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I never ever felt so cool (disguised in your sheets) by wheezingwheeler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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A post-canon (with some small tweaks) road trip full of tension, nightmares, gay panic, and a very long drive toward the truth.
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Will just wanted to bring his brother home. He didn’t plan on sharing motel beds, surviving Mike Wheeler’s jealousy spiral, or confronting feelings he’s spent years burying.
Mike thinks Will likes girls.
Will thinks Mike will never love him back.
Both of them are wrong.Or
Water dripped from Will's hair, ran down his jaw, caught on his lips.
Mike stared at it.
Stared like he'd forgotten where he was.
Then, slowly he lifted a towel and pressed it gently to Will's mouth, wiping the water away. His hand didn't even shake. He was steady.
Will's breath stuttered. Tingles tremored all the way up his spine.
He didn't move. He couldn't. He was too aware of Mike's hand, of the way his eyes kept dropping back to his lips.
That look again.
The one Will had seen a dozen times now and never understood.
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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“I’ll push the air into your lungs from mine, so that it’s not so hot.”
“H—how do you do that?”
There’s a deep crimson flush moving up Mike’s neck, and Will wonders if being high makes people warm like alcohol does. It’s hard to tell if his own hot skin is from the weight of Mike’s gaze or the weed getting to him.
“You open your mouth.” Mike’s eyes trace slowly down Will’s face, glassy and unfocused, until they fix on his lips. Surely the weed is getting to Will. “And I’ll blow the smoke in while you inhale.”
Will’s tongue goes dry. Yeah, definitely the weed, he’s heard about cotton mouth. If Mike is suggesting this, then it must be a normal thing to do with your friends. He wouldn’t offer to do it if it wasn’t.
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New York is loud and crowded. Will’s mind is tangling up all his creativity until he’s not sure what to do. When his parents go on a “pre-wedding honeymoon”, he jumps at the chance for an isolated summer at the beach. It’s perfect, except Mike crashes the escape in search of his own. Mike is running from his own shit— things he'd rather keep secret. While high, bordering estranged, and sitting under the stars— they agree to a summer of answers and no questions.
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Will’s eyes are still fixed on the broken bulb. Mike senses his apprehension, and he pokes a finger to Will’s cheek. “Come on,” he drones, turning Will’s head to face him, “it’s cute!”
“It’s embarrassing,” Will groans, head plunging to Mike’s shoulder.
And — okay. Maybe it’s a little embarrassing, sure, having to explain to the Melvald’s guy why he needs a new light bulb every two and a half weeks, but Will Byers, Mike’s boyfriend — Mike’s boyfriend! — has superpowers, and that's a marvel in and of itself.
Mike never thought that dating Will Byers would result in this many blown fuses.
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What Happened to You (Return to Hawkins) by HesSheepish
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Mar 2026
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Will Byers was at his worst when he returned to Hawkins. He was struggling with something he refused to put a name to. Some things just didn’t change, but others finally did.
While Will was busy running away from things, Mike finally decided to run toward something. Both would need to face their past to have any hope for a future.Aka
A gothic-esque fix-it fic for byler. Exploring the hive mind attachment question lingering in the wake of the finale.