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Todd writes down his feelings after Neil dies
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18 Feb 2026
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“So… will you marry me?”
For a second, Will didn’t respond. His eyes shone, full of tears that refused to fall. He knelt
down too, never taking his eyes off him.
“Mike…” he let out a broken laugh.
“God, you’re incredibly unfair." He nodded, already crying.
“Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.” He took the ring with trembling hands.
“Yes,Michael Wheeler," he repeated, his voice breaking.
“I will marry you.”
Mike stood up immediately and pulled him into a tight embrace, as if he were afraid he’d disappear if he let go. Will buried his face in his neck, laughing and crying at the sametime. Distant applause echoed behind them, but Mike didn’t hear anything else. He only felt Will. His warmth. His breathing.
I’m going to marry Will.Or
2 times Mike pretended to propose vs 1 where he actually did + a byler wedding.
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10 Feb 2026
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After the final battle, it's just Will, Mike, Max, Lucas and Dustin, it's November 6th, 1988, everyone is bored, until Lucas proposes to play "seven minutes in heaven", those seven minutes turn into hours for Will and Mike.
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mike and will get paired up (not fairly) for the game, having to spend 7 minutes together in a very tiny closet.
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26 Jan 2026
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Summer break, two years after graduating high school. Will and Mike almost kiss, and everything changes. They find themselves on a journey together after a mysterious clue. They have no choice but to finally confront what’s been going on between them for years.
“I keep showing up,” Mike says. His voice doesn’t break, but he feels like it should. “Even when you try to throw me away.”
Will flinches, and Mike hates himself for it immediately.
“I didn’t- ” Will says, and his eyes drop. “I didn’t throw you away.”
Mike’s mouth twitches. Not a smile. Something sadder. “You threw the letters away.”- Language:
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25 Jan 2026
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Drip, Drip, Drip by MagicSchoolbusDropout08 for scr1bbs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2024
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The dripping of blood is all Will can hear as he lays down in the bathtub, the world spinning as the pills take effect.
All he has to do is wait. But the universe has other plans.
"Will?" Mike says from the other side of the door. "Can I come in?"
(Will Byers attempts suicide, but Mike manages to break the door down and save his life.)
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22 Jan 2026
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answers you seek will never be found at home by miwiheroes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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Will’s not supposed to be hiding in corners, forcing a fake smile when Mike asks him if he’s okay. He’s not supposed to brush off insults like they're jokes. He’s not supposed to vanish for six hours during a school day, leaving Mike feeling like he’s slipping away all over again.
Whoever said that beating Vecna’s going to fix Hawkins’ problems, Will’s problems, Mike’s problems—they deserve an earful. They deserve to feel this weird, hollow dissatisfaction chewing away at their chests.
aka mike begs will to escape their small town after too many run-ins with homophobic small-town bs. he knows will's meant to find himself elsewhere, but he never expects to find an answer to the age-old question of his own fate. prom, gay bars, sleazy hotels, train stations, two lesbians and their not-so-legal marriage - they aren't the traditional sources of wisdom, but he can't complain.
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22 Jan 2026
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Will's a true sorcerer. Right after the truth comes to light in the middle of a battlefield, Mike Wheeler finds himself more amazed and enamored with Will than he'd like to admit. However, they don't have time to celebrate the peace, because not much after that, Vecna comes back, determined to take what Will loves the most if he isn't by his side in this war. The Demos try to take Mike, but right before he enters the Upside Down, Will jumps and goes with him.
They're together now. In the Upside Down. But they're alone too, with a long journey ahead of them. Mike knows nothing can go wrong. After all, the only thing Will has accepted is that now he has powers, right?
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Mike and Will end up alone in the Upside Down, and Vecna targets both of them. (Complete rewrite of Stranger Things' ending).
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22 Jan 2026
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You Said We Would Go Crazy Together. by Fynn_bylerendgame4ever
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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OCTOBER 31st 1983
M: I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy.
W: me too…
M: well…if we’re both going crazy, week go crazy together…right?
W: chtss…yeah. Crazy together.
NOVEMBER 6th 1987
”You said… Crazy together. Listen, I don’t wanna scare you, Will. But you promised me. Crazy together. If you’re going crazy, I’ll go crazy with you too.” A tremble in his voice as he spoke those words. A tear trickled down Mike’s right cheek, a light tear kissing a trail down his face. He let out a soft, breathily chuckle. “I love you.” He said, just barely a mere whisper.
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22 Jan 2026
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The fact that Mike is single now isn’t relevant. It can’t be relevant. Another girl will come along, and it won’t be Will because he doesn’t have the right parts. Wasn’t born the right way, the way that Mike would have preferred. It’s fine, except for the fact that it’s not fine at all, except for the fact that it’s so not fine that Will’s life is in imminent danger due to how fucked up he is over it.
But boys don’t cry, according to The Cure, so Will won’t either. He’s trying to take it to heart.
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will & mike listen to music and talk. really talk.
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21 Jan 2026
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“God, Will, don’t apologize,” Mike said firmly, no room for argument. “I’m sorry, okay? I’m so sorry, I just rushed into it. Fuck, that fucking bastard’s lucky he’s already dead.” His voice was steady, but there was something fierce under it now. Protective.
Will let out a breath, tension leaving him when he knew Mike wasn’t upset with him. “I didn’t want you to think it was because I didn’t want to-” He gestured vaguely between them. “This.”
“I don’t. But, we really don’t have to if it’s making you upset,” Mike rushed to assure. “We can just talk, or read that new Spiderman comic, or… cuddle, or something.”
“No,” Will said too quickly. “I mean- we can. But I think I want to try again. Maybe I can try to make my brain, like, associate it with a good memory. With you. I mean, only if you want to.”
....or: Will has trauma regarding his mouth because of Vecna and the Upsidedown. He tries to figure this whole kissing thing out, with Mike.
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- Part 1 of Will's trauma recovery
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21 Jan 2026
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by playingwithlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 May 2024
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We break apart for a second when Will manages to whisper "Mike."
It already hit him where I’m going with this. But his voice is just so fucking hot when we're kissing, his lips swallowing in red, I can't resist but to reconnect our lips to make him even breathless.
Will brings a hand up to my cheek, resistantly pulling me back to say "Your parents are home."
I bring a hand down to unbolt the first bottom of his flannel "So?"
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Just a random day up in Mike's bedroom
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20 Jan 2026
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i hate how you’re going through hell, when you’d never let anyone else by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2024
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As soon as they close the door to his room, Will wraps him in a hug. “Can you talk to me now?” he asks softly. “What’s the matter, love?”
“Nothing.” Okay, so they’re doing this the hard way.
Will lifts his chin to look up at him, displeased. He really does not want to get into another fight right now. “Mike, come on—“
“No, seriously,” he stresses, open and honest and pleading, like Will just isn’t getting something. “Nothing is wrong.”
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Will notices that Mike is acting strange, which leads to a long overdue conversation about Mike’s depression.
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- Part 1 of my love, take care of yourself
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19 Jan 2026
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it's rotten work (not to me. not if it's you) by miwiheroes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2024
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Will exhaled. “I just wanted you with me because… you make it easier. Just you being with me is enough, Mike.”
He wasn’t sure how or why, but that really helped, a weight slowly lifting from his shoulders.
“What you’re doing right now is enough, I promise you.”
Mike shrugged, feeling like he would always be stuck with this need, no matter how small, the need to protect.
Ten years after everything, and Will hasn't been able to shake a debilitating fear of anything medical-related. So when the only option and smart thing to do is get a blood test from the hospital, Mike is sure to take the time to be there for him.
aka will needs a blood test but has a phobia of needles and mike takes time off work to support him
title from a quote in Euripides by Anne Carson
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- Part 1 of domestic 90s byler
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18 Jan 2026
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In December of 1990, Jonathan decides to go back to Hawkins to film his senior short film at NYU. After convincing Will to star in it, his co-star unexpectedly drops the film, leaving them with no choice other than to cast the only boy in Hawkins that would agree.
or, Will and Mike are forced to star in a short film together, having no choice but to face their estrangement and fears throughout the week of filming.
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17 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is living happily in the big city, growing into himself and going clubbing with his new boyfriend.
But what happens when he spots Mike Wheeler at a gay club after 2 years of no-contact?
(inspired by delicateviolqnce on tiktok)
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16 Jan 2026
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It rolls, it rolls, it rolls, Will is clenching his hands into fists so tight his knuckles are white, bracing himself, preparing himself.
He’s so focused on steadying his breathing, on wrapping his heart in a guard of barbed wire before the blow lands, that he doesn’t quite see the number on the dice.
Mike lets out a shaky breath next to him. “It’s a seven.”
Will runs through the list in his head. Three times, before it clicks. He thinks he might throw up.
“C’mon, Wheeler. Don’t keep us waiting,” Max teases, and Will finally catches the satisfied gleam in her eyes.
A 20. He gets twenty minutes locked in a linen closet with Mike.
Two years ago, he would have been jumping for joy.
But Mike won’t even look at him.
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15 Jan 2026
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it just sucks to try and explain why i feel like this every day by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2024
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Mike fucked up.
He knows he’s fucked up the second it happens. He knew he was fucking up even in the moments leading up to it, but honestly he couldn’t bring himself to care— not when the only thing he felt was self-hatred and ice-cold pain, freezing his heart until it numbed to nothingness. He feels nothing still, minutes past the point of no return.
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Mike left out one important detail when talking to Will about his depressive episodes— an ugly, horrible detail that should have stayed buried in the past. Mike just had to go dig it up.
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- Part 2 of my love, take care of yourself
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15 Jan 2026
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Will is in New York City now. He’s graduated from art school. He has a new boyfriend. He’s accepted himself in ways he never thought he could. For the first time in his life, he’s happy—really happy. He’s moved on from Hawkins. Moved on from the past. He looks toward the future now instead of over his shoulder.
He’s moved on from Mike.
At least, that’s what he tells himself.
But when Mike stops calling—when weeks stretch into months, and months into years without a single word from the boy he once loved—
Will can’t help but feel it.
That quiet, cavernous emptiness opening up inside his chest.
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Mike does something that leaves Will feeling completely helpless, even though they are hundreds of miles apart.
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- Part 2 of Love, Michael.
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13 Jan 2026
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will receives an envelope in the mail that says from mike. it contains 13 letters, 13 reasons.
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13 Jan 2026
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Once I took your medication to know what it’s like by chcherryhairwrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom, Byler - Fandom
03 Jan 2026
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Season 5 fix it fic. Byler camping trip, forced proximity trope. Set after a time where they defeat Vecna and Eleven is alive because I can’t deal with that.
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13 Jan 2026