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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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29 Jan 2026
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The Wheelers and the Byers have been living together for eight months. Mike and Will have been dating for two of them.
Will figures keeping their relationship quiet should be simple enough. After all, he kept his feelings for Mike hidden for years on end—with Jonathan the only person to realize something was going on. But in the Wheeler household, as it turns out, secrets aren’t so easy to keep.
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28 Jan 2026
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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27 Jan 2026
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kiss me, just once, for luck by stardustandswimmingpools for petalrock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jan 2026
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There was a plan, if Lucas remembers correctly. Rescue the kids. Kill Vecna. Save the world. Done, done, and done.
And then there was another thing. A closing bullet point on the to-do list. He hasn’t stopped thinking about it. If anything, he’s thought more and more about it every second. To the point where it’s almost debilitating.
Like, there was a larger question, which is, Does Lucas Sinclair like boys, and while it’s hard to say for certain, the answer is really skewing yes lately. Everywhere he looks he’s noticing guys like they’re a brand-new species. It turns out Steve is hot, if you can get past the part where he’s basically been their glorified babysitter for several years. Dustin’s alright, but the mullet works against him as much as Mike getting rid of the mullet is working for him. Mostly, these are passing observations. Acknowledged and then dismissed. Whatever. Lucas thinks guys are hot now. Or always did and never noticed.
But there’s also a much narrower, more precise question, tapering off like an arrowhead, pointing directly at Will.
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- Part 2 of desperate measures
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26 Jan 2026
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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonverbal autistic, and Mike has allusions to also being autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
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26 Jan 2026
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Lucas stops at Scoops Ahoy for a bit of Steve’s love expertise.
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- Part 4 of intraparty dynamics
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25 Jan 2026
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"What are you doing here?" Mike's face dropped as his eyes slid from El, past Max, and over to Will, "And what are you doing with them?"
"Shopping," El said with a blank expression on her face as Max smirked and added, "This is their new look, what do you think?"
"You know she's not allowed to be here. And Will, how could you just run off like that, we were worried!" Mike glared straight at Max despite the fact part of what he said was directed at Will.
"What are they, your little pets? El can't leave the cabin, and god forbid Will strays more than three feet from your shadow, despite the fact you were completely ignoring him!" Max snapped right back.
Or... A rewrite of Stranger Things starting at season 3 placing Will in El and Max's storyline, allowing Will to receive the support he needs to grow more confident in himself. Meanwhile, Mike considers what it might mean for him that he's more upset that his best friend ditched him to hang out with someone else, than he is about his girlfriend breaking up with him.
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- Part 1 of We could be heroes
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24 Jan 2026
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Pugsley's coming down with a bad case of first crush, so he asks his father for love advice. Ever the great romancer, Gomez helps his son how to woo the boy he likes.
Unfortunately for Eugene, 'woo' is only a matter of one different letter from 'woe'.
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24 Jan 2026
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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.”
Or, a
fix-it ficmodern-gothic take on Will Byers' story in Season 5 .- Language:
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21 Jan 2026
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i am dying here (i am yours) by anakinskywalkerswifey
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jan 2026
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“don’t touch him,” max says immediately.
“i’m not—i’m just—he’s hurt. he looks hurt.”
dustin drops to his knees in the sand, hands up, palms out, like he’s approaching a wild animal. “okay. okay, hey. hey, it’s fine. you’re fine. nobody’s dead. i mean— you’re not dead dude whoever you are. which is good. great, actually.”
the boy’s good eye snaps to him.
dustin’s stomach flips.
“holy shit,” he whispers. “holy shit, it’s you.”
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19 Jan 2026
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A charged silence hung between them, the only sound being that of Will sketching. Mike had a tendency to fumble through moments like this, finding comfort in little quips to shift the vibe. It's expected of him, really, he can't help himself.
Mike's suggestion this time, however, was completely unexpected. Before Mike could even decipher it, the thought had reached his lips and just tumbled out.
"You'd look good as Luke Skywalker."
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Mike asks Will to dress up as Luke Skywalker for Halloween for totally normal reasons that aren't linked to Mike's huge gay crush on Mark Hamill—or his huge gay crush on Will, but he doesn't need to know that yet.
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14 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler asks Will Byers if they can smoke together. And when Mike sucks at it, Will has a solution.
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14 Jan 2026
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“Meow,” and there’s no way she heard that right, eyes snapping away from where she’d been distractedly watching the TV screen and over to her brother’s friend. She checks again, and yeah, Will is holding a stuffed bear, not a cat. The beloved Tiggy stays firmly attached to his bag, so they aren’t playing with tigers, either.
“So they go back down the mountain, and now all the village people are asking them about the crystal, and Rory is sad thinking they didn’t get it that whole time, but then–”
“Meow. Meow,” Will declares, removing the teddy from the dinosaur’s back and making it do some sort of interpretive dance.
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Or, Mike makes a new friend. Nancy learns how to speak cat.
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12 Jan 2026
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Mike thought staying in the basement was the better idea. Will thought going to Stacy’s party was the better idea. Turns out, they both end up getting exactly what they wanted in the end.
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12 Jan 2026
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will byers gets white girl wasted, mike wheeler is the DD and folds.
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11 Jan 2026
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red light, yellow light, green-a-light go by goldenasteri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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IAN! @poppytuft: someone write fic where they all go to the party that night after their campaign and mike and will make out in the bathroom bc Will says I hate your hair like this. please let me fix it. and he’s running his hands through mikes hair and he goes oh. OH. don’t give a fuuuuck
IAN! @poppytuft: Dustin henderson kat stratford ten things i hate about you dancing on the kitchen table moment while mike and will are dry humping in the bathroom. Who cares anymore
IAN! @poppytuft: I'm doing it myself
(or: the party DOES go to Stacy’s party, and mike and will get so gay off that vodka)
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10 Jan 2026
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Just a one-shot of Will in college, with Mike paying him a surprise visit. Only, in the end, Mike is the one who gets surprised.
Will Byers always has been and always will be having this boy on his leash. And Mike Wheeler is exactly where he wants to be.
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09 Jan 2026
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Won’t You Ever Know (I’m In Love With You)? by AttentionDealer (Nearell)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2025
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“Guys, Mike’s not like me, he just can’t name characters.” They both give him a pointed look, clearly not believing a word. “I’m serious, every character is a reference to someone we know.”
“Are they now?” Dustin raises an eyebrow at him.
“Yes!” Will is perhaps a bit exasperated, “Stephen and Jay are clearly Steve and Robin, and James is Hopper,” at the blank look they give him, he clarifies, “his first name is Jim.”
This somehow only makes Lucas seem more unimpressed, “okay, but you do see how that’s more suspicious right?”
“What? That Mike can’t come up with names?”
“No,” Lucas shakes his head and clasps Will in the shoulder, “that the first name Mike thought to cannibalize when coming up with a boyfriend for you was his own”.The party grows closer after Will moves in with the Wheelers, picking up D&D again. It all goes well until Mike introduces a new character, Sir. Gabriel Whepler, whose sole purpose seems to be flirting with Will.
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07 Jan 2026
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Any other superpower would have been better, really. Fire-wielding, telekinesis— even growing an extra arm would have been preferable to mind-reading.
Will hates his newfound powers, and he hates the constant headaches that come with them, and he hates the weird thoughts and feelings he never even wanted to know about in the first place that constantly invade his mind. He hates it all, but he can’t escape his own brain— so short of removing his head entirely, what can he even do to change it?
But— thankfully— with a little help from his friends, and a lot of pain from Mike Wheeler, Will learns to control his telepathy— and, maybe, learns a little too much from his best-friend-slash-lifelong-love’s intricately confusing mind.
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05 Jan 2026
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The sun is deceptive in quarantined Hawkins, where martial law has been enacted following the massive 'earthquake.' While Will, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Eleven struggle to regroup and sort through salvaged supplies, the tense quiet is annihilated by the arrival of Will’s secret boyfriend. Having been ghosted for three months due to the escalating dimensional crisis, he drives cross-country, bluffs his way past the National Guard blockade, and publicly explodes, cornering Will in front of his stunned friends.
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05 Jan 2026