focustii
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
You have ten chances to find your soulmate. Mike’s wrist is clean. Will’s wrist is ringed with eight black stars.
Bookmarked by focustii
18 Dec 2025
-
the windows of this love by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jun 2023
Tags
Summary
Will smiles encouragingly at him, swiping his tears away and kissing his forehead again. "Let's make a deal, okay?" he murmurs, voice low and full of a bittersweet sort of hope. "If in five years we're both doing better, and we're not dating anyone else-" Mike blanches at the concept of dating anyone else, of Will dating anyone else- "we can try again, okay?"
Five years sounds like a terribly long time. In five years, Mike will be twenty-three. He'll be done with college, will have a career, could be living anywhere in the world for all he knows, and the same goes for Will.
But five years is a whole lot less than forever, so Mike will take it.
In the summer of 1989, Mike and Will fall apart. Five years later, they fall back together.
Series
- Part 1 of take the long way home
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 53,755
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 341
- Kudos:
- 1,665
- Bookmarks:
- 577
- Hits:
- 40,870
Bookmarked by focustii
17 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Will had been upset at the state of their relationship lately. The person in question, of course, being his best friend Mike Wheeler. He couldn’t remember when things had started feeling wrong between them- only that they did. Mike used to be the one person who made everything feel as it should, and now even that felt off. Instead, every moment beside Mike only reminded him of how far apart they’d drifted, and of how much Will still wanted to bridge that space. Could they really continue like this?
Or
A quick glance into Will’s and Mike’s dynamic following season 4. Longing, pain, and powerful emotions.
Series
- Part 1 of Byler Trilogy
Bookmarked by focustii
15 Dec 2025
-
we were always friends (from our childhood days) by authorofmay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
Everything felt like a dream. A part of his past brushing with his present. Those sorts of things weren’t supposed to happen. Will was in the past. He wasn't supposed to take over Mike's present like this.
Mike tried his best to conjure an image of Will as he remembered him. Little images floated in—hand-me-down flannels, a faded yellow t-shirt, brown hair, wide hazel eyes. Mike grasped every memory he could, but the specifics of Will shuffled together like a Picasso. There were pieces of Will that Mike knew he remembered, but he couldn’t place them in the right spot.
How much had changed? Will moved away 6 years ago. Mike was certainly a different person than he was at 12, Will must be the same way. And if everything changed about Will, piece by piece, was there still enough Will left that Mike would know him if he saw him?
Will Byers was Mike Wheeler's best friend once. They lost each other years ago. But when Mike moves to college, Will Byers is thrown unexpectedly back into Mike's life, and the two grapple with both the unresolved and brand new feelings that bubble between them.
Bookmarked by focustii
14 Dec 2025
-
James Doakes played by Lucas Sinclair by m00nlightbae
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
Will shivered and groaned, curling into the couch like it might magically preserve his body heat, before sheepishly asking, “Does anyone have an extra sweater? I forgot mine.”
“Yeah—Will, no worries—” Lucas started, reaching for his bag, about to pull out the extra hoodie he’d packed for tomorrow. But before he could even unzip the damn thing, Mike literally yanked his own hoodie off and tossed it at Will like it was nothing. Will let out a tiny “oomph” as it landed on him, clearly not expecting it.
“I got it, Lucas,” Mike said, smug as hell. Yeah, no shit, Michael. Lucas just stared. Seriously? If he’d asked Mike for a jacket, it would have involved like…seven passive-aggressive comments. Not whatever the hell this is.
-
Lucas knows something is going on between Mike and Will, they're not exactly subtle, and he's going to figure this out.
Bookmarked by focustii
06 Dec 2025