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“What exactly does this pact entail, then?”
Mike leans forward very seriously, bringing his face close to Will’s.
“When they make it legal for you to get married, because they will.” He pauses, as if to make sure that Will is listening. Will laughs and nods for him to go on. “And if we’re both still alone and miserable—”
“Wow. Is that the awesome future you’re painting for us on our last night?”
“Shh.” Mike is doing a decent job at staying in character, but the crinkles around his eyes are giving him away. “If we’re both still alone by then… and at least partially miserable. That part’s important,” he continues dramatically, “I’ll marry the shit out of you, William Byers. Deal?”
Or, before heading off to college, Mike and Will make a pact. Fifteen years later, gay marriage is legalized in the state of Massachusetts. These two events are intrinsically linked to one another.
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27 Jul 2026
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your gonna wish you never stopped answering by Wheelerr
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jul 2026
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The calls stopped first.
Then the letters.
Then Mike Wheeler disappeared from Will Byers’ life completely.
Years later, Will is living in New York with his friends, making art, building a life, and finally trying to move on.
Then he meets Miles.
Or: Will Byers deserves good things, his friends won’t let him forget it, and everything gets a little more complicated when a handsome stranger walks into his life.
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13 Jun 2026
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ever get the feeling that you're never all alone? by falloutboi for Wheeee, glossyjm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2026
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Anyways, the point is, Will thinks, that maybe his ghost roommate has escalated from small pranks and is actually now watching Will. Will supposes that's fine, but he does think that maybe it's a little perverted of the ghost to watch Will masturbate. Will trudges back into the house to wash his hands in the kitchen, crinkling his nose. He probably should be more upset about having a perverted ghost roommate, but sue him, he's lonely (and kind of horny).
Will dries his hands off on an old dish towel and resigns himself to spending the rest of the afternoon on the couch, lounging around and flipping through channels on the staticky box TV.
Maybe his perverted ghost roommate likes The X-Files too.
In which Will thinks that his house is haunted (and he's right).
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08 Jun 2026
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"Do you seriously just let him control you like that all the time? You're not his fucking dog, dude."
Max calls it control.
Will calls it trust.Because it's not just that Mike takes care of him.
It's that Will starts to lean into it, he craves it.And when he realizes Mike needs it just as much, needs to be praised, to be relied on, to be everything... Will decides to stop resisting.
After all, if Mike wants to take care of him...
who is Will to say no?OR
After nearly a year of living together, Mike and Will somehow stumble into a full-blown dom/sub dynamic before they so much as kiss or admit they're in love.
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08 Jun 2026
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August 1990. Chicago.
Mike Wheeler has spent a year missing Will Byers. Will Byers has spent a year becoming someone Mike might not even recognize.
After staying behind to take care of his family, Mike Wheeler is starting college a year late. After a year of distance, unanswered letters and missed calls, they’re now sharing a new city, a dorm, and are forced to face all the feelings they thought they had left behind.
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23 Mar 2026
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There’s a lot of things Mike didn't expect in life, the first being that it was Max who drew his name in the Halloween secret costume exchange but he should’ve figured that one, it was just his luck after all. The second was the costume she picked out for him: a dog costume, complete with a collar and leash which he refused to even look at. He wasn’t going to be treated like an actual dog, thank you very much.
And the final, most pressing thing: how much he actually liked it when Will treated him like his own personal dog—tugging him around, giving him orders, and worst of all, calling him a good boy.
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- Part 1 of Puppy Mike
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15 Mar 2026
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i can be needy (way too damn needy) by summerofsecrets
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Aug 2026
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Six months of long-distance have turned Mike Wheeler and Will Byers into experts at surviving on late-night phone calls, handwritten letters, and missing each other with an intensity neither of them knows how to contain.
Then Jane accidentally mails the one letter Will never meant anyone to read.
What follows is an escalating exchange of Polaroids, confessions, and promises that make hundred of miles feel impossibly small—and the wait until spring break unbearably long.
But before the letters, before the distance, before either of them learned how to say I love you…
there was October 1988, and the story of how two best friends finally became something more.
or, a hellcali byler fic
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12 Mar 2026
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You’re Not Gonna Win This One (But Please Do Try) by shared_looks
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jan 2026
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There’s nobody in the world that hates Mike Wheeler more than Will Byers, his sworn enemy on and off the ice. Will is determined to sabotage Mike’s career any chance he gets. Hockey and aggression mixes well, but feelings? Those don’t fit in anywhere. Those make things complicated. Especially when your feelings are for your hate-fuck buddy.
Loosely based on Heated Rivalry, but the plot is genuinely not the same at all. It’s more just a hockey au. Read tags for more.
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11 Mar 2026
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Will Byers has retrograde amnesia, due to a severe accident, he can't remember a majority of his childhood. Still, he's found a way to move forward in life, even if he feels that his past is an empty slate.
Little does he know however, that upon going away for college, a part of his distant childhood will unexpectedly find him in the form of a long lost and forgotten friend.
Upon first entering his new dorm, Will is already panicking internally over how attractive his new roommate Mike is. What he doesn't know is that this small panic will soon only be a blip on the gaydar.
The guy seems to behave strangely familiar with him at first, and though Will doesn't understand why- he feels a connection to Mike's charming and strange character, his mannerisms. There's a near magnetic draw that he feels, an immediate fascination.
The universe has an odd way of making unlikely things occur, and by some force of fate he was assigned a dorm room with his own childhood best friend.
The real problem is, Will doesn't remember him, but Mike definitely remembers Will.
[Edit: playlists can be found in notes of chapters 1 and 5]
[|Title from Francis Forever by Mitski|]
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09 Mar 2026
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i'm outside the door, invite me in so we can go back and play pretend by acarnivalbear, angelsfizz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Mar 2026
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Logically, Mike knows what he’s doing is weird. Somewhere, deep in the back of his mind he knows it. Still, he tells himself that it’s normal. That he is normal. That stealing a box of his best friend’s clothes labeled ‘donate’ in black marker and keeping it firmly hidden in the back of his closet was something any normal person would do. It wasn’t weird, anyone else would do the same!
And who could blame him? Mike has been surrounded by Will for as long as he can remember. They’re close! Mike cares about Will, always has. The urge to protect him, to take care of him, was so instinctual even before Mike had presented as an alpha. They were a pair, always together, attached at the hip until… well, until recently but Mike was going to work on that! He really was!
And now the Byers have moved to Lenora. To fucking California and Mike feels like he’s lost a limb.
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- Part 1 of lenoraverse
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09 Mar 2026
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It's Easy To Slip Under Your Defenses by justtryingtochangetheuser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler has a problem. He might be sent to Pennhurst if this keeps up. Or maybe just grounded for life if his mom ever sees his recent chemistry test. And it all started with Will and his stupid, small waist.
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26 Feb 2026
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"Kneel.", Will repeats, sounding sterner than he means to.
Mere seconds later, Mike's brown eyes align with Will's.
He doesn't know what's worse. Mike immediately abiding to his command or the fact that he still barely hovers over Mike despite the latter being on his knees.
Will ignores the fluttering in his stomach.
"I think you begin um-" He hesitates. "You say 'Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.'"
Will hears Mike swallow.
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.", he whispers.
Will thinks he might faint. He grips the chair, trying to steady himself before he continues to speak.
"Right." He clears his throat. "Now...tell me what's on your mind."
Mike is silent for a while.
"I don't think I've ever been in love with El.", he suddenly blurts out.
"What?"
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It is early August 1986. Will and Mike are coerced into renovating an old abandoned church on the edge of town. As the two boys grapple with faith, guilt, and punishment, they wonder whether they will ever be able to forgive each other's sins.
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25 Feb 2026
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Mike is a greasy discord mod and meets Will on a discord server. Will knows exactly how to push his buttons and make him crazy.
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- Part 1 of Discord Mod Mike’s Chud Adventures
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23 Feb 2026
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"And I understand if you want to move out, or something," Mike continues, his voice getting thick as tears prick at his eyes, "because it's weird for your best friend to be thinking about you like that, and— you know what? I'll just go." He starts to get up, pushing himself up on his hands as shame curls heavy in his stomach. "I'm sorry—"
Without warning, Will's boot comes to hover over his chest. Mike stops in place, his mouth hanging open.
"Stay on the floor." Will's voice is uncertain, wavering with nerves, but his eyes darken like he's never wanted anything more in his life. He presses the tip of his shoe to Mike's chest, and— painfully slowly— pushes him down.
Or; Mike is embarrassingly obsessed with Will's new style. Will helps him through it.
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- Part 1 of between the sheets
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23 Feb 2026
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you're the closest to heaven (that i’ll ever be) by wisehearts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Aug 2026
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When the sermon begins, it doesn’t take long for Will to feel a breath on his ear. “This is gonna be boring isn’t it?”
Will scrunches his face and lolls his head to look at Mike. “Why do you act like you’ve never been to church before?”
“I haven’t.” Mike whispers.
Somewhere around the border of North and South Carolina in 2008, Will Byers is a member of the local church's youth group. Why? Even he doesn't know. When a new member, Mike Wheeler, comes along, Will starts to wonder.
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Mike Wheeler joins a youth group solely because he has a crush on one of the members.
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22 Feb 2026
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“So yeah, you could say I’m sexually frustrated,” Will concludes, a wry smile on his face as he finally finishes his rant. “Not to be too graphic, but all I want is a nice, good-looking man who can fuck me hard.” He tips his head towards Mike’s where they're both leaning against the wall, and shuts his eyes for a long moment. “It’s whatever, though. I’ll get ov-”
“I could help you out,” Mike blurts out.
“You- I- What did you say?” Will stammers. Mike squeezes his eyes shut for a long moment, breathes, and then opens them again and meets Will’s gaze determinedly.
“I could help you,” Mike says, with somehow only the slightest tremble of uncertainty in his voice. "As in, we could have sex."or; Will is struggling. Guys who are nice, hot, AND good in bed are apparently non-existent at their university. Frustrated, he complains to Mike - who makes him an offer he can't refuse.
Unfortunately, there's always an aftermath to hooking up with your best friend.
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22 Feb 2026
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Eight years since the final battle, Mike and Will share a cramped Brooklyn apartment where the silence is heavy with a predatory rot Mike has carried for nearly a decade. When Will taps back into the Hive Mind, he discovers his best friend in the next room isn't just distant—he’s starving for a source of life only Will can provide.
Or: Mike Wheeler is a vampire, and Will is the only one keeping him alive.
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18 Feb 2026
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On the first day of Mike Wheeler's final year at Hawkins Senior High, he meets Will Byers: the mysterious new kid who doesn't speak. Mike decides to figure out why, falling head over heels in the process.
Or, mute Will Byers x pining Mike Wheeler
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18 Feb 2026
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