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    “I’ve been thinking about what you said.” Mike swallowed.
    “I said a lot. Remind me what do you mean.”
    He wanted to scream, the way he teased him when he clearly knew what Mike referred to. Fuck it. Worst thing was he said no. I just had to ask. “When you went off my lap and we were both fucking hard.” Mike noticed Will flinched at the tone in his voice. “When you leaned over to me.” Now Mike leaned toward Will’s ear. “And when you said.” He started to whisper, “You know I can help you with that.”
    Goosebumps formed on Will’s neck.
    “I’ve been thinking about that all evening.” He took Will’s earlobe between his lips. “I know you did too."

    Coming home from college for the winter break, the party meets to catch up, drink and have a fun time. In a game of truth or dare, Will has to give Mike a hickey, but in their drunken state they can't keep their hands from another and are turned on more than they should. After heated nights together, Will proposes to be friends with benefits, which definitely never brought anyone in trouble before...

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    27 Apr 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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    27 Apr 2026

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    What started as harmless tickling unexpectedly shifted into something more serious.

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    26 Feb 2026

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    “I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
    “What?”
    “We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”

    Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    “Look, maybe… you just need to get that out of the way,” Mike suggests slowly, looking almost self-conscious now. “And I could help. If you want.”

    Will feels his cheeks rising in temperature with each passing second.

    “So you… you want to kiss me?” 

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    23 Feb 2026

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    “Is it cause you used to have a crush on me?” Mike asked, abruptly.

    “What!” It was Will’s turn to blush harder, giving him a glare reserved for Mike Wheeler and Mike Wheeler only. “No. God. That was ages ago. I’ve been past that for a long time.”

    Mike motioned like he’d made his point. “See? So? It wouldn’t be weird.”

    So, Mike likes guys. Fine, Will can live with that. Except now Mike's worried about having fallen behind and would really like some help practicing how to kiss a guy from his also-into-guys best friend. And Will is trying really, really hard to be a good mentor to him, so what is he going to do, say no?

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    17 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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    07 Feb 2026

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    When long-time enemies, Bakugo Katsuki--the all-star athlete and rascal of Ise--and Izuku Midoriya, the town sweetheart, are paired together for a long-term project, the quiet beachside town of Ise suddenly gets a bit louder.

    In which, Katsuki is an asshole pole vaulter, Izuku is going to fail psychology, and both are about to have the most intense spring semester yet.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    “Well, it was nice meeting you two,” David said. He leaned forward towards Will, and gave him a single, light pat on his head.

    “And I’ll see you around,” he said softly.

    Will blinked up at him in a daze, eyes wide and cheeks gaining a tint of pink again.

    Mike stared, stunned. Did he just touch Will’s hair? Mike was the only one that ever did that!

    Mike's semester takes a serious turn when—
    A) He realizes he's in love with his best friend
    B) A popular handsome senior takes interest in said best friend, and he can't stand it

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Will knows what having a crush looks like. He’s known it for years.

    And lately, he's been seeing the signs on the face of one Mike Wheeler every time he looks at him. Maybe it’s always been there, but not to this degree.

    In the last six months, though, the planets had aligned in some strange pattern, or the earth had been tilted on its axis by the hand of God, or something, because Will noticed it pretty quickly.

    So, Will's finally decided to start testing the waters. For example: he has been flirting.

    Well, okay…

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Will has never had his first kiss. Mike is happy to lend a hand.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.

    The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    “Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”

    Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.

    He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Mike raised a brow, almost offended by his suggestion. “You want me to… practice apologizing?”

    “No–” Will laughed, a little too fast. “I mean – kissing. Or… whatever. Starting things.” He felt his voice nearly crack at the end of his sentence, a sudden heavy implication behind his words.

    The room felt too quiet, too cautious.

    Mike stared at him like he was trying to solve another puzzle – which he seemed notoriously bad at by this point. “With you?” He asked, finally breaking the silence.

    Will shrugged, aiming for casual and missing by a mile. “I’m... safe. I won’t, like… judge you. And I won’t tell anyone. Besides… I’ve never kissed anyone either. It’d just be – practice.”
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    Between seasons 4 and 5, Mike Wheeler is convinced his breakup with Eleven happened because he did something wrong - and he's determined to not repeat the same mistake. When Will Byers offers to help him "practice," it feels logical. Somewhat.

    Except, some things were never meant to be rehearsed.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Reki is insecure about his lack of kissing experience. Langa just wants to help him feel like he's good enough, even if teaching Reki to kiss means breaking his own heart.

    (yet another practice kissing au)

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Mystery Work

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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    07 Feb 2026

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    "Ha-ha," Will replies dryly, rolling his eyes. "Thanks for trying to make me feel better. I guess... But it doesn't change the fact that I'm sixteen and haven't kissed anyone yet."

    "Don't feel bad, seriously! Kissing is super overrated anyway," Mike waves his hand through the air.

    "What?" Will laughs in disbelief.

    "It's not bad. It's just... okay," Mike shrugs, rocking his hand. "People just make it out to be like some amazing world-stopping experience that you can't get enough of. When it's nothing like that."

    Will huffs, smirking. "I wish I knew what it felt like so I could tell you if you're wrong."

    "I could show you…"

    "What?"

    Mike clears his throat. "So you know what it's like," he speaks carefully, quietly, like any moment everything might fall apart. "Then you can tell me if I'm wrong or not."

    Mike can't figure out why he still can't say I love you to El.

    Will can't figure out why Mike's acting so strange.

    Featuring very repressed, Jealous Mike, a very confused Will, and one night that changes everything.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.

    It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.

    or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.

    “I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.

    “Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”

    “Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”

    Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”

    “Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.

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    Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    “Are you offended that people think we’re dating?”

    “No,” Mike says immediately. “Of course not,” because, again, he should be so lucky.

    Will’s baffled expression does not change. “Then why would I be?”

    “So– okay, fine, whatever. Should we, like, tell them to get their heads out of their asses and that we’re not– um– dating, or–”

    “I think,” Will cuts in, “well. You know what would be funny?”

    Honestly, Mike doesn't know what he thought being Will Byers' fake-boyfriend would entail, but he definitely didn't think it would involve this many ugly Christmas sweaters.

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    07 Feb 2026

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