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your ivy grows (and now i'm covered in you) by nataliesfirefly
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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Will invites Mike to stay with him while Carlton is in Germany for his month-long study abroad program. The feelings they've both attempted to push down rise to the surface rather quickly.
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i won't ask you to wait (if you don't ask me to stay) by nataliesfirefly
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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“It’s okay.” Mike replies.
“No, it’s not. I’ve just been really busy, and it just slips my mind, and I don’t want to bother you and stuff. You’re probably busy, too, and I don’t want to waste your time.” Will is speaking a bit quickly, rushed, like he needs to get the words out before he implodes.
Mike pauses, then turns on his side to face the closet. “Will, you could never waste my time. You would never bother me. I promise. I promise.” Too much emotion is leaking through his voice, so he tones it down a bit. He wonders if he should really say the next thing, if it’s the right thing to do, or if he’ll just embarrass himself. He hears Will shift around down below.
“If it makes you feel any better,” He swallows. “I’ve been trying to call you. But the line is always busy.” His voice is uneven, shaky. Will has gone completely still. Mike squeezes his eyes shut.
The Byers make the trip from Lenora to Hawkins to visit the Wheelers for Christmas. During their stay, Mike has some interesting revelations about himself and his feelings for Will.
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“Maybe in another universe you actually like kissing,” Will jokes in a wayward attempt to lighten the mood, flashing him a smile.
“Maybe in another universe there’s someone I’d like to kiss,” Mike fires back, and Will’s stomach drops as Mike’s eyes flick downwards.--
In which Will Byers and Mike Wheeler imagine themselves in a different universe. Post-S5.
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18 Jan 2026
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Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.
"Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.
He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."
"Again."
El is gone.
Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.
Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.
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- Part 1 of Supervoid
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14 Jan 2026
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
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Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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- Part 1 of devotion | Indiana University
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09 Jan 2026
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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sundollop
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jan 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
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09 Jan 2026
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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03 Jan 2026