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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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09 Jun 2026
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In this post-apocalyptic world, the rules are simple: you kill the infection.
When Will doesn’t return after a supply run, Mike knows exactly what not to do - though he doesn’t consider himself well-versed in following orders.
Because Mike Wheeler has never been good at letting Will Byers go.
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13 Mar 2026
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
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"I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."
The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.
There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.
Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"
Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.
Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.
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**ON HIATUS**
(MWTFDYD gate + ending reimagined)
After Vecna opens a giant rift in Hawkins and the town is put on military lockdown, the Byers are forced to bunk with the Wheelers. Trapped in close quarters, Mike and Will must finally face the fracture in their friendship—and the weight of the unspoken feelings that threaten to break them before Vecna even has the chance.
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11 Feb 2026
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"Okay, I know I totally suck for not helping move furniture--" Will starts, setting the bag on Mike's desk with his back turned to the bed. "--but I swear it was for good reasons. And I know you said you didn't want anything for your birthday, but it's been over a week, so it's not technically a birthday gift--" He turns around, pausing when he sees what Mike is holding. "Is that the painting I gave you?"
"Why did you lie?" Mike asks, immediately.
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Or: Mike Wheeler loses his best friend, breaks up with his girlfriend, comes out twice in one day, and starts rolling a snowball for an avalanche. Not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 1 of Adrien's Season 5 Rewrite
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All I See Is You | Canon Stranger Things Season 5 Rewrite by InkBySam for Will Byers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
14 Feb 2026
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Since the duffer brothers absolutely queerbaited and bombed byler for season five, I want to rewrite season five with my own narrative so we arent queer baited and get the love story everybody wants.
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Season Five of Stranger Things was supposed to be Hawkins' darkest hour-but what if the story unfolded the way it should have?
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have always been at the heart of it, their bond deeper than Hawkins can ever understand. Through terror, heartbreak, and mind-bending horrors, they navigate a world that's trying to tear them apart-without ever realizing how much they mean to each other.
Hawkins isn't the same without Will, and Mike's about to realize that the person he's been searching for all along has been right in front of him.
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EPILOGUE IS OUT!!!
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take your time while you’re mine (and smoke slow) by limerency
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2026
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“I–I have an idea,” he starts, and Will thinks he’s never seen him so still, “I know you won’t let me try your cigarettes, but...”
The idea begins to die on Mike’s tongue. Will revives it.
“But?” He whispers, voracity woven in his tone.
“I don’t have to smoke if you do it for me.”
The proposition cuts through the ashy air, and an instantaneous clarity hits Will.
Mike is asking him to shotgun.
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3 times Will smokes alone + 1 time Mike joins him.
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matryoshka (why do you leave me with watercolor eyes) by vvalentine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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Mike is like a statue across from him, the only sign of life being the slight hitch when he inhales. Will blows the air out of his throat through pursed lips, and his body is starting to malfunction. It always thinks sadness has to be followed up by panic, that's what it has been conditioned to. His heartbeat speeds up fast and he's thinking about car crashes again.
Everything's a ram raid. He's both the car and the storefront. He can't believe he let Mike inside knowing what it would cost him.
(Mike comes to find Will in New York. A ten hour drive, heart offered. Will makes decisions.)
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No Such Thing as Happy Endings (unless I choose you) by SlowKindling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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It's the 2000's, and Michael Wheeler is miserable. He hates everything about himself; everything he'd become. He has nothing left to lose. Dustin, who still greives Steve's and Eddie's death, invents a machine that allows them to travel through the multiverse- to see other dimensions, other versions of themselves.
Together, they look for a reality where Steve and Eddie are alive, but instead they find answers Mike didn't know he was looking for.Or: Miserable Mike realizes that he is only happy when he's with Will.
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"They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."
Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.
"Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"
"But you do," said Henry. "You need him."
When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.
Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.
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What if Joyce and Hopper weren't able to find Will? What if he escaped the Demogorgan, but was left stranded in the Upside Down?
This is the story of a boy returning to a world that continued on without him.
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a cruel summer with you by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Mar 2026
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“Oh, come on,” Will says, struggling to keep his voice neutral in a different way. His mouth is dry, and he hates Mike for it even more. “Is this what it’s going to be like this summer?”
Mike looks back at him, considering, lips pursed in an effort to shut down the smirk that Will knows is fighting to break free. Will doesn’t dare to let his gaze catch there, focusing instead on holding Mike’s stare, because this, too, is a game.
Five years into a rivalry with bittersweet origins, the only thing Mike and Will want is to beat each other at this summer’s camp counselor competition. But being back at camp is dredging up old memories, and as Mike and Will lose momentum and gain something else entirely, it becomes increasingly clear that one summer can change everything.
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- Part 5 of in the quiet of the night
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NOVEMBER 6TH, 1986
In the three years since Will Byers went missing, the town of Hawkins has been under constant threat of the creatures from the Upside Down. But now, eight months after Vecna has ruptured a giant rift through the town of Hawkins, that threat is about to reemerge. Unaware of Vecna's true plans and trapped under a military quarantine, our heroes will not only be forced to face the greatest evil from the Upside Down, but also overcome impossible odds, in order to save the world, and each other, one last time.
Written in a SCREENPLAY format, this fic operates as a diverging conclusion for the final season of Stranger Things.
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we could be heroes (just for one day) by avidkoyomilover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Apr 2026
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Stranger things Volume 2 and 3 completely rewritten.
Nancy and Jonathan are fighting, Steve and Dustin are fighting, Max is still in a coma, and what the hell is wrong with Will?
Episode 5, Shock Jock
Episode 6, Escape from Camazotz
Episode 7, The Bridge, and
Episode 8, The Rightside UpAll four episodes, completely rewritten with no plot holes, jane hopper lives, a byler conclusion, and plot accurate.
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bury me in metamorphoses (with galatea, my sweet) by hiscleric
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2022
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It’s been seven years since Will Byers vanished from Hawkins for the second time; seven years since he picked up his life, moved across the globe, and finally settled. He had found himself in a small town outside of Dublin with no desire to be anyplace else. He was happy. Ireland was great — beautiful sights, decent weather, and it was far. So, so far.
But when past feelings bubble from under the surface and start to poison his creative endeavors, he doesn’t think things could get any worse.
Seeing Mike Wheeler at his local grocery store quickly proves him wrong.
OR: Running away and the reunion of a lifetime.
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Mike would do anything for Will. Would he die for Will?
(Or; While exploring the Hawkins church, Will's mind falls under Henry's control. Mike does all he can to bring Will back.)
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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.