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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.
*please do not repost this story on any other platforms*
*please do not post this story on wattpad*
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20 Dec 2025
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"Will looks down at his left hand, curling it in and out of a fist. He thinks about Phineas Gage and Mr.Clarke telling them about the man with a spike through the eye. His hand isn’t really shaped like a spike, and this isn’t gonna be a stabbing. His breath shakes as he faces his reality. What he is about to do. What he has to do. He looks at the stained glass window to his left. It’s one he doesn’t recognize, but it’s beautiful."
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16 Dec 2025
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
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16 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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13 Dec 2025
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It's Mike Wheeler's first day of sophomore year at Hawkins High, and he's completely, terrifyingly alone. Eleven has broken up with him, and he hasn't seen his friends all summer. His world is crumbling around him, and he doesn't care enough to stop it.
Until his English teacher sets an assignment to write a retelling of Romeo and Juliet - and his project partner is his ex-best friend, William Byers, the boy his world once revolved around.or,
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers write a self-insert superhero comic book together about doomed, forbidden lovers and realise that they are also doomed, forbidden lovers.
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13 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler had never had good luck.
He didn't have good luck when his sister had been taken into the 68th annual hunger games at the age of fifteen.
He didn't have good luck when he watched her have that one final battle with the last one standing.
He didn't have good luck when he, a ten year old, watched his sister get slaughtered on live television for the Capitol's amusement.
the hunger games meets stranger things.
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- Part 1 of the hunger games
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01 Dec 2025
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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29 Nov 2025
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It's not that Mike wants Will to be a girl, but if he were, their lives would be so much easier.
(Or; during a game of truth or dare, Will ends up in El's clothing. Mike can't help but notice how similar they are.)
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16 Nov 2025
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Immediately post-Season 4, the gang are catching up and reuniting at Hopper's old cabin. Mike, who's been on the edge of a panic attack for the past few days, excuses himself to get some 'fresh air'- unbeknownst to anyone but Joyce, who still isn't fully up-to-date on the Vecna situation. After about 30 minutes, the group notices his absence and are immediately concerned. They can't find Mike anywhere in the surrounding area, but they find the exact thing they were dreading; a small gate.
Mike finds himself in the Upside-Down, but the circumstances are strange. Vecna is nowhere to be seen and the area around him is completely barren. It's an elaborate plot to torment Mike with his greatest fears; forcing him to relive his own worst memories with his family and friends by his side.
How much could one kid have to hide, anyways?
Third-Person Limited with Alternating P.O.V.'s
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11 Nov 2025
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Will's never been in a situation worse than this. How's he going to spend the next few months with Steve Harrington, resident douchebag of Hawkins?
Mike's never been in a situation more infuriating than this. How's he going to spend the next few months alongside Robin Buckley without strangling her?
Robin has never seen two teenagers more head-over-heels for each other than Mike and Will. Can they just get their heads out of the sand already?
Steve has never been more nervous around a teenage boy. Something about Will makes him feel guilty.
(Or; In the oncoming apocalypse, Mike and Will are forcibly 'buddied up' with Robin and Steve. It gets worse before it gets better.)
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10 Nov 2025
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I don't wanna fight the tide by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2024
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The air in Hawkins was clear, clearer than it had been in a long time. Yet for Will, it had never been harder to breathe. Every breath felt like sucking in glass, cutting up his lungs and leaving the taste of blood in his throat. It's like he's surrounded by thick honey, each step an effort, each inhale a challenge.
It didn't take Will long to realise something was wrong. Not with Hawkins, not with the Party. No, this was all Will.
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After the defeat of Vecna, Will gets sick. Really sick.
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09 Nov 2025
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The Veil: First Year by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Apr 2025
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Will is thrust into his First Year at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
And from inside its walls, Will Byers tips off into a nightmare that might very well be his own undoing—in more ways than one.
Will catches her face yet again, only just taking a moment to look at anywhere besides his wand...
But something about her face is shrewd, a cloud casting over her.
She shakes herself, and then her gaze is bafflingly intent on his own. "Though its core is not known to possess the most power.” His wand grows restless in his hands for a moment, as if aggrieved by the comment. “After watching that display”—her eyes widen terribly big at him—“I can most certainly say that I expect great, great things from you, Mr. Byers.”
Also: FUCK JKR! Trans rights, y’all
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- Part 1 of Hogwarts AU
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06 Nov 2025
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In a morbid turn of events, Mike and Will get separated from the adults while escaping the Hawkins Laboratory. Now, until they can be rescued, they have to navigate the building without help from grown ups, and try to survive both possessed Will’s unpredictability, and the inter-dimensional monsters roaming the corridors.
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06 Nov 2025
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A distant gaze forms on Nancy’s face, and she turns to look at Mike with those watery, haunted eyes. There’s something about the look in Nancy’s eyes that is so eerily familiar, and Mike shudders as his brain makes the connection as to what.
“And he’s not going to stop, Mike. Not until… until he’s taken everything… and everyone.”
“You… you don’t understand,” Nancy whispers, her voice cracking. Never once do her eyes leave Mike’s, even as they fill with fresh tears. “It’s already begun… The… the beginning of the end.”
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In the direct aftermath of his return to Hawkins, Mike and the Party find themselves in the midst of a war against One and the forces of the Upside Down. As life as he knows it changes, Mike must find a way to navigate his friendships, his relationship with Will, and most importantly, his understanding of himself.
(Aka my season 5, Mike-centric, Byler fic)
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- Part 2 of cause i've built my life around you
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06 Nov 2025
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When Mike convinces his friends to enter a local Battle of the Bands, it's supposed to be their shot at finally being taken seriously; his shot at getting out of Hawkins.
Will was never a fan of attention, but he could easily get lost in music. After all, crowds don't seem too daunting when his best friend is cheering him on.
—A Stranger Things 2005 Band AU, Byler-centric with other POVs throughout! NOT CURRENTLY UPDATING!
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06 Nov 2025
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Max turned in the direction of the headstone as well. “Why would seeing someone’s name on there freak you out so much, Will. Jesus, I thought Vecna had you and I don’t have your music with me. I thought you were about to die, and I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be, Byers, just tell me what's going on.”
Will just then found his mouth very dry and a lump set in his throat. Suddenly, all the words in his mouth died and he simply stared straight ahead.
“Will.” Max said softly after a few seconds. “Who’s grave is it?”
Will forced the lump down his throat as he answered her.
“It’s mine.”
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Will and Max stumble upon Will's grave from 1983.
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05 Nov 2025
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Please don't leave me (I'll always need more) by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Dec 2025
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“Did you know?” he asked at the last moment, voice cracked and warbly from crying. He hadn’t sounded that young in years.
She hesitated for one painstaking moment, and at last replied, “No, Mike.”
She almost closed the door, but stopped again.
“I am sorry,” she whispered, remorse staining her voice, and quietly closed the door behind her.
Three days after graduation, Will disappeared in the dead of night with nothing but a note left in his absence, and Mike's heart left with him.
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31 Oct 2025
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Holy fuck.
That. That is a new kid. Lucas knows this for certain. They have never seen this boy in their life, certainly not on this bus, and this bothers them deeply because holy shit.
or: lucas is probably in love with the new kid who sits next to them on the bus.
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27 Oct 2025
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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
────in which, what was supposed to be two boys secret mission to dig up tunnels ends up with one digging his own eye out
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27 Oct 2025
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"Eleven."
Benny nodded slowly. "Alright then." He then turned to look at her brother. "What about you?" He asked. The boy said nothing, shrinking under the man's gaze. Slowly, he turned his head to look at Eleven, eyes questioning.
Without a word she reached forward and took his wrist, showing it to Benny. On the boy's thin wrist was a sequence of numbers similar to her own; 012.
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A Stranger Things series rewrite where El and Will are twins! Starting with season one!
Note: Byler is endgame in this series. The Mileven tag is there because Mike and El think they like each other at first but they actually don't
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- Part 1 of The Dynamic Duo
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12 Oct 2025