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    Here’s the thing – Mike is selfish. He always has been. When Will went missing, he forced everybody to look for him. He forced El to stay and help until she was overstimulated and in danger, forced his friends to deal with him jumping off a cliff, forced El to save him, and then inadvertently forced her to become his girlfriend. Then he forced her to break up with him.

    Eighteen months after the world almost ends, Mike finds himself floating.

    In which Mike Wheeler tries to deal with everything, implodes, and Nancy remembers how to be a big sister again.

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    19 Nov 2025

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    The terrible, awful thing about finally getting what he wanted — namely, Mike — is that now he wants more, the selfish creature that he is. When he was younger, he’d been able to convince himself that kissing Mike, just once, would be enough to last him a lifetime. Foolishly, he’d thought that he could relish that single kiss and live a peaceful life, one where Mike was still his friend and nothing changed but his feelings would dissipate.

    Instead, they grew; they’re still growing, Will fears, growing bigger and bigger each time Mike and him get together, because every sound Mike makes when Will kisses him makes Will want to find ten more little gasps and whines and groans, and each time Mike twists their fingers together and pants against his skin Will thinks about how much better it is than the time before.

    will and mike are - something, and will's not entirely sure what. whatever they are, he wants more, but he's not sure if he can have it.

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    17 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    He thinks of those kids they were once and he wonders what will become of them now. Dustin’s hurt ankle. Who can he blame this time? Things become complicated, people become complicated. What is Hawkins? A pile of pain and promise. A quilted, jagged mess of inevitability. They run around in circles and repeat the motions of injury and healing and holding hands and setting fires and exorcising themselves from this town and this town from themselves. They leave and they return. It all keeps leading right back here.

    or, on their first night back in Hawkins, Will and El both can't sleep.

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    17 Nov 2025

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    “I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”

    (Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Hypothetical Season 5.)

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    16 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 65

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    “I still have your clothes.”

    Newt peeks out at Thomas from underneath his sleeve, eyes slitted under the light. “Bloody hell, is this what we’re thinking about right now?”

    Thomas laughs, a reserved sort of exhalation, as he turns to look at him. Newt brings his arm back to his side; an invitation.

    Then, “I still have yours, too.”

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    06 Oct 2025