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Five years after Hawkins graduation the party is back together for Jonathan and Nancy's Wedding. Mike is forced to confront buried feelings and memories he has spent years repressing. Seeing Will again for the first time in years begins to unravel the walls he has put up. Old feelings resurface, unspoken and unresolved, forcing Mike to confront what he has been running from and whether some things were never truly left behind.
"We all toast and I can feel Will’s arm brush mine as we raise our glasses.
Jesus I’m pathetic.
He looks ethereal in this lighting. His white button up fits his shoulders and arms perfectly. He is happy without me and I’m glad he is.
I don’t deserve him and I never will. "
(Sequel "The Warmest Place" out now!)Series
- Part 1 of Don't You Know?
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30 Jan 2026
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A conflict of interest (in your orbit) by wheezingwheeler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2026
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"They were satellites in unstable orbit, trying desperately not to collide while being pulled toward each other anyway."
Will Byers thought he'd buried his feelings for Mike Wheeler somewhere between Hawkins and Chicago. Then Mike walks into his life again, and eight years of distance collapse into nothing.
What starts as a forbidden attraction becomes something neither of them can name - desperate encounters, painful misunderstandings, emotional manipulation, and Mike's inability to reconcile who he is.
When Mike finally stops running, he might just be too late.
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30 Jan 2026
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I never ever felt so cool (disguised in your sheets) by wheezingwheeler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Will just wanted to bring his brother home. He didn’t plan on sharing motel beds, surviving Mike Wheeler’s jealousy spiral, or confronting feelings he’s spent years burying.
Mike thinks Will likes girls.
Will thinks Mike will never love him back.
Both of them are wrong.A post-canon (with some small tweaks) road trip full of tension, nightmares, gay panic, and a very long drive toward the truth.
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Water dripped from Will's hair, ran down his jaw, caught on his lips.
Mike stared at it.
Stared like he'd forgotten where he was.
Then, slowly he lifted a towel and pressed it gently to Will's mouth, wiping the water away. His hand didn't even shake. He was steady.
Will's breath stuttered. Tingles tremored all the way up his spine.
He didn't move. He couldn't. He was too aware of Mike's hand, of the way his eyes kept dropping back to his lips.
That look again.
The one Will had seen a dozen times now and never understood.
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30 Jan 2026
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Will wishes his friendship with Mike could look the way it used to when they were kids. He isn’t hoping for anything more anymore. He just doesn’t want to lose his best friend.
Mike, on the other hand, knows that childhood isn’t coming back. Growing up means making adult choices. But why does letting go of the past hurt this much? And why does fighting for the life you’re supposed to want feel so unbearably hard?
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Mike and Will find themselves alone in the house on New Year’s Eve.
Just the two of them. And everything they never talked about.Bookmarked by notsofestive
30 Jan 2026