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There’s something wrong with Will.
It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.
No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.
Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.
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- Part 1 of eye of the beholder
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17 Dec 2025
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During the mac-z battle against the demogorgons and Vecna, Will Byers unlocks powers, saving three people close to him, one of which is Mike Wheeler.
He barely has time to celebrate, because the one power he still didn't unlock is to get over Mike, who has been acting a little bit too much like Will, and Will is in love with Mike, so what does he do with that information?
He ignores it, until he can't.
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16 Dec 2025
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“Mike…What you said. On the field.”
Mike stiffens. “Y—you remember that?”
“Of course I remember that.”
aka mike confessed to will to save the world, but will wasn't conscious enough to say it back. when he wakes the next morning, they have a lot to talk about.
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16 Dec 2025
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“I’m a pretty happy-go-lucky guy,” Mike says, staring at Will’s apartment ceiling. Will tactfully doesn’t say anything, but— “Why are you laughing? I literally swear it.”
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- Part 2 of losing twenty to one
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16 Dec 2025
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be that attached (to the person I'm holding) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 May 2023
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Will thinks he’s dreaming. Mike decides to think it’s because of Will’s fever, when the idea of his best friend being convinced it’s more likely that he’s imagining it than for Mike to touch him makes Mike’s stomach drop uncomfortably.
“Sleep, Will. I’m here, I’ll always be here.”
Mike takes advantage of the half-unconscious state his best friend is in and lets his heart spill just a little, just enough for a few drops of what he feels for the boy in his arms to drop and land on his tongue.
“Love you.”
Will mutters, right into Mike’s chest, right over his heart - making it stop beating for a few long moments, when Mike’s world drops on its axis.
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Will is sick and confesses to Mike while out of his mind due to the fever. Mike has a breakdown about it.
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16 Dec 2025
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The world is ending, which means for the time being, Will is living at the Wheeler’s house with Mike and El. Which means his life is once again a third-wheeling roller rink nightmare, and he’s basically invisible to Mike.
Until Jonathan gives him $20 to go to an art sale, and he meets Tobias, a guy just as into art as he is.
It’s not long before him and Tobias start dating.
And then suddenly, Mike’s paying attention to him after all.
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Will gets a boyfriend. Mike doesn’t like it.
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- Part 1 of Tobias Universe
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15 Dec 2025
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When Eleven saves Will from Vecna she gets more than she bargained for when they wake up in the wrong bodies. Now to prevent Vecna from infiltrating the mind of his most perfect host the two of them must pretend to be the other.
Will grapples with the feelings that he’s trying to push away.
Mike wonders why it feels like he’s falling in love all over again.What will become of everything when Hawkins finally falls?
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15 Dec 2025
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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15 Dec 2025
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like a child stargazing (i want it for myself) by roundmango
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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Mike rotates himself to accommodate this, turning his head to the side while looking down at Will, thinking of a best way to kiss him, when Will says, “I told Jonathan about us.”
Mike wants to be with Will on his own terms. But he is nothing, if not open to negotiation.
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11 Dec 2025
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting.
Mike inhaled softly, a faint noise escaping him. And then Mike spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: Yet another buzzy post vol 1 fic where Will grows more confident, Mike short-circuits over it, and they save the world together !!
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09 Dec 2025
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Will is allowed to have other friends. Mike knows that, but that doesn't mean Will should be touching anyone else, because he's Will's best friend. So why is Will so close to Lucas? Why does it hurt to look at?
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Mike sucks at feelings, Lucas knows how to get him worked up, initiate the seasonal Byler fight and lots of confessions.Bookmarked by etherealksm
09 Dec 2025
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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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07 Dec 2025
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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.
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06 Dec 2025
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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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05 Dec 2025
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“Whatever," Lucas shrugs. "You’re just jealous that you aren’t getting any.”
Mike raises an eyebrow, like he knows something the rest of them don't. Will looks like he wants to drown him. He probably deserves it.
In which Will has a love bite, the Party freaks out about it, and Mike is jealous of himself.
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30 Nov 2025
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Graduate school student Hyunjin has been in love with academic genius Kim Seungmin since they were nineteen. But when a fellow grad student drops out, Hyunjin and Seungmin are suddenly assigned to help teach the same class. Maybe, just maybe, Hyunjin can work up the courage to say something - or, as it turns out, he might not even have to.
Or: Hyunjin's had a crush on Seungmin since forever. And handsome, impossibly smart Seungmin suddenly keeps finding reasons to talk to him.
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07 Nov 2025
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Kim Seungmin was dead.
He was dead. Irreversibly so. As dead as one can be. He was dead.
He was dead, and Hyunjin had been a guest at his funeral. In fact, there had been over three hundred people there, and even the press had participated. It had been a big funeral, but Hyunjin thought Seungmin would have deserved bigger. Something grand. Something that their little town would never forget.
But if Kim Seungmin was dead, then why did Hyunjin keep seeing him in the reflections?
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30 Oct 2025
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So Hyunjin suffered in silence and fell for other people, hoping it would help get rid of the crush (it was deeper than that, he knew) on his best friend.
In the end, they stayed temporary while what he felt for Seungmin never went away.
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or: hyunjin gets crushes easily but will always be in love with seungmin, his best friend and he tells them through the language of flowers.
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29 Oct 2025
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Their first meeting was horrible and Minho swore to forget the first year's name immediately after he introduced himself.
Kim Seungmin.
It was pointless to even register it when he was graduating in ten months - Minho had no need for this person.
(But hey, Lee Minho's always been a liar.)Bookmarked by etherealksm
29 Oct 2025
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It's during the summer of 1987 when Hyunjin is shuttled away from the drama of his parents' rocky relationship to spend his final summer break out west with his reclusive aunt in the town of Penn, Oregon, where time stretches as long and sweet as saltwater taffy.
There's something a little strange about Penn. Maybe it's something in the water, or something woven deep into the foundation of the town itself, but Hyunjin is determined to find out exactly what is going on before summer ends.
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29 Oct 2025