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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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18 Jul 2026
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You get me hot (I'm soaked) by Certified_Bylerologist for thecursedbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2026
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"Oh, the water bill is due tomorrow, by the way."
"What?? I could swear we just paid it!" Mike exclaimed. "They're totally ripping us off."
Will hummed. "Totally."
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—New graduates in a new relationship navigating the cost of living in New York city during the early 90s.
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11 Jul 2026
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When he was lying back against his pillows, shucking his shirt and opening his mouth for Mike to kiss, Will was positively godlike. He was Mike’s savior, Mike’s redeemer. If the world was doomed, Will could save it with a kiss.
Mike and Will, at the end of the world.
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20 Jun 2026
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i never knew my name until you spoke it from your chest by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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When Mike first filled out the paperwork, he didn’t know if anything would come of it. He’d just arrived back in Ithaca after a spring break visit to the city. His neck was stiff from the weird nap he’d taken on the bus. It was snowing, in April. He didn't even have any friends to call up and announce his return, unless you counted his roommate, Jeremy, who greeted him with an indifferent head nod and a “hey, man” when Mike spilled through the door of their dorm room, shaking melting snowflakes out of his overgrown hair.
He trudged across campus the next day, past dirty iced-over snow drifts that seemed like they might never melt, and knocked on the door of his advisor’s office.
“If I wanted to transfer to another school next year,” he said, fidgeting with his backpack in his lap as he sat down in the squeaky vinyl-backed chair, “how would that work?”
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07 Jun 2026
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“Okay. Umm… God this is… hard. Ok. Umm… You remember Nevada? You… Said it was hard to open up to people you care the most, cause they can… they can maybe not like the truth? You remember that?”
Will just blinked fast. Still half asleep.
“God.. You really are half-asleep” Mike let out an exhale. “Will, I need you to listen to me, okay?” He almost grabbed his hand again, but didn’t. “I’m gonna say a lot… And probably freak the fuck out. Can you… can you pay attention?”
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On a random Tuesday night Mike drives to NYC, wakes Will up and tells him everything.
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29 May 2026
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“Hey, Mike?” Will asked. “Why now?”
Mike was silent for a long time, so long Will thought he wasn’t going to answer at all. “I just… I don’t know. How can I move on if I don’t know for sure? I can’t stop thinking that if she is out there, if I was right, and I don’t even try to find her, then maybe I really didn’t deserve her.”
A year after graduation, Mike decides to start a search for El and asks Will to come with him. Their friendship hasn't been the same since Will came out and Eleven disappeared, so Will agrees, kicking off a complicated journey that brings them back together. Will is in college, trying to move on, and Mike is idling in Hawkins, torn between his past with El and his confusing feelings for Will. As the search brings them closer than either ever imagined, Will and Mike grapple with first loves, moving on, and growing up together.
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17 May 2026
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Left His Heart There in the Sea by Concerned_terrapin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2024
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“Mr. Byers! I was hoping to catch you. This is Dr. Owens, from Hawkins National Laboratory.”
Will pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, already feeling a headache beginning to form in his temples. "I’m kind of in the middle of a lecture here, can this wait?”
“I’m afraid it can’t. We need your assistance urgently.”
“And why do you need me?” Will was unable to suppress the bitterness in his tone, “You’ve got plenty of experts and doctors on your staff. I’m just a grad student, and I’m halfway across the country. What could I possibly do that no one else could?”
Dr. Owens cleared his throat on the other end of the line, “You’re the only one who’s been there and made it out alive. Honestly, we could use your expertise. We’ve caught a specimen. A live one. And you’re definitely going to want to see this.”
Or, it's 1998 and the Upside Down is still alive and kicking, and something new just came out.
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02 May 2026
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“I just… I’m sorry, it's late. I shouldn't have called. I don’t really know what to say. You just haven’t responded to any of my calls or letters in months and I’ve been so worried about you. I don’t know what I did but I will do anything I can to make it up to you. I’m so sorry.”
“Mike.” He let out an amused laugh which made Mike’s mouth audibly snap shut, his teeth clicking together. “You have nothing to make up for. I just needed some… space. I should have said something, I’m the one who should be apologizing. I wanted to reach out but it never felt like the right time.”
“Oh. Is now the right time?” Mike said it as if trying to hide how much the answer meant to him.
“Yeah.” His voice was barely above a whisper.
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30 Apr 2026
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"But he didn't act like this last time when..." Max's voice trailed off. Even she couldn't say it out loud.
Last time when El disappeared. Last time when El sacrificed herself. Last time when El died right in front of them.
"Last time was different," Lucas cut in.
"Yeah," Will nodded thoughtfully, "We were younger. And they weren't dating yet, of course Mike reacted differently."
"No," Lucas snorted, "that's not it. He was just... kind of busy."
"With what?"
"You."
Or: After the final battle, Mike starts acting strange and stops being a proper alpha of their small but fucked-up pack, so the Party decides to push him where his instincts have always been sharpest — taking care of Will.
Or: Will is the first male omega in Hawkins in 20 years, and despite the Upside Down and all the horrors now finally over, he can't find HIS place in this new world where he's kinda taken El's place.
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24 Apr 2026
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Will Byers doesn’t consider himself brave. He considers himself a HD student with a low tolerance for vodka and a talent for leaving early. But bravery, it turns out, isn’t always loud. Sometimes it's handed out like permission slips at crowded college parties: permission to drink too much vodka, to flirt badly, and take a hit from someone else’s cola flavoured vape.
Or; College AU, Will "Ivy League" Byers/Mike "Teenage Dirtbag" Wheeler
(Vodka bottle fic)
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21 Apr 2026
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“The bags get thrown in the back first, trunk slammed. Then Mike gets about two-thirds of the way to the front seat before he gets cut off by the back passenger side door opening, and a wide ass hand shoving him down across the back seats. Can’t even properly screech in outrage before there’s an ENTIRE Will Byers sitting on top of him, and then Mike and his childhood best friend are wrestling each other in a mess of grown ass limbs in the back of a goddamn Suburu sedan.“
Mike Wheeler moves to California so that his best friend can take care of him.
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20 Apr 2026
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You Say That I Look Angry (Well, Hell Yeah, You're Fucking Right) by wstrnplsr105
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Apr 2026
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“Your crush? That Tammy guy, or whatever. If he couldn’t see how amazing you are, he didn’t deserve you anyways.” Mike explains, his gaze intense as he smiles at Will.
And all Will can think is: he cannot be that dense.
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Or, Mike Wheeler is, in fact, that dense, and Will Byers decides to confess right before he sacrifices himself.
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18 Apr 2026
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Will is trying to move on.
Mike is trying to prove that he doesn’t have to.
Or: A string of texts blurs the line between obsession and need, leading to location pins and decisions you can’t undo in the morning.
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18 Apr 2026
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No Such Thing as Happy Endings (unless I choose you) by SlowKindling
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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It's the 2000's, and Michael Wheeler is miserable. He hates everything about himself; everything he'd become. He has nothing left to lose. Dustin, who still greives Steve's and Eddie's death, invents a machine that allows them to travel through the multiverse- to see other dimensions, other versions of themselves.
Together, they look for a reality where Steve and Eddie are alive, but instead they find answers Mike didn't know he was looking for.Or: Miserable Mike realizes that he is only happy when he's with Will.
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17 Apr 2026
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“Dear Mike Wheeler…
I request your formal RSVP to have intercourse with me so I can help you finally cum this Saturday. RSVP by Friday or the offer expires.
With great pleasure, Will Byers.”
or: Mike Wheeler has an orgasm problem. Will Byers has a Mike Wheeler problem. These turn out to be the same problem.
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16 Apr 2026
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moonlight on our fingers (the gravity between us) by liminalyearning
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 2026
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"I was just thinking about the moon. How it's the same one, everywhere."
Will leaves Hawkins for art school in New York. Mike stays behind and slowly falls apart.
For three years, they orbit each other: phone calls that say nothing, letters that say too much, stolen touches in the dark, fights that feel like breakups when they were never technically together. They try dating other people. They try being just friends. They try pretending the thing between them doesn't exist.
Nothing works.
It takes distance, loss, and someone finally getting on a plane. Not to chase, but to choose.
A post-Season 5 slow burn about grief, shame, wanting someone you’re not supposed to, and learning the difference between loving someone quietly and loving them out loud.
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12 Apr 2026
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Mike’s jaw dropped. For a second, he forgot how to breathe. The air caught in his throat, his chest barely moving as he stared, completely stunned.
His eyes burned wide, but he didn’t dare to blink. Because it didn’t feel real, it felt like something his mind had made up, something too impossible, too intimate to actually be happening.
But it was real. Will Byers was standing right there, in his room, wearing a fucking panties.
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Basically, they went crazy on Halloween night and fuck.Bookmarked by katstails
12 Apr 2026
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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09 Apr 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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09 Apr 2026
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Will can’t allow himself the luxury of a wet dream tonight, so he wills for Mike to stop moving.
Mike does not stop moving.
Will frowns, mustering up more focus, sharpening his control.
Mike still doesn’t stop, but he lets out an annoyed whine. “What’s fucking tugging at me right now?”
What.
“I’m—trying to stop you. Stop.” Will’s voice comes out warped and distant, unused to being spoken out loud in the dreamscape.
Mike stops moving, as instructed, breathing heavily against Will’s open mouth. “Why? Isn’t this—isn’t this just a dream? Come on.”
Huh?!
What is Will’s subconscious trying to achieve right now?—or—
Will's powers have been acting up lately, thanks to the stress of college and a part time job.
He finds solace in his usual lucid dreams. Except, suddenly — they get clearer. More vivid. More out of control.
Will assumes it's just his subconscious working through some very obvious problems.
Mike assumes he's just having weird sex dreams about his best friend because he's stressed and pent-up.Neither of them realizes they're sharing them.
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07 Apr 2026