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the windows of this love by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jun 2023
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Will smiles encouragingly at him, swiping his tears away and kissing his forehead again. "Let's make a deal, okay?" he murmurs, voice low and full of a bittersweet sort of hope. "If in five years we're both doing better, and we're not dating anyone else-" Mike blanches at the concept of dating anyone else, of Will dating anyone else- "we can try again, okay?"
Five years sounds like a terribly long time. In five years, Mike will be twenty-three. He'll be done with college, will have a career, could be living anywhere in the world for all he knows, and the same goes for Will.
But five years is a whole lot less than forever, so Mike will take it.
In the summer of 1989, Mike and Will fall apart. Five years later, they fall back together.
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10 Jan 2026
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just smile at the sound by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Aug 2023
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“I love you,” Mike mumbles sleepily into his hair, wriggling closer. His arm winds across Will’s stomach, and Will feels the ghost of a kiss being pressed to the junction of his shoulder and neck.
Will blinks his eyes open, warmth flooding the length of his body. He shifts, twisting around to peer up at Mike, squinting. “You- what?” he murmurs, lifting an eyebrow, and Mike jolts up, peeking over his shoulder sheepishly.
“Oh,” he says, blushing as Will nudges his way to roll over onto his back, Mike hovering over him. “Sorry, I thought you were asleep.”
Will stares up at him. “You were gonna say you loved me for the first time while I was asleep?”
Mike lets out an undignified squeak, and drops his head down onto Will’s shoulder. “No.”
A series of 'I love you's, both spoken and unspoken.
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10 Jan 2026
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how will i know (if history repeats itself) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 May 2025
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This is something that, probably, someone with more objectivity on the situation than Mike would categorize as not normal. Personally, though, Mike isn’t all that pressed. Not when it’s so undeniably pleasant. He’s fine being abnormal about Will if it means not ruining this for himself.
After a few minutes, Will props himself up on one elbow, looking at Mike with sudden urgency. “Mike,” he says, blinking slowly at him, and Mike pauses the show again, arching an eyebrow at him.
“Yes?”
Will grins, all crooked and boyish and brilliant in the soft glow of the living room lamplight. “Let’s make out.”the one where they're exes who still kiss sometimes, but not, like, in a weird way.
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10 Jan 2026
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an absolute fool about it by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy) for etchedstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Nov 2023
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Oh. Right. The boy. The boy who, by now, has noticed Mike, and Mike looks up just in time to see him pop into his field of vision, a curious look on his face.
"Are you okay?" he asks, peering down at Mike, then glancing up at the fence, then looking down at him again with obvious amusement. "That was quite a drop."
Okay. So maybe Mike is dead, after all. "Um," he says intelligently, flushing pink and following the boy's gaze to the fence, "Yeah, I- I'm fine."
The boy's smirk widens, and he nods slowly, extending a hand. "You live up there?" he asks, nodding to the house above them, and Mike nods as he cautiously accepts the hand being offered. "And you just, what, make a habit of falling onto other people's property?"
"Well, I wouldn't say that," Mike huffs, regaining some of his brain power, and the boy grins widely and gives his arm a sharp tug, pulling him to his feet in one swift motion. Mike stumbles, nearly falling over again, and the boy catches him with a steadying hand on his shoulder.
mike falls off of a fence, learns about signs from the universe, and meets a boy. not necessarily in that order.
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04 Jan 2026
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The cleric offered a small smile, letting their gaze linger in silence—an unspoken invitation for Mike to say something, anything, instead of simply staring with his lips parted ever so slightly.
Mike’s expression flickered. Instinct overtook him as he dropped to one knee and gingerly took the boy’s hand, which was soft yet steady, warm with a kind of quiet power.“Sir Michael of House Wheeler, Knight of the Silver Guard, at your service,” he blurted out—too formal, too fast, yet trembling with a vulnerability that the cleric couldn’t help but let his lips quirk up into a smirk.
“I know who you are,” he teased lightly. After a thoughtful beat, he added, “William the Wise, Cleric of Selûne.”
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Forbidden romance between:
Paladin Mike Wheeler, second in line to the throne, who must become a knight to protect the firstborn heir
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Cleric Will Byers, who is chosen by a moon goddess to fight injustices, including those set forth by Sir Michael.
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28 Dec 2025