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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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“Lately I’ve been feeling like… I don’t know. What if– what if I’m the problem?”
Mike felt a shot of dread flow through him. “The problem?
In the aftermath of a harrowing escape from the Upside Down, Mike and Will grapple with physical and emotional wounds. Faced with Will's new plan and doubt of what's real and what's not, Mike must confront reality and something that he had never been able to truly control.
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A wound cleaning fic + a devastating cliffhanger + Will not knowing what's real and what's not
- title from Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
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let me steal this moment from you by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike moves in his bed, and Will's eyes stay firmly on the ceiling. "I feel like we barely know each other anymore."
And Will can't argue with that, so he replies, "What do you want to know?"
There’s a long lapse of silence, and then –
“Can you come up here?”
In the wreckage, Mike and Will spend a series of nights together.
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- Part 6 of fix-its
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“I’m sorry,” Will says again, just to make sure Mike knows, and it comes out more sensical this time, his voice croaking and worn out.
He can feel the brush of Mike’s chin on the crown of his head when Mike shakes his head. “Don’t be,” he replies, and he sounds certain. There’s a beat of silence, before he slowly questions, “Feel better?”
Will swallows, and gives a slow nod. Mike doesn’t let go.
Will wakes up from a nightmare, and Mike keeps him close.
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- Part 2 of one-scene
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Being on the run isn't easy when you have to deal with the unresolved tension between you and your best friend. Will thinks he's handling it just fine on his own- not perfectly, but he's getting there.
That is, until his brother's best friend decides to put them in a hotel room together. Alone. With only one bed.
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The Wheelers are having a Christmas party but Mike is only allowed to invite one friend (obviously Will Byers). When an annoyingly persistent girl takes Will's first kiss under the mistletoe, Mike loses it. In Mike's opinion, Will's first kiss has been ruined. There's only one way to fix it ... a re-do first kiss! Just as an "experiment" of course. Purely scientific reasons! (No other reason...)
tldr: Jealous Mike is jealous. Byler re-do Will's first kiss
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Will lets out a small squawk as Mike’s hand— his very cold, very freezing hand— finds its way around the blankets and under his sweater. “I’m sick, you weirdo,” he says, half-laughing into the side of Mike’s head, “I have a fever.”
“I don’t care,” Mike mumbles, “you’re warm and I’m cold. This is nice.”
“You’re going to get sick,” Will tries, for the umpteenth time, but it’s pointless. Mike Wheeler is stubborn and hardheaded and he never does anything halfway— not even this.
Will gets sick. He's dealing with it. Seriously, Mike- he's fine.
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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mike and joyce have a heart to heart and mike finally has a breakdown (after many years of needing to have one)
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friend of my brother is my enemy (or something like that) by rosesgf
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Aug 2022
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Jonathan would never hear the end of it if Will found out what he’s doing, so he needs to be subtle. Just enough to get Mike to treat him better. Just enough to redirect things.
He settles on a stern, “Mike, I think we need to have a talk.”
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Mike sighed as he moved back to his knees in front of Will. The more clarity Will regained, the more he felt the need to shuffle, to look away, to cover his blushing face. Mike was on his knees in front of him. God, he should not be thinking like this. The proximity didn’t help, nor the fact that Mike’s gaze seemed unable to leave Will’s face for more than ten seconds.
“I’m gonna have to deal with that gash,” He said, and Will huffed.
“I can– I can do it myself, Mike–” He said, making to get up before wincing in pain at the tug on his wounded skin, collapsing back into the chair with a gasp.
“Would you stop that?” Mike urged, voice stern. Will stared back at him.
“Stop what?”
“Trying to– I don’t know, play this off. Act like I shouldn’t care,”
“You shouldn’t care, Mike. I’m fine, it’ll heal.”
“I know that, Will. I know you can look after yourself if you need to. But you don’t. I’m here, just— just let me help you,”
Will met Mike’s pleading gaze and caved in a matter of moments.________________
Or, Will gets in a fight. Mike patches him up.
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I Kill You, You Kill Me? (Sounds Like A Fair Trade To Me) by vecnabutworse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2022
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"I can say, you would have gotten me if it weren't for the gun I have held to your chest," Mike says, being pushed up against the wall with a knife to his throat seems to have done nothing to fix the smug smile on his face. Either Mike had always been insane or the effects of the job had finally gotten to him.
It's certainly gotten to Will; when he looks down at the small gun placed gently at his sternum, he has to fight the urge to laugh. He recognized the weapon. It was rare and it packed a real punch, and by punch, he means that once triggered by the heat of being fired and the human body combined the bullet explodes and causes irreversible damage to the body.
Mike continues, "Also, I would be careful with the whole 'threatening strangers with knives' thing. Some people are into that."
Despite himself, Will humours him. "Well, I would hardly call us strangers."
Mike smiles, it's almost manic but still incredibly breathtaking. "Then you should know just how much the cold press of a knife against my skin gets me going."Logline: Unbeknownst to them, Mike and Will are tasked with killing one another by their own agencies. Luckily, Mike and Will decide to pursue their own mission.
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- Part 1 of I KILL YOU, YOU KILL ME?
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It was hard enough, moving to California, 2,000 miles away from everyone and everything he knew, and now, his best friend was acting like he didn't exist, and honestly being a prick.
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“It’s been a week and a half since they had driven the mind flayer out of him. He won’t be back to school for a while. His mom and Jonathan have been having a hell of a time finding someone to babysit him while they’re both gone. It’s been very embarrassing, and Jonathan can tell that the lack of privacy has been driving Will crazy.
Will thinks that’s why Jonathan decides to throw him a bone.
He asks if Will would be okay if he took a nap for an hour or two? Will nods enthusiastically. He reiterates that Will can and should come get him for anything he needs. Will agrees.
Jonathan goes in his room and shuts the door.
And then Will makes a series of choices that are incredibly, incredibly dumb. “
Immediately post S2 imagining of what happened after Will was unpossessed and how he felt knowing that Bob was dead.
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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You Never Cried to Them, Just to Your Soul by torchyrains
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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It happens when he gets a phone call. It’s around 10:30 at night. El is asleep on the couch, and Jim is nearly there himself when the phone starts to ring. He picks it up, clearing the sleep from his throat. "Hello?"
“Oh thank god,” He hears Nancy sigh. The relief is nearly palpable through the phone. “It’s Mike."
Goddammit.
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how will i know (if history repeats itself) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 May 2025
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This is something that, probably, someone with more objectivity on the situation than Mike would categorize as not normal. Personally, though, Mike isn’t all that pressed. Not when it’s so undeniably pleasant. He’s fine being abnormal about Will if it means not ruining this for himself.
After a few minutes, Will props himself up on one elbow, looking at Mike with sudden urgency. “Mike,” he says, blinking slowly at him, and Mike pauses the show again, arching an eyebrow at him.
“Yes?”
Will grins, all crooked and boyish and brilliant in the soft glow of the living room lamplight. “Let’s make out.”the one where they're exes who still kiss sometimes, but not, like, in a weird way.
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The terrible, awful thing about finally getting what he wanted — namely, Mike — is that now he wants more, the selfish creature that he is. When he was younger, he’d been able to convince himself that kissing Mike, just once, would be enough to last him a lifetime. Foolishly, he’d thought that he could relish that single kiss and live a peaceful life, one where Mike was still his friend and nothing changed but his feelings would dissipate.
Instead, they grew; they’re still growing, Will fears, growing bigger and bigger each time Mike and him get together, because every sound Mike makes when Will kisses him makes Will want to find ten more little gasps and whines and groans, and each time Mike twists their fingers together and pants against his skin Will thinks about how much better it is than the time before.
will and mike are - something, and will's not entirely sure what. whatever they are, he wants more, but he's not sure if he can have it.
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.