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Sir Michael assesses them both. He seems to accept whatever he finds, nodding slowly. “I see. My apologies, it seems I have gotten ahead of myself. For how long have you two been courting, then?”
Someone chokes behind them, and for a second, Mike honestly thinks he’s misheard him. The look on his face is dead serious, though, stoic in a way that makes it very clear he’s not joking.
“What?” he croaks. He looks over at Will, who looks just as caught off guard as he feels.
“You need not be shy,” Michael reassures them, back straightening. “I, too, was hesitant when William and I first began our courtship. I understand.”
When Mike’s doppelgänger shows up dressed like something straight out of one of their D&D campaigns, Mike thinks he ought to be thrilled. There are alternate universes. There are alternate universes with knights and wizards and dragons. And, honestly, Mike probably would be thrilled, under normal circumstances. The guy is just so weird about him and Will.
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23 Feb 2026
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Love is a fickle thing.
At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.
Love is a fickle thing.
Just not for Mike.
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After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.
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23 Feb 2026
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You Could Call Me Babe for the Weekend by epilogueboyfriend
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jan 2026
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Does Carlton gel his hair? Mike wanted to ask. Do you run your fingers through it when you kiss him? Do you pull on it when you–
What came out was: “No, it’s okay. I trust your opinion with stuff like that.”
That seemed to be the right thing to say because Will blushed hot and ducked his head slightly, giving him the same frantic, flustered look he’d become used to before Will went to college and got a boyfriend and became so unbearably pretty it kind of choked the life out of Mike to be alone with him.
Will won't shut up about his new boyfriend. Mike is totally Normal about it.
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22 Feb 2026
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: A buzzy post-vol 1 fic in which Will finally grows more confident, only for the hivemind’s possession to take it all away again. Mike may be the only one who can bring it back. And the two of them might be the only ones who can save the world.
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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22 Feb 2026
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“And I know, it’s not your fault. Trust me, I haven’t forgotten.”
Shit. Mike was really hoping that would never come up.
“I know, I know, I know it’s not your fault. But you know what?” Will steps closer, “it doesn’t change the fact that it feels like your fault.” With a shove on Mike’s shoulder, he painfully adds, “it feels like it’s all your fault.”
When everyone suddenly masters the art of communication, Mike and Will give it a shot. They don't get it right on the first try.
OR: 5 steps Mike takes towards the truth, and 1 leap Will makes towards destiny.
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- Part 1 of on the way home
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17 Feb 2026
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“You okay?” Mike asks him.
Will turns to look at Mike. The light of the TV is projected on the side of his face, bathing his skin in greens and oranges. Sometimes Will feels like the secret to digging himself out of the wreckage of his childhood is hidden in Mike. There are days when the only thing that can dull the sharp pressure of grief in his ribs is Mike’s presence at his side; steady, thrumming. Will knows the day when he will have to detach himself is coming fast, but here in this basement, where nothing has changed in over a decade, time seems to have come to a screeching halt. It’s just the two of them, sat in the last place they were innocent together.
“Yeah,” Will whispers, “I’m okay.”
or; The Party's senior year of high school, in ebbs and flows.
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17 Feb 2026
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“Will,” Mike starts.
“No, seriously,” Will says. The hand that isn’t holding his beer raises between them, twitching downwards like he’s physically shoving any of Mike’s other questions back down where they came from. “It was a stupid thing to ask.”
Mike shakes his head, then scoots forward, inching closer to Will. “It’s not,” he insists. “If it’s you asking, it’s not stupid, Will.”
On New Year's Eve, 1996, Will asks Mike a question. He gets an answer and then some.
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17 Feb 2026
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"Yes!" Dustin shouts, "I've taken many things into consideration regarding the data they share and my running hypothesis is that Will Byers definitely has a type." Dustin's looking at him really weirdly right now. He lifts a hand to mess with his hair. What if he looks ugly? He's gotta fix it before Will gets here.
"Just because they all look like Mike—"
Mike is having another epiphany— All of Will's little boyfriends looked like Mike.
Will Byers has a type.
At the thought, he breaks out into goosebumps, a thrill tingling sharp down his spine.
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17 Feb 2026
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forsooth, it was strange and terrible by dragons_like_smores for KissingTinyFlowers, Marsonaplate
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Dec 2025
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Mike nodded and said, “Please draw me looking knightly,” and then he began to hum the tune of the bardic song.
Will studied Mike’s face, tilting his head this way and then that, and murmured, “What makes one look knightly?”
“Handsome and strong. Righteous. Brave. An upstanding servant to the kingdom.”
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In the small medieval village of Hawkins, animal attacks spread panic, young farmer Will feels awfully left behind, and squire Mike has to confront his conflicting feelings about his knightly duties and his best friend.
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17 Feb 2026
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lips like sugar by dragons_like_smores for tallula03, Frogsdontcry (RegretForLostcauses)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Nov 2023
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It’s 1990 and the party needs to raise money to help them get to their first ever Comic-Con! After their bake sale on their college campus fails miserably, the party decides to try something a little more exciting to raise cash: a kissing booth. To Mike’s surprise, Will volunteers to be on the receiving end of the smooching for the fundraiser.
Amidst mixed signals, secrets from a drunken party the year before, jealousy, a lot of note passing, and a surprise gift, Mike and Will are forced to confront their feelings.
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16 Feb 2026
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“We’re supposed to be a team.”
Mike’s hand falls from the door knob. Instinctively, he takes a step back, and he turns back around. The door closes gently behind him, and Mike stares at his boyfriend in surprise and in confusion. “What?”
“We’re supposed to be a team,” Will repeats, his voice trembling yet still a bit angry. His eyes are narrowed at Mike—defensive but still on guard, wounded but still ready to fight.
It’s familiar. Somehow, the two of them always end up like this.
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A year after the Upside Down’s destruction, Will and Mike are in what their friends like to call their “honeymoon phase.” But when a new problem arises and puts strain on their relationship, the two of them must learn what it truly means to work together as a team and to love each other well.
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15 Feb 2026
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Will just wants to get through his last year of high school without incident, to feel normal for once in his life, and try to survive the building tension between him and Mike that grows with every word left unsaid. On the first day of school, Will meets someone new who may finally offer him the acceptance he craves, but he’s unsure what to do when it causes his relationship with Mike to hit a breaking point, forcing them both to confront their true feelings. And to make matters worse, Vecna is always there, whispering in his ear, and letting him know his fated role in the inevitable fall of Hawkins. Slow Burn. Will-centric. Mike-centric later chapters.
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- Part 1 of The Slanted Mind Series
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15 Feb 2026
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Sir Michael tilted his head, squinting at Will. Without warning, his hand came to cup Will's cheek, turning his skin at least ten degrees warmer. "He looks like you," Sir Michael continued, "and he has your name. Your moles, too."
His thumb came down to brush the mole over Will's top lip. The touch felt soft, strangely reverent. "My— moles?"
Mike had the same sentiment, albeit with more displeasure. "His moles?"
Will makes a wish. Sir Michael the Brave comes to fulfill it, but Mike Wheeler makes his wish come true.
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13 Feb 2026
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Mike uses a sneaky strategy to find out what Will really wants for Christmas, only to be more than a little surprised at what Will has to say. But Mike wants to make sure Will has the best Christmas ever, so of course Mike is going to do it. Of course he is.
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13 Feb 2026
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I’d Go Through Hell If Only For You by hopelessromanfic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Oct 2022
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After the events of season four, Mike and Will find themselves trapped in the Upside Down together. It's up to them to find their way out, whilst the others try to figure out just where they went.
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12 Feb 2026
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I don't wanna fight the tide by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2024
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The air in Hawkins was clear, clearer than it had been in a long time. Yet for Will, it had never been harder to breathe. Every breath felt like sucking in glass, cutting up his lungs and leaving the taste of blood in his throat. It's like he's surrounded by thick honey, each step an effort, each inhale a challenge.
It didn't take Will long to realise something was wrong. Not with Hawkins, not with the Party. No, this was all Will.
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After the defeat of Vecna, Will gets sick. Really sick.
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11 Feb 2026
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The Upside Down isn't the only alternate universe the party has to worry about it seems. When something inexplainable happens during a game of D&D, Will is replaced by... Will? Will the Wise appears before everyone, confused on why his friends are wearing such strange garbs and what dungeon he has stumbled into. Meanwhile, Will finds himself surrounded by fantastical versions of his friends clad in armor and robes somewhere far, far from Hawkins. The party now has a new mission to figure out how to get their Wills switched back around, and Mike needs to figure out what this feeling in his chest is all about.
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If Will had a nickel every time he was transported into an alternate reality that had some similarities to his normal reality, he'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice, right?
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11 Feb 2026
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“If you go,” Will starts, and he’s so close, Mike could trace the line of freckles crowning his cheekbones. “Think about what’ll happen to Max. Or El. Or Dustin and Lucas.” Will smiles, sparkling bright in the moonlight. “The city would fall apart in a day without you.”
And you? What about you? Mike wants to ask.
As if Will hears him, he says, “I don’t think I could live without you.”
Mike Wheeler, in no particular order:
1. Gets a new job.
2. Falls in love.
3. Becomes Spiderman.One of those things is not like the other.
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09 Feb 2026
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The problem is this: they’ve got a lot of problems right now, and every last one of them is more important than Will and his fragile, bruised heart.
A Season 4 fix-it wherein Will has a lot of feelings, El is the best sister, and Mike Wheeler has emotional intelligence.
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09 Feb 2026
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is there something on your mind by tellthatbrokebitch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Apr 2023
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“-make any sense, Mike!” Max said, looking like she was on the verge of punching him again. “Even if any of the members were romantically involved, that wouldn’t be enough to make him decide to leave the band-”
“Okay, but what if it was a polycule situation, and he wanted out? It’s possible, and if you say it isn’t, that’s legally a lie and Byers can arrest you-”
“You seriously think Zayn left-”
“Are you two arguing about One Direction?!” Will interrupted, his inner turmoil temporarily forgotten in light of this disturbing revelation. “You’re actually middle schoolers.”
Max scowled. “Take it back, Byers.”
“I refuse. Also, lying to someone isn’t a criminal offense, Michael.”
“Are you sure? Because Stevie threatens to throw me in jail every time we see each other.”
Will sighed. “Pretty sure that’s just because you piss him off.”
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psych au! featuring police detectives steve and will, "psychic" duo mike and max, and the murder that finally brought them together
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08 Feb 2026