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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
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07 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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04 Feb 2026
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Will Byers the Masked Menace Returns! by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
01 Jun 2025
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“Well, whatever.” Lucas starts, “Mike’s only sided with Will ‘cause he also has a man-crush,” then, a little conspiringly, watching Mike with twinkling eyes, “on Spiderman.”
Will Byers' alter-ego Spiderman has only just been placed under the limelight after the fiasco at Washington, and he's absolutely not dealing with all the attention and publicity in a healthy way.
Especially when his best friend Mike takes a sudden interest in the masked blue-and-red hero.
Yet, a new threat emerges on the horizon—and Will has to deal with it all without falling behind in his studies in his senior year.
Will his long-held secret survive the inevitable wreckage?
SEQUEL CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS!
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- Part 1 of Spiderman AU
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04 Feb 2026
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School is finally out for winter break, and Mike Wheeler is having a full-on crisis. Not only is he running into his “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” more often than he would like or expect, but he's simultaneously having to endure the excruciating experience of falling in love with his best friend.
…Of course, there’s also the fact that said best friend and Spider-Man are the same person, but Mike’s still figuring that out.
To put it simply, this Christmas is bringing him nothing but a mental breakdown.(Essentially, Will is Spider-Man, and Mike has no idea. For now, at least.)
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21 Jan 2026
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After dating El for three years, it should feel right – she’s his first love, just as he is hers. The problem is, every time Mike’s eyes meet Will’s, he realizes just how badly he wants him, instead. Suddenly, everything he's been doing for the past three years feels utterly and completely wrong.
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30 Dec 2025
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“You know, there were, like, signals."
“Signals?"
“Yeah, you know, a brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look. It all just accrued, like a snowball rolling down a hill, until it was obvious."
“How obvious?"
“Let’s just say the, uh, snowball became an avalanche.”Will Byers has spent entirely too much of his life wrapped up in his own head and the horrors around him to be any good at paying attention to other people. But after his conversation with Robin about signals, Will decides it’s finally time to really take a look at what’s going on around him.
Aka five times Mike sends a signal, and one time Will finally sends an unmistakable one back
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29 Dec 2025
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Mike had been his pillar of strength ever since elementary school. The fated day Mike came up to him and asked to be friends. That relationship came with a flurry of laughs but just as many tears. Would he always feel torn between two worlds? He wanted distance- but that seemed to be the exact opposite of what he got. Now, he’s living with the Wheeler’s. Nothing could have prepared him for what was next.
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A continuation of my three act series. Part two. This story dives deeper into Will and Mike’s relationship. A dance of misplaced anger and love.
*Title change on Tuesday December 16th.
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- Part 2 of Pray You Catch Me
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26 Dec 2025
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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25 Dec 2025
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Presenting at the airport, Will? Really? by defnotanarc
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jul 2022
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When Mike and Will went to embrace, everything changed.
S04E02 AU
aka hey mainline some ridiculous a/b/o byler copium that no one wanted with me? cool? cool.
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22 Dec 2025
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Ever since Will was taken by Vecna when he was twelve, he's had nothing but bad expereinced with his neck.
Most Omegas loved when their family or friends scented their neck. Will hates it.
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21 Dec 2025
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By all measures, Mike is a good alpha. He checks all the boxes, really. Protective without being overbearing, quick to step in when someone’s in trouble, careful but not patronizing. He’s loud and boisterous, sure, but he’s also earnest, and sweet, and so goddamn chivalrous it’s stupid.
It’s all so horribly infuriating, and so infuriatingly endearing.
That’s the thing about instincts. They make everything so confusing. Will knows, rationally, that all of these things are just Mike’s way of being a good friend and packmate. And yet, there’s still a part of him—a decidedly omega part—that relishes in the attention in a way he knows he shouldn’t.
Navigating teenage relationships is hard enough. It's even harder when instincts get involved.
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- Part 1 of all roads lead to omega will byers
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21 Dec 2025
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After playing his part in preventing the end of the world, Mike thought senior year would be a piece of cake. Compared to fighting monsters and keeping government secrets, how hard could it be to deal with regular family drama, looming college decisions and his suddenly blaring obsession with staring at his best friend?
It's a gradual realization that he may have never wanted the things he thought he did一and some things, he may have wanted all along.
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13 Dec 2025
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When Will needs to get his thoughts out of his head, he writes a letter he never intends to send. He addresses it to Mike, and tells him everything.
Feeling lighter than he has in weeks and buoyed by the adrenaline of writing it all out, Will acts on an impulse and ends the letter with, "If you’d be willing to give me a chance, I’d be really happy to date you. If you’re open to trying it, please meet me in Castle Byers this Saturday at 2:00pm. I’m not asking for any promises, I’m not asking for forever or anything like that; all I’m asking is that you give me a chance. Come if you want; if not, I completely understand, no hard feelings, and I’ll never, ever mention this again."
He forgets all about the letter, and the distinctive red envelope he stowed it in, until he turns around to find it missing. Now, Will has to think of some way to stop Mike from reading that letter - or should he wait at Castle Byers on Saturday at 2:00pm and pray for a miracle?
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- Part 1 of The Red Envelope
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13 Dec 2025
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“Wait, an- artsy guy from L.A.,” Mike repeats, frowning, “as in-”
Down the hall, the door to Debbie’s office swings open, and Mike’s mouth drops open. “Oh,” he groans, “you have got to be kidding me.”
Will does not look any more pleased to see him than Mike is. “Oh,” he says stiffly, as Debbie’s office door clicks shut behind him. “You again.”
“Nice to see you too,” Mike replies, and Will’s face drops into a scowl.
Exes, rivalries, and far too much mistletoe. What could possibly go wrong?
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12 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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12 Dec 2025
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filling in the blanks as we go by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2023
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Today, though, is different, because today, Will is feeling incredibly grateful to have this job. All of a sudden he doesn't mind the sweeping and the dusting and the restocking shelves with books that, quite frankly, aren't to his own taste in any way whatsoever, aside from the tiny comic book section tucked away in the darkest part of the store. He's grateful for the silence and the boredom and the wasting his phone battery scrolling through the Instagram accounts of people he doesn't know or care about.
Because the thing is, if Will didn't have this job, he would have never had the opportunity to lay eyes on the very attractive guy that just walked in, and that, in and of itself, is enough to make him feel, vaguely, like his entire life is complete.
in which will works at the bookstore, and is charmed by a certain customer
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12 Dec 2025
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“Are you offended that people think we’re dating?”
“No,” Mike says immediately. “Of course not,” because, again, he should be so lucky.
Will’s baffled expression does not change. “Then why would I be?”
“So– okay, fine, whatever. Should we, like, tell them to get their heads out of their asses and that we’re not– um– dating, or–”
“I think,” Will cuts in, “well. You know what would be funny?”
Honestly, Mike doesn't know what he thought being Will Byers' fake-boyfriend would entail, but he definitely didn't think it would involve this many ugly Christmas sweaters.
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12 Dec 2025
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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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12 Dec 2025
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now i've found a real love (you'll never fool me again) by birthofv3nus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2025
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Mike didn’t think there was anything else that more perfectly captured the magic of Christmas than this: ice skating beneath a glittering tree, next to a beautiful boy, hand-in-hand. The endless strings of lights reflected in Will’s eyes, creating a kaleidoscope of colors. In the distance, an old Hollywood singer crooned about holding the one you love close in front of the fire on Christmas Eve. Typical.
Mike Wheeler takes it upon himself to give his friends a Christmas they'll never forget. However, Christmastime is rather difficult to navigate when you're constantly trying to hide the fact that you're hopelessly in love with your best friend.
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12 Dec 2025
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“Take me to bed,” Mike breathed against his ear, and suddenly nothing else mattered. “You can fuck me senseless to make up for all the shit I did.”
“You didn’t do anything wrong,” said Will insistently, nosing at the soft skin of Mike’s neck, “but I’ll take you up on that suggestion.”
After being broken up for six months, Mike and Will get back together.
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06 Dec 2025