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“Well, I can tell this means something to him. I’ve got this feeling about it.”
If Will has a feeling, it means something.
“Okay.” Mike nods. “Tell me about it. When did you see this?”
Will breathes out, dragging a hand down his face that settles over his mouth as he looks over it again. “This is… a memory, I think.” He declares, taking a black marker and inking lines between the reds. “A good one. Maybe not happy, but hopeful.”
(or, the one where will byers spends a lot of time thinking in the shelter at wsqk, and mike wheeler decides to check up on him.)
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“Hi!” The boy tenses for a second before his head shoots up to look Mike in the eyes. “I’m Michael Wheeler, but you can call me Mike. Do you want to be my friend?”
He sees a bit of worry in the boy’s eyes—something that looks a little like distrust—and Mike feels his resolve wilt a bit.
The silence stretches on for longer than he thought it would, but just when Mike was about to take his hand back and embarrassingly return to his corner like some rejected loser, Will’s lips tick up.
(A bell rings clear in his ears—tinny and pure, just like he’s always imagined it would.)
“Yes.”
(or, the one where soulmates exist, but there is still very little you can do when yours gets taken away by dimension-hopping monsters.)
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“... Has anyone ever told you about Lonnie?” Will angles her wrist gently, running his violet marker through the middle “1” on El’s skin and across the “0”. He flicks his eyes briefly back to hers and finds confusion in them. She shakes her head.
Will hums, trying to even out his breathing and finishing a vague outline of a lily. It makes sense. Will barely likes talking about Lonnie. He can’t imagine it’s any easier for anyone else.
But… El is family now. They haven’t known each other very long, and most days it feels like she’s more Mike’s friend than Will’s, but she’s his sister.
Will’s sister, who’s sick of looking into a mirror and recognizing the monster that stares back.
He could resonate with that, Will thinks.
(or, the one where will and el are having a bad time in lenora, but you know what they say about a burden shared.)
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it's too dangerous out there to walk (so i had to save you) by elsielou
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
30 Oct 2024
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"Fine. I will allow you to continue writing in your despicable little scandal sheet, but only under one condition: you are to marry on your first season out."
(or, the one where penelope bridgerton and portia featherington are thrust back to the day before penelope's debut)
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Because, perhaps, love need not be about sacrifice. Perhaps love is not a fire licking at an open wound, nor a burden to be halved and shared with a screeching wail. Should pain be a prerequisite for love? Should one ache, should one tear, should one burn in order to declare themselves in love?
Perhaps love is a rose made of parchment. A promenade under the stars. A smile exchanged above a lake. Perhaps love is living, and the notion of wanting to live.
(Shouldn’t one, after all, want to live for love, rather than to die for it?)
(or, the one where princess penelope featherington of the kingdom of goldenhollow must receive a true love’s kiss in order to wake, and prince colin bridgerton of the crownstone isles believes himself worthy of the title)
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“Of course,” says Patty. She tries again for a smile—one that’s reassuring this time. One that hopefully masks the nervousness and dread that are slowly clawing their way up her chest. “I’ll do what I can. What do you need?”
Again, Will and Mike exchange a look. Understanding passes between the two of them, and this time, it’s Will who speaks up.
“We need to talk to you about Henry Creel,” he says, his voice impossibly soft.
Or:
Mike and Will take a trip out of Hawkins to go visit a person from Henry Creel's past.
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21 Dec 2025
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Say my name and I'll go ahead and pick a date (I'm okay if you understand that this is fate) by SilverShadow1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2025
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“I can’t believe you still have this. It’s shit.”
“It was from you.”OR
Mike and Will drew each other once.
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20 Dec 2025
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“But it was like—looking at a piece of art, you know? Like, just looking at someone and thinking, how do they even exist? That level of… awe, almost.”
Will thinks about Mike in the back of Argyle’s van. About the jut of his cheekbone, the glimmer in his eye. The curve of his lips. Still, even through all that—hiding something. Just like Jonathan said. A beautiful mystery, wrapped up in one of the most complicated packages Will’s ever seen. “Yeah,” he murmurs, resting his chin in his palm. “Yeah, I get it.”
“Wheelers, huh?” Jonathan murmurs, with a slight smile. “Got some kinda spell over us, man.”
“God, tell me about it,” Will groans.
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mid-apocalypse, will comes out to his brother, then makes a move on mike. all in all, it goes better than expected.
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20 Dec 2025
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a grave will fit me better than a landlocked home by paisparker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Dec 2025
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And Mike, wrapped in water and teeth and devotion, thought dimly again that if this was how he died, drowned in the arms of his lovely ocean creature, he would welcome it with bliss.
Mike Wheeler, has always belonged to the sea. When he finds something the water has claimed — and loves it — he chooses to follow it home.
; or mike is morbidly obsessed with death and the water, and will is both of those incarnate.
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20 Dec 2025
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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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19 Dec 2025