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Won’t You Ever Know (I’m In Love With You)? by AttentionDealer (Nearell)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Nov 2025
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“Guys, Mike’s not like me, he just can’t name characters.” They both give him a pointed look, clearly not believing a word. “I’m serious, every character is a reference to someone we know.”
“Are they now?” Dustin raises an eyebrow at him.
“Yes!” Will is perhaps a bit exasperated, “Stephen and Jay are clearly Steve and Robin, and James is Hopper,” at the blank look they give him, he clarifies, “his first name is Jim.”
This somehow only makes Lucas seem more unimpressed, “okay, but you do see how that’s more suspicious right?”
“What? That Mike can’t come up with names?”
“No,” Lucas shakes his head and clasps Will in the shoulder, “that the first name Mike thought to cannibalize when coming up with a boyfriend for you was his own”.The party grows closer after Will moves in with the Wheelers, picking up D&D again. It all goes well until Mike introduces a new character, Sir. Gabriel Whepler, whose sole purpose seems to be flirting with Will.
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Mike who, if he’s reading this right, and he has to be reading this right, probably feels the same about him. It’s such a grand revelation Will doesn’t even know how to address it. So he goes for what’s easiest.
“I’ve never once played a cleric, Mike,” he says, intending his tone to be soft and teasing but his voice comes out shaky due to what he’s just put together.
“Well, yeah, I know, not in the game, but,” Mike sighs, his gaze pointing in each direction at least once before finally settling into Will’s eyes. “You’re my cleric, Will.” He says, placing his free hand over his heart, the other still resting over Will’s. It’s then that Mike says the thing that makes him certain he’s not wrong, “I think I made my oath to you that day in the swings.”
In retrospect, he should have questioned it. As Mike turns to him then, in order to narrate Sir Gabe Whepler’s next actions. His eyes moving up and down Will’s face in a way that feels so genuinely Mike that he forgets to read into his intentions.
“So Gabe turns to Will The Wise, grabs him by the robes,” Mike says, as he grabs Will’s shirt by the collar. “And kisses him.”
Mike then leans forward, gently pulling Will to meet him in the middle, and kissing him square on the mouth. In front of all their friends, from whom Will can hear gasps and knows they are no doubt staring at them. It only lasts a second, Will making a small noise of surprise before finding it in himself to kiss back. He finds himself smiling. When Mike pulls away, he’s smiling back.
“Did Mike just kiss him?” Max asks, in what Will thinks might be disbelief. She squints at the two of them, turning her head in the vague direction of El for confirmation.
“He did,” Lucas is the first to answer, he looks at Will pretending to look worried. The smile he can’t fully fight back betrays him, “please tell me that wasn’t the first time he did that.”
Dustin snorts, “ it definitely wasn’t, Will would be flipping out if it were.”
Will can’t argue with that. When he speaks, it’s through a giddy laugh, “you’re right, it wasn’t.”
Lucas stares at them like he’s never seen them before, “since when has this been going on?”
“I can’t believe this,” Mike stares at the plastic rock in disbelief. “All that effort to create a campaign for you and I roll a fucking seven?”
Honestly, Mike needs to just stop saying things like this, is he even aware of what he does to Will’s poor heart? “You made the campaign for me?”
“Well, yeah,” the words are soft, matching his eyes and smile when he looks at Will. They look at each other, suspended in time for some seconds before their bubble is burst by a loud noise.
“I knew it!” Max exclaims and slaps a hand on the table before turning and pointing a finger at Lucas, who has his head in his hands. “You owe me twenty bucks!”
Mike hangs his head back, making a pathetic little sound and looking at Will from the corner of his eye. “Can I have advantage?”
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ACTUAL PEAK. Read this right now.
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amazing
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