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"Ha-ha," Will replies dryly, rolling his eyes. "Thanks for trying to make me feel better. I guess... But it doesn't change the fact that I'm sixteen and haven't kissed anyone yet."
"Don't feel bad, seriously! Kissing is super overrated anyway," Mike waves his hand through the air.
"What?" Will laughs in disbelief.
"It's not bad. It's just... okay," Mike shrugs, rocking his hand. "People just make it out to be like some amazing world-stopping experience that you can't get enough of. When it's nothing like that."
Will huffs, smirking. "I wish I knew what it felt like so I could tell you if you're wrong."
"I could show you…"
"What?"
Mike clears his throat. "So you know what it's like," he speaks carefully, quietly, like any moment everything might fall apart. "Then you can tell me if I'm wrong or not."
Mike can't figure out why he still can't say I love you to El.
Will can't figure out why Mike's acting so strange.
Featuring very repressed, Jealous Mike, a very confused Will, and one night that changes everything.
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Mike starts to notice his feelings for Will but doesn't understand them, offers kissing practice despite struggling hard with internalised homophobia // Chapter 14
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all systems down (they've got control) by paladinupland
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2026
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The hope was that Vecna was dead, because a portal to Hell splitting Hawkins down the middle was a kinder reality than the one they lived in. Max had woken up, after all, so maybe miracles do happen, and whatever took place during Spring Break was the end of it. Luck was never on their side, though.
The anniversary of Will's disappearance looms over them, like a guillotine in the form of a ticking clock. They knew well enough that all it takes is one night for everything to go wrong. The crawl goes off-script, Hopper is M.I.A., and the Wheeler's house is in ruin.
Maybe what they need is a return to form; maybe Will needs to go back there, to the Upside Down, himself, to get the answers they're looking for.
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The events of November 1987 are retold through the eyes of The Party, because it should have ended how it started.
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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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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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20 Feb 2026
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FWB, Mike is in love and stupid. Mike writes stories about men getting hit by city buses // read
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The impossible happened: Will asked Mike to be his boyfriend. Even stranger? Mike said yes.
That's how it started. A letter, an accidental confession, a Saturday afternoon. And that? That was the easy part.
Now, what they do - what they are - is secret. Because if anyone finds out... they don't even want to imagine. Lonnie would kill them both on sight. Mike's parents would send him away to some boarding school. They'd never see each other again. They'd be marked forever. Everything would come crashing down around them.
But they try not to focus on that. They're busy, after all, trying to navigate this new relationship. Kisses, dates, prom, couples' quarrels. And in the meantime, Will has a problem on his hands; a power he needs to learn to control, before it blows up in his face.
It's a crazy end to their school year - but there's more going on behind the scenes than they realize.(This is a sequel to The Red Envelope but you don't necessarily have to have read TRE; this can be read on its own should you wish :) )
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- Part 2 of The Red Envelope
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