19 Bookmarks by ohnoitssmee
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Mike Wheeler hides behind a facade to conceal the pain in his heart. He turns to bad habits, secrets, and stays cloaked in the shadows. That is until an all too familiar foe reemerges in Hawkins and preys on those just like him. Those hiding behind masks, plagued by their pain.
Nobody suspected Vecna would go after Michael Wheeler. Maxine Mayfield, sure. Will Byers? Oh definitely. They’re caught by surprise when Mike Wheeler is targeted and Vecna chases after him like a hunting dog. After all, why give up such easy prey?
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- Part 1 of Mike Wheeler suffering
- Part 1 of TFYW Spinoffs
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04 Feb 2026
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i cried lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots… and lots…
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“When I saw you… there. From the Demo’s perspective. You were gonna –” Will’s voice breaks, and Mike’s fingers twitch where they rest on the fabric of Will’s jeans. There’s no conscious thought process, but he gently rubs back and forth. “I thought of you,” Will whispers, breath catching slightly.
“Of us. When… um, when we first met, and you asked me to be your friend. I thought of that and… you know. It happened."
Mike’s eyebrows lift. Me. I did it. “Oh.”
Will glances and seems to realise all at once how much he just revealed.
aka after their graduation dnd game, will and dustin persuades everyone to go to stacy's house party. mike is not exactly in the mood, and wonders if drinking will help everything that he's feeling right now. what could go wrong? what could go right?
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29 Jan 2026
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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the great big mystery of mike wheeler's no good, very bad, terrible feelings by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Apr 2023
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It’s at that very moment that, for reasons completely and utterly unknown to anyone at all, every single possible word he has ever learned from any language ever has suddenly disappeared from his brain, and his throat feels relevant to the Sahara Desert.
None of this, of course, has to do with the fact that Will is very, very, very – shirtless.
Will blinks at him. “Are you okay?”
“Shoulders,” Mike says, sounding vaguely chipmunk-like, and he hears Max barely choke down a snicker.
Will comes back for the summer, and Mike deals with it.
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21 Jan 2026
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Love is a fickle thing.
At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.
Love is a fickle thing.
Just not for Mike.
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After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.
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Things are falling apart- like, really badly now. Mike is trying to work with these new developments, but it's not working. Not at all. It just seems like the whole universe is against him right now.
He tries to make it work, maybe even using it to his advantage, but... ah. It backfires on him.
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Or, Mike Wheeler becomes a key part to Vecna's plan, and he finds himself in a situation he didn't expect
// this is a rewrite of my older st fic Not According to Plan ! It's still up on my account if you really wanna check it out!
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- Part 2 of DUFFER BROTHERS WTH WAS THAT?????
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20 Jan 2026
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“I know you don’t like to talk about it, but— can you explain it?” Mike asked. “Your… episodes?”
His mute episodes, as Dr. Owens called them. Will wasn’t sure how to describe it. It was just… fear. A sense of doom. An inability. Something that was as instinctive as breathing.
“It’s like…” he said, then paused in thought. He was really no good with words. “Like, I’m stuck.”
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Will Byers was a bright, energetic, outgoing kid— until he wasn’t. His ability to socialize deteriorated slowly. No one thought it was anything serious; not until it was too late. His selective mutism had already taken over his mind.
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13 Jan 2026
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Will Byers doesn't speak for the first two weeks after he meets Mike Wheeler. It doesn't stop them from understanding each other anyway.
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12 Jan 2026
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you took my heart (i was sleeping..well not really) by monachopsis_22
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore, despite living under the same roof. Will is avoidant and spends most days in the basement, and Mike has never felt so alone.
Then the power goes out, and Mike desperately wants to understand what went wrong, and to know what that damn painting means.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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11 Jan 2026
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a cruel summer with you by andiwriteordie, astrobi, wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2024
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“Oh, come on,” Will says, struggling to keep his voice neutral in a different way. His mouth is dry, and he hates Mike for it even more. “Is this what it’s going to be like this summer?”
Mike looks back at him, considering, lips pursed in an effort to shut down the smirk that Will knows is fighting to break free. Will doesn’t dare to let his gaze catch there, focusing instead on holding Mike’s stare, because this, too, is a game.
Five years into a rivalry with bittersweet origins, the only thing Mike and Will want is to beat each other at this summer’s camp counselor competition. But being back at camp is dredging up old memories, and as Mike and Will lose momentum and gain something else entirely, it becomes increasingly clear that one summer can change everything.
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- Part 5 of in the quiet of the night
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09 Jan 2026
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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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02 Jan 2026
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best fic ive ever read 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 angst… fluff… miwi… crying confession in rain… am i in heaven?
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.
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02 Jan 2026
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you're no demon (don't be frightened now) by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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I told you we weren’t going to spend our lives in my basement, playing games and never getting girlfriends, but now I wish we could. I was wrong then. I was so wrong.
I just want you to come home. I just want to play games in my basement forever, the two of us.I’ll see you tomorrow, and you’ll never see this letter. I miss hearing your voice. I never can now, with the way the line is always busy. I miss your smile.
God, I miss your smile. I haven’t seen it in years.I miss you.I’ll see you tomorrow. Happy early birthday.
Even though I’ll say it tomorrow. And you’ll never read this.Love, Mike
“Dude, I thought you were getting clothes, what–”
Mike flinched, dropping the shoebox on the floor and sending the letters inside sliding across the floor in cascades, pulse racing in his throat. Robin raised her eyebrows, half inside his bedroom door, hair disarrayed and sweater askew, and Mike’s eyes flicked down to the letter that slid towards it, the papers now scattered all across the floor.
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Mike finds his unsent letters to Will, prompting him and Robin to talk, about Will, about Vickie, about themselves.
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01 Jan 2026
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I'd rather die (than have to cry in front of you) by Incantessant
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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“So, arcade this afternoon, right?” Dustin asks. He has his notebook open and papers strewn all over the table. So much for Bell’s about to ring.
“Um, actually -” he begins, but Will finishes for him.
“Mike’s not coming. He’s busy,” he says, like that explains everything. “It’ll just be us three.”
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It’s been a month since Hawkins split apart, and people are starting to piece together a new normal. But what does “normal” even mean for someone like Mike Wheeler?
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26 Dec 2025
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Mike and Will talking about Will's sexuality.
Set cannonically in season 5.
Inspo- cammy.mcspammy
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26 Dec 2025
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"So you- you haven't, like. Kissed anyone, then?" Mike asks, fully aware that he should probably just quit while he's ahead but needing to know, suddenly, if Will has any sort of romantic entanglements that he's neglected to tell Mike about. He's not sure why, but there's something in his gut that demands to know, has some sort of sudden need to know if Will has kissed anyone that's not him.
If Will has kissed anyone that's not-
Wait, what?
or: Mike is jealous of himself.
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14 Dec 2025
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reupload of Mixtape by @hauntcore on instagram or @tatelandgon on wattpad. I do not own or claim any of the story or characters. **THIS IS UNTAGGED PLEASE DO FURTHER RESEARCH ABOUT THIS FIC BEFORE READING. LOTS OF TW**
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14 Dec 2025
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
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12 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.