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• Hold the Line (Love Isn't Always On Time) by marcoupsidedown

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • Work in Progress

  29 Apr 2026

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Queer Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler's Internal Monologue
  • Mike Wheeler's Queer Awakening
  • Post-Season/Series 05
  • Mostly Canon Compliant
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
  • Mike Wheeler Flirts
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Underage Drinking
  • Holidays
  • New Year's Kiss
  • New Year's Eve
  • Idiots in Love
  • Will Byers Flirts
  • Will Byers Thought He Was Over Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler First Kiss
  • Art Major Will Byers
  • English major mike wheeler
  • Past Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Writes Poetry
  • Mike Wheeler Slowly Realizing His Feelings
  • christmas break
  • Divorced Karen Wheeler & Ted Wheeler
  • Dead Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
  • byler

  Summary

  To be fair, Mike was in a bit of disbelief himself. If someone had told him three weeks ago that he’d be starting the new year holding his best friend like this, flirting with him, practically begging him to kiss him - well, he would’ve assumed they had the wrong Mike. But here he was.

  OR

  Mike Wheeler slowly, slowwwwly has his queer awakening visiting home over Christmas break his freshman year of college.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  38,427

  Chapters:

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