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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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09 Mar 2026
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Holy shit, Will thinks. Holy shit, that’s Mike Wheeler.
Dead center stage, his long fingers plucking expertly at a deep blue electric guitar, is a living ghost of Will’s desperately buried past. The central figure of his best childhood memories and worst adolescent shames, the boy he thought he’d left behind for good, the first and only person he’d ever really been in love with. Mike.
Chicago, 1993. Will is working as an illustrator, back in the Midwest for the first time since he left at 14. Mike is the frontman of an up-and-coming alt rock band he started with his college friends. Through sheer luck, their paths cross, and everything they ever left unsaid comes bubbling back to the surface.
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05 Mar 2026
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Just for a second, I remembered myself by Romanoff_mylove
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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Mike has finally made it as an author. But writing about your own past can get complicated, especially when fans start to draw conclusions that point Mike in the direction of the person he's been writing about all along.
And living life is hard. Especially when you're doing it all on your own. But grief and love are a lot more similar than you might realise. They both tend to wake us up from the monotony of our lives.
OR: Mike has a horrible time, which somewhere along the way turns into a wonderful time.
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01 Mar 2026
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"Hi," Max says, hands deep in her pockets, water dripping down her face. She feels pathetic, she knows she must look it too. Rain lands on her head and slides down, down, down.
Mike stares at her for longer than is socially acceptable. Not that Mike is ever socially acceptable, and really—well, Max isn't either. The thought is just another thing that lands and slides down the back of her neck, down her shirt.
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max shows up at the wheeler house in the middle of the night, for reasons she doesn't want to admit. her and mike talk, but only a bit. after all, they're not great at communicationSeries
- Part 12 of cel’s madwheeler
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28 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler has spent nine years fighting like he doesn’t expect to live, carrying guilt he never learned how to put down.
When his unit uncovers proof that someone has been hunting Vecna from inside the Upside Down, Mike realizes the truth is worse than hope.
Will Byers didn’t die when he disappeared at twelve.
He stayed—and he’s been surviving the Upside Down alone ever since.
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- Part 1 of Alternate Ending
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24 Feb 2026