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"Children, children, CHILDREN!" Murray finally snapped, pinching the bridge of his nose. The three of them shut up and looked at him in shock. "Enough of this pointless, childish bickering already. If I wanted to watch drama like this I would turn on a soap opera or telenovela. My god, do I have to play therapist to EVERYONE in this group?? I could sue you all for emotional compensation!"
Mike started to argue. He didn't know what he was going to say, exactly, but he was still pent up and Murray seemed like a better target than his two best friends. Unfortunately he didn't get very far.
"Ba-ba-ba! NO. Shut up and SIT DOWN. It's my turn to talk," Murray said forcefully, shoving the three of them onto the couch, with Mike somehow ending up in the middle.
"Oh no," Jonathan said under his breath.
"Shit," Nancy said at the same time.
Joyce hurried forward and stepped in between them. "Murray, Murray, no," she pleaded. "I know what you're doing, STOP."
Or: Murray meddles, Mike is hella confused, the world is ending, and Will won't talk to him.
OR: Mike runs away from his feelings and then for his actual, literal life.
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03 Dec 2025
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Fifteen hours.
It had been fifteen hours since Will Byers had crumpled to the ground inside MAC-Z after saving Mike Wheeler’s life. Fifteen hours since the kids had been pulled into the depths of hell and Mike had crawled his way to Will avoiding the flames that licked at his arms, had grasped onto him tightly and pulled him towards the Radio Shack. Fifteen hours since he and Joyce dragged him half unconscious through the dark tunnels, where they’d ran into a terrified and frantic Lucas on their way. Fifteen long hours since Mike’s whole world had been turned upside down, again.
That was funny, and frankly Mike was unaware if it even meant anything to any of them anymore.
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Picks up after volume 1 of Stranger Things season 5, Will Byers is weak and unconscious on the couch, and Mike Wheeler endlessly worries about him. All while having trouble accepting what he will slowly come to realize.
🎶 title from “It Had To Be You - Frank Sinatra”
(Chapter one was written in an hour… disregard how badly written it is! My writing gets better from chapter two trust.)
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02 Dec 2025
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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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13 Sep 2025
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don't cry (it's only teenage wasteland) by calciferrrx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Aug 2022
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“Hey,” he says, loud enough for Jonathan to hear him.
Jonathan jerks a little, like he’s not used to being addressed, and looks over at him. “What?”
Eddie rolls his toothpick around with his tongue, choosing his words carefully. Not carefully enough, though, it seems, because the next words that drop out of his fat mouth are:
“How long has your brother had a thing for the Wheeler kid?”
(Or: The one where Eddie becomes to Will what Steve is to Dustin.)
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01 Sep 2025
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words i've hidden from you (i wasn't jealous i swear) by constantstateofdenial
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2024
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The first time a girl gave Mike a love-note to deliver to Will he was in fourth grade. The thought of Will and a girl made him feel weird and uncomfortable, so he hides it. When it happens again in sixth grade it bothers him even more. It happens a few more times before he finally realized why he hated the idea of a girl going out with Will so much.
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five times Mike hid notes/letters from Will and the one time he gave them to him
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29 Aug 2025