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Mike stands a few feet away, shoulders squared, eyes locked on him with an intensity that makes Will’s breath catch. He looks nothing like the easy, grinning version he knows. This Mike is coiled tight, attention sharpened to a point, his presence radiating outward in a way that makes people instinctively give ground. For one wild second Will considers pretending he didn’t notice. He considers staying exactly where he is, letting the moment stand.
The loud growl answers that thought before he can act on it, and he feels it blaring in his ears despite the loud music. It’s low, controlled, furious in a way that doesn’t need volume.
The alpha in front of him freezes.
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"But he didn't act like this last time when..." Max's voice trailed off. Even she couldn't say it out loud.
Last time when El disappeared. Last time when El sacrificed herself. Last time when El died right in front of them.
"Last time was different," Lucas cut in.
"Yeah," Will nodded thoughtfully, "We were younger. And they weren't dating yet, of course Mike reacted differently."
"No," Lucas snorted, "that's not it. He was just... kind of busy."
"With what?"
"You."
Or: After the final battle, Mike starts acting strange and stops being a proper alpha of their small but fucked-up pack, so the Party decides to push him where his instincts have always been sharpest — taking care of Will.
Or: Will is the first male omega in Hawkins in 20 years, and despite the Upside Down and all the horrors now finally over, he can't find HIS place in this new world where he's kinda taken El's place.
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“Hey, Mike?” Will asked. “Why now?”
Mike was silent for a long time, so long Will thought he wasn’t going to answer at all. “I just… I don’t know. How can I move on if I don’t know for sure? I can’t stop thinking that if she is out there, if I was right, and I don’t even try to find her, then maybe I really didn’t deserve her.”
A year after graduation, Mike decides to start a search for El and asks Will to come with him. Their friendship hasn't been the same since Will came out and Eleven disappeared, so Will agrees, kicking off a complicated journey that brings them back together. Will is in college, trying to move on, and Mike is idling in Hawkins, torn between his past with El and his confusing feelings for Will. As the search brings them closer than either ever imagined, Will and Mike grapple with first loves, moving on, and growing up together.
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On his first day of school Will was called to the Guidance Counselor's office and given a little yellow card. He was told that if he ever felt too overwhelmed, or anxious, or scared, he could show his teacher the card, and they’d let him leave the class for a few minutes, no questions asked.
Will could see the pity in his Guidance Counselor's eyes as he handed him the card. He could hear the condescending tone in his voice as he told him that if he ever needed anything, anything at all, all he had to do was ask.
Will had stared up at him, his face blank.
Yellow was the color of fear. It was the color cowardice, of terror, and every other synonym for the stupid word.
He looked down at the card, gripping it tightly in both his hands, crinkling the edges, promising himself that no matter what, he’d never, ever use that card.
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Will Byers is burning.
It hurts.
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- Part 1 of Quick Concepts
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Will cracks out his wrists and tries to remember how it felt to struggle, that miserable kind of pain that comes with adrenaline; the kind that sticks around when he gets up in the morning and late at night when he sleeps. It’s not hard to recall it. It boils in his throat until he screams, rainwater sliding down his face and dripping from his hair.
He takes a bat to the fort in a fit of violence. He’s never been the kind to hit or kick, knowing he was better off hiding, waiting it out. That works for things like other people. It doesn’t work for monsters or memories. He claws at the branches with his bare fists, rips the signs off and scrapes his knuckles on the nails.
Will destroys Castle Byers. It doesn’t take him very long. When he’s done, his hands come away sticky.
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A post-season three character study of Will Byers: on losing, being lost, and letting himself be found.
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It was a cold and rainy winter's day in NYC and Will Byers was not having a great time. Dog walker to rich yuppies and miserable as he's soaked to the bone - such was his current situation. The best solution to cure the frigid winter blues? A long, hot bath to forget the dreariness of the day. What's even better? Sharing it with the love of his life once Mike gets home and joins him. Sappy and sweet domestic bliss.
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one more time to kill the pain by CastleByersAfterDark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Sep 2025
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College classes can be devastating when you're there to create, baring your soul through writing and art only to have your peers tear down works shared from the heart. Mike and Will both have terrible critique days, but Will takes his a lot harder. He indulges in some extracurricular fun to ease his mind, chill out, wallow in his melancholy, and, well - prepare to really take it much 'harder' once Mike gets back to their dorm after class.
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I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows by CastleByersAfterDark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Apr 2026
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In the middle of a heatwave and sporadic power outages one sweltering summer in the city, Will searches for ice to take home to cool off. After finding what he needs and getting some momentary relief from the heat, a moment of confidence leads him to try on something that's been hiding in the back of his underwear drawer. With nothing to do but ride out the temperatures and sweat in their little apartment, Will joins Mike on the couch and decides - what better than to seduce his boyfriend and raise the heat higher and higher...
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knights in white satin (beauty i'd always missed) by CastleByersAfterDark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2024
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It was late summer, the Party's last together before splitting for college, and the day finally arrived for their trip to the Midwest Renaissance Festival. They'd all been working hard on intricate costumes and props - Mike and Will in particular were beyond excited for the trip. Completely enamored with one another, as per usual, the boys get caught up in a game of pretend, with an indulgence in role-playing versions of their long-time DnD characters together throughout their adventure at the faire, eventually escalating it further than either of them planned. Well, one of them might have had very specific plans in mind...
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Everyone’s asleep in the Byers house. Mike sneaks into Will’s room for the night they’ve been waiting years for. Keeping perfectly quiet while finally giving in to everything they feel proves harder than they expected, especially when every touch, every breath, and every slow, careful thrust threatens to break them both.
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There's a time to fight and a time to run.
And different monsters to run from.
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"Wait, why don’t we just practice together?"
Will's jaw slacks open. There's a bit of a pause—a small fleeting moment as he studies Mike, stunned.
"It could be like, a nightly thing."
"You want to... kiss each other goodnight?"
Oh.
"Well, when you put it like that, it sounds kinda-"
“Gay?” Will scoffs.
A summer in Montauk has both Mike and Will edging the line between friendship and something else. What’s more? Mike is seeing a girl that is totally and utterly fake.
OR: Summer of 1990 is spent at the beach, reading a gay textbook, and kinda-sorta kissing Will Byers.
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It’s about loving and leaving and how depending on where you’re standing the Venn diagram is either a single circle or two separate spheres. It’s about growing up but not growing apart and learning how to be okay again. It’s about all of these things, but above all else, it’s about the imprinting of love.
Will Byers and healing, or his best version of it.
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“You did all this? When?” Will asked, his voice was thick.
His boyfriend shrugged, “The past few weeks.”
“Baby…”
“What, don’t you want to be Will the Wise again?” Elias smiled softly.
“I do,” Will leans him to kiss him. “Thank you.”
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Will Byers's future is bright and full of love, with a Boyfriend that learns D&D just cause Will misses playing it.
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- Part 2 of Will's Adventures in New York City
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“Well, that’s unbelievable,” the beautiful man says, leaning a little too close to Will, who is suddenly very aware of the heat rushing to his cheeks.
“Uh—what is?” Will asks shyly. Jesus, he needs to stop staring into those deep blue eyes.
“That no one’s ever kissed you silly.” The man’s gaze drops, lingering on Will’s mouth. “You’re far too gorgeous for that.”
And Oh. Oh.
That’s— huh. Maybe the rumors are true?
Will Byers absolutely loves New York City.
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Or, After a lifetime of watching love happen to others from the sidelines, Will Byers finally gets to experience his own firsts — in a city full of people just like him.
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- Part 1 of Will's Adventures in New York City
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“Go to bed, Mike,” Will said flatly, his cheeks burning.
“Mmkay,” Mike mumbled, immediately reaching for Will’s blanket.
“In your room.”
Mike pouted, his brown eyes wide and doe-like. “Can I sleep in here? Pretty please? Just one night.”
“Why?” Will asked.
“'Cause your bed is comfy,” Mike slurred his words. “And…‘cause I missed you.”
OR: Mike ends up sleeping in Will’s bed every time he goes on a date.
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The smile that spreads across Mike’s face is involuntary, like it must exist in Will’s presence. It’s like he waters the parched soil of his mind.
Mike doesn’t realize how badly he needs him until he’s had a drink. And right now, he thinks this weekend is exactly what he’s been needing.
OR: After years of grappling with his feelings, Mike visits Will in Chicago for a weekend during his junior year of college.
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- Part 1 of SKYA Universe
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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Chance Perez is five years old when he learns about alternate realities.