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Following a traumatic brain injury, Mike loses all his memories. Returning back to Hawkins, he puzzles his life back together with pictures and old journals and a book he never did finish writing. And all these forgotten materials are haunted by Will Byers, who he hasn’t been close to in years.
Will has been over his unrequited crush on Mike for years and he has no intention of returning. The distance helps and so does his interesting art friends. He hadn’t meant to stop calling Mike, but he did find the ache of missing him hurt less the longer they went without speaking. But when he returns to Hawkins after hearing of Mike’s accident, old feelings come crashing back. Because this Mike Wheeler is no longer afraid to say exactly what’s on his clean-slated mind.
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24 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler is a star FBI agent, known for solving the kind of cases everyone else gives up on.
Then a serial murder case from northern Michigan lands on his desk.
No witnesses. No pattern. No evidence left behind.
Mike is certain he can close the case, but he has no idea what he’s getting himself into.
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22 Aug 2026
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"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."
Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."
Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."
Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"
Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers.
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19 Aug 2026
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Will Byers lives a quiet, solitary life as a children's book illustrator, helping bring other people's stories to life—fixing lonely trees, drawing impossible worlds, and leaving pieces of himself on pages no one will ever know he touched.
Then, one cold night, he finds a stranger collapsed outside his apartment building. A young man who can't speak, pale, exhausted, and little more than skin and bones.
Will only means to offer him a warm place to sleep. A meal. A shower. A few days to recover.
He doesn't expect Mike to stay. He doesn't expect to learn how to understand him without words. And he certainly doesn't expect the silent stranger in his home to become part of the story Will has been trying to remember his entire life.
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19 Aug 2026
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The boy regards Mike for a moment, trailing his eyes over his face with an intensity that warms his cheeks, “D’Artagnan will not harm you,” the boy says gravely.
Mike’s cheeks redden further, caught off guard, “What?”
The boy frowns glancing quickly at the shield before meeting Mike’s eyes once more, “The dragon. D’Artagnan will not harm you,” and then as if he had not just said the most insane thing he possibly could, “but I suggest you set up your camp in a safe location anyways. The woods can be dangerous at night.”
“ What? ”
Mike embarks on a quest to rescue his estranged childhood best friend from the claws of a vicious dragon only to be derailed by a strange protective shield and an even stranger magic user.
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- English
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- 1/1
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18 Aug 2026
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Mike has fought dragons, slain orcs, and led armies to victory. Yet, as he falls through the sky, his vision blurring between the approaching ground and the night sky as he twists and tumbles, he doesn’t think about any of those victories.
In his final moments, all he can think is that he hopes his death will be quick.
Which should be any second now.
...Which should be any second now, Mike thinks to himself again, closing his eyes as he braces for impact.
...Nothing happens.
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Mike falls off an airship. Luckily for him, a kind mage is there to catch him.
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16 Aug 2026
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So, when’s the wedding?
Mike read and reread the comment, but gleaned no further information than he had the first forty times he’d looked at it. So, when’s the wedding…
Whose wedding?
Or; when Mike—a depressed college student with an unfortunate proclivity for repelling people—uploads an innocent video of his picture-perfect roommate, Will, to TikTok, the comments assume they are dating. Mike begins to wonder what would happen if he took their advice.
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06 Aug 2026
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Friendly Neighbourhood Nurse by caratarmystay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
23 Mar 2026
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Will had always been good at minding his business. So what if superheroes existed? Not his problem. He didn't care for any of them. Until Spiderman falls into his life, bloody and in need of help, and all of a sudden it becomes his problem.
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04 Aug 2026
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Will Byers is Hollywood’s darling lyricist who hates his ex Mike Wheeler.
Mike Wheeler is a brooding A-list actor, framed by a brutal and fake cheating scandal.
Forced into isolation after two years, their bitter history bleeds into a dangerous reality.
In an industry built on PR scandals and scripts, someone is pulling the strings to keep them apart and they are willing to kill to keep the cameras rolling.OR
Hollywood exes-to-lovers fic with a twist of PR scandals, video leaks, fan wars and invisible hands pulling strings.
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03 Aug 2026
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At seventeen, Mike Wheeler falls in love with the new kid. They spend an entire summer doing everything together—except admitting how they really feel. Six years later, Will Byers moves into a summer sublet only to find the one boy he never managed to get over living down the hall.
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29 Jul 2026
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22 Jul 2026
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"My sorcerer," he whispers, reverent. "I knew it." He places his hands on either side of Will's face and kisses him.
It's nothing like the first time, desperate and pent-up from a lifetime of hiding from it. Or the second time, sweet and tender like it was could slip away at any moment. It's its own thing—Will's impossible magic hands in Mike's curls and Mike holding him tight by the waist with the relief of someone who's really, really glad he didn't die.
The world might be coming to an end, but there’s nothing Mike and Will’s love can’t survive.
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20 Jul 2026
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Mike's perspective on love is put to the ultimate test: Reality TV. When he's comfortable and secure in himself in a potential relationship, someone new crash lands right on his beliefs.
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Mike and Will go on Love Island.
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12 Jul 2026
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Was…was Mike’s heart reacting to Will?
Mike isn’t looking at him. He’s staring hard at his cards as if he hasn’t seen them before, biting his inner cheek, and accentuating his dimple. As Will looks closer, he notices the pink shade spreading over the shell of Mike’s ear, the red emerging from the black curls like a rose sprouting from the earth.
Was Mike still nervous around him? Hadn’t they resolved that?
Will decides to test it. He leans onto the bed and rests a hand on Mike’s uninjured thigh, his thumb swiping side to side over the covers, and waits.
Mike's leg twitches into his hand, and barely a moment passes before the beeps speed up again, a rapid climb from steady to sprinting, and when Will looks, the blush has spread to Mike’s cheeks, his eyes unmoving and glued to his cards.
Oh. Will gapes at the monitor, the green spiking line. That's not discomfort.
Oh. He can have some fun with this.
Or: Mike, while protecting Will, gets attacked by a demogorgon. Guilt-ridden, Will stays with him in the hospital, forcing them to resolve the awkward air that has surrounded them for months, and, along the way, uncover some truths.
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- Part 32 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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04 Jul 2026
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First Date Rules:
1. Be a gentleman.
2. Woo him.
3. Get a second date.Mike's got ideas of how prospective boyfriends are supposed to act, and he is determined not to ruin this chance with his usual attitude (or Will Byers obsession). When all's said and done, Will sets the record straight.
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04 Jul 2026
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Today isn't about him at all. It's Jane's perfect reunion with her boyfriend, and Will doesn't have a place within it. It doesn't matter that he's missed Mike, too. It doesn't matter that today is Will's birthday. He shouldn't even be there, not when their plans are only really for Jane and Mike. He's intruding, and he knows himself well enough to know that he's not going to be able to put on a happy face and let himself be excluded without showing just how badly it hurts him. He'll only ruin their time together if he sticks around.
Will decides to go home by himself rather than go with Mike and Jane to Rink-O-Mania.
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24 Jun 2026
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"We're basically a cover band, but Mike’s actually been doing a bit of songwriting as well. And we want to debut his first song tonight for you guys before we go. So forgive him for slowing things down and getting sappy."
What is happening?
Mike wrote a song?
A slow song?
A sappy song?
Oh god. A wave of sickness stirs in his gut.
He's been writing songs for El… that's what this is.
Or: The one where Vecna was defeated in Season 4, nobody died, Hellfire is a band, and Mike Wheeler can't stop writing love songs.
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19 Jun 2026
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When Will took a job at infamous nightclub CBD he wasn't expecting to like it.
He also wasn't expecting to meet someone who could rearrange his soul with a simple look.
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Towards the end of his third year at college, Will takes a part time job at a busy alternative nightclub and meets Mike Wheeler. Tattooed, pierced, confident, breathtakingly gorgeous - and taken. However Mike is also throwing more mixed signals Will's way than a railway crossing on the fritz, flirting and teasing Will in a way that makes him think there might be more to Mike than he first suspected.
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18 Jun 2026
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you’re the hunter, the warrior (that’s your tragedy) by goldensyrax
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2026
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Will walks towards the table with two quick strides, resting his hip there as he grabs one wooden stake and holds it in his hand. “I’ll keep a stake to your heart. If you lose control I’ll kill you right here.”
“You trust me that much?” Mike raises a brow.
“I trust myself enough to stab you if you lose yourself.”
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“Are you sure?” Mike asks, stepping in front of Will to close the distance. “You’re offering your blood to me.”
Or: Will, the vampire Slayer, notices Mike has been starving himself for too long. What happens when he decides to offer his blood to the vampire? Is it the first of a series of bad decisions? Probably. But the pleasure, oh sweet pleasure, is all worth it.
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- 128,453
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- 11/13
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17 Jun 2026
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15 Jun 2026