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there is thunder in our hearts by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Aug 2022
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“Yeah,” Mike nods, but it isn’t the most convincing, and he can’t find it in him to care, in the late hour, “I was just – thinking.”
It’s not the most significant outfit, but still. Will looks nice. He’s always looked good in white.
Mike blinks. That’s – weird. That’s a weird thing to think about his best friend.
He effectively turns off his brain.
Will asks, “About what?”
“You,” Mike replies, and maybe turning his brain off was the worst idea he could’ve possibly had at nearly three a.m., Jesus fucking Christ.Mike confronts Will about the painting, and lets a few confessions slip.
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- Part 2 of fix-its
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09 Jul 2026
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
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08 Jul 2026
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“You’re enough,” he says, for the second time that night, and there’s no room for doubt anywhere in his voice.
Mike can only shake his head. Tears slip down his cheeks as his lips wobble helplessly. “I’m not.”
Will watches him for a moment before speaking again.
“Talk to me.” His voice is still breathy and weak, the words almost getting lost between shallow breaths. “I love talking to you.”
Mike lets out a laugh through his tears. “I love talking to you too,” he says, wiping uselessly at his face. “I love talking to you more than anyone else.”
or, in which will byers is injured in the upside down and mike wheeler has to keep him conscious in his own way.
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07 Jul 2026
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"Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me."
When Will Byers comes out in the middle of the apocalypse, Mike Wheeler is forced to come face-to-face with his own identity.
In the following years, Mike isolates himself from The Party and becomes wrapped up in a cycle of grief and shame. When he finally returns to Hawkins, he is forced to face the consequences of his self-isolation.
Set over a decade of missed opportunities (read: angst) and snapshots in time, Mike has to learn to forgive himself and find his way back home.
(I suck at summaries, I promise the fic is better)
(Also, warning for period typical homophobia and angst. It will get better in the end, I promise.)
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When Will Byers comes out to the group, it sends Mike Wheeler into a decade-long spiral.
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07 Jul 2026
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let me steal this moment from you by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike moves in his bed, and Will's eyes stay firmly on the ceiling. "I feel like we barely know each other anymore."
And Will can't argue with that, so he replies, "What do you want to know?"
There’s a long lapse of silence, and then –
“Can you come up here?”
In the wreckage, Mike and Will spend a series of nights together.
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- Part 6 of fix-its
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07 Jul 2026
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let's exchange the experience by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2022
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Eddie shrugs. “Well, if I came back from the dead, I’d carry that sort of badge around everywhere. The Boy Who Came Back to Life!” He brandishes, raises his arms to motion them, theatrical and dramatic, and Will can tell he makes a great DM. Will’s lips raise in a smile, but doesn’t let himself look too impressed. Eddie glances back at him, grinning. “What? Not a fan?”
Will shakes his head. “You make it sound much cooler.”
Will returns to Hawkins, and makes a friend out of a certain metalhead.
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- Part 3 of fix-its
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07 Jul 2026
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He squints. “Mike?”
“Hey,” Mike replies, feeling like a nutcase. He’s still holding onto his bike handles. “We – um, fancy meeting you here.”
Will stares at him. His hair is progressively getting wetter. “I live here."A sudden epiphany brings a confession in the rain.
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- Part 2 of just for the sake of it
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07 Jul 2026
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But he’s getting better. He’s getting better at it. Mike steps forward, and Will retreats. He’s getting better.
“You’re avoiding me.”
So, for Mike to barge into his room and demand an explanation for why Will has been pulling away – well, maybe he’s a little confused.Will finally rips off the band-aid. Mike won't let him.
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- Part 4 of fix-its
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07 Jul 2026
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Will Byers has been aching for as long as he can remember. Sometimes it feels as though he was born aching, a gaping wound from the moment his infant lungs took in a breath of air and cried.
Now he’s eighteen, and he tries to imagine a future where he smiles easily, where every day doesn’t feel like a battle, but the thought collapses into grey ash. In that ash, he catches a flash of his child self smiling, a ghost of innocence he can never return to. He will never be that kid again. He will never get that time back, and he will spend his life regretting it all.
Or: Will’s depression has gotten bad again, and Mike refuses to let him face it alone, even as Will tries to push him away.
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04 Jul 2026
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Ruthless and heartbroken Paladin Michael crosses dimensions to steal Will Byers' heart with love and adoration. The Party only sees a grieving widower and a devout, but Mike sees a glimpse of darkness behind his eyes.
To protect the only person who matters, Mike must break his boundaries, confront his deepest traumas and simply... strike first.A story of feral devotion, visceral confrontation and a confession that was buried for years.
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- Part 1 of Unhinged Mike Wheeler
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27 Jun 2026
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Whatever he thought he would find, it most certainly wasn't this.
The first thing he sees is soft, floppy ears. A rabbit, he thinks, until it tilts its head up and Michael is staring into soft hazel eyes set into a round, pale face.
A rabbit hybrid. A bunny-boy.
The boy's eyes widen, and he makes a quiet noise in the back of his throat, crawling backward away from the tree. The scent of vanilla sharpens into something harsher — something scared.
Sir Michael's sacred oath to the crown is his sole focus and purpose in life. That is, until he meets a sweet little rabbit in the woods, who urges him to reconsider what he truly cares for most — his duty, or his happiness?
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26 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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- 105,443
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- 15/15
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24 Jun 2026
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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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- 179,861
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- 40/40
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21 Jun 2026
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Will Byers has never met the night-shift barista he keeps fighting with through sticky notes. However, after a scheduling mix-up, electrical issues, and one long night, things start getting a lot more complicated.
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(very late) Day 6 of #sttwtpride2026: Enemies to Lovers
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- Part 4 of sttwtpride2026
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09 Jun 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (it was just us) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2026
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Two years after his husband’s death, Mike Wheeler lives quietly in a cliffside mansion with his eight year old daughter and more ghosts than he knows what to do with. He doesn’t talk about the past.
Will Byers isn’t looking for love when he takes the live-in cook job at Rosecliff Manor. He's just trying to start over in a new town, with a new job and with the walls carefully built around his heart.
Living under the same roof wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But grief recognizes grief.And sometimes healing looks a lot like falling in love.
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- Part 1 of we thought this place was haunted
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- 32/32
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09 Jun 2026
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They're Not You (A Bravebyers One Shot) by Eggsbaconcheese
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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My first entry into the Bravebyers verse
Paladin Michael attempts (and fails) to console Will after a night terror, making it clear that Mike is the only one who can really be what Will needs.
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28 May 2026
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An early flight, candles in a stack of pancakes, and a box of Reese’s Pieces.
Mike Wheeler has a plan to make Will’s nineteenth birthday perfect--if he can just stop being an idiot long enough to say the words.
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Will gets surprised, romanced and spoiled all day by a flustered Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 1 of Icing on the cake
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26 May 2026
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Two months after the almost-end of the world, Will nearly blows a (literal) fuse and discovers he still has powers. Mike discovers he has a very niche type.
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20 May 2026
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14 May 2026
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Will’s friends dare him to ask out a quiet boy at their college, and the date goes very well. His friends don’t believe him until they accidentally overhear the pair.
What Will never expected was that accepting that dare would be the best thing he ever did
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14 May 2026