He returned back into the comfort that El brought him. She was his shield that protected him from the big and evil world that didn't accept people like him or.....Will. Except Will didn't have a shield or anyone to hide him, he was alone. Mike should have been there, he shouldn't be with El but she loves him so he can't leave. He doesn't want to break another persons heart. She needs him and he needs her, or at least he thinks she does. He doesn't know they barley talked since he came to California last year, he barley talked to any of the Byers since then. He wish he did though because maybe if he did everything would have been okay. He didn't though instead he sat by and watched as he ruined peoples life's. He messed up everything.
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Mike Wheeler is not okay and never was.
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- Part 2 of No one is okay
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13 Jan 2023
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Mike gulped and leaned over the side of the building again, ignoring the shaking in his hands. He noted that Cleric was holding onto the side of the fire escape below him, not moving, instead staring up at him with an expression that radiated worry.
Great, he even had the criminal concerned for him.
Scowling, Mike shook out his hands and moved over to where the lip of the roof met the ladder down to the fire escape and slowly made his way down it like a normal person would. Because he was normal and not crazy like Cleric was. Jumping over the edge of a building and grabbing the outside of the fire escape frame to climb down? Like what the hell???
Mike ignored how his hands shook as he made his way down the side of the building. Slowly.
It was kind of embarrassing.
OR: Six times Mike nearly caught the Cleric-- an infamous thief alongside his twin sister, the Mage-- but didn’t, and the one time he did.
Originally for Byler Week 2022 (Very late. Because the event ended already oops)
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A Flower That Resembles You by perexcri for notebooknonbinary (AwwKeyboardNo), Himynameis4, cherryisgone, lesbianbellaswan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2023
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Having lived in exile from the citadel since he was twelve, Will knows well the necessity of having a daily schedule: wake up early, gather materials, make tinctures and poultices for clients, take care of the garden, and never use magic when your hands will do just fine. These are the tasks he lives by until one ordinary day when he wakes up late, and it all spins out of control. He goes to the garden in the evening, far past his usual time, and finds an unwelcome visitor stealing his food and flowers. It only gets worse when he learns this man has been visiting every night for the past several months, unbeknownst to Will, and his eyes look just a little too familiar.
And once it becomes clear his unwelcome guest isn't going to stop his nightly visits anytime soon, Will is forced to choose between pretending as if they're strangers or divulging the peculiar past they share, between wearing a mask and allowing the truth to be told.
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- Part 1 of flowers and light
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Martin Brenner was only 38 years old when they rejected him.
Will Byers was only 4 years old when he vanished.
Martin Brenner was only 38 years old when he took his experiment a step further.
Will Byers was only 4 years old when he wandered into the woods and never returned.OR
Mad scientist Martin Brenner kidnaps Will Byers and Jane Ives. He strips them of their identities; they are Ten and Eleven now, nothing more than test subjects. They are locked in The Lab with only the faintest memories of Outside. Papa and The Lab are all they know. But their lives are turned upside down when four kids break into The Lab seeking shelter.
Friends are made, names are given, and love is found.Byler Tangled AU
Bookmarked by borredbyler
30 Dec 2022
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Conversations and Slamming Doors by lookinghotwiththosewings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Aug 2024
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It all went to shit on a Sunday morning, half past seven.
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Mike just wants to fall asleep in Will’s arms and now everyone thinks he hooked up with El.
Bookmarked by borredbyler
09 Dec 2022
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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Will loved ordinary things, an uneventful existence was something he craved. Sadly, when Mike Wheeler walks into his life, Will’s easy going path snaps right in half. A passion he could never imagine overtaking his whole being.
It was too bad their friend groups hated each other and his sister had a huge crush on the musician. Off limits.
Fantastic.