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“Come on,” Mike argues. “Think of it like… a test drive. You’ll get the full Mike Wheeler boyfriend experience. It’s miserable! You’ll be over me in no time!”
They only have one last summer before they go off to college, and Will is sick of keeping his cards so close to his chest. So, in a fit of alcohol-induced bravery, he tells Mike everything.
Instead of breaking his heart, Mike proposes a deal: they’ll date for the summer. Get Mike out of Will’s system, show him he makes for a lousy boyfriend anyway, and make sure there aren’t any what-ifs waiting for him in New York.
No stone left unturned, after all.
Or: Summer brings clouds, nostalgia, and the all-consuming fear of change. They deal with it.
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08 Jun 2026
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it’s 2010.
myspace still matters, and will byers spends most nights doomscrolling instead of sleeping. college would’ve been lonely if his roommate lucas wasn’t constantly yelling into his headset at some douchebag called mike wheeler — alt-boy musician, internet pretty boy, and apparently the most irritating person alive sometimes.
at least until mike sends will a friend request.
what happens when lucas sinclair’s childhood best friend can’t seem to stop messaging him?
or worse, flirting with him.
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08 Jun 2026
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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07 Jun 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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03 Jun 2026
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only if you knew (how much I like you) by byleringouttt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 May 2026
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Mike Wheeler’s frat house is loud, chaotic, and full of idiots who are slightly obsessed with Will Byers — which is probably why nobody realized that he and Will have been dating for months.
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02 Jun 2026