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before you're lost (between the notes) by gipsyafterdark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler dies on a saturday.
On sunday morning, Will wakes up to find it's friday again.
Every time the week resets, he realizes it isn't enough time to save a life, but it might be enough time to stop wasting one.
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Mike kisses the exposed skin of Will’s shoulder.
“Do you want us to stop?”
Yeah. Will should want that. And he will. He needs to.
He should look deep into Mike’s eyes and say yes. Say that Evan is a really great guy. That he’s finally thinking about settling down. That they deserve something better, someone better. That Will doesn’t even know when this stopped being delicious and electric and just became sad and empty.
Instead, he grinds his hips against Mike, who gasps in his ear and gives his nipple a playful pinch.
“Let’s go to my room,” is all Will says, untangling their bodies to stand up and pull Mike upstairs by the hands.
Mike always comes back. Will always opens the door. One day, it'll be the last time. Just not tonight.
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oh, mother (i can feel the soil falling over my head) by jurassicwill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 May 2026
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In the months after Joyce's death, grief keeps finding him in ordinary places - grocery store aisles, subway platforms, the reflex to reach for the phone - while Mike learns how to hold him through all the moments that still need her.
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an exploration of illness and grief after Joyce Byers is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
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18 Jul 2026
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At least, Will thinks with a heavy heart, it’s a beautiful place to be miserable.
It’s 1996, and Mike is getting married.
Spoiler: it’s not to Will.
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“And why come back when so many are leaving Hawkins?”
Will slowed without meaning to. The leaves under his shoes crackled. “I–”
What should he tell this stranger that wouldn’t reveal the fact that his sister had superpowers and might actually be the only key to save this entire town from a monstrous maniac?
“Well, everyone I know is here,” he murmured. “I couldn’t… just leave them.”
The man hummed softly, then he lifted his head to scan over the woods, a faint whistle came from his lips, before his gaze landed onto Will again.
“Maybe something here wanted you back.”
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fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .Series
- Part 1 of @burntsepia's fics collection
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.