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Did you take my love away from me? by noise_complaint
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Feb 2026
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“I sincerely apologize,” William hums for the second time this evening. “I would appreciate it if you didn’t bring up this meeting to the king…” He mumbles as he turns back towards the door, reaching for the shiny handle.
“Wait,” The knight calls, his movement audible due to the clanging over metal consuming his body.
The call freezes William in his tracks. His fingers curl into a light fist and he pivots back to the railing, possibly too eagerly, to meet the man’s eyes once more.
“I’m no snitch,”
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Prince William is familiar with castle life, familiar with his guards, his schedule, and his routine. Everything about his life is all too familiar, until he has a strange encounter with a brand new knight, insisting the two were childhood best friends.
AKA Byler Dungeons & Dragons AU
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i just died in your arms tonight (it must've been something you said) by szeasons
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2026
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Sure enough, Mike is no longer sprawled across his bed like he was a few minutes ago and has migrated to the end of his chambers. Will watches with mild amusement as the stupid excuse for a prince attempts to balance on the narrow ledge beneath the window, arms out like he’s daring gravity to notice him and send him toppling to the ground outside.
“Do you remember,” Will asks mildly, “when you fell out of the apple tree that you insisted on climbing and broke your wrist?”
Mike doesn’t turn around. “I didn’t fall. I jumped.”
“You screamed on the way down.”
“I didn’t scream,” Mike mutters, petulance creeping into his voice. “Princes don’t scream.”
“This prince screams,” Will says. “In my ears, a lot.”
or, where Mike is a prince and Will is his long-term servant and best friend. Oh, and he's also a sorcerer on the side, and in love with said prince. This will end well, right?
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i’m going to need a charisma check (before i fall too hard for you) by sam (crispychickensamwich)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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It’s 1989, the summer before the party splits off for college. Mike’s campaign is long enough to last the whole summer, and a widely known rule within the players is that they must force Mike to make up an NPC for someone to flirt with at least once per session. Lucas has taken advantage of this rule more than once just to annoy Mike, but almost everyone has one or multiple personalized NPCs already. Except Will.
Will has been anticipating having to join in on the fun, considering this might be the last full campaign with the entire friend group. He’s just been nervous… that is, until Lucas points out this fact to the whole table and begs him to go for it to “annoy Mike”. Will jumps on the opportunity and surprises everyone, especially the supposedly completely put together DM who now has to look Will in the eyes and flirt with him.
Ohhh boy…
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All the things we left in the cold by finncandrownmeandillsaythnx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Mar 2026
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Will’s brain basically short-circuits. He doesn't even need to turn around to know who it is. Even after six years of radio silence, his body still possesses this fucked-up muscle memory when it comes to Mike Wheeler.
He forces himself to look up.
And fuck. It is Mike. Standing right there just inside the patio.
He’s taller than Will remembers, which is saying something. The gangly and slightly awkward teenager Will had spent years trying to scrub from his memory is completely gone. His dark hair is longer from last he saw him, curling damply against his neck from the autumn drizzle outside. There’s a permanent shadow of stubble along his jawline, totally erasing any lingering softness from when they were kids. It’s almost unfair how strikingly handsome he got.
The worst part, though, is his eyes. They lock directly onto Will’s, blown wide with shock.
OR Will spent years trying to freeze Mike out of his system. But as they stand together in the empty, 4 AM chill of the rink, crushed under the heavy weight of Mike's unwavering stare, Will realizes the ice isn't the thing that's going to destroy him this time.
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“I was raised to be singular. Untouched. Entire.”
“And now I cannot take three steps without feeling you.”
Michael should have died the night the fleet burned. But when a forbidden cleric drags him back from death, an ancient bond binds their souls together.
War is rising. An arranged marriage is demanded. And a voice inside Michael’s mind begins to twist his thoughts, urging him towards something far more than power — something hungry, corrupt and sovereign. To be what the court and his father demands, he must kill the cleric.
But he cannot. Because William is the only one who sees him for what he truly is. Not the Sun’s heir, not a weapon, not a crown waiting to be worn.
Just Michael.
Cleradin but make it Dark Fantasy.