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“I didn’t break the cup.” He said more intently, picturing the mug whole and unbroken, the radio station logo that was plastered on the side uncracked.
And as he willed it, it was.
He blinked and the glass was gone like it had never been there, and there was a whole coffee mug sitting on the table in front of him when he looked down. It was sitting on the table like it had never left, the wet pool of cold coffee from before was gone and in its place was a rich brown cup of coffee, steaming lightly in the nighttime chill.
“What the fuck?” Someone said, disbelief coloring their tone and all Mike could do was stare downwards, a fresh wave of blood leaking from his nose.
“I didn't break the cup.” He echoed himself emptily, words a tad disbelieving.
He looked up then, taking in the stunned and worried faces that were surrounding the table and by proxy, him.
He pressed his fingers to his nose, eyes slipping downwards to look at the wet red that stained his fingertips and looking back up.
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- Part 3 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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18 Feb 2026
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All I See Is You | Canon Stranger Things Season 5 Rewrite by InkBySam for Will Byers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
14 Feb 2026
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Since the duffer brothers absolutely queerbaited and bombed byler for season five, I want to rewrite season five with my own narrative so we arent queer baited and get the love story everybody wants.
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Season Five of Stranger Things was supposed to be Hawkins' darkest hour-but what if the story unfolded the way it should have?
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have always been at the heart of it, their bond deeper than Hawkins can ever understand. Through terror, heartbreak, and mind-bending horrors, they navigate a world that's trying to tear them apart-without ever realizing how much they mean to each other.
Hawkins isn't the same without Will, and Mike's about to realize that the person he's been searching for all along has been right in front of him.
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EPILOGUE COMING THIS WEEKEND. STAY TUNED!!!
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16 Feb 2026
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'You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case.
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face.’When Lucas called Mike about his wedding, Mike's instinct was not to go. The same instinct that kept him from Dustin's wedding. The same instinct that kept him from the phone to call Will. Mike had spent the four years after graduation stuck in Hawkins, stuck working on his stupid novels that were going nowhere. He wasn't important to the world, and his friends knew that. They didn't need him anymore, so why would he try?
Why would he bother to follow anything but the mundane routine he had been scrambling after for weeks? He definitely wouldn't bother trying because an irritatingly familiar song keeps playing when he's alone. Nor when he hears an achingly familiar voice through the television.---
Or: It takes Mike six days to get out of the world Vecna trapped him in, and seven days to see Will again.
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- Part 1 of 1980s Type of Love
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14 Feb 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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13 Feb 2026
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Hawkins Hospital is under attack. Aware of Will's feelings towards his best friend Vecna goes after Mike sprucing Will into action to go save him.
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Will carries an injured Mike through the hospital whilst going against Vecna trying to take over his body.
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“How about this, then? I’ll give you a chance. A small one, but a chance, nevertheless. You better run, though. I’m almost there and so is he. What did you say to Max earlier? Oh, right…” Vecna laughed once more, the vines around Will retreating into the walls hiding from plain sight.“Run.”
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11 Feb 2026
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“Okay, yeah. I mean, sure. But you get what I’m saying, though, right? Like, this totally changes the game. We got our second El.” Lucas said excitedly.
“I’m not like a second El. I don’t have powers.” Will was not his sister. El had control of her abilities and had used them to save the party many many times. Successfully. “I’m just… I’m siphoning. I’m stealing Vecna’s. And to do that, I have to be near the hive mind, and Vecna’s not coming back.”
Will didn’t want to do that again even if Vecna did come back. It was an awful feeling, being forced to watch through the eyes of the demogorgons but this felt worse. When he had connected to the hive mind and killed the demogorgons, he had felt Vecna, in all his insidious glory. For a second, that same darkness had overtaken Will, he was scared of the way he felt when he’d snapped the demogorgons bones.
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Will is having trouble coming to terms with his new powers but no one else seems to care
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11 Feb 2026
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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09 Feb 2026
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A promise made in sunglight.
A dragon on a hill.
Will's magic is failing, and Mike is the only thing standing between him and the flames.
Mike swore he'd always be by Will's side. Now he has to decide what kind of hero that makes him.
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09 Feb 2026
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"Mike?" Will asks, jaw dropped open in bewilderment, hand still clutching the door knob.
The Mike standing in front of him is wearing a rickety jacket that almost swallows his thin frame entirely, and has his arms curled around himself, his shoulders hunched. His hands play with his sleeves as if nervous. His body is trembling. And it's the state of his body that really makes Will's blood run cold in horror.
There are bruises all over Mike's face. The black eye he has is stark against the whiteness of his skin, reminding Will of drops of dark paint on a blank canvas. His lip is busted, and Will can see traces of dried blood on him. And most noticeably, he has a ring of bruises around his neck, in the shape of hands.
Upon seeing Will at the door, Mike's expression simultaneously lightens and crumples.
"Will." He croaks out, desperation and vulnerability clear in his shaky voice.
After not speaking nor seeing eachother for 5 years, Mike suddenly turns up at Will's door, bruised and bloodied.
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07 Feb 2026
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Billy Hargrove hit Mike just a little bit harder, Max woke up just a little bit later and Mike Wheeler had always had shitty luck. He gets drugged, hauled to Russia and jabbed with so many needles that he doesn’t know where he began and the needles ended.
But it’s not so bad (He’s lying, it fucking sucks) at least he has the boy in the bed next to his, and relatively regular mealtimes and- Yeah, he's having trouble coming up with anything positive.
He just wants to go home, but the doctor and this strange new thing in his chest isn’t going to let him. That’s fine, he’ll just have to get himself out.
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TLDR: Mike Wheeler gets taken to Russia, gets powers and has to figure out how to get himself the hell out of there without killing himself or getting killed first.
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- Part 1 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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07 Feb 2026
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07 Feb 2026
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the scar on your face matches mine inside by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2026
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“Mike?” Her hands shook as she pushed tentatively against the back of his shoulder, trying to jostle him just enough to pull him back out of unconsciousness, but he didn’t stir, not even an inch. A huge, deep gash ran across his face, a scarlet slash through his pale skin cutting jaggedly from just above his right eyebrow to the hollow of his left cheek. Blood trickled steadily from it, rolling down his face into his hair, catching on his nose, and bruises were already darkening along his skin underneath the growing pallor of his face. He looked– He looked like his life was draining from his face, looked like he was an inch from death even though she knew he couldn’t be. He was fine. He was– He had to be fine. “Mike! Mike, wake up!”
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In which, byler is already established in s3, Mike and Max are best friends that also bicker like they hate each other's guts, and Mike gets a little bit more hurt in the Battle of Starcourt Mall than in canon (because that boy deserved to get a scar from having his face slammed into a metal pipe).
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06 Feb 2026
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After five years of Will's disappearance, everyone tries to return to what they call 'normal'. Mike Wheeler seems to be the only one forever stuck in a loop of grief and guilt, physically incapable of moving on. The world around him sinks, the whole town and people around him seem to push Mike to the edge.
On the fifth anniversary, the Party uncovers a trace of Will — or what appears to be him. From that moment on, Mike’s life veers violently off course.
Suddenly, everything starts to fall into place.
Or: Will Byers snaps. He worships the Upside Down.
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05 Feb 2026
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something's burning (I think it's love) by stupidwithu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t say, “You’re burning up,” afraid the words will sound too soft. He cages them in his mouth, letting them dissolve on his tongue like sugar.
He also doesn't say, “This is the first time I’ve felt warm since I was 12.”
He just stands there uselessly, listening to Mike breathe as sweat pools between their skin.
Eventually, Holly breaks the silence by jabbing Will in the spine. She perks up on the tips of her toes and hooks her chin over his shoulder.
“Look, Will,” she huffs. “Your hand finally stopped shaking.”
Will is so tired of being cold and alone. Enter Mike Wheeler with a fever on Christmas.
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04 Feb 2026
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In the aftermath of a brutal Demogorgon battle, Will and El both fall unconscious. Mike doesn't think—he just runs.
To Will.
His body betrays him before his mind can lie anymore. Everyone watches as Mike chooses, as his first instinct reveals what he's been hiding from himself for years.
El deserves better than someone who loves someone else. Will deserves to know the truth. And Mike? Mike has to face what his heart has always known.
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04 Feb 2026
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Mike walks in on his roommate making out with another guy and gets really upset about it. For all of the normal, straight reasons.
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04 Feb 2026
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it's over my head (i don't mind if it's lonely) by jupitertwix_13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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He’s not entirely sure how he missed all of the signs.
They were right there, the entire time. In fact, he’d been living with Mike Wheeler since they’d gotten back to Hawkins, yet it seemed to slip through the cracks.
Or: A comprehensive explanation of how Will missed the warning signs that Mike was being targeted by Vecna.
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27 Jan 2026
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Love From the Other Side (I Guess You Can Say Things Are Getting Pretty Serious) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Steve said. “I tried to make her wait until you woke up, I really did.” He tossed something in Mike’s direction, which Mike caught without thinking. “Happy birthday, by the way.”
Mike blinked. He’d completely forgotten, between Holly going missing, frantically searching for a way to get her back, and being possessed by Vecna himself. “Uh, thanks,” he said awkwardly, running a hand through his hair and looking down at what Steve had tossed at him. It was a Kit Kat bar. His favorite. He wondered how Steve knew that.
“Oh, right!” Robin darted forward and hugged him before he could react. He met Will’s eyes over her shoulder, but Will still had a hand covering his mouth and his expression was unreadable, aside from the red on his cheeks. “Happy birthday! There’s a surprise waiting for you in the kitchen. Anyway—mind reading. Totally a thing now, right?”
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Through "the power of best friendship," as Robin puts it, Mike and Will develop a telepathic connection when Vecna tries to take Mike. Neither of them are really upset by it, especially when it gives them the opportunity to finally destroy Vecna once and for all.
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- Part 1 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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26 Jan 2026
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A Night To Forget by QueenFanatics
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
29 Apr 2021
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John has just joined the band and one evening Freddie takes him to a gay bar with him. It was meant to be a fun night, but something bad happens to John.
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- Part 1 of A Night to Forget universe
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5 Times Kai Couldn’t Think Straight by reckless_red316
Fandoms: LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)
01 Nov 2025
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“Hi?” Cole finally said, as Kai huffed and tried to get his stupid legs under him again. Stupid stupid useless legs. “You called me at 3am to say hi?” Realization seemed to dawn on him in that moment. “Wait a minute, you’re on patrol, aren’t you? Where are you?”
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AKA Kai is cute when he’s not in his right mind. Fluffy concussion shenanigans and some injury angst and the like. A bit different than classic “5 times.”
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02 Jan 2026