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1. the sleepless night you've been dreamin' of by sashas__potato

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   04 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Post-Canon
   • college byler
   • Love Confessions
   • Drunken Confessions
   • Blow Jobs
   • Gay Sex
   • Anal Sex
   • Anal Fingering
   • Grinding
   • Kissing
   • Making Out
   • Smut
   • Porn With Plot
   • Dirty Talk
   • First Time
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Getting Together
   • no beta we die like the duffers reputations
   • Let Will Byers Say Fuck
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Face-Fucking
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • they are 21
   • POV Alternating
   • Frottage
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Switch Will Byers
   • Switch Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Deserves Love
   • First Time Bottoming
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in Love
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in the 1990s
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Fluff and Smut
   • Praise Kink
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Spanking
   • Rimming
   • this was a oneshot I can't stop adding to
   • angst and getting together in ch1 then fluff and smut for remaining chapters
   • Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Parental Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • minor lettergate
   • Happy Ending
   • Queer Themes
   • Coming Out

   Summary

   Mike and Will both have decent lives carved out for themselves. Will is thriving in New York except for one thing; none of his attempts at a relationship ever last longer than a few weeks. Will knows the constant phone calls and weekend visits from his best friend aren't helping, and decides to call Mike and tell him the truth; that he needs space from him so he can finally move on.

   Mike, who had no idea Will still harbored any feelings for him, gets on a train immediately and shows up in the city at Will's doorstep, ready to finally confess what he'd been holding back for years.

   or

   Mike's known all along, but didn't think Will felt the same after he said it'd only been a crush. They argue about it, then they fuck about it, then spend 5 more chapters building a relationship about it

   Language:

   English

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