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Against All Odds (Take a look at me now) by willfreakingbyers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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"Everyone had left the room, getting ready for the battle to come. Will felt everything and nothing all at once. He never thought he’d work up the courage to say these words aloud, and yet, there he was. Feeling numb, but lighter than ever.
Everyone had left the room, except one person. Mike was still there, sitting on the couch, eyes blank. He seemed lost, like he was still trying to process what he’d just witnessed."
Or what might've happened if Will and Mike actually had a one-on-one talk after the actual coming out scene (which I honestly loved, btw, so no hate in the comments 🙏🏻).
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"I wish I could fight WICKED again, but I feel weak, and I just can't fight anymore. I guess I'm tired of fighting against them, knowing that in the end, they're the one who will win. I wish I were as strong as you sometimes, because if you were there, you wouldn't be whining, you'd work on finding a way to stand and fight. That's what you've always done, right ? I wish you were there to help me fight."
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You did the right thing by willfreakingbyers
Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
30 Jun 2014
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"They had reached Paradise a few days ago. Or maybe it were weeks. Thomas didn't really know, and to be honest, he didn't really care. It was like time had stopped since they had settled there. He hadn't talked to anyone for days now, but to him it felt like months. Thomas had spent his time lying on the ground, here on the cliff, staring at the sky and the stars upon him. He had lost all notion of time, and it felt good. He didn't want to think about anything, all he wanted was to rest, to allow his mind a little peace after all the horrors he'd seen. All the horrors he'd done."
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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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Bookmarked by willfreakingbyers
17 Jan 2026
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Poser outage fic, the best, the cutest, the most heart wrenching and heartwarming all at the same time 😭💜
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Will Byers can survive monsters, the military, and the Upside Down. What he can’t survive is Mike Wheeler paying attention.
With Hawkins still bleeding under the surface, Will falls back on rules: routines, distance, silence. Anything that keeps him from wanting too much and keep his secrets safe.
But Mike keeps stepping over the lines Will draws, gentle and stubborn, until the only rule left is the one Will's been avoiding for years: tell the truth.
Bookmarked by willfreakingbyers
14 Jan 2026
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“Up there,” Will said, glancing toward the sky. “If something goes wrong. If he takes over me and uses me—” He inhaled sharply. “Kill me."
As Mike’s fingers closed around Will’s arm, the skin felt unnaturally cool, the pulse beneath it slow and rhythmic—entirely unlike the frantic, nervous heartbeat Mike knew by heart. This was not Will.
After 'Sorcerer' Will Byers risked everything to save Max and Holly, but Vecna doesn't allow him to leave without a mark.- Mike accidentally overhears a heavy confession meant only for the Byers family, and Will requests him to do something impossible.
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A world where Will comes out to his loved ones only, Will gets true freedom, Eleven lives, Byler is endgame - Finale Rewrite with a good (better) Ending while staying canon connected!
Bookmarked by willfreakingbyers
13 Jan 2026
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Best rewrite of the ST finale I've read. Truly amazing and beautifully written.
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It’s the end of the world and we’re about to fight an inter-dimensional psychic wizard, but Mike Wheeler smiles at me like he couldn’t be happier.
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After Will comes out at the WSQK Radio Station, a quiet moment on the radio tower in the Upside Down forces Mike to confront what he's been feeling all along. A rewrite of the radio tower scene where Will gets the moment and choice he deserved.
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12 Jan 2026
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In the wake of Will’s coming out, Mike Wheeler finally confronts the feelings he’s been burying for years with a healthy dose of self-deprecating emotional turmoil. Now, across parallel versions of Hawkins in the lead-up and aftermath of the final battle against Vecna, Mike must reckon with his past, present, and future relationship with Will.
Meanwhile, Will is convinced his sentiments for his best friend will never be returned, that, for him, requited love is a pipe dream and nothing more. As always, he does his best to accept a life with the ache of wanting what he can’t have, focusing instead on mastering his newfound powers to help his friends save the world. But believing nothing has changed gets harder every time Mike looks at him like that…