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1. The Second Painting (or they were flatmates in New York.) --Three Paintings Part 1 by Rencarbeth

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Jan 2026

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Max Profitt Haltmann
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • College Students Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Will Byers's Tammy Thompson
   • Good Babysitter Steve Harrington

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler isn’t really ready for college, and that’s how he ends up following Will to New York. Getting an apartment with his best friend. Will is clearly thriving in the city that never sleeps, finding a place he fits in. But for Mike all he really wants from the city is found within their flat, and the friend who is increasingly becoming the center of his world. But even if he can come to terms with how he feels for Will, surely Will has moved on by now.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Three Paintings

   Language:

   English

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   18,131

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