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Mike was missing again.
Not on purpose – at least, that’s what he would claim when someone inevitably tracked him down, because they would find him, even there, sitting high above Sattler Quarry with his legs dangling over the edge of the cliff he’d jumped from all those years ago. He’d woken up that morning with his bedsheets wrapped around his legs and his skin slick with sweat, the phantom-cold fingers of a nightmare still tangled in the folds of his brain leaving frostbite streaks in their wake as they reluctantly retreated to wait for the next time exhaustion won over his will, and he was on his bike pedaling away from the house as fast as his legs would let him with nothing but the clothes on his back when the sun was still only a thought hovering below the horizon.
It wasn’t like he enjoyed making them worry, but the idea of biking back home felt impossible, and he didn’t trust himself to stand and drag his feet away from the cliff’s edge rather than shuffling the mere few inches further to plummet once again, only this time with no one to magically save him partway down.
OR Will finds Mike on a cliff at the quarry, getting eaten alive by his guilt, and they talk.
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08 Feb 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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it's over my head (i don't mind if it's lonely) by jupitertwix_13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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He’s not entirely sure how he missed all of the signs.
They were right there, the entire time. In fact, he’d been living with Mike Wheeler since they’d gotten back to Hawkins, yet it seemed to slip through the cracks.
Or: A comprehensive explanation of how Will missed the warning signs that Mike was being targeted by Vecna.
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Thought I Was Mistaken (I Thought I Heard Your Words) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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“Mike,” Will admonishes gently. Truthfully, out of the two of them, Will is the one who tends to jolt them both awake with choked off gasps and stifled sobs. “I’m here for you too, you know that. Right?”
“No, yeah, I know,” Mike says hurriedly. He abandons the waffle he’s only taken a couple bites of in favor of rubbing at his temples and closing his eyes with a wince.
“Headache?” Will asks, getting up to rummage through the cabinets and find some painkillers.
“Yeah, for a few days now.” Something itches in Will’s brain, half-formed and mostly forgotten. He watches Mike pop the pills into his mouth and dry-swallow them, making Will wince and push a water bottle towards him until Mike takes it with a wry smile. “Probably just the stress, you know? I can’t stop thinking about Holly, and my parents, and—and you…”
“I’m fine,” Will says automatically, thankful that for once, it’s mostly true.
“I’ll believe that once Vecna’s gone and all of this is over for good,” Mike tells him.
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In which Will reflects on how the snowball actually became an avalanche several months ago, Mike plans their future, and Vecna interrupts the moment. Post Volume 1, disregards Volume 2
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- Part 1 of I Told You To Leave Me and You Stayed
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06 Jan 2026
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Lucas doesn’t believe in coincidences. That much is a given. Most especially now that Max is still hospitalized, so he has more time to really observe the people around him and willingly take charge in uncovering certain mysteries smaller than the upside down and much closer to him than he thinks. He eventually starts picking up on things he’s always been skeptical of
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Sometime during the 18 months, Lucas is finally choosing to believe he’s in fact NOT crazy and that Mike Wheeler is exactly what Lucas has always thought he was (a homosexual)- Language:
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