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    Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.

    Having sold their house in Hawkins a year prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.

    Mike had kindly offered up their place during Nancy’s graduation dinner.

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    The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)

    Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

    Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

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    08 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 81

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    "I told you guys we shouldn't have watched Jaws right before the trip," Lucas said.
    "Will picked it!" Dustin said, holding his hands up.
    "Because it's awesome," Will said as he handed the bottle of sunscreen to Max.
    "Mike, you need to rub that shit in, you look insane," Max said to Mike, whose face was covered in streaks of sunscreen.
    Mike glared at her, while Will laughed and gestured for him to come closer so he could help. He carefully rubbed the rest of the lotion into Mike’s skin, then pressed a quick kiss to his lips. Mike gave him a dopey smile.
    "You guys are disgusting," Dustin said matter-of-factly.

    Or: The party takes a trip to the beach.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    For the first time in four years, Will Byers is free. The grip the upside-down had on him has been relinquished, and he and his friends can live out the few months of childhood they have left.

    But nothing is quite right: Lucas is but a shell of a person, Dustin has forgotten his girlfriend of two years, and Mike? Mike Wheeler, the heart of the group, has been a ghost of who he was for a long, long time.

    And it's not just his old party: Robin, Jonathan, Hopper, Nancy, even his Mom, the same woman who would not rest till she found the truth all those years ago, glaze over their final battle like it was nothing.

    A final fight that was too easy, a flickering reality of a town, a heart withering and rotting with grief in his basement. Just like that, Will begins to question just who won that last fight and how exactly he helped Vecna one last time.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    Something Will had always known about Mike, long before they gained the ability to read each other’s minds, was that Mike could be a bit of a brat.

    Something Will had always known about himself was that he was very much okay with it.

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    After defeating Vecna and taking some time to get their lives back on track, Mike and Will move to Indianapolis and make a home of their own. If they pick up a stray dog on the way, well, neither one of them is complaining.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    “I’m sorry,” Steve said. “I tried to make her wait until you woke up, I really did.” He tossed something in Mike’s direction, which Mike caught without thinking. “Happy birthday, by the way.”

    Mike blinked. He’d completely forgotten, between Holly going missing, frantically searching for a way to get her back, and being possessed by Vecna himself. “Uh, thanks,” he said awkwardly, running a hand through his hair and looking down at what Steve had tossed at him. It was a Kit Kat bar. His favorite. He wondered how Steve knew that.

    “Oh, right!” Robin darted forward and hugged him before he could react. He met Will’s eyes over her shoulder, but Will still had a hand covering his mouth and his expression was unreadable, aside from the red on his cheeks. “Happy birthday! There’s a surprise waiting for you in the kitchen. Anyway—mind reading. Totally a thing now, right?”

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    Through "the power of best friendship," as Robin puts it, Mike and Will develop a telepathic connection when Vecna tries to take Mike. Neither of them are really upset by it, especially when it gives them the opportunity to finally destroy Vecna once and for all.

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    27 Dec 2025