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Holy shit, Will thinks. Holy shit, that’s Mike Wheeler.
Dead center stage, his long fingers plucking expertly at a deep blue electric guitar, is a living ghost of Will’s desperately buried past. The central figure of his best childhood memories and worst adolescent shames, the boy he thought he’d left behind for good, the first and only person he’d ever really been in love with. Mike.
Chicago, 1993. Will is working as an illustrator, back in the Midwest for the first time since he left at 14. Mike is the frontman of an up-and-coming alt rock band he started with his college friends. Through sheer luck, their paths cross, and everything they ever left unsaid comes bubbling back to the surface.
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07 Feb 2026
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Carlton loves his boyfriend. He does so, so much. To degrees that his friends have sometimes called ‘unhealthy’, though none of them have ever been with anyone as pretty or as intelligent and fascinating as his Will.
Every long term relationship needs to spice things up every once in a while, right?
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05 Feb 2026
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“You’re really into this girl, huh?” No, no, no. Steve of all people could not be looking at him with that kind of wonder, like a proud dad. He already had one older sibling and another future older-sibling-in-law. He was all set, thank you very much.
Still, he couldn’t deny it. And Will was in the room, so he couldn’t help himself from saying something meant just for him. “We’re crazy about each other.”
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05 Feb 2026
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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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knights in white satin (beauty i'd always missed) by CastleByersAfterDark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2024
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It was late summer, the Party's last together before splitting for college, and the day finally arrived for their trip to the Midwest Renaissance Festival. They'd all been working hard on intricate costumes and props - Mike and Will in particular were beyond excited for the trip. Completely enamored with one another, as per usual, the boys get caught up in a game of pretend, with an indulgence in role-playing versions of their long-time DnD characters together throughout their adventure at the faire, eventually escalating it further than either of them planned. Well, one of them might have had very specific plans in mind...
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27 Jan 2026