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He looks up at him, eyebrows drawn together. “Do you not love her?”
Mike shrinks back. “What?”
He hadn’t meant to say it. He wouldn’t have, if he’d stopped to think about it for half a second. But it’s too late to take it back, and he can’t breathe until he knows the answer, and he looks at him resolutely and says, “Do you only love her because of what I said?”
Something darkens on Mike’s face, twisting it into a shape Will’s never seen. “Get out.”
It’s not a no.
or: Mike and Will share a room, and Mike finds out the truth about the painting.
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08 Jul 2026
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did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room? by tearsofsaudade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2026
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His mind is a madhouse, twisting all over the place, circling around and around until it inevitably lands back on Will. He wants to fix this. It’s what he does. It’s what he’s supposed to be good at—helping his friends. But he doesn’t know how to fix anything this time. People are going to say what they’re going to say, and everything Mike can think of just seems like it’ll make things worse.
It’s not like Will can go back in the closet, at this point, not that he’d want to. And nothing Mike says or does will convince a hoard of homophobic teenagers that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. He can’t convince them that Will doesn’t have a crush on him because they just think he’s “oblivious”. Which is ridiculous. Mike would know if Will had a crush on him. And Will would never have a crush on him anyway. Will is headstrong but quiet, calm and assured. Sarcastic and funny and kind and wonderful.
There are a lot of things that Mike doesn’t know, but he knows this for certain: If Will were to fall in love, it wouldn’t be with an idiot like Mike.or: When rumors start spreading about Will Byers being in love with his best friend, Mike has to figure out a solution, preferably before prom.
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29 Jun 2026
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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29 Jun 2026
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I want you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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Before Mike even really realised what he was doing, he was lifting himself up on his hands, bringing himself up over Will’s body so he could kiss the smile on his lips. Will let out a pleased, happy little sigh, and Mike wanted nothing more than to make him do it again. He wanted to discover every single noise that Will could make. He couldn’t believe that he’d gotten to do this before, that he’d forgotten this.
or: an amnesia fic side fic, sharing their second first time. 🤍
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- Part 2 of I'm in love with you
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27 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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27 Jun 2026
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“I told you a million times; Mike just isn’t a good boyfriend. He’s a solid D minus.”
El frowned in opposition. “He is not a D minus. He is… maybe a C. I am not sure. There isn’t a test to score him on.”
In a brilliant lightning-strike of insight, the perfect solution illuminated itself. Inadvertently, El’s words had led Max right to the Holy Grail.
“No. There isn’t. But we can make one.”
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26 Jun 2026
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“Why haven’t we kissed yet?”
And – strike that, maybe Will is dead.
“You,” Will says dumbly. “I – what?”
“Us,” Mike specifies, like we could have meant anyone else, although the clarification is still appreciated, because Will’s brain feels a little useless, right now. “Kiss. You and me.”A summer afternoon in Mike's room and Will's mess of a brain.
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- Part 4 of one-scene
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26 Jun 2026
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“How’s school going?” Joyce asks.
“Good. It’s…going good,” Mike replies. She nods and sips her hot chocolate.
“Mrs. Byers.” She looks up at him and Mike feels his heart beat faster. “Why did you make three hot chocolates?”
She takes her time to answer. “I don’t know,” she replies after a while. “It felt like the right thing to do today.”
Today. Today’s weird, Mike thinks.
“It’s March 22nd today.”
“I know.”or
what happens when Birthdaygate and Lettergate meet.
Day 3 for Byler Week: Birthdaygate/Byler gates
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- Part 3 of Byler Week 2023
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23 Jun 2026
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“Shut up!” Mike says with a scowl. “I meant, like…I was just thinking…why don’t we just do it? Why don’t Will and I kiss?”
It’s as if you could hear a pin drop.
Lucas stares at Mike like he’s grown an extra head. Dustin and El exchange a meaningful look. Even Max, who just a moment ago had been happily poking fun at Mike, is seemingly at a loss for words.
Will is silent too, color rising to his cheeks. It’s one thing for Max to suggest it; it’s another entirely for Mike to double down. Mike, his best friend for as long as he can remember. Mike, who regardless of any newfound warmth could barely touch Will for an entire year. Mike, who is oblivious to the fact that Will is desperately in love with him.
Mike, who despite all that said Why don’t Will and I kiss as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
After his first semester of college ends, Will is more than happy to spend a relaxing New Year's Eve in Mike's basement with the rest of the Party. Things go off the rails, however, when Max and El ask everyone to join in on an interesting new tradition—a tradition which may or may not involve him and Mike sharing a kiss.
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20 Jun 2026
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Both of their bodies shake as they catch their breath. Will’s still hard, and his sweat is starting to dry uncomfortably on his skin, but all he can focus on is Mike.
It’s times like these he’s reminded how lucky he is to have Mike in this way. To see this side of him, this side that still feels too new and too intimate and too overwhelming all at once. Sometimes, he thinks he might be bitter. Resentful of his lot in life, being so painfully in love with someone who will so obviously never feel the same way. On his bad days, he even thinks he might resent Mike.
Like this, though, he knows that could never be true. Not really. Sure, it hurts, only ever having Mike halfway, knowing his body but never his soul. Yes, it’s going to kill him when Mike inevitably finds someone new and runs off into the sunset, leaving him in the dust again.
But it’s Mike. He'll take whatever he can get.
When he and Mike end up in bed together after graduation, they fall into something dangerously easy. Or, at least, it would be easy, if it weren’t the most painful thing Will’s ever done.
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20 Jun 2026
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When Will was a kid, his mom says he was obsessed with the pretty colors on his wrist. He would sit for hours, book open to all the different colors, using his pencils and crayons to sketch out a random person, as bright and colorful as their emotions. He could watch the colors swirl for hours, ignoring the black crescent moon curved around the middle of the patch to instead focus on the different shades.
His father would always scoff. Boys should not be so fond of their marks, he would say, shaking his head in disappointment. His mom always protected him from the worst of it, though, and when Will was eight, his father left and never came back and he wasn’t really that upset.
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On your wrist, you have a black mark and colors that represent your soulmate's emotions. Fitting for Will, being the artist that he is.
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19 Jun 2026
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Mike sighs, looking down at his hands. "I always thought I would end up with someone more similar to me, you know? Someone I can talk about, like, hobbies and music and stuff with, without them visibly losing interest halfway through.”
You have more in common with him than El, says the voice in Will’s head. He wonders, briefly, whether it would be weird to shove his face back into the pillow and scream.
Will is definitely not qualified to be giving out any relationship advice. For one, he's never actually dated anyone before. Second, one of the people in said relationship is his sister. And third, the other person is the guy he's sort of in love with. There's no possible way this could backfire. Right?
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17 Jun 2026
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once i ran from you (now i run to you) by arsonsmatch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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That’s because he’s my boyfriend, Mike!” Will shouts.
“And us?” Mike presses, a sick sense of deja vu creeping coldly over his brain.
Will exhales sharply, “We’re friends. We’re friends! You made sure of that. So I don’t know why you’re so mad at me!”
“Because it was supposed to be me!”
Will blinks, “What are you talking about?”
“I’m mad because it was supposed to be me!” Mike shouts it desperately, like a plea, like this is making him go crazy, and fuck, maybe it is, “After everything—at the end—it was meant to be me. Not him. I don’t want it to be him. I want it to be me.”
Or, Mike doesn't realize his own feelings, until Will's are staring him dead in the face. Vecna's gone, they're nearing the end of their senior year, and all of a sudden Will has a boyfriend. Everything goes downhill pretty quickly from there.
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16 Jun 2026
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what remains when nothing is taken apart by jurassicwill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Apr 2026
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The Byers house has always been full of soft things - blankets folded in the same places, rooms rearranged until they feel right.
Will learns to do the same thing when he finally presents as an Omega.
He builds places for himself in corners and on floors, then quietly takes them apart again before anyone can see.
Over time, he stops taking them apart. He just leaves them there, and lets Mike Wheeler in.
#omegawillbyersweek
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16 Jun 2026
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in every life i find you (this time i choose you) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jun 2026
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After a fight with Will, Mike Wheeler finds himself in a universe that isn’t his.
Then another.
And another.
Across countless different lives, Mike sees how things between him and Will could end: the worlds where they never meet, the ones where they drift apart, and the ones where he realizes too late what Will meant to him.
The only thing that remains the same in every universe is the version of Will guiding him through them.
And somewhere between those worlds, Mike begins to understand what this journey is trying to teach him.
Or: Mike Wheeler travels the multiverse and finally gets the hint
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14 Jun 2026
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“I wouldn’t be who I am without you… and… whatever happens next— I just need you to know that no matter what—” he said with a choked voice. “You’ll always be important to me.”
Whatever happens next... no matter what...
Will felt his soul slowly leaving his body.
Time seemed suspended, as if they were trapped in a parallel reality.
Then Will started to cry. A terrible cry, sobbing and heaving. The tears streamed down like a waterfall and he didn’t even try to stop them, he just lay there, in the arms of the man he loved and who, apparently, was preparing him for the inevitable end.
will thinks mike is preparing to leave him. mike is preparing to ask him to marry him. these turn out to be very different things, as you can imagine
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14 Jun 2026
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Will holds his breath and waits. Waits for Mike to take back the offer, to say he was joking, to say that was a stupid idea. But he doesn’t. He simply stares at Will and bites his lip, as if awaiting Will’s judgment.
“I’m not sure…”
“I mean, friends can do it,” Mike adds, running a hand through his hair. “It’s not like— it’s just, it can calm your body.”
After being on heat suppressants for a few months, Will begins experiencing symptoms of a phantom heat. Mike, an alpha, offers to help relieve the symptoms by scenting him. As a friend. Totally as friends.
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13 Jun 2026
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At least, Will thinks with a heavy heart, it’s a beautiful place to be miserable.
It’s 1996, and Mike is getting married.
Spoiler: it’s not to Will.
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12 Jun 2026
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Will doesn’t know how they got here. Ten months ago, things were good. They were good. Mike was his friend. Mike was the one person who treated him normally. Like he was his old self again.
But then again, normal boys don’t die for a week and come back. When normal boys die, they stay dead.
Things Will knows, things Will doesn't know, and things Will learns, in time.
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11 Jun 2026
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Mike sets Will up on a date and realizes he doesn’t actually want Will with anyone else.
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Will’s face turned beet red and he looked like he might cry. “I-what if, what if it goes well?”
“Huh? That would be good right?” He laughed.
”I-I’ve never, uh.” Will was blushing hard
“ooooh, I mean I think lots of people are virgins still- I am. I don’t think that’s a big deal” he said confidently
“Wh-wha- No Mike! I- I’ve never even kissed anyone! I’m 21 don’t most people know what they are doing by now?” Will was sitting on his bed now head in his hands clearly melting down.
”Oh.” He softened. Of course Will had never kissed anyone he grew up in Hawkins.
He cleared his throat, he had to cheer him up. “Listen, kissing is easy. If you can fight interdimensional monsters before 18 you can definitely kiss someone.” He patted his back.
None of this seemed to soothe Will’s worries so he pressed on determined to calm him down.
“I can show you how if you want.”
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09 Jun 2026