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Will is a young gay man committed to Lazarus by his own father. Traumatized and alone, he’s assigned to Cell 44, right next to Cell 45, where Mike lives.
Mike is infamous: violent, isolated, feared by everyone.
Throughout conversations in between the wall at night — Will learns more about Mike— the cruelty of him.
Mike teaches Will breathing techniques through panic attacks.
But as Mike pushes Will away, a tension between them only grows stronger- Language:
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19 Aug 2026
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The boy turns around, and Mike thinks he must be seeing things. Ghosts, maybe, because that would be the only rational explanation.
All he can do is stare directly at the boy standing before him.
A boy he used to know very well.
What the hell is Will Byers doing at Indiana University?
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In which Mike Wheeler, the captain of the Indiana University hockey team, is forced to help run a skating training camp over winter break to avoid suspension and to participate in the playoffs.
It’s bad enough that he has to miss the vacation he planned with his best friends, but when the figure skater running the camp turns out to be Will Byers, his estranged best friend turned worst enemy, Mike thinks he might actually be the unluckiest person in the world.
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29 Apr 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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20 Jul 2026
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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.
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21 Jun 2026