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Mortem Obire (or Life After Death) by fresh_and_funky
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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The woman scoffed. Like Mike said something ridiculous and unheard of. “I didn’t kidnap you. I’m your sister.”
“So you say.”
She side-eyed Mike, lips pursed together. Then she sighed, hands drumming on the steering wheel as she waited at the red light. “My name is Nancy.”
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How Mike Wheeler had to lose everything to gain everything.Bookmarked by CuratorQ
27 Feb 2026
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It was easy for Will to ignore the feelings when Mike wasn't around. Back then, in California, or during those months when the boys weren't talking.
But now, Mike was everywhere. Sending him smiles over the kitchen table when they accidentally met in the morning. Asking how Will has been. Sitting next to him on the couch instead of far on the other side. Those small things made Will go crazy.
Because now, there was no distance stopping the reality, no silence telling him that pushing Mike away was fixing whatever was wrong with him. Now, the barrier holding everything together broke, filling every second of Will's life with feelings he could no longer hold back from himself. He couldn't hide them anymore, convince himself that it was normal for friends to feel that way.
Will Byers was desperately in love with Mike Wheeler.
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After the Byers return from California, Mike and Will don't talk anymore. But one day, something changes and suddenly, Mike is everywhere. The frequent accidental touches and looks grow into something surprisingly similar to their behaviour when they were young. And that confuses Will, because Mike is still with El, right?
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27 Feb 2026
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Mike's body relaxed, and Lucas saw him as he was at that moment. A small, weak, scared kid, face streaked with tears and snot.
"Lucas... Let me." He begged, his voice raw "I want this. Let me... please."
Three months after Eleven's death, Mike attempts suicide and Lucas stops him. Everyone has to deal with the consequences.
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27 Feb 2026
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Standing in the yard dressed like a kid (the house is white and the lawn is dead) by CC (SpongehhhCattoh)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Feb 2026
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Mike likes to think everyone cares about him like how he cares about them. He always makes sure he’s there for them—their protector, their paladin, and he knows they’re always there for him…
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There are many times Mike gets hurt by both the people he loves and doesn’t and no one helps him and one time his family and friends finally notices.
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24 Feb 2026
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Mike and Will are college roommates, and what starts as a stupid, half-baked joke during a hazy group hangout turns into something much more complicated. Mike and Lucas make a bet on No Nut November, and Mike is convinced it’ll be easy. That is, until the very next night, when he overhears Will masturbating in his room. Suddenly the bet doesn’t feel so simple. As the days drag on, the tension builds, and Mike finds himself unraveling in ways he didn’t expect, forced to confront the uncomfortable possibility that maybe he wasn’t as straight as he thought.
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24 Feb 2026
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don't let me ruin it (again) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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Graduation is supposed to be the start of Mike Wheeler’s future.
Instead, it’s a loop he can’t escape.
As the same day repeats endlessly, Mike is forced to face the questions he’s spent years avoiding. And soon, he’ll have to realize the way out isn’t in saying the right thing.
It’s in finally learning how to listen.
Or: the universe ships Byler harder than any of us do.
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23 Feb 2026
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Will Byers can read minds—well, Mike's mind—sort of. They have to be touching, and Mike Wheeler is kind of very touchy? It's insane. In spite of this, he's not very good at understanding Mike's thoughts.
Set a few months (weeks?) into the summer before S5 kicks off (but aged up).
First 5 chapters are literally just plot for the porn that’s about to go down.Bookmarked by CuratorQ
23 Feb 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Feb 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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22 Feb 2026
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I Won't Say It if You Won't Say It First by delusionalhemlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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Will finally makes eye contact with him again, a smile playing on his lips. Mike’s eyes dart down to them for a split second, then back up. “Okay.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I mean, whatever, right? We live together, for God’s sake, and we’ve known each other forever. Who cares if we have to hold hands for three days, too?”
“Exactly,” Mike says too quickly. As stupid as Robin’s plan had sounded when she’d proposed it, now that things were falling into place he found himself eager to get it underway. Treat Will like royalty. Easy.***
Three whole days Will’s heart hasn’t known whether to swell or break or rupture like his appendix. But he’s being discharged tomorrow, so it won’t be an issue for much longer, so for now he just pretends that the hand on his arm wants to be there. Because Will Byers-Hopper has never been chosen on purpose, and until tomorrow, he can pretend that this arrangement didn’t come about under duress.
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New York City, October, 1989. Things have been better since Will moved away from Hawkins and Mike followed him. Until Will's appendix bursts and, in the chaos of getting him to the hospital and finding a medical proxy, Mike accidentally tells the doctors he's his boyfriend.
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22 Feb 2026
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After his 18th birthday party, Mike wakes up with a head injury. The world around him is completely different. He will have to navigate it, find his old self and decide whether he wants to keep it.
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22 Feb 2026
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“Do you like me or something?” he asked, much more aggressively than was necessary. Will stopped dead in his tracks. It was unlike him to ask a question like that— so straightforward and aimed. The jumping to conclusions, though, made him sure that it was Mike Wheeler.
“What?” he asked, meaning to sound aggressive but recognizing the hurt in the way his voice cracked on the vowel.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to ask it like that,” he hurried, only intensifying Will’s anger. This wasn’t a heat of the moment sort of outburst; he’d planned on asking him, one way or another.
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Will Byers and Mike Wheeler navigate in and out of each other’s lives throughout the nineties.
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22 Feb 2026
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Finally, after all this time. Mike can’t even believe it. He can’t believe half the shit he’s seen in the past forty-eight hours. He’s not even standing on Earth right now—or maybe he is, technically? Dustin might know—either way, they’ve finally done it and as far as Mike knows, they’re all okay. It feels too good to be true. He has a bad feeling in the back of his mind. Somewhere distant, warning bells are ringing.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Mrs. Byers swings the axe one final time, and Vecna’s head snaps off of his body, rolling to the floor with a dull thunk.
And right beside him, Will collapses onto the floor.
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Or, something else unexpected happens to in the Abyss and Mike accidentally admits some rather incriminating truths to Will. And after everything's over, they must deal with the aftermath—except on top of having to deal with losing a close friend, Mike must also come to terms with who he really is and how he really feels about his best friend.
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21 Feb 2026
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you drive me crazy, for sure (but i can do that myself). by FrodoInAFez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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There's something wrong with him and he knows it, and he's known long enough for it to become foundational. His name is Michael Francis Wheeler. He's a middle child, with two sisters who piss him off in unique ways and parents he sure does live with. His two great passions in life are analytical chemistry and cheesy fantasy stories. Something is wrong with him.
Words exist for pieces of it, but they never quite encompass the sprawling root system of his flaws, and he's given up on trying.
But if forced to summarize, he wishes he was content with normalcy.
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Or: It's the end of the world, Mike's worst fear is himself, and he copes by sitting on the edge of a cliff.
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20 Feb 2026
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He didn’t know, all he knew was that he had to endure a lot as a kid, and even still, nothing could have prepared him for this. Nothing could have prepared him for the absolute, all-consuming panic that washed over him when 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺.
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Mike and Will wake up in each other's bodies and chaos ensues.
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20 Feb 2026
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What Happened to You (Return to Hawkins) by HesSheepish
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Feb 2026
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Will Byers was at his worst when he returned to Hawkins. He was struggling with something he refused to put a name to. Some things just didn’t change, but others finally did.
While Will was busy running away from things, Mike finally decided to run toward something. Both would need to face their past to have any hope for a future.Aka
A gothic-esque fix-it fic for byler. Exploring the hive mind attachment question lingering in the wake of the finale.
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18 Feb 2026
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in the depths of the forest (you’ll find me) by paladinpromises
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Feb 2026
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“I’m not her Mike.” Will’s voice comes out barely a whisper, the distance between us so close that it feels as if I am breathing him in.
The sentence stings in my chest for a moment.
“I never wanted you to be.”
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The party reunites on a camping trip after two years of separation following El’s death. Max presents the crazy idea to take magical mushrooms in hopes of reconnecting back to their true selves that was lost in the grief.
Mike fails to realize what connecting to his inner self truly implies.
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17 Feb 2026
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Living under the same roof as Mike Wheeler was supposed to be a dream come true. Instead, it's a silent nightmare. Following the events of Season 4, the distance between Will and Mike has never been greater, the silence in the Wheelers' basement deafening.
While helping Jonathan with a secret errand, Will stumbles upon something he was never meant to find. Hidden beneath an old D&D box are letters - lots of them - written by Mike during their time apart in California. Letters that were never sent.Bookmarked by CuratorQ
17 Feb 2026
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I'll Know (When My Love Comes Along) by sapphiresweetness
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Will Byers is sick of being the shy kid. And, in a quest to break out of his shell, he joins his school's theatre department, roping Mike Wheeler along too.
So, when the boy that he has been in love with for years start helping Will memorize his lines by playing his love interest, it's not impossible to see why things went so wrong.
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15 Feb 2026
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Banishment (bravebyers, byler, cleradin) by ByeDisaster
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Paladin Michael switches with our Mike. Will Byers finds an injured knight on his doorstep.
Mike fumbles for Will’s face, armoured thumb on his chin. “William?” Butts his forehead against Will’s. “It’s you,” he chokes. “It’s you.” Kisses him.
His lips and stuttering breath hot on Will’s mouth. Kisses him hungry and wanting. Messy, teeth scraping down his bottom lip as he sags against him.
Byers can’t help himself. If he knew this was waiting for him in Hawkins, he wouldn’t have played hooky for two years. Kisses his best friend back, hands supporting him, feeling him. Mike’s hair is longer; Will rubs his fingers backwards up his scalp, tugging. Then groans, and pushes away. “You’re bleeding."
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15 Feb 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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15 Feb 2026