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Sir Michael stumbles upon an injured bunny and decides to nurse it back to health. Over the two weeks they spend living together, the little creature worms its way completely into his heart. Until one morning when he wakes up to find the rabbit gone, and in its place is a beautiful, naked human boy with floppy brown ears and big olive green eyes.
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paladin!mike x bunny!will
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25 Jun 2026
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His Reflection in the Snow Covered Hills by Quatrowrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Signals.
‘A brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look, accrued like a snowball rolling down a hill, until it was obvious.’
Will asks, sincerely, “How obvious?” A whisper, eyes wide, the sin of curiosity kept in a secret space between Robin and himself.
The snowball became an “avalanche,” apparently for Robin, but had Will enough snow on his hill to say the same for himself?
Will, as he has come to understand, has a lot to think about. Mike had certainly shown him things beyond brushed knees and shared looks, talking about snowballs was nothing when it came to the blizzard that is their relationship. So Will continues on his day mostly focused, but his mind can’t help but play back certain events like little movies of the past eighteen months, after his conversation with Robin.
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5 times Mike gave Will signals and 1 time Will took the bait, (taking place in those 18 months before s5!)
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- Part 1 of Landslide
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25 Jun 2026
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"Don’t," the other Mike cuts in, fast and low and urgent. "Don’t do this here. Don’t do this in front—" his eyes slide over—”not in front of them."
"Why not?" Will's future self snaps. "You wanna talk so bad, let’s talk."
"Not like this.”
“No—exactly like this,” he shoots back. “You don’t get to keep doing that. Acting like protecting him—yourself—is the same thing as protecting me.”
That lands harder. Quieter. More dangerous.
“You think he doesn’t deserve to know?” he goes on. “You think I didn’t?”
“Will.” A warning.
“You wanna start with the summer?” he says. “Or should we just skip ahead to New York?” A beat. His mouth twists. “Or even better—Dustin’s graduation?”
[Or: The one where Will and Mike meet their future selves, and discover they have some... unresolved issues.]
[Or or: The one where your humble author somehow stumbles ass-backwards into a series finale re-write?]
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- Part 3 of parallel hearts
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25 Jun 2026
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Mike accidentally overhears a random girl spilling the fastest way to win a guy's heart in one night: good food, a proper massage, and barely any clothes — preferably, all three at once.
Spoiler: it only takes him thirty-six minutes
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24 Jun 2026
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The Avalanche of Desired Yearning by moongirlel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Byler - Fandom
23 Jun 2026
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❝ Even whilst dating another - Will Byers still manages to find solitude in the arms of Mike Wheeler.
They both yearn for the other's soul. To the point of nearly being on the brink of obsession. ❞
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Over the last 18 months, after graduation, Mike Wheeler has developed an unmanageable, ugly envious feeling towards Will Byers' new boyfriend — Chance Romanillos. Who just so happens to be one of Jason's stupid goons.
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24 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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- 105,445
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- 15/15
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24 Jun 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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Something's been feeling weird lately by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 May 2026
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Mike’s heart lurches into his throat, constricting his airway as he takes in his face. Because he knows that face. His eyes have wandered along that strong nose, those bunny teeth peeking out between parted lips, that mole beside his mouth. He’s catalogued every detail of that messy brown hair, those long eyelashes, and that pair of enchanting hazel eyes, over and over again, to the point where it burns behind his eyelids when he kisses his girlfriend.
“Holy shit,” the man breathes, gaping in shock, and for once in his life, Mike doesn’t need a trick to stop his loud mouth. For the first time, he’s truly struck dumb.
Because it’s him. Older, taller, and different, but it’s him.
The man standing in front of them, somehow, is Will.
Or,
18-year-old Will Byers gets sent back to July 1985, tries to help them out using some awesome superpowers and futuristic wisdom, and Mike does his best not to combust in the process.
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12 Jun 2026
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put your lips close to mine, as long as they don't touch by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2023
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“Well, I don't know,” Mike says. This is exactly what he had practised in the mirror earlier– except now he has to say it with the sudden certainty that this is all a very bad idea. “I guess I thought that a kiss would be a good bucket list item, or whatever."
Will looks at him for a few seconds. His gaze is calculating, and almost curious. But then he just shakes his head dismissively, and looks away.
“Yeah, I guess,” he agrees. “It’s not like there’s anyone to kiss here, though."
Mike almost laughs at that. Yeah, right.
He knows of at least two other people who would be down to kiss Will, if he asked them to. He selfishly keeps this to himself- because he doesn’t want Will to kiss anybody else, and because he doesn’t want to explain why, exactly, he has been keeping such close track of his best friend's romantic prospects.
“I mean,” he says instead, with a shrug. “I’m here."
It's the end of the world. Mike thinks that he and Will should kiss about it.
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23 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
This has the most chaotic internal monologue that I have ever read. Very sweet and wholesome and did I mention a chaotic internal monologue?
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Mike Wheeler is on a mountain in the middle of nowhere to write the biggest story of his career.
Turns out there's some research you can't do alone.
"You know it's about to snowstorm up here, right?" Mike stuttered. "You could get stuck. You need to get back down the mountain."
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21 May 2026
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"I wanna test something."
"Test something," Will repeats. Mike perks up a little sitting up on an elbow, like he thinks Will is finally getting it. Which he's not, for the record.
Mike's words come quick. "Yeah, just to see. Nothing too crazy. Not even like last night necessarily. Or not not like last night. Just smaller. Simple. Like earlier today, in the living room. You know wh—"
"Like your kiss with Jane," Will interrupts.
"Yes. Exactly."
Or: It's January 1992, and Mike and Will are college roommates, teetering on the edge of becoming something more. Mike drunkenly kisses Will at a bar, the night before Jane returns after five years of being presumed dead. Will convinces himself everything is fine, this is life returning to the way it was supposed to be. But Mike won’t stop kissing him.
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14 May 2026
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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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- 23/23
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14 May 2026
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Mike knew love, knew when he was a child it looked like Mom. As he got older, it started to look like dinner at the Byers house, the easy way they all spoke and shared. It keeps morphing. He’s not sure if he likes the way he can’t keep up.
With Nancy, I love you has always meant I’ll always protect you. I love you has always just been the things she’d do for him in a heartbeat, like stay home. It’s just as true and honest as if she’d said the words themselves. Tonight, I love you is: I’ll miss you, I swear.
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Missing conversations from the hospital.
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07 May 2026
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“What did you mean, ‘we’re not friends anymore’?” Will demands.
“Oh god,” Mike says faintly, because he can’t think of a single other thing to say.
“It’s Will, actually,” Will says. “Or maybe you forgot that in the five years since you last bothered to speak to me before you sent me this.”
He unfolds his arms to brandish a crumpled envelope in Mike’s face, and he knows without even looking at his own handwriting on the front exactly what it is.
(or, the summer after all his friends graduate from college, mike writes will a letter to say goodbye. predictably, nothing about this goes as planned.)
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Bookmarked by wisecat
07 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Mike Wheeler is a broken piece of human being. Mike Wheeler is me.
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One impulsive night forces Mike and Will to confront years of buried feelings and figure out what happens after their friendship changes forever.
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Or where Mike and Will sleep together at Stacy's party while wasted, and Mike lies about it.
Bookmarked by wisecat
04 May 2026
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Sometime in the formless dark before breakfast, Mike Wheeler vanishes.
Or,
A comprehensive guide to navigating parallel dimensions, disrupting the fabric of reality, and deciding to save yourself.
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- Part 1 of cosmonaut-verse
- Language:
- English
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- 94,991
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- 18/18
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02 May 2026
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And maybe it’s the way the streetlights flicker, or the way the town is too quiet, but Will suddenly feels the weight of everything pressing in on him again. The truth clawing at his throat. The things he wants to say but can’t.
He takes a breath.
“Mike.”
Mike turns to him immediately, eyes sharp, attentive.
Will grips his own wrist, fingers digging into his skin. He hesitates—just for a second—before finally, barely above a whisper, he asks:
“Can—” He swallows hard. “Can you promise me something?”
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or: churchgate inspired by author listening to a shit ton of ethel cain
title from: Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain
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- Part 1 of s5 byler x ethel cain
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02 May 2026
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Starry Eyes, Pretty Voice, Poisonous Thorns. by binbunny_knowme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Mar 2023
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He was different, she could see him differently, it wasn't good, she hated him for it.
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02 May 2026
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“Come on,” Mike argues. “Think of it like… a test drive. You’ll get the full Mike Wheeler boyfriend experience. It’s miserable! You’ll be over me in no time!”
They only have one last summer before they go off to college, and Will is sick of keeping his cards so close to his chest. So, in a fit of alcohol-induced bravery, he tells Mike everything.
Instead of breaking his heart, Mike proposes a deal: they’ll date for the summer. Get Mike out of Will’s system, show him he makes for a lousy boyfriend anyway, and make sure there aren’t any what-ifs waiting for him in New York.
No stone left unturned, after all.
Or: Summer brings clouds, nostalgia, and the all-consuming fear of change. They deal with it.
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25 Apr 2026
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Mike opens his mouth, then closes it. Too many questions crowded in the back of his throat. What happened to you this week? What are you hiding? Why didn’t you call me? None of them make it out.
Lucas, steadier, breaks the silence.
“Whose car was that?”
It takes Will a moment to answer. He blinks at the wall behind Lucas like he’s trying to rewind something in his head.
“I borrowed it,” he says finally.
Lucas tilts his head. “Really? From who?”
When Will Byers arrives at the WSQK radio station in a vandalized car none of them recognize, the walls he’s built start to crack. What slips out is a secret he’s been hiding in plain sight.
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- Part 1 of Under Pressure
- Language:
- English
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- 43,830
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by wisecat
09 Apr 2026