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Will Byers likes routines. In 1992 New York, they’re the only thing keeping his life at NYU and his job at a quiet East Village café from falling apart completely.
Then Mike Wheeler calls him out of nowhere.
He’s moving to New York. He needs a place to stay. And he’ll be there in two days.
Will says yes before he can stop himself. And just like that, the past he left in Hawkins starts knocking at his door.
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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Mike’s voice cuts through.
“I said, you haven’t been sleeping, have you?”
Will lets out a short laugh, the kind that feels hollow.
“I sleep.”
“When?”
“At night?”
“Very funny.”
There’s an edge now, and Will can feel Mike’s gaze digging deeper.
“Nightmares,” Will confesses.
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.