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“You’re all I’ve ever wanted, I'm sorry I can't say it while sober.” by lixsun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Dec 2025
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“You’re all I’ve ever wanted,” Mike says quietly, his words slurring just enough to make them sound fragile. There’s something bittersweet in his voice, as if those words were never meant to be spoken out loud.
“I’m sorry I can’t say it while sober,” he finally admits.
Will lets out a soft, stupid little laugh.
Because it’s New Year’s Eve, and this is how he’s spending it—sitting on the floor, a bottle of wine between him and Mike, listening to what feels like a lifetime’s worth of confessions spill into the space between them.
or; Will comes home from college for the holidays, something he hasn’t done in nearly three years. Seeing Mike again, it hits him, maybe nothing has really changed at all.
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21 Dec 2025
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that's how the light gets in (then you’re golden) by surrender2thesound
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Apr 2025
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There are sunbeams from the kitchen window splashing over Mike’s face and tinting his features gold. The freckles that dust the bridge of his sloping nose and the sharp planes of his cheeks are more visible like this, and despite the dark circles that Will now notices resting beneath his eyes, his expression is bright.
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It’s the middle of autumn, and Will believes that with each passing day he becomes impossibly more in love than the last.
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21 Dec 2025
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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20 Dec 2025
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“Yeah. So. Please tell me if you’re starting to hate me,” Mike says. “I thought it crushed me when El …” He shakes his head. “But, I think this would be worse. So. Please don’t let it sneak up on me.”
Will’s mouth falls open, just a touch. Mike has one leg on either side of his dorky offroad bicycle in the middle of a tree-lined street, the weak January sun painting him in a halo ring of white, and he’s asking Will not to leave him.
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Or, Will realizes that teaching Mike Wheeler how to love him might be a lifelong project.(Told through the months of 1988.)
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- Part 2 of Come On, Pilgrim
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18 Dec 2025
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The Byers’ new house is closer to Mike’s.
This is a Development.
Mike sees Will on the weekends. Mike sees Will on occasional school nights. Mike sees Will like he’s living with them again, stuffed into Mike’s back pocket, comfortably, reliably close.
Turns out, this is a problem.
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or: Will is lovely, and Mike is in love. Maybe. Probably. Definitely.
Bookmarked by patiently_anxious
18 Dec 2025