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1. i had some help (it aint like i can make this kinda mess all by myself) by ikykwhoiam

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   23 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers & Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Will Byers
   • Funny
   • Non-Canon Relationship
   • Comedy
   • Brotherly Love
   • Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart
   • Mother steve
   • he cares for Mike
   • Steve is the emotional beacon
   • Underrated friendship
   • Time Skips
   • Non canon compliant
   • max is in a coma still
   • Oblivious Mike Wheeler
   • Lonely Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Helps Him
   • Mother Steve Harrington
   • he's also a neat freak
   • who loves Jonthan Byers
   • this is meant to be fun/funny
   • its a distraction from my current angst fic
   • Stonathan - Freeform
   • Panic Attacks
   • mike wheeler has panic attacks
   • Mike Wheeler Hates Oreos
   • Oreo Hate
   • Henderhop
   • platonic angst
   • Mike Wheeler Has Anxiety

   Summary

   Mike didn’t know when Steve Harrington became the person he relied on. Heavily.

    

   Maybe it was the way Steve hovered around Dustin like a worried mother hen with shocking vocabulary. Maybe it was the fact that he kept throwing himself at Upside Down disasters armed with nothing but a bat and misplaced confidence all for the sake of just helping. Or maybe it was because Nancy Wheeler had broken up with him.

    

   Somehow, all of Nancy’s exes became significantly cooler once she had dumped them.

    

   Whatever the reason, Mike had started moping at the Harrington house.

    

   A lot.

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   Or... Steve is like an older brother to Mike and instead of helping him constantly he seems to be distracted by a certain someone's older brother.

   Series

   • Part 1 of the trials and tribulations of stonathan and byler

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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