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Mr Wheeler casually using his break to get his hands on an actual snack
I was unfamiliar with your game sir, my bad
I will never skip your homework again I promise
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yaoi pushing people to do well in school since 2020 we love to see it
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And they say being gay is bad
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these are the most chaotic 15 min of my life guys what the fuck
i feel like i just did three lines of boys in love
or: Professor Mr Wheeler forgets his camera is on during a break and inadvertently introduces his baddie of a partner to the entire class.
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04 Jul 2026
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Mike barks a laugh. “I’m, unfortunately, requesting your companionship Thursday night to see Child’s Play 2 with Will and I.”
She sends him a look of bewilderment. “How did I get dragged into your date with Will?”
“Y’know, it’s really great that I can count on such discretion from you and Lucas. Super awesome that you don’t tell each other everything.” Max ignores him and he continues on. “Well, I tried my best, but he kind of looked at me all-dumbfounded and wasn’t saying anything, so I panicked.”
“Well, duh. He’s liked you since, like, birth. Did you even give him enough time to answer?”
“Of course I gave him enough time to answer.” Mike grits out, voice tight. “I know how to have a fucking conversation with someone, Maxine.”
Mike Wheeler can’t pick a major to save his life, is fighting for said life in the worst class ever (Astronomy 101), and is desperately trying to romance the best person in his life.
Enter: Will Byers, his advanced concepts in painting final project, and his pretty eyelashes.
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- Part 2 of devotion | Indiana University
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- English
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- 25,692
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- 7/7
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02 Jul 2026
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- Part 3 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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30 Jun 2026
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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- Part 1 of devotion | Indiana University
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- English
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- 18,443
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 505
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29 Jun 2026
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i just don’t think that you like me that much anymore by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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Mike stuffs his hands in his pockets as he waits for the door to swing open. When it finally does, his tense shoulders relax a little at the face that appears on the other side.
Joyce’s eyes widen in surprise when she sees him. Her inquisitive gaze makes him feel small, standing hunched over on her porch in the dim afternoon light. He must look pathetic— like a dog that’s been left out in the rain. “Mike,” she says, her voice laced with mock-cheer. He wishes she would just cut the act already. Kick him to the curb like she clearly wants to. “I wasn’t expecting you.”
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Mike seeks refuge at the Byers’ house during an emotional breakdown. He doesn’t feel very welcome there.
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- Part 3 of my love, take care of yourself
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27 Jun 2026
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it just sucks to try and explain why i feel like this every day by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2024
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Mike fucked up.
He knows he’s fucked up the second it happens. He knew he was fucking up even in the moments leading up to it, but honestly he couldn’t bring himself to care— not when the only thing he felt was self-hatred and ice-cold pain, freezing his heart until it numbed to nothingness. He feels nothing still, minutes past the point of no return.
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Mike left out one important detail when talking to Will about his depressive episodes— an ugly, horrible detail that should have stayed buried in the past. Mike just had to go dig it up.
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- Part 2 of my love, take care of yourself
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27 Jun 2026
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i hate how you’re going through hell, when you’d never let anyone else by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2024
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As soon as they close the door to his room, Will wraps him in a hug. “Can you talk to me now?” he asks softly. “What’s the matter, love?”
“Nothing.” Okay, so they’re doing this the hard way.
Will lifts his chin to look up at him, displeased. He really does not want to get into another fight right now. “Mike, come on—“
“No, seriously,” he stresses, open and honest and pleading, like Will just isn’t getting something. “Nothing is wrong.”
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Will notices that Mike is acting strange, which leads to a long overdue conversation about Mike’s depression.
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- Part 1 of my love, take care of yourself
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26 Jun 2026
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Its Pride in NYC and Mike tags along with Will to the Pride Parade. Along the way he learns to embrace change and find a little pride for himself.
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24 Jun 2026
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I Don't Have to Sell My Soul (He's Already in Me) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2026
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After ten months of being together and a brutal fight where Mike and Will both aim where they know will hurt, Mike leaves the Wheeler's house in the middle of the night leaving them both with broken pieces of what they were.
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A complete season 5 re-write/fix-it following TSTYK with a primarily byler focus set October 1989. While there are a few scenes/concepts from s5 that will appear, this is not just s5 rewritten to include byler.
Multi POV
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- Part 2 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
- Language:
- English
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- 99,398
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- 9/20
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19 Jun 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 328,095
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 9,756
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- 21,066
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17 Jun 2026
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“No!” Mike exclaimed, “Holly, I’m not marrying him!”
“Why?” Holly whined, as Mike tried to walk away. She threw both arms around his legs and sank to the floor, sitting on his feet so that it was extremely difficult to walk.
“Because,” said Mike, trying to free himself from her grip by shaking his legs. She only held on tighter.
“But he’s so amazing,” said Holly, as Mike shuffled his feet slowly when he realised she would not be relinquishing her hold on him anytime soon. He dragged her into the hallway so he could put on his coat. “He’s the best, most incrediblest, most fantastic babysitter in the whole world! You should marry him!”
Or; Will Byers, well-known as an outcasted freak at Hawkins High, is Holly Wheeler’s babysitter, and perhaps the loveliest person Mike has ever met.
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31 May 2026
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Learning about El's hidden betrayal in 1983, Will stops being a victim and becomes a master of psychological ruin. With a chained monster as his mentor, he takes back every person El has stolen from him.
Starting from Mike...OR
Will Byers acting in the same way Mil*vens describe him.
This fanfiction is inspired by this tweetSeries
- Part 1 of Toxic WillEl/Wondertwins Dynamic
- Part 3 of Unhinged Mike Wheeler
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- English
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- 70,743
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- 7/7
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31 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
- Language:
- English
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- 154,503
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- 23/23
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12 May 2026
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Worlds Worst Secret-keeper by L00mingcricket (Mimoandcrickets), Mimoandcrickets
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2026
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In 1999, Mike realizes Will has been in love with him for about seventeen years.
So he wishes he could go back and fix it.
The universe listens.
Now twelve-year-old Mike has to pretend he doesn’t know his best friend is secretly in love with him…while accidentally acting like the world’s clingiest boyfriend.
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04 May 2026
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In the end, it doesn’t matter. None of it fucking matters. Because what’s really in control is the tension. This elusive string tied between their chests that’s always changing length. Right now it’s so short and taught and strong that Will can’t imagine resisting it. So really, it was never a matter of if he would. Just when. When will he fold? When will he let go and let himself follow Mike into the water?
He dares to glance down at his knees, where he can see Mike’s fingers peeking out from behind his calves (as if he needed that visual reminder that they’re touching), and then back up to meet Mike’s expectant gaze.
He’s going to do it. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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Mike & Will have a long overdue conversation on the way back to Hawkins— by, in, and around a random motel pool.
- Language:
- English
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- 30,013
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- 1/1
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02 May 2026
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“It’s a secret”. Will’s eyes go wide as he places a finger on his lips in a shushing motion, immediately giggling again afterwards.
“Can you tell me the secret?”
“Okay,” he grabs Mike’s face with both his hands, slightly squishing his cheeks. “But don’t tell Mike.”
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Will has a nightmare and accidentally drugs himself. He tells Mike some things he probably shouldn’t.- Language:
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- 1/1
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29 Apr 2026
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heart on your sleeve (like you've never been loved) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Apr 2023
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“Mike. Mike, please, stop asking me questions.”
His voice is begging, the upcoming tears seeping through the words and Mike almost feels guilty.
Almost, because Will lied to him.
“No. When did you lie to me the first time?”
Will sighs in defeat, seemingly giving up on fighting the serum swimming through his blood.
“The night when the Upside Down came back. Last summer.”
A horrifying thought crashes through Mike’s head.
“Will, what destroyed Castle Byers?”
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Will gets shot with truth serum - Mike won't stop asking questions.
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28 Apr 2026
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truth serum side effects (may include: accidental gay confessions) by sterrenhemel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jun 2022
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"You okay?" Mike asks him.
"Yeah, your hands are really soft." And— Jesus Christ, what was that? Sure, it wasn't a lie, but... what?!
"Uh, thank you?" Mike replies awkwardly. Will wants to hit himself. Why would he say that?
"I'm sorry. I don't know why I said that."
Or the one in which Will is hit by a truth serum.
- Language:
- English
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- 1,523
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- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 37
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- 2,538
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- 192
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- 23,482
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28 Apr 2026
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Mike is no stranger to a little moral ambiguity, and mind reading is far more harmless than burying a body without telling anyone. So he dives in. Will smiles at him, and Mike prompts his brain to figure out why.
He finds nothing.
This is… odd.
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Mike gets telepathic powers randomly, three years after Vecna’s defeat. He tunes into people’s thoughts, expecting every guy’s mind to be like his. When he finds surprisingly few gay thoughts about best friends, he’s forced to re-evaluate and see if maybe it’s just him? (it is.)
It doesn’t help that the one mind he wants to read the most seems to be set to a different frequency entirely.
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- Part 1 of About Thoughts
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18 Apr 2026
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Robin leaned closer, voice gentle. “All I’m saying is, it’s okay to like him. And it’s also extremely, painfully obvious.”
Will froze. “…to who?”
Robin’s grin stretched slow and wicked. “Only to me. Because I understand. He doesn’t know, don’t worry. Because that boy? Dense. Like, heroically dense. Historically dense. Scientists are going to study him.”
Will huffed, cheeks burning. Will’s eyes darted involuntarily to the centre of the room. Max and El were squished together on an armchair. Mike was sprawled on the carpet with Dustin and Lucas, waving his arms around dramatically as he argued about which Star Wars film was objectively the best. His hair was a mess. His cheeks were flushed. He was smiling.
And Will felt that stupid expanding warmth in his chest that he couldn’t get rid of no matter how hard he tried.
💕💕💕💕
Post-Vecna, Will and Robin continue to bond. Robin knows Will likes Mike. Mike thinks Will likes Robin.
One jealousy spiral, several misunderstandings, and a lot of pining later… they finally kiss.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,473
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- 1/1
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- 374
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Bookmarked by yearning_star
15 Apr 2026