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1. It's a Heat Wave Summer (I Don't Wanna Feel Cold) by RebelliousClause

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

   09 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Post-Season/Series 05
   • Conflict
   • Misunderstandings
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Forced Proximity
   • Power Outage
   • Past Will Byers/Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Past Will Byers/Chance
   • but they're there for
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Coming Out
   • Love Confessions
   • Making Up
   • Making Out
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • Dry Humping
   • Grinding
   • Crying During Sex
   • Getting Together
   • "it's too hot we need to strip. like the soldiers"
   • YTMH(IWS): Summer Edition
   • Demisexual Mike Wheeler
   • Service Top Mike Wheeler
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Enthusiastic Consent
   • College
   • Loser Mike Wheeler
   • Confident Will Byers

   Summary

   “Will?” Mike said slowly, not convinced this wasn’t some weird heat-induced hallucination. He had just been thinking (or trying not to think) about the man in front of him. His childhood best friend. His everything. His Will.
   “I’m sorry, I know this is awkward, but the storm came out of nowhere and I didn’t want to get hurt, I tried Lucas’s house first but no one was home,” he brushed a drenched lock of hair out of his face. “Just—can I just wait out the storm here? I don’t have anywhere else.”

    

   July 1990. It’s the hottest summer in Hawkins on record, and it’s the summer after Mike and Will’s freshman year of college. It’s also the second summer they’re not friends anymore.

   But when a tornado warning catches Will by surprise, the only place for shelter is Mike’s basement. And as the storm rages and the temperature—and tensions—continue to rise, Mike and Will unpack the events that lead to the end of their friendship—and where to go now.

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