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Will is a young gay man committed to Lazarus by his own father. Traumatized and alone, he’s assigned to Cell 44, right next to Cell 45, where Mike lives.
Mike is infamous: violent, isolated, feared by everyone.
Throughout conversations in between the wall at night — Will learns more about Mike— the cruelty of him.
Mike teaches Will breathing techniques through panic attacks.
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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18 Jul 2026
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okay what the fuck that was so good ! i love mike wheeler send tweet
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How Long Was I Out and How Much Did I Miss? by Luvublelucy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jul 2026
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Will Byers wakes up in a familiar Hawkins, but this one thinks he disappeared five years ago.
In this reality, his boyfriend has a girlfriend, one of his best friends is dead, and they’re all fighting the monster that kidnapped him. Nobody believes he's who he says he is except the girl his boyfriend cheated on him with. Oh, and did he mention that girl is his sister?
Now, Will has to convince everyone that he’s not some creature wearing his face and find his way back to the life he remembers. Seems easy, right?
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Mike Wheeler has been grieving Will Byers for 1,818 days. While most people accepted he was gone, Mike never did.
Has it been hard fighting monsters and trying to defeat the big bad? Sure. But it’s all worth it when Will walks back into his life like he never left.
This Will is different, though. He’s confident and strong, and comes from an alternate universe where jocks, theatre kids, and art nerds coexist. He also, for some reason, hates Mike.
Suddenly, the letters he wrote Will while he was gone feel too personal, and he gets flustered every time he’s around him. Is this a normal reaction to someone miraculously coming back to life? Yeah, probably...
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15 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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05 Jun 2026
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"Do you seriously just let him control you like that all the time? You're not his fucking dog, dude."
Max calls it control.
Will calls it trust.Because it's not just that Mike takes care of him.
It's that Will starts to lean into it, he craves it.And when he realizes Mike needs it just as much, needs to be praised, to be relied on, to be everything... Will decides to stop resisting.
After all, if Mike wants to take care of him...
who is Will to say no?OR
After nearly a year of living together, Mike and Will somehow stumble into a full-blown dom/sub dynamic before they so much as kiss or admit they're in love.
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28 May 2026
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'What the fuck.'
He really had no idea how this would go, but this? Barely even two sentences exchanged? Fuck, he would have rather Will scream at him in front of everyone. Tell him how fucked up it was that he never reached out. After Will came out. After he told Will he was still his best friend. After his sister died.
‘Tell me, tell me Will that you’re mad at me. Tell me that’s why you never called again, so I have something concrete to blame it on.’
But the nothingness? Like they just barely knew each other. That was so much worse.
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Palm Springs Movie (2020) inspired, Mike and Will meet after 3 years of not speaking, at Jonathan and Nancy's wedding. They get trapped in a time-loop and navigate their years of lost friendship, while Mike has to deal with why he stopped talking to Will in the first place; and it might just be because he's in love with him.
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29 Apr 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jul 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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26 Apr 2026
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𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓾𝓹 ✨✨ i love d it so much i hope it get updated some day lol
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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26 Apr 2026
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“We haven’t done this since middle school,” Will says, voice barely above a whisper.
“Huh,” Mike whispers back. “Yeah, guess not.”
A couple years ago, Mike read a National Geographic article about a phenomenon called the polar night. In the farthest north and south regions of the globe, there are weeks, sometimes months depending on how close you are to the poles, where the sun does not rise above the horizon, plunging the world into a perpetual nighttime. Living in such conditions, the article had explained, can affect one’s circadian rhythm, heighten issues with concentration and energy levels, and cause a spike in depressive symptoms among local populations. Some resort to using light therapy lamps to mimic the daylight.
It was only after the Byers moved away, all those years ago, that Mike began to understand what the prolonged absence of the sun can do to a person.
The Upside Down is gone, and everyone has made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the not-so-end of the world, snowballs turn into avalanches. Sometimes it just takes time.
or: Mike gets into Brown, Will gets into RISD, and the friends-to-???-to-lovers slowburn that ensues.
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25 Apr 2026
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very cute <3 loved the dynamic between mike and will
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The weight of Mike’s touch grounds him, tugs his mind out of the Upside Down and brings it back here—in Hawkins, looking into Mike’s eyes as the world crumbles around them.
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The end draws near. The Mindflayer beckons. Mike and Will cling to love against the dying of the light.
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03 Mar 2026
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dear will, (and all the things I'm too much of a coward to say) by Aloyx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2026
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Summer of 1989. Before the group splits up for college, they plan one final camping trip in the woods.
Trapped in a tent with Will, Mike is writing an apology letter that gradually turns into a heartfelt confession as he comes to terms with his true feelings. He has one week to find the right words, or he'll lose the love of his life forever.
Or: after s5, Mike Wheeler writes a love confession he’s absolutely not ready for.
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02 Mar 2026
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one of my favs tbh! the group dynamic is spot on, and the moments will and mike share so very special <3 loved it
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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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05 Jan 2026
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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.
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04 Jan 2026
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held close all the time (knowing i'm half of you) by sacrificialangeldirtyslutwneeds
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Nov 2025
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"Like a tornado that wreak havoc on a shaky, war-torn town, the storm carried with it the footsteps of someone who she once swore she would never see again.
Someone carrying her notebook.
And the words that no one was meant to see."
(or Ellie writes. and Abby reads.)
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19 Nov 2025
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A man named Cas wakes up in 2003 with no memories, but he's able to piece together a few things:
Supernatural creatures exist, and most of them will hurt innocent civilians if he doesn't stop them; he has abilities that no human hunter should have, but he knows enough about human hunters to keep that to himself, and finally; he keeps running into another hunter named Dean Winchester, who must be as lonely as he is if he's willing to put up with those former facts long enough to help Cas unravel the mystery of who (or what) he really is.
For his part, Dean's still (not) dealing with Sam's departure to Stanford, and figures distracting himself with a bit of mystery and intrigue is as harmless as it gets, right? Right.
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20 Jul 2025
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a monster broken by the rules of love by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jun 2025
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“We need to get to the science building.” Her voice cracks; she doesn’t give a fuck. “Now.”
Joel shakes his head. “Ellie—”
“No, listen to me,” she insists, grabbing one of his hands with both of hers. “They… I think they can make it quick. The cure. And… and it’s on your leg, so we have a little time—”
“Ellie.”
“We have… Joel, we have to move. Now.” She jumps to her feet and grabs Callus, leading him to Joel. “Now, Joel.”
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(joel gets bit at the university of eastern colorado)
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01 Jun 2025
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Not at Any Cost by katnissellie
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2026
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Slow burn Ellabs set in Jackson while Ellie learns to forgive Joel.
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Held back by Owen’s arms Abby thrashed. Her sobs echoed in the surgical suite as fellow mourning Fireflies looked on. She begged her father to stand but Dr. Anderson remained bleeding, unmoving. As she stilled, her cries caught in her throat and she forced the words out. "Who would do this?”
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Evidently, no one could tell her. After piecing together the available information, all she knew was that she was looking for a male smuggler. Not much to go off. Someone said he came from Boston, like Marlene. Someone else said the guy was from a settlement in Jackson.
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After joining the WLF, Abby threw herself into her training and her purpose as a soldier. To push away her guilt, every Scar she slaughtered or tortured, she saw as her father's killer. It felt like enough, until 5 years passed and she finally got a new lead, causing her to uproot her old Firefly crew to track down the smuggler.
Mostly according to video game canon, some borrowed details from the TV show. Canon diverges after Abby and Owen's fight, before Jackson.Bookmarked by quietmind
30 May 2025
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jail(baby)bird by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Jun 2023
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“983,” the guard calls, clanging a baton on the bars of the cell. He doesn’t bother to look up, very busy tracing out the state of Texas in the lines on the wall. He’s found four of them so far. He’s trying for a fifth. “New buddy.”
He does exhale through his nose at that, slightly amused to find out what new victim they’re offering him this time. He doesn’t have a great reputation with his “buddies,” the fuckers attached by handcuff to their cellmates to make it harder to escape, a standard practice in FEDRA prison. He’s gone through four now, each and every one of them trying to pull a power play by picking a fight.
It hadn’t gone well for any one of them.
“Try not to kill this one too quickly,” the guard says, and there’s a certain amount of anticipatory glee in the man’s voice that sets off a quiet alarm in his head.
He lifts his head, needing to see what makes this new inmate so special.
And looks right at a kid who can’t be older than 14, absolutely swamped by a prison outfit meant for someone about three sizes larger.
A girl, in the middle of a men’s prison.
(an AU in which ellie and joel meet in a fedra prison)