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it all started when two sweaty, ugly, and chopped brothers were writing the script to the hit show stranger things. they were writing a scene where will and mike are on a tower, taking a break from climbing. ross gets the grand idea for mike to act and say something extremely gay but is NOT gay because ross is homophobic, spiritually israeli, and straightbaited his own wife. he decides to forcefully project himself onto mike by making him become a baiter. a queerbaiter.
mike wants to confess his love and tell will; "friends? no thanks. boyfriends." but fatass ross wouldnt stop writing "best friends". it felt like mikes mouth was glued shut, no, locked. and ross had the key. will could tell mike was straining his words, he had noticed this phenomenon before when he tried to tell robin out right that it was mike who he loved and he wasnt just his fucking tammy because mike was his only friend and robin didnt think to realize this that tammy was a hallway crush (its ok we forgive her she had the ross lobotom curse and couldnt be self aware). this, however, is when mike and will both had enough.
will, using his WARLOCK (not sorcerer) powers to open a portal from their world to the duffers stinky basement. mike steps through the portal first and immediantly tackles ross, knocking the pencil from his hand. ross yelps alerting matt from his sleep.
"what the dick-" matt stands up from his seat in surprise.
will isnt far behind from mike, stepping through the portal and uses his WARLOCK powers again to lift matt off the ground. matt struggles to move out of wills invisible grip and is stopped when will begins to move matt closer.
"it is time, matt. no more bait." will practically growls.
then, just like what he did with vecna, will breaks matt's legs slowly. this pulls a scream out of his throat.
"will! please, it doesnt have to be this way! we were going to give you an epilouge boyfriend that looks exactly like mike! its not just a replica, its his spitting image!!!" matt rasps, wills grip on his neck tightening.
"no. i want the real thing." will says sternly, his hold on matt tightening in anger before breaking his neck.
mike is almost done with murdering ross at this point, delivering his final blows to his face. while will was breaking matts bones, mike had been beating the life out of ross out of shear, bottled up anger. when mike stands from his position over ross, his fists and face are sprinkled in blood.
he turns back to will with a new sense of freedom and weight lifted off of his shoulders. they stare at each other wordlessly understanding their want for eachother is becoming more than best friends.
mike grabs the grease stained script and rips it in half, tossing it to the floor. when he looks up will is already in front of him pulling him into a kiss. mike is surprised at first and tenses up, fearing that the duffer brothers are watching them and are going to punish them for "acting out of character", before remembering they have just killed them.
mike leans into the kiss and they stay there just like that, kissing infront of the dead duffers, untill remembering the portal.
will glances over at the portal, still kissing mike, and sees robin quietly cheering them on. will smiles into the kiss and pulls mike into it tighter by pulling him in by his waist. he makes a noise of enjoyment and takes it as a sign to deepen the kiss.
as will does this he slips his tongue into mikes mouth and explores it passionately. they swap spit for what feels like forever until robin makes herself known to mike, telling them to hurry up, reminding them why they were at the tower in the first place. mike pulls away shocked by robins sudden appearance panting, staring from her to his new boyfriend that he has yearned for for years but could never have, until now.
"we should continue saving the world, mike." will assures him.
"yeah, yeah." mike says dissmissively before stealing another kiss from him on the neck.
they take eachothers hands and walk out back into their world with a new freedom.
"whats holding you three up?" joyce asks, making her way to the top where mike, will, and robin are.
will and mike look at eachother before turning to robin, who is nodding enthusiastically. when joyce is standing with them, will clears his throat.
"im gay. wait- let me rephrase. robin likes girls, i dont, and mike likes me." joyce ends his overexpanation, punctuating it with a hug.
"i know sweetheart, im your mom, its hard not to notice these things. ive wanted to tell you that i knew and that it was okay, but it felt like my mouth was glued shut. youre much braver than me." joyce plants a kiss to his forehead.
"yeah you dont have to worry about that glue feeling, neither the upside down." mike smirks, and shows half of the grease stained script. "its hard to explain but ive basically rewritten history. so, sooner we leave, sooner i can enact this and erase the upside down, vecna, all the bad guys, remove wills WARLOCK powers so he doesnt die when i kill vecna, and get everybody home safe."
robin is nodding, will is beaming in pride(the gay one), and joyce is proccessing things.
"so the way im reading this, all our plans are useless but we get the magical good ending? what the hell, sure." joyce throws her hands up in defeat.
"alright, thats that, lets get out of this shit." robin jumps up and down, practically beaming. she then sprints down the stairs, everybody else following one by one down the ladder.
after a bit of convincing, they were home free. no help to matt and definately not thanks to ross. however, all the help and thanks to mike and will, whos queerness killed two people, broke 4th walls, and erased an entire dimension from existence.