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don’t wanna talk down on your lover (just know i can be better) by Wikelanchie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Apr 2026
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Mike puts the car into park, but doesn’t tear his gaze away from the windshield. “Say it.”
Will splutters. “Say what?”
“Like we’re what, Will? Say it. Why do I make your boyfriend so nervous?”
“You’re being a jerk.” He looks down and picks at a loose thread on his sweater.
Mike is being a jerk, but he’s just tired. And Will is here in Mike’s car in the middle of nowhere, protected by the growing darkness of the evening, and goddamnit, Mike wants to hear him say it. He wants to hear Will say Mike isn’t better.
Or: Mike and Will have been Mike and Will for sixteen years. Mike is not going to Will let someone else ruin that.
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04 May 2026
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Mike really just wants to take care of Will, in every way he possibly can.
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- Part 1 of i can't be without you
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will byers gets white girl wasted, mike wheeler is the DD and folds.
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09 Jan 2026
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red light, yellow light, green-a-light go by goldenasteri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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IAN! @poppytuft: someone write fic where they all go to the party that night after their campaign and mike and will make out in the bathroom bc Will says I hate your hair like this. please let me fix it. and he’s running his hands through mikes hair and he goes oh. OH. don’t give a fuuuuck
IAN! @poppytuft: Dustin henderson kat stratford ten things i hate about you dancing on the kitchen table moment while mike and will are dry humping in the bathroom. Who cares anymore
IAN! @poppytuft: I'm doing it myself
(or: the party DOES go to Stacy’s party, and mike and will get so gay off that vodka)
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05 Jan 2026
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you're getting called out (cause you're running your mouth) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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“I bet your boyfriend's funny, huh?” he said, before he could stop himself. His eyes flicked back to the piece of jewellery on Will’s neck. “Nice necklace by the way.”
Will froze.
Mike wasn’t stupid. He knew it wasn’t just a necklace. It was a signal. A claim.
Six years after everything, Mike Wheeler has built a life of routine and avoidance, convincing himself that silence is the same as healing. Will Byers has done the opposite – he’s left, grown, and learned to love without apology.
When they meet again at Lucas and Max’s wedding, the truth Mike has spent years avoiding, finally demands to be faced – especially when he sees Will with someone else.
As he finds out, sometimes yearning doesn’t fade with time. It grows, until punches are thrown.
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03 Jan 2026
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Will needs a date to his mom's wedding. Mike volunteers.
“I have an idea,” says Mike.
Ice cubes form in Will’s stomach. “How dangerous is it? Like, should I call Dustin to talk you down, or should I call Nancy to be ready to drive us to the hospital?”
“No,” says Mike, “you can’t tell anyone or it won’t work.”
“Or what won’t work?” Will asks. It’s like picking up a rock you know a spider will be under.
Mike gets up and closes Will’s door. Hopper doesn’t make them keep it open but sometimes Will does anyway, because every now and then lying around alone with Mike on his bed just makes his chest ache too much. If the door is open he can tell himself You can’t do anything right now, someone will see.
Mike leans back against the door. His eyes are lit up with that special maniacal gleam that the Wheelers get right before they do something insane, like when Nancy says, “Then we have to go kill Vecna ourselves,” or whatever. “Take me to the wedding,” says Mike.
“Yeah,” says Will slowly, “you’ll be at the wedding. Obviously.”
“As your date."
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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- Part 1 of devotion | Indiana University
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Bookmarked by salami_09
29 Dec 2025
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Mike dares Will to play a game of chicken with him.
Will, like most things, goes along with it.
---“Chicken,” he said finally.
Will blinked. “Chicken?” He frowned, trying to picture it. “Isn’t that the one where you get up on someone’s shoulders and try to knock the other person off?” The image flashed so suddenly and absurdly that a laugh almost escaped him. He caught it halfway, feeling stupid.
Mike shook his head quickly. His pale cheeks flushed, covering his freckles in a faint pink like he was embarrassed, or maybe warm. Will told himself it was probably just the basement lighting. Or the heat.
“No,” Mike said. “Like… the other game.” He rubbed his thumb against the edge of the blanket, not looking at Will now. “The one where you dare each other to do stuff. And you have to keep going until someone backs out.” He swallowed. “Chicken.”
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featuring mike queelerSeries
- Part 1 of truth or dare
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We can be heroes / Forever and ever / What d’you say?
“Okay,” Mike says, gripping Will’s hand. “Here goes nothing.”
He can feel the vines pulsing around his other hand, reassuring him. Mike can almost envision Will’s voice in his head. You’re the heart. Mike prays that it’s true.
“I really hope this works, Will,” Mike says, and then he presses his lips to Will’s hand.
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Or, the only way to save Will is with a true love's kiss. Enter Mike.
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25 Dec 2025
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
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22 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.
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18 Dec 2025
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i just may be a daredevil (can you feel my heart?) by coopermyagent for hannibalismus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jul 2024
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Will doesn’t have anything to lose anymore, and Mike can’t lose him. The two go hurtling towards an inevitable precipice where the only option might be to go tumbling down together, limbs grappling for each other, flesh melding, and heartbeats syncing in time.
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Will’s composure cracks and beats up their middle school bully, finishing the job Mike started. :)
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18 Dec 2025
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“Don’t you ever wonder?” Mike whispered.
“About what?”
“What…‘good’ means. O-or just about it, in general.”
Will’s lips quirked up in a smile. A bitter one, but he hoped it wasn’t showing.
“Do I ever wonder about…kissing? Mike, I’m sixteen, of course I wonder about it.”
“It’s just,” a frustrated noise escaped the other’s throat. “You never talk about it.”
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or, a Party discussion turns into the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. And maybe let out some repressed feelings as well.
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18 Dec 2025
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“Do you remember when…” Mike began, slumping down so his head rested against Will’s, “you were possessed by the mind flayer? You were so scared, and we were so young. We were sitting together in my basement, and I promised you that if you went crazy, we’d go crazy together?”
Will wanted to cry. Of course he remembered that. It was the first time he could point to where he’d realized he didn’t just want to be Mike’s friend. He’d been too young to really identify or understand the feeling at that time, but he had known something had shifted. And he’d almost deluded himself into thinking Mike felt it too.
“I remember,” Will admitted.
Mike sighed slowly, like he was letting go of something. Will prayed that it wasn’t him.
“I meant it, you know,” Mike said. “I’d have followed you anywhere then. I still would.”
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The party attends their first "big-kid" Halloween party, dressed as their DND characters. Hijinks ensue, byler happens, and Robin loves Nancy.
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08 Dec 2025
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“Don’t worry, I’ll do it,” Mike protests weakly, but Will ignores him. “You need to rest, yeah,” he continues softly, swallowing audibly at the thought of Will’s fingers on him again.
“I want to take care of—” Will mumbles, fumbling for gauze and bandages, his focus wavering. Mike notices the flush creeping up Will’s cheeks, bright and vivid against his otherwise pale, tired skin. And it warms something inside Mike, just a little, because Will wants to take care of him.
or; Mike is confused, and maybe Will offering to take care of his wounds after their encounter with Vecna only makes things worse.
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08 Dec 2025
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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06 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.
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love like water (without you i would die) by kisameti
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Dec 2025
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A hand grasps his shoulder, someone is saying his name. It’s Mike. Who else would it be? He’s crouching down so they’re at eye level, a smile so big and so bright Will swears he’s looking at the Sun.
For the first time in a long time, Will Byers is proud of who he is. For the first time in a long time, he accepts that he might deserve love, only he still doesn't think he's actually going to get it.
Mike finally works through his feelings, but for some reason, Will keeps rejecting him.
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02 Dec 2025
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After Will saved everyone's asses at the MAC-Z, Joyce and Mike wait for him to wake up at the radio station.
or (more literally)
based on that unreleased Season 5 scene where Mike is watching Joyce and Will is unconscious on the couch.
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01 Dec 2025
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Robin leaned closer, voice gentle. “All I’m saying is, it’s okay to like him. And it’s also extremely, painfully obvious.”
Will froze. “…to who?”
Robin’s grin stretched slow and wicked. “Only to me. Because I understand. He doesn’t know, don’t worry. Because that boy? Dense. Like, heroically dense. Historically dense. Scientists are going to study him.”
Will huffed, cheeks burning. Will’s eyes darted involuntarily to the centre of the room. Max and El were squished together on an armchair. Mike was sprawled on the carpet with Dustin and Lucas, waving his arms around dramatically as he argued about which Star Wars film was objectively the best. His hair was a mess. His cheeks were flushed. He was smiling.
And Will felt that stupid expanding warmth in his chest that he couldn’t get rid of no matter how hard he tried.
💕💕💕💕
Post-Vecna, Will and Robin continue to bond. Robin knows Will likes Mike. Mike thinks Will likes Robin.
One jealousy spiral, several misunderstandings, and a lot of pining later… they finally kiss.
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01 Dec 2025