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Will Byers has a life now. A boyfriend, a tiny apartment in New York, and a very strict schedule of avoiding small-town Indiana at all costs. That is… until Max and Lucas drag him back home for their wedding.
Cue Carlton, Will’s confident, New York–everything (epilogue) boyfriend who thinks he’s ready for “small-town charm” but is really just here for the open bar. Cue Mike Wheeler, best friend, childhood crush, and still somehow the only person who knows how to make Will’s heart do complicated things.
One wedding, one awkward reunion, several embarrassing childhood memories, and a dangerously flammable mix of jealousy later, Will has to decide, keep pretending he’s happy, or admit that some things, some people, never really leave you.
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04 Jan 2026
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A decade after Vecna's defeat, the party reunites a week before Lucas and Max's wedding.
Mike and Will thought they had learned how to live without each other. They were wrong.
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04 Jan 2026
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“Do you want to go home?” He questions, leaning close and voice soft, and Will pauses, before nodding again. Mike lets out a breath, and lets his hand press against Will a little more firmly when he starts to sway in place again. “Okay, let’s go.”
Then he looks up and is met with smug faces, and Mike flushes when he realizes his own hypocrisy.
“I don’t talk like that,” Max recalls, voice high-pitched and overly girly and – Mike definitely doesn’t talk like that.
According to everyone in his life, Mike has a voice reserved just for Will. He tries to figure out what that says about him.
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23 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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- English
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- 120,535
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- 26/26
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13 Dec 2025
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Public Bookmark 1751
Mystery Work
Part of Privatestufffornow
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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13 Dec 2025
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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- English
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- 32/32
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13 Dec 2025
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if i stop laughing, all the blood will just start pouring out by cyclamoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Nov 2025
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“You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—
“You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”
Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.
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- 5/5
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13 Dec 2025
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she's got you mesmerized by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2025
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This is what Mike’s been thinking about, in between worrying whether they’re all going to die, which definitely suggests that his priorities are a little out of whack, but he can’t help it. The past year has been bizarre, to put it lightly, but he thought that one of the better things to come out of it is that he and Will are friends again, like, real, close friends. He’s wondered, once or twice, in the midst of his own relationship’s crumbling status, whether Will has ever had any romantic entanglements, whether he plans to. Previously, Mike had ruled it out, because he thought if Will was interested in someone that he’d tell him about it, or at least not hide it. But Robin mentioned a date, and Will’s the only guy she’s been around lately except for Steve, who’s pretty obviously still hung up on Nancy (ew), so, like, what else is Mike supposed to think?
Will has made a new friend. Mike feels normal about it, really.
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13 Dec 2025
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Mike keeps losing Will, time and time again. Time and time again, he always gets him back.
Or, alternatively: “Mike and Will’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night in the Upside Down: and Other Tales” by Mike Wheeler
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13 Dec 2025
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Mike is burning up, inside and out.
Externally, there’s a bubbling burn wound carved across his shoulder— but, to be honest, a simple injury is the least of his worries. He’s more concerned with the aggravating, endlessly-perplexing internal dilemma that’s been plaguing his mind for God knows how long; why is he completely incapable of acting normal around Will?
Every time he sees Will— or even dares to look him in the eye— Mike feels this sort of fire burning deep in his chest, hot and all-consuming and completely inexplicable. And, no matter how hard he tries, Mike just can’t figure it out;
What is wrong with him?
(or; Mike has no idea why his heart starts to race around Will. It takes a near-death, some close encounters, and a few aggressive-but-caring talks from Jonathan for him to figure it out.)
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- English
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- 29,402
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- 2/2
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13 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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- English
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- 8/8
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08 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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- English
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- 3,503
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- 1/1
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- 7
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- 345
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03 Dec 2025
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Will loved ordinary things, an uneventful existence was something he craved. Sadly, when Mike Wheeler walks into his life, Will’s easy going path snaps right in half. A passion he could never imagine overtaking his whole being.
It was too bad their friend groups hated each other and his sister had a huge crush on the musician. Off limits.
Fantastic.
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- English
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- 170,879
- Chapters:
- 46/46
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29 Sep 2022
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When all is said and done, days later, when Hawkins is condemned and quarantined and the town evacuated, Wheelers and Byers divided between four motel rooms in the nearest town with any vacancies after the mass exodus from Hawkins—it’s just Mike and the painting.
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The post-season 4 fix-it the Duffers are too cowardly to write.
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31 Aug 2022
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The world is quite literally ending. His girlfriend just broke up with him. Mike can't stop thinking about Will.
“Will can stay with me.”
Will looks up from the spot he was looking at on the floor. “What? I can?”
“Stay at my house tonight.”
Will plays with his own fingers. Mike can't stop looking at them. “What? Mike, why? I’ll be okay here.”
“It’s just one night,” Mike says, a little loudly, a little desperate.
“Okay,” Will replies, a little loudly, also a little desperate, a little too fast like he had been meaning to say yes the entire time. “Yeah… Yeah, I’ll stay over.”
And now they’re here. Both sitting on Mike’s bed with the most crushing tension hanging over them. Mike wants to die in it.
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31 Aug 2022
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Mike opens his eyes against the water droplets hanging off his eyelashes. Will hasn't stopped walking away from him, and he’s far enough now that Mike can no longer really see the details of his jacket. The rain feels like needles against his skin, and a frustration builds in his gut. Mike can't stand this anymore.
He breaks off into a run.
or Mike and Will finally confront each other about everything. It's raining, and things get messy.
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- 12,683
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- 2/2
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27 Aug 2022
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It’s always been Mike and Will since the day that they met, and so life goes as follows – they stick by one another throughout everything, from campaigns to demogorgons, and yet somehow they can’t quite see what it is they’ve been missing (or ignoring) this whole time.
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five times that others noticed how mike felt + the one time that will did.- Language:
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21 Aug 2022
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A soulmark was a unique mark that showed up on your body and you shared that exact mark with only one other person. Your soulmate, the person that matches you in every way. Of course, as the universe would have it, things couldn't be so simple for Will Byers.
- Language:
- English
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- 20,223
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 158
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21 Aug 2022
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On their way to Hawkins, the group decides to stay at a motel for the night.
Mike and Will get a moment alone to talk.
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- English
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- 11,233
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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21 Aug 2022
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They were right, Mike really is oblivious.
Which is why when he figures out Will likes him, his entire world is turned on its axis.
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Mike finally puts the pieces together. Chaos ensues.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,590
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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19 Aug 2022