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Mike writes a lot, pages hidden in the dust under his bed. Will is too curious to look the other way.
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Will learns about Mikes feelings while snooping through his stuff.
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A small town ment anybody new stuck out like a sore thumb. And boy did he.
Standing outside the side door of the building admits a crowd of kids, was a boy with dark hair and eyes, holding his schedule out and staring at it very intently. He wore a dark red polo shirt and cargo shorts, with the cleanest sneakers Richie had ever seen. And he’d been friends with Stan his entire life. Richie grimaced when he saw the boy holding his inhaler out. He looked like a prime target, just ready for Henry Bowers to come over and trample on.
Richie felt his heart skip a beat the moment he saw that kid. He would’ve denied it and taken it into the grave if you’d asked him right there and then, but he knew it was true nonetheless. He just didn’t know what it ment. But he knew he didn’t want to.
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You're Between the Lines by ione_isnot_here
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
09 Mar 2026
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It's the beginning of the Losers' Senior year of high school and college admissions are in full swing. Eddie Kaspbrak is helplessly and compulsively obsessed with academic excellence, leaving the spark in his childhood friendship with Richie Tozier behind. Richie is just a teenage boy tortured by his sexuality and sickening love for his best friend while Eddie yearns for him too- but isn't gay... right? When Eddie brings up leaving for college, Richie is snapped back to reality- his time with this boy is running out.
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Love is a fickle thing.
At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.
Love is a fickle thing.
Just not for Mike.
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After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.
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“But…Will Byers is a boy…?” Max whispers, a raised eyebrow paired with parted lips.
The raven-haired boy lets his eyelids droop, covering half his eyes and sigh. He rests his head against the cold tiles of the dirty public toilets. “Max…” He mumbles in tears.
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Max and Mike work a summer at Scoops Ahoy together, after a drugging they end up in the bathroom and Mike reveals a secret.
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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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Mike finds out the painting Will made isn't from El, contemplates his feelings about this realization, then comes up with a plan.
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"By the way, I got you something." Mike said in a whispered voice.
Will gave him a drunken smile, "But my birthday already passed."
"I know. It's my way of saying thank you for the painting."
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Mike and Will sat in the grass in stacey's backyard, the party booming in the distance. Both of them buzzed off of liquid courage.
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every smile you fake (i’ll be watching you) by freyaloovess
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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After moving back to Hawkins and rooming with the Wheelers, Will must face his past trauma, whilst balancing his crush on Mike Wheeler.
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feels like we had matching wounds (mine's still black and bruised but yours is perfectly fine) by summerchild13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jul 2022
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Will loved having Mike back—the real, caring Mike, that he’d almost lost forever—and, more than that, Will loved feeling loved. It didn’t matter that the love was completely the wrong kind of love, or that none of this meant anything deeper to Mike, all that mattered was that for once , he had Mike’s attention, Mike’s affection, and that was all he could really ask for.
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Mike visits Will on summer vacation. It would be going a lot better this time, if Will wasn't having a full on gay crisis every time their hands brushed.
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“How would I know his favorite color is yellow and his least favorite food is asparagus, especially when it’s all floppy. How would I know that if he didn’t tell me…”
Mike Wheeler knows Will Byers so well that he doesn’t realize his friend is ‘nonverbal.’ Mike uses stories and playing pretend to get to know Will and is shocked to learn that he ‘can’t’ talk.
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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The freckled boy turns the notepad around and lifts it for Will to see. On the page is a message and Will reads twice to confirm he’s not dreaming.
HI :)
Will furrows his brows but he can’t hide the smile teasing the corners of his lips. He blinks at the boy in front as he too lifts the corners of his mouth.
Will waves his free hand in which he holds his pen and mouths, “Hi.”
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The Byers move to Lenora and Will finds himself amazed by his neighbour's captivating eyes. The same neighbour has a window facing Will's own bedroom and he communicates through notes like he's in some stupid romcom.
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Mike's life is split in three categories; the life he should have, the life he wants to have, and the life he has to have. Currently, he's living in limbo between all three; he'll never have that white-picket fence and suburban wife, not when the only girl he could try to love has left him, and while he's finding it harder to live the life he has to have— the life where he hides himself so deep, not even the people he loves know who he is— he'll never get the life he wants, either.
Limbo sucks, to put it simply. He's so close to what he wants (which is Will, no matter how hard he tries to shove it down) but he just can't push past that barrier and talk to Will, not when everything he does always feels wrong.
But, maybe, Mike might come to learn that what he wants isn’t so bad, after all.
(Or; Mike's struggle with his internalized homophobia— among other things, including the concept of free will, Robin Buckley's mildly terrifying presence, and wanting things Mike's sure he doesn't deserve— structured around the five stages of grief. You can mourn a life you'll never live, and you can mourn someone you haven't actually lost.)
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That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet by nocturnobook
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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As soon as William began casting the spell, he felt his energy leaving him with the words.
He focused in his mind on his paladin and on the bond that always sang so sweetly between them. He imagined him, in all his brave and courageous self when they stood side by side on the battlefield, his long, dark and wavy hair, often plastered to his forehead from sweat under his helmet, but silky to the touch. Will could imagine running his fingers through it. Memories of his brilliant smile resurfaced next, a smile that turned something akin to shyness whenever their eyes would meet across the room; freckles dotting his cheeks like stars themselves. A sword on his belt, a shield on his back. His warm, gloveless hand holding Will's own. He imagined all that and pulled at their vow.
“My love, where are you? Show me, where are you? No matter the distance, the plane of existence or time itself, I will find you.”OR:
Paladin Mike gets send into regular Hawkins world, and Will the Wise is trying to find him at all cost.
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Mike wheeler has cut all contact with Will Byers for over a year now. Will did not know why, moving to college in New York with no answers. that is until he finds out who his roommate is...
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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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"Children, children, CHILDREN!" Murray finally snapped, pinching the bridge of his nose. The three of them shut up and looked at him in shock. "Enough of this pointless, childish bickering already. If I wanted to watch drama like this I would turn on a soap opera or telenovela. My god, do I have to play therapist to EVERYONE in this group?? I could sue you all for emotional compensation!"
Mike started to argue. He didn't know what he was going to say, exactly, but he was still pent up and Murray seemed like a better target than his two best friends. Unfortunately he didn't get very far.
"Ba-ba-ba! NO. Shut up and SIT DOWN. It's my turn to talk," Murray said forcefully, shoving the three of them onto the couch, with Mike somehow ending up in the middle.
"Oh no," Jonathan said under his breath.
"Shit," Nancy said at the same time.
Joyce hurried forward and stepped in between them. "Murray, Murray, no," she pleaded. "I know what you're doing, STOP."
Or: Murray meddles, Mike is hella confused, the world is ending, and Will won't talk to him.
OR: Mike runs away from his feelings and then for his actual, literal life.
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“Wait,” Will said in a harsh, croaky voice. He felt like his brain was dribbling out of his ears and he fell onto the couch with a small poof of air as he stared at Mike in such a hard daze that it was a wonder he didn’t pass out again. “I - what do you - “
They stared at each other.
The air was thick and suddenly it was like Will could taste ozone at the back of his tongue, like electricity was coating his mouth and didn’t leave any room to breathe, to think, and his voice was wobbly, uncertain, as he said, “what do you mean… other boys?”
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Will tells everybody about his Tammy.
Mike, of course, reacts in a totally normal way.
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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.