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“I like when you’re like this.”
The words are soft, like a confession Will wasn’t supposed to share. Like he’s telling Mike a secret, hushed into his ear in Castle Byers when they were ten.
“What?” Mike swallows.
“Y’know, leading. When you sound worried…it’s like you care.”
“I do care, Will.” Mike doesn’t know what to say. “You’re my best friend.”
OR; dorming with Will at university is killing Mike and he has no way of coping with it. Until he does.
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03 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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02 Feb 2026
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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02 Feb 2026
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Mike grins at him again, and Will wants to lean forward and kiss it. He could, he’s close enough. Right here in the Upside Down, he could kiss the love of his life. But it’s not time yet. Will knows this with certainty.
After we win, Will thinks to himself, a silent promise. After we win, I’ll tell you I love you.
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Or, all the times will and mike say i love you, until the time they actually say it.
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01 Feb 2026
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An anonymous writer starts writing in to Will and Robin's queer gossip/advice podcast, 'Dear Dorothy', for help on confessing his love to his best friend. Will tries to offer advice on how best to go about it, aided by his own similar experience being in love with his best friend, who coincidentally is acting really strangely...
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OR: Five times that Will unknowingly helps Mike attempt to seduce him and the one time he knowingly does.
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27 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler has been in love with Will Byers his entire life, but Mike always battled self acceptance. He was never able to tell Will the truth.
Until, it all became too much and Mike sent Will a series of postcards, trying to rebuild what they lost.
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27 Jan 2026
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In which Mike just doesn’t think it’s right that Will doesn’t get to experiment with a guy, but luckily Mike’s a guy, and a good friend, so. Featuring closet hookups, hickeys, really good cuddles in the midst of all the sexual experimentation, sneaking around, a canon-typical amount of boys crying, the Painting Lie!!!, conversations about feelings that don’t actually address any of the important feelings (until they do, and then ohh boy), and the happy ending that they goddamn deserved.
Takes place during the eighteen month time gap before they all graduate, then continues past the ending of the finale.
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26 Jan 2026
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“Heart,” he croaks as black dots begin to dance at the edges of his vision. He would explain to them, if he could, that he’s not in pain. That he is glad to be with them at the end, and he’s sorry he didn’t tell them sooner.
He really thought he’d get his happy ending.
A weight settles atop his abdomen with enough force for him to feel it. He opens his eyes briefly when his chin is tilted up; all he can see is Mike, his face collapsing in agony. Will’s thankful that the oxygen deprivation knocks him out before he has time to really dwell on how many regrets he has about him.
He’s still the only thing he thinks about as he says on his last exhale, “Heart.”
(or: a combination of basement gate & the theory that will would have a fake out death. a rewrite of the scenes pre- and post-vecna fight, but not the vecna fight itself)
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26 Jan 2026
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Broken down (hungry for your love) by jessescreations
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2026
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“It’s not real, you know,” Ted’s voice echoed in his head—a tinny, rhythmic drone. “It’s not love, not romance. It’s a sickness.”
Mike almost moans with relief when the door falls shut behind him, the peaceful quiet of his home surrounding him. He drops his bag on the floor and crosses through their small apartment, already knowing where he'll find the one he needs. There he is—Will Byers, in all his glory.
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Mike Wheeler has a really bad day thanks to Ted Wheeler, Will helps him feel better :)Bookmarked by foahingout
25 Jan 2026
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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25 Jan 2026
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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25 Jan 2026
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
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25 Jan 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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24 Jan 2026
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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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24 Jan 2026
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“You’re not thinking of anyone else when you make that fucking noise, are you?”
Mike makes another noise, unable to speak words.
“Mike. I asked you a question.”
“No… Just you."
“Good,” Will says. “Good boy.”
In an alternate universe, Will never goes to the Upside Down. He never grew up in Hawkins. And he was never childhood friends with Mike Wheeler.
One night at a club, he meets Mike, with his nerdy glasses and interesting stare, and they connect. Sparks fly. Butterflies swoop. Will has never felt this attracted to anyone.
But Mike isn't from Will's universe, but another where the Mind Flayer won and Will is his to control. And Mike has finally found a Will he can rewrite history with.
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24 Jan 2026
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“I just– Vecna showed me memories– hurtful memories, when he had me,” Will furrows his eyebrows, diverting his gaze, “but I didn’t let it get to me, I think. It’s a bit blurry, sorry–” Mike interrupts him with a quiet don’t apologize and Will continues, “Then I just– I thought of my happiest moments in life. With the people I love the most.” He looks down at his hands.
“Oh, good. That’s good. Sweet.” Mike shuffles closer, now leaning on the table with his hands.
Will grimaces as he looks up, “Sweet–?”
“Was I there?” When he meets Mike’s eyes, they lock.
During the mac-z battle against the demogorgons and Vecna, Will unlocks powers, saving three people close to him, one of which is Mike.
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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24 Jan 2026
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love was the law and religion was taught by mugamuchyuu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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“Oh, you weren’t aware?” Will clicks his tongue, his slow steps sounding menacing against the quiet surrounding them, “Guess you’re not much of a protector after all.”
Mike can’t do anything but stare. Think, Mike, he tells himself, think.
Will doesn’t waste any time as he flips through a Bible left on the pulpit. “And you call yourself my best friend,” he almost spits those words, and Mike tries not to feel hurt, “but that’s not entirely correct, either, am I right?”
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Will and Mike get sent out on a mission to a place that’s suspiciously guarded in Vecna’s mind, which is Hawkin’s Church. Mike has a general dislike for churches that he put aside in favor of accompanying Will.
When Will’s connection to Vecna spirals out of control, Mike is caught in the fallout, not only forced to confront the truth he’s been carrying with him for years but also try to get Will and himself out of there alive. The biggest issue is, Will is possessed and Mike isn’t leaving the church without him.
What begins as a desperate attempt to wake Will up, ends in Mike realizing he would rather face hell than lose Will again.
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24 Jan 2026
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thankfully, between you and i, nothing’s changed by setmefreept2
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jan 2026
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“Remember that time I saved your life?” He means it as a joke, but it comes out soft, an opening for all the feelings he’s been keeping in through the years to come out of. All the things he’s wanted to say but felt like he couldn’t.
Mike looks over to him with a small smile and a nod. “I never did thank you for that, did I? Thank you, Will. Seriously.”
“You don’t have to thank me. It was because of you that I could even do it.” Will looks away for a second, his heart is racing suddenly like he shouldn’t say what he wants to. But he needs to. He needs to let it out. He looks back into Mike’s eyes.
“When you were about to be attacked… I didn't know what to do. It was the first time I really felt like I was going to lose you. I froze, I was just so scared, but then I just… I thought about this, being here, meeting you… becoming your friend. It gave me the strength to fight back.”
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On the night of their graduation, Mike and Will leave the party early and end up on the swing set where they met. One confession becomes many as they finally talk about everything they’ve been through, and everything they’ve been keeping inside.
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23 Jan 2026
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”Please” Will murmured in response, his voice coming out much more desperate and breathy than he had anticipated. He was beginning to feel himself drifting off, feeling a sense of detachment from his body. That didn’t stop him from relishing the gentle kisses Mike placed on the top of his head, little dots of love in Will’s hair. Between kisses, Mike mumbled sweet nothings, like “Go to sleep, it’s all okay now”.
Will has a nightmare about Mike dying. Mike is there to comfort him.
(CW: the nightmare is a little graphic, it describes a Chrissy-style death !!)
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Mike leaned back slightly, gripping the chains, staring up at the sky as it shifted from blue to purple. He thought about everything they’d lost and everything they’d somehow kept. About how Will had been brave in ways Mike still didn’t understand. About how he’d almost lost him, more times than he could count.
“I was really scared,” Mike said suddenly, before he could stop himself.
Will turned to look at him. “Of what?”
“Of losing you,” Mike admitted, his voice quieter now.
💕💕💕💕
Mike starts kissing Will on the cheek. He tells himself it’s about comfort, about making sure Will is still here. He tells himself it doesn’t mean anything at all.
He is very wrong.
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20 Jan 2026