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WILL:
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that.MIKE:
No—I'm sorry.
(They sit there, breathing heavily, faces close. WILL's hand is on MIKE's chest. MIKE places his hand on top of WILL's)MIKE (cont.):
(Quietly): Do you want to stop?(WILL looks like he might start crying. He shakes his head)
OR: Four years after ghosting Will, Mike writes a script about what went wrong. He has one last chance to fix things when he learns that Will has been cast as an actor in the play.
“Is this fucking play about us!?” - Will Byers, 1993, probably
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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
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20 Jun 2026
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WILL:
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that.MIKE:
No—I'm sorry.
(They sit there, breathing heavily, faces close. WILL's hand is on MIKE's chest. MIKE places his hand on top of WILL's)MIKE (cont.):
(Quietly): Do you want to stop?(WILL looks like he might start crying. He shakes his head)
OR: Four years after ghosting Will, Mike writes a script about what went wrong. He has one last chance to fix things when he learns that Will has been cast as an actor in the play.
“Is this fucking play about us!?” - Will Byers, 1993, probably
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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28 May 2026
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“So,” Dustin announced as he brought back drinks for the whole table and very pointedly tipped his head in the direction of Mike and Will, who were mid-heated discussion where they’d left them. “Is anybody going to tell me what happened there?”
Max rolled her eyes and said, “Will had a real ‘don’t meet your heroes’ moment,” at the same time as Lucas said, “Mike got his feelings hurt.”
Miscommunication kings Will and Mike have a falling out in the aftermath of their first kiss. Three years later, Jane & Dustin are getting married in the Florida Keys, and they want the whole party there. Sometimes it's easier to pretend to kiss and make up than to face your problems.
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27 May 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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22 May 2026