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    Ever since their return to Hawkins in the previous spring, Will has kept a careful distance from Mike, keeping himself busy with school clubs to avoid spending time with Mike one on one - because every time they're in a room together, he finds himself on the verge of saying things he shouldn't, asking questions he knows are only going to hurt him. But then a snowstorm wreaks havoc in Hawkins, trapping him and Mike in the Wheeler house while the rest of the family are gone. And now Will has no choice but to confront everything he has tried so hard to ignore.

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    Or: Mike and Will are home alone at the Wheeler house for a week.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Out of summer boredom, Mike and Will start making bets. Mike decides to up the stakes, offering the loser should do everything the other tells him for the rest of the summer.

    Mike loses.

    And somehow, following Will’s orders isn’t as bad as it should be...

    Or: Will wins a bet and gets to tell Mike what to do, and it makes Mike feel all sorts of things ;)

    Pasteur saw that germs only appear if there’s exposure to the outside world.
    Darwin saw that finches with certain beak shapes survived while others went extinct.
    And Mike Wheeler saw that being told what to do by his best friend makes him horny.

    The question asked after all of these discoveries, inevitably, is - why?

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    26 May 2026

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    Will attends a baseball game with his friends and struggles with jealousy over the coworker Mike has been talking to a lot lately. But when the Kiss Cam highlights Mike and their coworker, Mike doesn't kiss her. He kisses Will.

    Update: I have since started posting chapters of an extended version of this fic. It is not completed, but I will be posting chapters regularly. I start it back to when Will moves after losing his job.

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    12 Mar 2026

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    “When I saw you… there. From the Demo’s perspective. You were gonna –” Will’s voice breaks, and Mike’s fingers twitch where they rest on the fabric of Will’s jeans. There’s no conscious thought process, but he gently rubs back and forth. “I thought of you,” Will whispers, breath catching slightly.

    “Of us. When… um, when we first met, and you asked me to be your friend. I thought of that and… you know. It happened."

    Mike’s eyebrows lift. Me. I did it. “Oh.”

    Will glances and seems to realise all at once how much he just revealed.

    aka after their graduation dnd game, will and dustin persuades everyone to go to stacy's house party. mike is not exactly in the mood, and wonders if drinking will help everything that he's feeling right now. what could go wrong? what could go right?

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    09 Feb 2026

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    A year after Vecna's defeat, things have finally returned to normal. Well, aside from the lingering nightmares. And the fact that Mike is in love with his best friend and it's getting increasingly harder to keep that to himself.

    But it's all going to be fine. They're going to go to Steve's parent's heretofore undiscussed lakehouse, spend two weeks slow-roasting in the Indiana sun, and be normal teenagers for once. Really, the least they deserve at this point is a little summertime relaxation.

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