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As families of the ton return back to their homes in preparation of the social season, William Byers expects very little. Surely he will attend many festivities along side his sister, but he is ready to sit quietly at the sidelines. Vigilantly ensuring his sister secures a love match.
Little does he know that the future duke seems to have different plans in mind, causing him to question everything.Or,
A Byler Bridgerton AU since this seems to be all I can think of lately.
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11 Feb 2026
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Will hates being an Alpha; he’s never been more miserable (well, maybe not including the events with Vecna). During the summer after graduation, he finally decides to do something about it—to ask his best friend, Mike, to bitch him.
Mike, to his surprise, says yes.
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- Part 1 of a quick fix
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11 Feb 2026
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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10 Feb 2026
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Will holds his breath and waits. Waits for Mike to take back the offer, to say he was joking, to say that was a stupid idea. But he doesn’t. He simply stares at Will and bites his lip, as if awaiting Will’s judgment.
“I’m not sure…”
“I mean, friends can do it,” Mike adds, running a hand through his hair. “It’s not like— it’s just, it can calm your body.”
After being on heat suppressants for a few months, Will begins experiencing symptoms of a phantom heat. Mike, an alpha, offers to help relieve the symptoms by scenting him. As a friend. Totally as friends.
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08 Feb 2026
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Remembering you (how you used to be) by mycellarwater
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2026
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"Oh god, oh god, we've gotta get you to the hospital,” Mike panics. He pulls away and studies Will for a moment before barreling on. “Holy shit, one second you were just standing there and the next your eyes were rolling back and you were unconscious for a whole seven seconds-”
Maybe Will really did bite the dust in the Abyss and this is the afterlife. He knows where they say boys like him end up after death.
But if hell was a baby-faced Mike Wheeler, still looking at him like he'd hung the stars, then maybe an eternity here wouldn't be so long.
In which Will's connection to the hive mind has consequences in the final battle, sending him back in time to November 6th 1983.
It's just like Back to the Future, if Marty McFly was a twelve–year–old with a bowl cut trying to save the world instead of his parents' marriage.
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05 Feb 2026
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I Won't Say It if You Won't Say It First by delusionalhemlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Will finally makes eye contact with him again, a smile playing on his lips. Mike’s eyes dart down to them for a split second, then back up. “Okay.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I mean, whatever, right? We live together, for God’s sake, and we’ve known each other forever. Who cares if we have to hold hands for three days, too?”
“Exactly,” Mike says too quickly. As stupid as Robin’s plan had sounded when she’d proposed it, now that things were falling into place he found himself eager to get it underway. Treat Will like royalty. Easy.***
Three whole days Will’s heart hasn’t known whether to swell or break or rupture like his appendix. But he’s being discharged tomorrow, so it won’t be an issue for much longer, so for now he just pretends that the hand on his arm wants to be there. Because Will Byers-Hopper has never been chosen on purpose, and until tomorrow, he can pretend that this arrangement didn’t come about under duress.
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New York City, October, 1989. Things have been better since Will moved away from Hawkins and Mike followed him. Until Will's appendix bursts and, in the chaos of getting him to the hospital and finding a medical proxy, Mike accidentally tells the doctors he's his boyfriend.
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03 Feb 2026
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When Eleven saves Will from Vecna she gets more than she bargained for when they wake up in the wrong bodies. Now to prevent Vecna from infiltrating the mind of his most perfect host the two of them must pretend to be the other.
Will grapples with the feelings that he’s trying to push away.
Mike wonders why it feels like he’s falling in love all over again.What will become of everything when Hawkins finally falls?
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01 Feb 2026
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i'll love you (even at the end of the world) by ziahra
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Mike,” Will had said to him, voice calm despite how hard it was for him to even make a sound. He didn’t try to sit up, but Mike wasn’t sure he could, even if he wanted to. “I need you to kill me.”
Mike shook his head, holding Will closer to his chest.
“Mike, please.” Will pleaded, closing his eyes against the light, or perhaps it was too much effort to keep them open. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t,” Mike whispered, surprised at how vulnerable he sounded, at the shake and utter defeat in his voice. “You won’t kill me, Will. Because we’re the same. We can’t hurt each other, even at the end of the world.”
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It's been three years since the start of the zombie apocalypse and Mike is finally returning home. He discovers that not only is he not the sole survivor of Hawkins, but that his friends and sister are alive, too. As he begins to reconnect with them, the tension between them begins to increase, and Mike doesn't know how long he can stay with them.
Because while some of the group are more than happy to have him around, others don't like the company he keeps...
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28 Jan 2026
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Will Byers, being just twelve years old, is mighty proud of that one chest hair he found on himself one morning. But is it really him growing up? Or is he... changing into something other than just a teenager?
Happy Halloween, everybody!
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26 Jan 2026
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A series of interconnected one-shots set in the canon Stranger Things Universe.
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22 Jan 2026
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"What are you doing here?" Mike's face dropped as his eyes slid from El, past Max, and over to Will, "And what are you doing with them?"
"Shopping," El said with a blank expression on her face as Max smirked and added, "This is their new look, what do you think?"
"You know she's not allowed to be here. And Will, how could you just run off like that, we were worried!" Mike glared straight at Max despite the fact part of what he said was directed at Will.
"What are they, your little pets? El can't leave the cabin, and god forbid Will strays more than three feet from your shadow, despite the fact you were completely ignoring him!" Max snapped right back.
Or... A rewrite of Stranger Things starting at season 3 placing Will in El and Max's storyline, allowing Will to receive the support he needs to grow more confident in himself. Meanwhile, Mike considers what it might mean for him that he's more upset that his best friend ditched him to hang out with someone else, than he is about his girlfriend breaking up with him.
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- Part 1 of We could be heroes
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17 Jan 2026
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“Mike, buddy, I hate to break it to you, but that sounds gay,” Dustin says. “Like, no offence. But a guy just doesn’t think that other guys are nice to look at.”
It turns out that Mike Wheeler has spent his whole life thinking that everyone under the sun thinks that boys are pretty. Will doesn't really know what to do with that - and Mike doesn't really know what to do with himself when he finds out that it's not true. Emotional turmoil ensues.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Stranger Things Shorts
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12 Jan 2026
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Stranger Things - What-If: What if Will got flayed in season 3? by Suspicious_jousting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Will jumped as a deafening bang erupted from the building, echoing through the surrounding trees. The sound was so sharp it made his ears ring.
He didn’t need to hear it twice.
Panic surged through him as he scrambled for his bike, tears pricking at the corners of his eyes, don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry. He just needed to get out of there, something was about to happen and he didn’t want to be around when it did.
But when was life ever on Will’s side?
Or
Will gets flayed by the Mindflayer instead of BillySeries
- Part 1 of Stranger Things What-If
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11 Jan 2026
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“What? No! I mean — I just meant—“ said Mike, struggling with the words, “I… I mean… who is it?” he turned back to Hugo, “Can we know their name? It might be somebody we know already.”
Will frowned, “I hope it’s not,” he said, “I don’t like anybody we know enough to marry them — except our friends, obviously, but that’s different.”
Hugo, if it was even possible, looked somehow immensely more excited by these words, “I can’t tell you who it is,” he giggled, “That’s a really big spoiler.”
Mike Wheeler’s son arrives in Hawkins with no explanation, snapped back in time entirely by accident — and he latches on to none other than Will Byers. If only they all knew why.
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28 Dec 2025
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When young Clark Kent's father dies, his mother is forced to take employment with a wealthy family on the East Coast, starting a friendship that will last for years and deepen into something more.
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- Part 1 of Gardens of Wayne Manor
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29 Nov 2025
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Neutral Ground by EyeShant
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
14 Sep 2025
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Clark becomes friends with Dick Grayson and, somehow, gets involved in his family dramas.
Now Clark has three problems:
1) He needs to find out why no other hero wants to work with him;
2) He has to get Batman to admit that they are BFFs;
3) He must stop this crush on Dick’s father (who hates him).Oh, and also do the whole superhero thing.
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- Part 1 of Grounds
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15 Sep 2025
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“Would that I could remove this brand, to make people treat you with the dignity you deserve.”
Wyvern leaned into his touch, eyes closed as if absorbing strength from the mere contact.
“Serving at your side is the highest honour I could be bestowed. All else…is just noise.”
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Joshua befriends a Bearer, who eventually becomes his First Shield...but not everything about Wyvern is as it seems.
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- Part 12 of Twin Flames stories
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11 Jul 2025
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Fatherhood - Year One by Blue_Crow757
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
01 Mar 2025
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Of all the things Clark thought he might find while snooping around one of Luthor's labs on the outskirts of Washington, he expected maybe some kryptonite. But what he found was something far more unexpected. A Kryptonian... or at least, what seemed like one. A newborn, tiny and vulnerable, crying helplessly, shaking him to his core.
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Bruce, exhausted after a long night battling the Riddler, returns to the Batcave hoping for some rest, only to be met with an unexpected sight: Superman sitting on the floor, cradling a crying infant. Normally, Bruce would keep his distance when it comes to children that aren’t his, but given the baby’s apparent Kryptonian origins, he can’t just walk away.
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- Part 1 of Fatherhood- Superbat
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19 May 2025
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Put My Money Where Your Mouth Is by darter_blue for inihiu
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
13 Jun 2020
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Batman overhears the Justice League gossipping about his Brucie Wayne alter ego and, through a series of escalations (and Clark being accosted by Hal for coming to Bruce’s defense), decides to use his secret identity and a visit to the Watchtower to troll them all.
Only it turns out maybe Batman is not the world’s greatest detective, as he realises his feelings for Clark (and Clark’s feelings for Batman) might make things a little more complicated.
Cue Identity porn, team shenanigans and a couple of hopelessly oblivious superheroes and a lot of fluffy crack.
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13 May 2025
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A Catalytic Reaction by Trista_zevkia
Fandoms: Superman/Batman (Comics), Superman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, World's Finest (Comics)
24 Mar 2014
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J'onn tries his hand at a little Earth-chemistry, Clark gets covered in antihistamines, and Bruce laughs.
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10 May 2025