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Except he wasn’t truly alone in the garden.
Will tore his eyes from the paper and looked over at the frog: it had not moved an inch, all the while Will had filled the page and got lost in his thoughts, found his way out and got lost anew.
The frog blinked slowly at him. Will lowered his sketchbook. It was definitely staring.
or; Mike gets cursed a little too often.
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- Part 1 of Beneath The Willow Tree
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18 Oct 2025
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the windows of this love by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jun 2023
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Will smiles encouragingly at him, swiping his tears away and kissing his forehead again. "Let's make a deal, okay?" he murmurs, voice low and full of a bittersweet sort of hope. "If in five years we're both doing better, and we're not dating anyone else-" Mike blanches at the concept of dating anyone else, of Will dating anyone else- "we can try again, okay?"
Five years sounds like a terribly long time. In five years, Mike will be twenty-three. He'll be done with college, will have a career, could be living anywhere in the world for all he knows, and the same goes for Will.
But five years is a whole lot less than forever, so Mike will take it.
In the summer of 1989, Mike and Will fall apart. Five years later, they fall back together.
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- Part 1 of take the long way home
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18 Oct 2025
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“Hungry,” is all Mike manages to get out. Will can hear each ragged breath scuttle up and down his chest. He squints at Mike, the boy refusing to break eye contact, staring intently at Will. The emptiness from this morning is back.
Will scoots up in bed and shimmies out of his blanket cocoon, placing his hands on the sides of Mike’s arms. “Are you feeling sick?” he questions gently. Something’s not right.
Mike shakes his head and once again, opens his mouth with a brief pause before speaking. “I’m so hungry, Will.”
Mike gets a little too into the occult. After a ritual-gone-wrong, Will has to piece together a decades-old mystery to save his best friend's life.
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17 Oct 2025
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In the end, it doesn’t matter. None of it fucking matters. Because what’s really in control is the tension. This elusive string tied between their chests that’s always changing length. Right now it’s so short and taught and strong that Will can’t imagine resisting it. So really, it was never a matter of if he would. Just when. When will he fold? When will he let go and let himself follow Mike into the water?
He dares to glance down at his knees, where he can see Mike’s fingers peeking out from behind his calves (as if he needed that visual reminder that they’re touching), and then back up to meet Mike’s expectant gaze.
He’s going to do it. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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Mike & Will have a long overdue conversation on the way back to Hawkins— by, in, and around a random motel pool.
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And maybe it’s the way the streetlights flicker, or the way the town is too quiet, but Will suddenly feels the weight of everything pressing in on him again. The truth clawing at his throat. The things he wants to say but can’t.
He takes a breath.
“Mike.”
Mike turns to him immediately, eyes sharp, attentive.
Will grips his own wrist, fingers digging into his skin. He hesitates—just for a second—before finally, barely above a whisper, he asks:
“Can—” He swallows hard. “Can you promise me something?”
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or: churchgate inspired by author listening to a shit ton of ethel cain
title from: Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain
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- Part 1 of s5 byler x ethel cain
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15 Oct 2025
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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14 Oct 2025
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“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
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13 Oct 2025
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to you I can admit (that I'm just too soft for all of it) by borealisaurora
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Nov 2022
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After watching Mike put on his tough facade at a meeting with the Upside Down gang, Will finds Mike breaking down in his room, terrified of the future and wondering if he has what it takes to face it. Mike turns to Will for comfort, and though Will fights to convince himself that Mike doesn't reciprocate his feelings, their lies unravel and their true feelings for each other are finally revealed.
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Mike hurts more than he lets on, and Will is the perfect person to help him through it.
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13 Oct 2025
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Lucas looks a little hurt. "But you could have told us it happened?"
Will resists the urge to bang his head on the table. Probably wouldn't help his case.
"I mean, I couldn’t really— it was—" He looks at Mike, gives a tiny shrug and a head shake, something subtle enough to be not picked up on by the rest, hopefully. A hail-Mike. A please find a way to help me out of this lie.
And Mike Wheeler, he does know how to answer a call.
"It was me," Mike says.
Will gets caught up in a lie about not being a virgin. Mike decides to help out. This surely will not spiral.
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13 Oct 2025
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kiss me with your mouth full of smoke (and don't let my heart burn) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Apr 2023
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“Can I tell you a secret?”
Mike asks, when they finally lie down on the roof - the stars above them the only light of the apocalyptic night.
Will hums in response, his attention focus on the process of lighting his own joint.
“You’re pretty.”
Mike says with red eyes and smoke escaping his mouth in small puffs, as he breathes in the lit up drug.
“You can’t just say that.”
Will argues, when he manages to kick his body out of the frozen state. He’s still not turned to face Mike, his focus on keeping their bodies from touching.
“Okay.”
Mike’s voice is stable, when he turns his head, his arm reaching out to snake around Will’s waist and pull himself close to his best friend’s face.
“You are, though.”
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Mike and Will getting high, when the world is ending.
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13 Oct 2025
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(give me a second to) forget i ever really meant it by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2024
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“Any of it.” Will shrugs, embarrassed. “I don’t know how to ask someone out, or how to act on a date, or how to- kiss, or anything like that.”
“Oh.” Mike’s expression clears, and he grins. “Well, like I said, you’re a catch, so I don’t think you’d need to worry about putting people off or something. And all of that stuff is way easier than it sounds, seriously.”
Will makes a face. “That can’t be true.”
“I’m serious!” Mike says, laughing a little. “Here, we can practice.” He shifts on the bed, arranging his legs beneath him and sitting up a little straighter, running a casual hand through his hair. “Pretend I’m a guy you like.”
Practice makes perfect, especially when the person you're practicing with is your best friend.
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13 Oct 2025
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Will has always sported a shiny bowl cut...
Until today.
Now Mike is crushing hard, questioning his entire sexual identity.
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13 Oct 2025
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There’s a new and shiny billboard near the main part of town— white background, a large crucifix, a man starved, plastered with the blood-red words; Who else has died for you? Will walks past it everyday on the way to school. Too many people, he thinks. Way too fucking many.
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OR; the end of the world, according to Will Byers.
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Will's been acting— strange, Mike thinks. He's caught Will skulking around the house like he's got lead weights attached to his ankles, watched his eyes blink listlessly without a hint of light in their irises, heard his voice go so raspy Mike wasn't sure he'd been speaking at all. Mike can’t help but worry.
He doesn’t look too good, either; clammy skin, pale, ashen face, hollowed cheeks like he’s hardly eaten in days. Will's acting half-dead already, and the world's not even close to ending yet.
Mike, on the other hand, is being slowly tormented by a strange monster with fangs long enough to spear him through. These two things— Will's strange behavior, and Mike's impending doom— may or may not be related, but Mike's got to figure it out. One way or another.
(Or; Will puts his life on the line to keep his friends safe, and nearly loses it entirely. Mike does all he can to bring Will back— and, in the process, brings them closer together than ever before.)
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29 Sep 2025
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Mike wasn’t coming after him this time. This whole thing was Mike’s fault in the first place, and Will didn’t want to see him, he made that clear. He did want Mike to notice, though. He wanted Mike to be standing inside the arcade, staring at the front door, itching to come outside and talk to him. He wanted Mike to get a shit score at Dig Dug because he was distracted wondering where Will had gone.
It was kind of like the View-Master feeling, being stuck between resenting Mike so much and wanting him back so desperately. Sometimes, there would be a glitch, and the facade he carefully constructed would disappear, revealing the cold, harsh truth. I still love him.
or: byler exes to lovers
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27 Sep 2025
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“I’m fine,” Will mumbled, shutting his eyes tight.
“You’re not fine,” Mike argued. “Here, just let me try.”
Before Will could protest, both of Mike’s thumbs were pressed to the center of his forehead. Will huffed as Mike pressed down, moving his thumbs in a downward motion then back up, and actually—
“Oh,” Will said, “that… kind of helps.”
or: will’s mental link to vecna is causing severe headaches. mike just wants to help.
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26 Sep 2025
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“You’ve really never?” Will asks, finally pulling a box of matches out of his pocket, not the lighter Mike had been expecting. He tips the box of Marlboros out towards Mike again, and this time, he takes one, trying to pretend like the subtle weight of it is not as foreign in his hand as it feels. “Not even once?”
“No,” Mike says, trying to figure out whether he should be getting defensive or not. “Why? Is it that hard to believe?”
“I just figured, you know, it’s easier to bum a smoke off of somebody than it is to get your hands on some booze,” Will says thoughtfully. He tucks the cigarettes back into his pocket and plants both hands on the stack of hay behind him, taking a careful step onto the bale already resting by their feet — and then, when it holds his weight, he hoists himself up, legs swinging. “And you’ve done that, so.”
Will sneaks out for a smoke break. Mike decides to join him.
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24 Sep 2025
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The tornado that swept through Hawkins, Indiana, on the evening of April 21st, 1991, would be forever etched into the town’s history—spoken of in hushed, reverent tones alongside the three bodies it left in its wake.
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or: a byler x willoughby tucker, i'll always love you au fic (you don’t need to know the ethel cain lore to read it! it follows most of the lore, but also weaves in stranger things elements and my own ideas !!)
or or: mike wheeler is the son of a preacher, has attachment issues, and is in love with will byers. will byers is angry, tired, and maybe a little self-destructive, but is in love with mike wheeler. slow burn. religious trauma. doomed love. a house in nebraska.Bookmarked by misamoeba
21 Sep 2025
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The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Hawkins by olliecoddle
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Sep 2023
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Will had the same pre-show ritual before every gig he ever performed. About twenty minutes before he had to go on stage, he would lock himself in any confined space he could find. In a bathroom stall, his dressing room, the maintenance closet, he would turn off the lights and hide for a few minutes. Today, though, it was five minutes before he had to go on stage, the clock ticking down, and he had spent the last half hour wandering around the venue looking for Mike Wheeler.
Will needed to talk to him.
or, the party has a band. will and mike make out on stage. for the bit, of course. it causes problems.
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20 Sep 2025
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Let's Go Crazy Together (but not like this) by Julia_Skysong
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jun 2023
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The nurse, or warden, or whoever she was cause Will really didn't fucking care, stopped outside the room and unlocked it. Room number 11, of course. Will could throw up from the irony. He wasn't really listening to the nurse's instructions. He knew the drill by now, and his head was killing him, and all he wanted was to lay down and rest...
"Oh my god."
He stared wide eyed at the figure sitting on the other bed who had spoken to him. Mike fucking Wheeler.
"Of fucking course," Mike muttered, rolling his eyes and turning away from him.
"Nope." Will immediately turned around and tried to leave. "This isn't going to work."
"We have no other beds available, we're at full capacity," the nurse said.
"I can't stay here."
"We have no beds."
"So switch me with somebody else."
"It's already past lights out, nobody is moving until morning."
"Then send me to another fucking facility," Will said through gritted teeth.
...Anger, fear, trauma, grief. One turned to alcohol. One turned to drugs. Now, somehow, they've ended up sharing a room at the same mental hospital. Will and Mike are stuck, forced to work through their issues together, for better or for worse.
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- Part 1 of How Do We Move On From This?
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20 Sep 2025