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california was supposed to be a fresh start. move away, get a job, find someone to love without it ruining your life.
loving mike wasn't turbulence. not like this. instead, just radio silence. small things that made him think that maybe, in some contrived fantasy come to life, he could love him the way he needs.
this, however, was something else entirely. volatile. fitful. wavering.
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will byers moves to california. lucas and max are getting married. the party reunites, and meets will's boyfriend. this new boyfriend is... nothing like mike, to say the least. and yet, mike is the only one who picks up on it.
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it's been a gentle, slow day, just the two of them together, not really leaving mike's basement. spending the days wrapped up in one another sounds like a perfect way to spend it. the perfect way to spend a lifetime, perhaps.
fear is poison, and he's been poisoned for years now. since 12 years old, its like he was nothing but poison.
mike can't touch the poison. mike can't become poisoned. its all over now. but mike can't touch the poison.
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will associates the back of his neck with fear. mike teaches him to associate it with something warmer
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you're a payphone away from the mess that i've become by dollybonesz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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"...mike, do you want me to confess to you through a payphone in new york, or do you want me to confess to you in a hotel room with hot food and heating?"
"...both. i dont— i dont care. i need you." he doesn't care if he sounds desperate anymore. desperation is the purest form of greed.
"then i love you. i love you, and i always have."
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mike has ruined everything in his life and doesn't have the one person that kept him going anymore, until he decides to call him at a payphone in new york and breaks down completely.
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"mike wheeler, are you telling me you're in love with me?"
mike wheeler is reeling. mike wheeler is obsessed and in love and confused and insane and going entirely feral. mike wheeler doesn't even know what to say. mike wheeler is absolutely fucked.
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mike cant come to terms with the fact he might (definitely does) have a crush on his best friend, and will helps. repressed queer kid mike wheeler x openly gay will byers (except no one was openly gay in the 80s)
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"Carlton," Mike repeated, the word feeling like ash in his mouth.
"Yeah, Carlton," Dustin said, sounding genuinely surprised by Mike's tone. "I figured you’d be the first to know. I mean, you guys talk every night. I only heard it through the grapevine—Max told Lucas, Lucas told me. Even El seemed to know when I called her last. I thought you were probably the one who gave him the pep talk to actually go through with it."
Mike didn’t know. He didn't know anything. He’d talked to Will on Friday. He’d talked to Will today, just before calling Dustin. Will had mentioned the weather, his latest charcoal sketch, and the fact that Max had accidentally bleached one of his favorite sweaters. He had not mentioned a business major named Carlton.
The betrayal tasted like copper. He was the person Will usually told everything to first.
OR Mike Wheeler realizes that playing the "Good Best Friend" is a losing game, Will is tired of waiting for a sign, and the Party proves that they are world-class at covering up a tactical romantic explosion.
Basically: cheating Byler burger with a side of mutual pining fries and enabler friends soda.
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SweetBunny22 by finncandrownmeandillsaythnx for shouales
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18 Feb 2026
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He looked at the charcoal smudge again. It was so distinctly Will. It was like finding a fingerprint at a crime scene, only the crime was Mike’s rapidly disintegrating sanity.
He should close the tab. He should absolutely, one hundred percent close the tab, clear his browser history, burn the laptop, and maybe move to a monastery in Tibet where the wifi was spotty. He should walk into Will’s room right now and say... what?
Hey man, sorry to wake you, but are you spreading your cheeks to pay for our electricity bill? Because if so, thanks, but also, what the fuck?
In which, Mike Wheeler thinks he knows everything about his roommate and childhood best friend, Will. He knows Will likes his coffee black, hates the texture of anything remotely slimy, and is surprisingly good at keeping secrets. But when Mike stumbles upon a cam model named 'Lee' who films in a room that looks suspiciously familiar, he realizes he doesn't know Will nearly as well as he thought. And God, does he want to learn.
OR simply: a camboy!will AU
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Both of their bodies shake as they catch their breath. Will’s still hard, and his sweat is starting to dry uncomfortably on his skin, but all he can focus on is Mike.
It’s times like these he’s reminded how lucky he is to have Mike in this way. To see this side of him, this side that still feels too new and too intimate and too overwhelming all at once. Sometimes, he thinks he may be bitter. Resentful of his lot in life, being so painfully in love with someone who will so obviously never feel the same way. On his bad days, he even thinks he might resent Mike.
Like this, though, he knows that could never be true. Not really. Sure, it hurts, only ever having Mike halfway, knowing his body but never his soul. Yes, it’s going to kill him when Mike inevitably finds someone new and runs off into the sunset, leaving him in the dust again.
But it’s Mike. He'll take whatever he can get.
When he and Mike end up in bed together after graduation, they fall into something dangerously easy. Or, at least, it would be easy, if it weren't the most painful thing Will's ever done.
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21 Feb 2026
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Mike, What Did You Do? (the Curse of Strahd) by ByeDisaster
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2026
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What Mike did in the 18 months between S4 and S5. The answer includes: touching, sleeping in the same bed, playing D&D but only the two of them, and Mike casually calling Will beautiful. Best friend shit. Will Byers is toast.
Now expanded to include a very different (gay) Season 5.
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“I look for the vampire.”Mike’s face is turned towards him. Will was looking at the ceiling, but he shifts, just enough, his nose points at Mike’s nose. His lips in a line from Mike’s lips. His mouth is slightly open on the pillow. “Do I find him?” Will prompts.
“Yeah,” Mike breathes. “He’s beautiful.”
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20 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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