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Mystery Work
Part of Private
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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23 Feb 2026
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“What the fuck do you want, Mike?” He snapped. Will might as well have whipped him with a belt. Mike jolted with shock, a stunned expression writing across his face.
“What-what do you mean?”
“I mean, what are you doing here? Why the fuck are you in New York? What could have possibly possessed you to come here?” Will spat with venom. He knew he wasn’t being fair, but it was uncontrollable. The hurt expression on Mike’s face was making him even more aggravated. If anyone had the right to feel hurt, it was Will.
After Will left for school, he gave Mike distance to grieve. He figured that whenever Mike felt like bridging that gap again, he would reach out.
He hadn’t attempted it once in the past two years.
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Will Byers is forced to work with Mike Wheeler on his senior capstone project. Just when everything had started to calm down in his life, Mike decided to show up again for the first time in two years. Will is devoted to his long-term boyfriend, Carlton, but can't help the magnetic pull Mike seems to have on him, no matter how hard he fights it. It's messy, it's filled with angst, it hurts, and it's the rawest form of love.
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23 Feb 2026
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
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23 Feb 2026
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Mike stares at the photo, whispering the words.
His name is Will Byers.
He has huge eyes, a gazillion moles, and a withering sense of humor.
He draws the best pictures.
He moved away when we were thirteen. His mother lives in Florida. He goes to school in Boston.
He is alive.
He was my best friend.
Mike remembers. They haven’t taken everything yet.Seven years ago, Will Byers went missing. After he reappeared, everyone—even his own family—started to forget him.
Now, it’s 1994, twenty-year-old Will is back, and it is happening again.
A mid-90s AU set in the Pacific Northwest, ft.: slowburn Byler, mixtapes, flannel, witchcraft, moody weather, Nirvana, and a spooky eldritch forest.
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23 Feb 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of Old Stories 23/24
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by creature_in_a_mask
16 Feb 2026