13 Bookmarks by mikesmorsecode
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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.
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12 Mar 2026
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: Yet another buzzy post vol 1 fic where Will grows more confident, Mike short-circuits over it, and they save the world together !!
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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08 Mar 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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07 Mar 2026
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handle me with care in this life (we can live it out again twice) by subliminalpsyche
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2026
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Mike doesn't remember much of the final battle against Vecna, but he quickly finds out nothing is as it seems — and it hasn't been for a long time.
Or a post-S5 volume 2 fix-it fic where monsters are lurking around an abandoned Hawkins, Vecna is nowhere to be found, and Mike has no idea how they can stop the world from ending.
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06 Mar 2026
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A sharp crack tears through the air. Mike flinches back, staring down at Will's lifeless body. He gets one last look before the ground is giving way beneath them, and all at once, they’re falling.
A shrill cry tears from Mike’s throat as he finds himself flailing through the open sky. A sharp crack of lightning shutters in the distance. Will's limp corpse contorts, dropping faster than he can. He’s screaming, unimaginable terror ripping through his body. He writhes, reaching for Will, crying the boy's name.
He’s falling, plummeting through a destabilized upside down and there's nothing he can do to stop it. He’s going to die.
Mike reaches out, eyes squeezed close. He tears the watch from Will's wrist, seconds before colliding with the Exotic Matter.
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Colliding with Exotic matter as the Upside Down collapses in on itself sends Mike hurtling through time. He’s given the chance to save Will before any of this starts.
But he can’t seem to get it right. Reliving moments throughout the years, helpless to warn Will. He just wants to keep him safe. Why can’t he keep him safe?
He’ll do this again and again until he gets it right. He won’t lose him again.
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05 Mar 2026
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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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Bookmarked by mikesmorsecode
05 Mar 2026
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Will and Mike were supposed to be hockey rivals.
Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings taught them how to compete, not how to look at each other like this.Rivalry was easy. What grew between them wasn’t.
OR
byler heated rivarly AU.
yup. u read it RIGHTBookmarked by mikesmorsecode
05 Mar 2026
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October Windfall (Don't Let The Forest In) by gloomboysgoblin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Feb 2026
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A botanical horror story inspired by Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews.
"Will thought it would hurt more, cutting his heart out, but it didn’t. He didn’t think anyone would want a heart like his, but he still reached between his ribs and pulled it out, giving it away before it could even stop beating. He had painted it onto his knight’s shield, ripped it right out of his chest and placed it so lovingly into the boy’s hands."
Will Byers and Mike Wheeler attend Mirkwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by haunted woods. When freakishly familiar monsters start appearing at the edge of the forest, the two take it upon themselves to get rid of them. They must juggle their monster-fighting duties with their schoolwork while also learning to navigate their strange feelings for one another.
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03 Mar 2026
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Mike and will drunkenly sleep together after Stacy’s party.
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He’d thought he was over Mike. He’d told himself he was. He’d accepted that Mike would never feel the same way. Mike wasn’t like him. Untouchable. Unavailable. A dead end. He’d made peace with that over 18 months ago when the world was ending.
But now Mike was here. And he was touching him. Looking at him like this. Like he wanted him.
And Will was too drunk, too raw, too undone to shove the feelings back down where they belonged.
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01 Mar 2026
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If You Love Me, Keep It to Yourself by VicodinComrade01
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
09 Mar 2026
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Theo moves to Vegas, and meeting Boris there will become the first step toward his decade-long problem of drug abuse and art theft. But he couldn't help but remember him fondly, regardless, because of the unlikely bond they had shared that Theo could not obtain with anyone else, no matter how much he tried. When Theo's father dies, being on the run with him will cement that bond even further while they're forced to share four walls in a dirty motel room and live off whatever food scraps they can find, and try to make ends meet together. Theo abandons him when he grows sick of waiting for a promise of a better life that Boris was unable to provide for them, and they go their separate ways without knowing of one another for 12 whole years. When all is mended with the painting, post canon Theo tries his best to navigate life with the terrible coping mechanisms he has relied on over the years, and loneliness after calling off his engagement with Kitsey. A loneliness that Boris will help him fix
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01 Mar 2026
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who was that? (my lover from a past life). by creelbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
17 Feb 2026
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"He can save all of us! But he needs your help. You need to find him before he lets it in."
Memories blending, losing touch. Will is unsure of what's his mind and what's Vecna's. He is becoming the ultimate spy, the vessel that will ensure that the supernatural corpse that has tormented him and Hawkins for years expands his dominion into the town and planet he calls home. Will a minor slipup from the blur of uncanny recollections blow his cover, the shell of what was once Will?
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Will Byers realizes that harnessing Vecna's powers comes with a dire price.
— taking inspiration from Tame Impala's song "Past Life"
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21 Feb 2026
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Help Me Become Somebody Else by sundayscare
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Scream (Movies)
05 Mar 2026
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After returning from a year away in Lenora, Will Byers begins to notice that something is off with Mike Wheeler.
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I put Mike in a ghostface mask and let him run rampant.- Language:
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04 Feb 2026
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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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03 Feb 2026