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Will finds himself alone with Mike after he comes out.
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“Tammy,” Mike repeats, more sure now as he stands to his full height. “Who’s… Tammy?”
“I–” Will doesn’t know what to say.
“Is he… the person you had a crush on?”
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28 Dec 2025
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“Just to be sure, you – what were you agreeing to?” Mike blurts. “Like, was it the seeing other people thing, or the kiss – the practice kissing thing? I was – I’m just making –”
“The second one,” Will forces out, feeling awkward to his very bones. “The – practice.”
Mike, somehow, turns even redder. “Right. Yeah. Okay.”
Mike offers to teach Will how to kiss.
It goes well, all things considered.Bookmarked by sofietta
24 Dec 2025
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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21 Dec 2025
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When Will needs to get his thoughts out of his head, he writes a letter he never intends to send. He addresses it to Mike, and tells him everything.
Feeling lighter than he has in weeks and buoyed by the adrenaline of writing it all out, Will acts on an impulse and ends the letter with, "If you’d be willing to give me a chance, I’d be really happy to date you. If you’re open to trying it, please meet me in Castle Byers this Saturday at 2:00pm. I’m not asking for any promises, I’m not asking for forever or anything like that; all I’m asking is that you give me a chance. Come if you want; if not, I completely understand, no hard feelings, and I’ll never, ever mention this again."
He forgets all about the letter, and the distinctive red envelope he stowed it in, until he turns around to find it missing. Now, Will has to think of some way to stop Mike from reading that letter - or should he wait at Castle Byers on Saturday at 2:00pm and pray for a miracle?
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- Part 1 of The Red Envelope
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20 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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18 Dec 2025
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" Mike would consider himself a good friend.
Even a great one, if he really had to get nitpicky about it."or
Mike tries to convince himself he's fine with Will's new boyfriend. He's not, but he doesn't quite understand what that means just yet.
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18 Dec 2025
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“Don’t leave me. Please.” Will says, tone ragged and desperate. “I’m not fully convinced you’re really here and not a figment put in my mind by him.”
Heart in his throat, Mike quickly nods. “I’m here. This isn’t a vision from him. I’m here because you saved me, Will. I’m here because of you.”
Or, we follow Mike and Will directly after 5x04 as they come to terms with their feelings for each other.
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16 Dec 2025
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“I keep thinking of that night,” Mike says quietly, breaking the silence of the basement. “When they pulled the fake body out of the water.”
Will has read the newspaper articles, has heard the story from Jonathan, and even from Mike, Lucas, and Dustin about that night. Back when they'd first told him, it'd been right after his mom had found him in the Upside Down, and no one had focused on it too long. It'd been a blip in the bigger story they'd told, almost irrelevant once he'd been found.
“And it's so stupid, because it wasn't you. You're fine, obviously,” Mike tries to cover up but Will can hear the difference in his voice. He knows him too well, there's something else there. “I came so close to losing you for good that night. It felt like I had.”
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A quiet moment between Will and Mike, where truths are shared and leaps are taken.
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16 Dec 2025
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A Vow (We'll Both Uphold Somehow?) by cheRybomb777 for everbyers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2025
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“I could - show you…if you want.”
What the fuck.
Will guesses the shock must be obvious enough on his face that Mike feels he has to explain himself.
“So, you know, like - when you find someone you actually want to kiss, you'll know what it's like and you won't have to be as scared.” Mike’s eyes are frantic again and he’s slowly retracting the hand anchoring Will to the bed.
With panic coursing through his body, desperate not to screw his chance up, he catches Mike’s retreating hand with his own. Mike stares at their interlaced fingers, his eyebrows disappearing behind his bangs in shock.
”I-,” Will gets cut off. Mike was never really the patient one.
“You can just pretend I’m a girl, if you want.” His voice comes out strangled, nervous.
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Mike kisses Will, Will kisses Mike, and they don't talk about it. Queue a secret situationship and pointless fighting.
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14 Dec 2025
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Will doesn't know how he’s ended up in this situation, truly. He’s toying with the possibility that he actually tripped over and died when he got up to answer the door and this is some pre-death hallucination, because there’s no way that he’s really in a situation where Mike Wheeler is sitting on his bed and asking Will to kiss him.
“You- you want me to what?” Will chokes out once he’s stopped coughing – because Mike had chosen to ask that particular question when Will was taking a sip of water, and he almost fucking drowned on it.
“Kiss me,” Mike repeats, confirming that Will wasn’t hallucinating the first time. “For practice.”or;
user kissingpractice finally writes kissing practice.Bookmarked by sofietta
13 Dec 2025
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hope, boys, is a cheap thing (sweet thing) by s0ld_it
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2025
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Will fumbled through his first aid kit. “Alright, c’mere, you look like Aragorn.”
“That’s not a bad thing.” Mike pointed out with a sly grin, scooting close to him.
“You’ve got blood everywhere. So definitely not HOT Aragorn.” Will corrected, before realizing exactly what he’d said, eyes widening.
“Not that-” Will swallowed. “I think-” he stopped and stared at the stuff he’d pulled from the bag.
“Let’s just. Get you cleaned up.” Will muttered, closing himself off. Shutting Mike out. Mike knew what that looked like.
Will used to do it, when Lonnie would get mad. Shut everything out. Mike hated it.
Did he mean what he'd said about Aragorn? Or was Mike overthinking it like always? Hope fluttered in his chest, hot and dangerous. He wanted to reach out and tell Will that it was fine, that he didn’t mind.
That he wasn’t alone. That he didn’t have to be alone.
But Mike Wheeler was a coward. So he didn’t say anything at all.
-mike and will skip class and, after a bike ride resulting in a bad fall, end up at a rebuilt castle byers. confessions and kisses ensue.
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- Part 21 of Stranger Things Oneshots
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13 Dec 2025
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“I can show you the real thing, if you want me to.”
“What?”
“We could practice. I mean, actually kissing. I wouldn’t mind.”Or Will is getting ready for a date and looks defeated, before it even started. Helping him practice might be just the thing to help Mike make sense of his own confusing feelings.
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11 Dec 2025
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will's never been kissed. mike offers to help. just as friends. just for practice.
it's supposed to be casual — easy.
but kissing your bestfriend isn't supposed to feel like this.
so soft. so slow. so... real.Bookmarked by sofietta
09 Dec 2025
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Since You Touched My Heart (Everything Has Turned to Gold) by seathernia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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There’s a lined notepad filled to the brim with words he can’t quite make out from his place on the bed. There’s a few sticky notes, some unused and some scribbled on. Loose sheets of homework, papers with El’s distinctive blue pen, more homework, and-
He catches a glimpse of an envelope. Stamps placed carefully in the corner, address written in his most perfect handwriting, and what seems to be the start of a ‘W’ on the front.
Or: There are a few unsent feelings needing to be aired.
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08 Dec 2025
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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07 Dec 2025
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What We Are (The Feeling's Getting Stranger) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Nov 2025
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Mike reels back like he’s been slapped. “You really think that I wouldn’t have cared if it was from you?” he asks, voice low, expression torn open. It’s not fair for him to look like Will is breaking his heart in two, not when Mike started it a long fucking time ago.
“It was obvious you wouldn’t have,” Will snarls. Hating himself for it.
Mike swallows hard, throat bobbing. His hands are still shaking; hell, all of him is shaking. “Then clearly you don’t know me at all anymore.”
“Yeah, I guess I don’t.”
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In which Mike finds out the truth about the painting, Will accuses him of not caring about him anymore, and Mike proves to Will just how much he does care with a bundle of letters all signed with love. Features whipped Mike Wheeler, confident Will Byers, and completely over it Max Mayfield, with special appearance by smug Lucas Sinclair.
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07 Dec 2025
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“You– you kissed me,” He murmured, before bringing his free hand up to his mouth and tracing his bottom lip in awe. Mike had never seen anything more attractive.
“Is that… okay?” Mike tried. Will’s gaze had been far-off, not quite focused, like he was stuck in his mind. Now it locked onto Mike’s with intent. Mike resisted the urge to shiver.
“Why?” Will asked.
“Because,” Mike breathed, heart in his throat, “I like you, Will. A lot. God, so much. The most. Uh– romantically, obviously.” He stuttered, blushing profusely. Will was still gawking at him.
“You…” Will began, cogs whirring behind his eyes. “You like guys?”
Mike jerked back, looking away.
“Um. Well, I like you. And you’re– uh,”
Will shook his head suddenly, hand coming up to turn Mike’s face back towards him.
“Fuck, sorry, ignore me, just– just a shock,” He let out a sort of breathless laugh that Mike wanted to preserve forever. Will’s eyes flicked obviously down, before meeting Mike’s gaze again. Mike swallowed. “I like you too,” Will murmured. “Romantically,”_________________
Or, Mike finally kisses Will. He's far more enthusiastic than Will had prepared for.
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07 Dec 2025
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Mike reaches for his glass, taking it with both hands. Murray’s smile becomes broader, his teeth glistening as he bobs his head slowly in an affirming manner.
“There you go, Wheeler! Woo!” Murray exclaims excitedly. He won.
Will, wide eyed, looks directly at Mike, who’s eyeing his drink.
“I mean- he’s not wrong, Will.” He’s returning the gaze, holding it. His voice is soft, it’s careful and suggestive. He wants Will to do this with him, Will apprehends.He gulps, his gaze still locked with Mike's, and without breaking it, he takes the glass that hangs offering, towards him.
He lets out a huff of air.
“Lets have some fun boys! Cheers!”
Murray is gleaming.
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Or - Byler gets drunk with Murray, who can't help himself and gets involved - pushing the right buttons..
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06 Dec 2025
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“What?”, Will huffs, shaking his head in disbelief. “You know blue does not only equate sadness, right? It is one of the blatantly obvious meanings, sure, but it can also imply tranquility, loyalty, trust, peace, and—"
Shut up, shut up, shut up, the voice in his head screams by now, but one cannot interrupt Will in the middle of one of his art rants. Impossible. No chance. “And with the vastness of the sky or sea, blue is also often associated with distance, longing, yearning, and— stuff.”
“Distance”, Mike echoes, and only then does Will truly understand what he has just admitted into the air freely, completely unprovoked and voluntarily. “Longing. Yearning.”
Obviously, this is the exact moment Robert Smith decides to sing about the fact that it is Friday, and that he is very much in love.
Five times Mike distracts Will from his art assignments with his stupidly flirtatious ways, and one time Will actually needs his help to complete a coursework.
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06 Dec 2025
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Mike eyes didn’t move. Watching Will laugh and touch Lucas like that did everything but ease him.
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Jealous Mike wants Will all to himself.
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05 Dec 2025