CaughtInTheHeadlight
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(i haven't been there) for the longest time by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2025
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The little girl makes a squeaking noise, shoving her face into the guy's chest and bringing her thumb back up to her mouth. “Uh uh. Wanna stay with you, Daddy,” she implores.
Her dad sighs, leaning back against the bench and placing a hand at her back, glancing apologetically over at Will. “She’s been going through this shy phase,” he says conspiratorially.
Will laughs. “Personally, I’ve been going through a shy phase for almost three decades, so. I get it.”
The guy snorts. “Fair enough.” He peers down at his daughter, who’s still hiding her face in his t-shirt, and smiles a little as he pats the top of her head. “I’m Mike, by the way."In which Will meets a very cute guy, with an even cuter daughter.
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Mike keeps losing Will, time and time again. Time and time again, he always gets him back.
Or, alternatively: “Mike and Will’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night in the Upside Down: and Other Tales” by Mike Wheeler
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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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starving works (when it costs too much to love) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 May 2025
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“No,” Mike says forcefully, and then, with a frustrated sound, “I mean- yes, I don’t know. What I mean is, it’s bullshit that you had to deal with that, and it’s bullshit that you have to deal with-” here he gestures wildly to, Will assumes, the general shitshow that their lives have become, “all of this, and I just…” he sighs, and lets his hand fall to rest on top of Will’s. The contact, the casualness with which he initiates it, surprises Will so much that he stops trying to strangle his pinky finger with the couch thread. “You should have the things you want,” Mike says, squeezing Will’s hand.
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nothing lasts forever (but let's see how far we get) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 May 2025
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“I’m not moping,” Mike sighs, sounding objectively pretty mopey, “I’m just…”
Their sides are already all but pressed together, thanks to the relatively narrow space the bed provides, but Will nudges his thigh into Mike’s too, just to complete the line. “Just what?”
Mike sighs again, this time more frustrated than dejected. “Well, it’s weird, right?” he asks, rhetorically Will assumes, “because we’ve been obsessing for ages over how to save the world and get back to normal, but now that it’s actually happened, I’m realizing that none of us ever talked about what getting back to normal means.”
“Ah.” Will smiles to himself a little. “You want a plan.”the world stops ending. mike has some feelings about it.
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