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“What did you mean, ‘we’re not friends anymore’?” Will demands.
“Oh god,” Mike says faintly, because he can’t think of a single other thing to say.
“It’s Will, actually,” Will says. “Or maybe you forgot that in the five years since you last bothered to speak to me before you sent me this.”
He unfolds his arms to brandish a crumpled envelope in Mike’s face, and he knows without even looking at his own handwriting on the front exactly what it is.
(or, the summer after all his friends graduate from college, mike writes will a letter to say goodbye. predictably, nothing about this goes as planned.)
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Hold the Line, Love isn't always on time by heavenlyofficialsmut
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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"Does he love the mage? In the end?"
He can't open his eyes, he can't because if he has to look at Mike as he says yes he's going to - he might punch him. He might actually punch him. Why did he agree to this? Why did Mike have to come here and be beautiful and loving and make him think just for a moment all over again.
"You'll have to read it and find out?"
Excuse the fuck out of yourself Michael. What.
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Mike finally starts getting his life together again just before they're all ready to leave after getting all of his feelings out into his writing and he goes to will for help in finishing it. Together they paint and write a new ending for the story whilst rediscovering themselves along the way.
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Mike knows the fault lies, thoroughly and fully, within him. His fault, his pain, his grief, his guilt, and, oh, his shame.
So much of it he drowns. Gasping for air, in need of a helping hand he doesn't reach for. He doesn't deserve it. Not anymore.or
Mike is ready to say a final goodbye to his life.
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 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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Jonathan runs into Mike in the middle of the night. Mike seems like he's trying to hide something.
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Two months after the earthquake, Steve is in a state of aimlessly floating through life, with no goals or future in sight, a husk of himself. Then, like a ghost from the past dressed in a paisley shirt, Jonathan Byers waltzes into his life again.
Or: Steve and Jonathan's first real conversation after everything.
Title from 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' by Joy Division.
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- Part 10 of The Chicago Chronicles
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“I love you, Mike,” his mom said, softly. Earnestly.
Mike didn’t reply, couldn’t, and squeezed his eyes shut when he heard the door close. Something un-nameable was building in his throat, choking him. Something about 'Will' and 'family' and that word, the big one, the one he couldn’t say and never had. And the thing in his throat wasn’t un-nameable. Mike knew what it was. Terror. Shame.
"Maybe we’re both brave," Mike had told Will, only moments ago. Maybe.
Just not about this one, big thing.
OR: it has been a year since the Byers began living with him, and Mike Wheeler is in over his head. After being haunted by a string of nightmares, Mike takes comfort in Will, as he always does. This results in shared rooms, wound-tending and revealed secrets, which set the two on a dangerous but inescapable path towards the most important revelation of them all.