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Will Byers is used to being watched, It comes with the job.
Gallery openings, interviews, strangers who look a little too long at his work, at him.
What he isn't used to is being targeted.
When the messages start getting too personal, too specific, Lucas insists on bringing in outside security, someone who would blend in more.
Will expects someone obvious.
Instead he gets Mike Wheeler.Quiet. Controlled. Always watching.
The kind of person who doesn't miss anything.
Including Will.
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01 Jul 2026
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“Good morning, babe.”
Will woke up to a gentle voice at 8:27am. His eyes fluttered open to return Mike’s wake-up call except -
It wasn’t Mike.
It was Carlton.
His boyfriend, Carlton.
Of course.
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Joyce and Hopper are getting married. Will, of course, brought his boyfriend as his plus one. Mike is there for the wedding too. Will is dying inside.[Continuation of “i made it weird (i made it worse)”]
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- Part 2 of i made it weird (i made it worse)
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07 Jun 2026
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After Will moves to Montauk, Sunday night calls become the only thing holding the distance between them. But the dream won’t leave Mike alone.
He returns to the same beach night after night, a place he’s visited too many times before. This time, instead of running, he crosses the water.
Will is waiting. Close enough to touch. Close enough to kiss. And when Mike wakes, the feeling doesn’t fade.
The next morning, alone in an empty house for three weeks, Mike tries to convince himself it was only a dream.
Then a pale yellow envelope arrives in the mail.
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‘And I know that’s silly, because we call on Sunday nights. But it’s not the same. It’s never just you and me anymore. I mean, obviously I like talking to Dustin and Lucas, but they don’t get me. Not like you do.’It’s almost frightening how closely their thoughts mirror each other. Every Sunday he wishes, quietly, that the calls could just be them. No interruptions. No overlapping jokes. Just Will’s voice and the space between them.
He’s never said it out loud.
And now here it is, written plainly in ink, resting between his fingers.
‘I can’t say things to them that I would easily say to you. No one knows me like you do, Mike,'
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Leaving his hometown of Lenora Hills, Will hopes for a fresh start in college. He realizes it's gonna take him a little longer to get comfortable with who he is and what he wants.
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20 May 2026
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mike wheeler can't live like this anymore, he can't live being so scared of anything anymore.it's making him completely miserable and he learns he needs to move on. at graduation, mike carries a letter that was meant for will byers but never sent. it was never meant to be sent because it was full of everything mike wanted to say to the boy but never had the courage to. at least he has the courage to show him right?
(rewrite of the epilogue lowkey)
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08 May 2026
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The quiet sorcerer Will lived an equally quiet life on the outskirts of the Byers region, spending most days foraging for berries, painting, avoiding his cruel father, and practicing magic with his twin sister, until he meets a compassionate trio of boys who flip his life upside-down. Soon enough, one secret visit into the illustrious Byers Kingdom gets Will roped into a life of royalty, which brings life-threatening danger and heartbreak along with it.
Desperate for an escape from having to witness his sister marry his ex-lover and best friend, Will gives up his position as prince to live a life alone in an apothecary in a faraway land, leaving everything and everyone from his past life in Byers behind.
That is until he receives a letter from Byers Kingdom that draws him right back to where it all began.
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21 Mar 2026
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NOVEMBER 6TH, 1986
In the three years since Will Byers went missing, the town of Hawkins has been under constant threat of the creatures from the Upside Down. But now, eight months after Vecna has ruptured a giant rift through the town of Hawkins, that threat is about to reemerge. Unaware of Vecna's true plans and trapped under a military quarantine, our heroes will not only be forced to face the greatest evil from the Upside Down, but also overcome impossible odds, in order to save the world, and each other, one last time.
Written in a SCREENPLAY format, this fic operates as a diverging conclusion for the final season of Stranger Things.
EDIT 6/21: Chapter 5 in progress!
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21 Mar 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jun 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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21 Mar 2026
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“I didn’t mean to.” Will says in a small voice.
“I know buddy. I know. I don’t blame you. It’s not your fault. He was a bad guy anyway ok?” Dustin says reassuringly.
Will shakes his head and looks down. Tears fall faster down his cheeks.“We need to get out of here. Find the others, ok?” Dustin leans over to catch Will’s gaze. Dustin helps him stand, the metal chair creaks slightly under the shift in weight. Dustin supports him around the waist and slings Will’s right arm around his shoulders. He bends down to snatch a keycard from the corpse on the floor.
The pair awkwardly hobble to the door.
Dustin presents the stolen card to the reader and waits for it to flash green.He opens the door slowly. It creaks, loud in the otherwise barren room.
Dustin strains his neck and peaks down the hallway.
Oh god.It's a bloodbath.
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Will unlocks his powers mid-way through Season 3 and it changes everything. Will be multi-POVSeries
- Part 1 of Endless Circles - Series
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20 Mar 2026
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Will and Mike go on a quest to kill a dragon together, and mike is somehow the most charming knight ever and the most annoying guy under all the armor.
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20 Mar 2026
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Everybody loves a hero (I just tried to be one) by violetstrawberry
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
14 Feb 2026
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Mike stopped talking to Will in ninth grade. This is true. This is the fact Will carries with him every day. But what Will doesn't know — what Mike has never told him, is that stopping talking isn't the same as stopping looking. Mike watches Will across classrooms, across hallways, across the impossible distance between his apartment window and the fire escape where a figure in black and yellow sometimes lands. He sees Will. He just doesn't know how to say it anymore.
Or: Will becomes Spider-Man, and he stopped looking for Mike in crowded places, not noticing that Mike never looked away.
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20 Mar 2026
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20 Mar 2026
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"I'm glad I went," Mike murmurs near Will's ear.
"Had fun?" Will asks playfully.
"Oh, yeah," Mike stretches sarcastically.
They stay like that for a little longer than necessary, then reluctantly separate, still looking at each other. Will can't hold the eye contact for long, and turns away, biting down a smirk.
"Goodnight, then," he breathes out.
"Yeah. Goodnight," Mike nods nervously and smiles. That same stupid dorky smile.
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The Party have one last fun summer together before moving away, everyone is alive and happy and in love and stupid.
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- Part 1 of Mike and Will nervous boyfriends
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20 Mar 2026
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18 Mar 2026
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Will Byers doesn't need Mike Wheeler to ruin his wedding or his happy relationship. He's twenty-five now; he can ruin everything himself, and he doesn’t need Mike’s help, thank you very much.
or: it's the '90s, and Will Byers is going to get married to Carlton; it's more of a promise because it's not legal, of course. Yet Will is happy, and so is Mike. They're best friends after all. Until Will overhears a conversation and discovers that Mike has been in love with him for ages. It shouldn't change a thing (especially on his 'wedding day'). It changes everything anyway.
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18 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler and Will Byers were childhood best friends who lost contact after the Byers' departure to California. Four years later, they both end up working right next to each other in Hawkins; Mike at Scoops Ahoy and Will at Surfer Boy Pizza.
Thus, a summer of reconnecting, secretly hooking up, and falling in love again.
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18 Mar 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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17 Mar 2026
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It’s time for the party to head off to college, from Hawkins, Indiana all the way in sunny California!
What was supposed to be a 3-day road trip turns into spontaneous, last minute adventures that end up taking them off the road and delaying college life. Between shared motel beds, a dive into possible world-ending powers, and embarrassing childhood memories, all ideas of “platonic friendship” between Mike and Will are slowly being dismantled.
The lifelong crush Will Byers tried to keep buried is beginning to catch up with him as Mike Wheeler grows bolder and bolder with testing the bounds of their relationship, despite his pathological struggle to deal with his feelings…
Or, Mike and Will’s feelings for each other are building faster than they can keep up and things start getting a little… fluffy, angsty, and super smutty.
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16 Mar 2026
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November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.
Together, even across dimensions, right?
FIC WILL RETURN JULY 2026!!!
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16 Mar 2026
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Mike and Will cut contact in 1990 after a fight that left their friendship hanging by a thread. Six years pass and Mike finds himself in the city of New York, and somewhere along the way, he reunites with his long lost "best friend". In an unexpected turn of events, they find themselves in the same prison cell under the influence, and have to catch up after so much lost time. In a whirlwind of emotions that eventually lead to a week-long stay in Mike Wheeler's hotel room, Will tells his boyfriend it's for a "friendly reunion".
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16 Mar 2026