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Wednesday, March 18, 2026, NYC
Will sighs as he walks out of his final class of the day, American history. The class sucks, and all it does is make him think about how shitty the government truly is, but at least he gets to see the party right after for their daily party meetup at the cafe near the school. Although he is excited to see the party, seeing the party also means seeing Mike. It's hard seeing Mike now considering the whole “friends don't lie” thing, he feels guilty for lying by omission though, if Lucas and Mike knew the truth he's sure they might understand.
Through all of Will's troubles with the villains and alternate dimensions, Dustin has been his rock, his guy in the chair. Dustin makes him feel like he isn't going crazy most when most days he really is.
As Will walks into the cafe building he sees Dustin, Lucas, and MIke sitting around their usual table each with their usual coffee orders and the campaign binder open on the table.
“You’re late” Mike deadpans.
“Uh yeah sorry I got caught up in something on my way” Will says trying to sound convincing, not really achieving his goal. The real reason he was late was because he had to do a quick change in order to get a kids cat out of a tree and then also had to get an old lady across the street so she didn’t get hit.
Will sits down in the empty seat next to Mike in the booth after getting his coffee from the counter, a latte with a triple-shot to keep awake at night when he has to work on fixing his broken web shooter.
“Okay so, the campaign still needs a main battle, any ideas?” asks Mike
“Oh! You could do the new villain Spider-Man fought yesterday!”Lucas says excitedly, leaning over the table to look at the binder better.
Will flushes as Mike speaks, “The Demogorgon? That's too weak Spider-Man took him down so easily”
Will spaces off as he thinks about his upcoming battles. He’s sure the stress shows on his face and Dustin seems to notice.
“Hey man you good? You don't look too well”
“Oh! Yeah I'm fine , just stressed about state testing coming up!”
“That's in like a month you’ll be fine”Dustin says looking at Will with a look he knows all too well. Will knows that Dustin knows what he's really thinking about but needs to keep it a secret in front of Mike and Lucas. Will thinks that if it weren't such a threat to their safety that he would have told them already, but it isn't safe. If he had a choice Dustin wouldn't have known either, but he found out from seeing will unmask himself in his own bedroom. Dustin was there to get his copy of x-men back and didn't tell Will he was coming.
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Will was in his blue and yellow, skin tight suit, he personally thinks it could have been more comfortable but when did that matter when he was saving the world. Will was swinging through the city keeping his eyes on the villain as Dustin screams randomly in his ear, although he wasn't listening instead he kept thinking back about the café. He kept thinking about how close he had been to Mike, how nice it was to hear his voice, and how…
His thoughts get interrupted as Dustin screams, “Will watch out!”
He blinks and suddenly he isn't at the cafe and Mike isn't there, but why can he hear his voice then? Will swings out of the way just as the Demogorgon runs at him. Will looks down and sees Mike standing there on the sidewalk, his eyes wide in admiration and a slight bit of fear.
Will swoops toward the demogorgon and hits it right in the mouth. It stumbles back but is back almost immediately staggering closer to where Mike stands frozen. Will feels a rush of adrenaline course through him as he dives in to sweep Mike up off the ground. Mike gasps as Will grabs onto his waist using his webs to lift them up off the ground.
“Wrap your legs around my waist and hold on tight” Will instructs him through the Spider-Man mask.
Mike's eyes widen as Spider-Man holds him tightly. Mike grasps on to Will’s shoulders, legs wrapping around his waist, following what he was told to do, while whispering, “You sound familiar”.
Will blushes under the mask and keeps his mouth shut not wanting to say anything and give himself away. He just needs to drop Mike off at a balcony somewhere safe and he needs to stop thinking about how nice his body feels against him, how he can smell Mike's cologne, or maybe how Mike is clinging onto him so tightly. Will rolls his eyes at himself. I am so pathetic
Will swings them to a balcony and lands down, trying to drop Mike off on the balcony in order to go fight the Demogorgon, but when Will releases Mike's waist, Mike continues to hold onto him like his life depends on it, staring up at Will mesmerized. He looks like he is terrified, but content to be in Will’s arms. This thought causes will flush to the tips of his ears, these are the times where he’s thankful for the mask.
“What are you doing? Get out there and fight that thing!” Dustin screams, effectively breaking him out of his thoughts.
Will tries to politely pry Mike's hands and legs off of him and shoots a web connecting to the nearest building to swing to the Demogorgon. He lands on the ground in front of it and uses his webs to push it in the air, to then reconnect new webs and slam it into the ground beneath. The demogorgon is then knocked out, so Will hands it off to the nearest police wrapped up in webs as if it were in a straight jacket.
Will looks up to the balcony he left mike on, seeing mike is still there admiring him. Will feels embarrassed, he doesn't like people watching him, though he knows he needs to get used to it considering he is a famous superhero in a city of almost 8.5 million.
Will swings up to where Mike is standing to ask if he is okay after the trauma of the battle, though it was just a normal day for Will, if anything that was one of the easiest battles he has ever fought.
“Are you okay? That was a lot for anyone to experience”
“Yeah, uh I’m fine”
“Cool”
“Cool”
“Well, I have places to be and things to see, see you again Mi- Sir!”
“Uh yeah uh see you again”
Mike looked sort of dazed, staring directly at Will as he swung away into the setting sun towards his usual sitting spot, the top of the empire state building. Will looked back to see Mike struggling to walk down the fire escape stairs of the balcony he was dropped on, walking very slowly, seemingly lost in deep thought.
As he swung away he thought to himself, that was strange.
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When Will got home Dustin was waiting, “Why are you in my room?”
Dustin rolls his eyes, “You cant go talking to Mike as Spider-Man you have a job,” Dustin was clearly annoyed with Will but will just shrugs.
“He was in danger. I had to help him,” Will bit his lip as he took off his suit and turned away from Dustin, “And it's not like he knows its me,”.
Dustin groans standing up, “Will, you're going to get caught,” he walks to Will's desk still talking, “Either about you being Spider-Man or your crush on mike.”
Will blushes, “Shut up, I don't like him… that much,” He turns around now dressed in Hello Kitty pajama pants and an “I survived my trip to NYC” t-shirt, his suit was now thrown under his bed along with his other shit.
“Thats such an ugly shirt,” Dustin rolls his eyes and Will just glares at him.
“So why are you actually in my room and not at your house?” Will asks Dustin again but before he talks there is a knock at the door, “I swear to god if you invited someone else-” He gets cut off as he opens the door and Mike is standing there. He was wearing exactly the same thing as he was when Will saved him, that was jeans, and a layered green t-shirt over is white long sleeve, and his sneakers. He was standing leaning on the doorway with one leg crossed over, he was fidgeting and picking at his nails. “I- um, Mike,” Will says stupidly.
“You guys are so awkward,” Dustin mutters, breaking them both out of a trance, “Well invite him in,” he says motioning towards him and the apartment.
Will nods, “Right, I'm sorry I just wasn't expecting to see you tonight,” He watches as Mike walks in taking his shoes off. Suddenly Will felt very insecure about his outfit choices compared to Mike.
Mike looks up his brown eyes meeting Will's green ones, “I like that outfit its cu- it looks comfy,” Mike mumbles blushing as Will just tilts his head.
“Thanks, Your is nice but um why are you here? Actually, why are both of you here?” Will questions Dustin, who is now sitting at Will’s desk playing with a fidget spinner and Mike who stands awkwardly tapping his foot.
“Well, I knew you lived around here and I have something really important to tell you, although I didn't know Dustin was here,” Mike glances at Dustin who looks up.
“I can leave you two alone if you want me to but-”
“No it's fine you can stay,” Will tells him, cutting him off. He turned back to Mike who was now smiling like crazy, “What do you want to tell me?”
Mike lights up smiling wide and Will can't help but smile back, “Well I was just on an afternoon walk like normal,”
Dustin cuts in, “Cause who wouldn't do that?” as he says that he gets glares from both Mike and Will.
“Keep going, I'm interested,” Will says, sitting on the edge of his bed still watching Mike.
“Well you know how I’m obsessed with Spider-Man?” Will nods and blushes slightly as Dustin spins in Will’s desk chair, his eyes wide as he looks at Will. “Well,” Mike continued, not noticing what's happening around him, “He saved me earlier, he swung me up in the middle of his fight and took me to a nearby balcony,” Mike was smiling giddily now and slightly swaying back and forth.
Will smiles back and nods, acting like he didn't know, “What! Thats awesome, I mean that's so cool how he just swung in and grabbed your waist,” Will isn't a good actor and he knows it Dustin throws a rubix cube at him making him stop rambling.
Mike stares at him, his eyes wide, “How did you know that?” he asks his mouth open, “I never told you that much,”
Wills eyes also widen as he catches his own mistake, “I um, well I just assumed he grabbed your waist because like where else would he hold,” he rambles to save himself his feet kicking the suit more under his bed.
“Oh.. ok,” Mike shrugs leaning on the wall, “For a second I thought you might actually be spider-man and that would,” Mike smirks than blushes before turning away, “That would be so cool,”
Will and Dustin's eyes meet from across the room, “No. what? never. You think that Will; the little gay twink, could be Spider-Man?” Dustin says quickly, making Will snap his head at him.
“Yeah. Wait, what?” Will stares at him, “That was unnecessary, I think he had the point before you said that,” Dustin just shrugs and looks back up at Mike.
“Well it may have been like one of the best moments of my life” Mike gushes.
And Will thinks it's the worst moment of his.