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    Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”

    Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”

    Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    Mike notices Will's staring and finally says something about it.

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    The moment Will has been anticipating finally happens at a random gas station in Utah.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    A post-canon (with some small tweaks) road trip full of tension, nightmares, gay panic, and a very long drive toward the truth.

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    Will just wanted to bring his brother home. He didn’t plan on sharing motel beds, surviving Mike Wheeler’s jealousy spiral, or confronting feelings he’s spent years burying.

    Mike thinks Will likes girls.
    Will thinks Mike will never love him back.
    Both of them are wrong.

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    Water dripped from Will's hair, ran down his jaw, caught on his lips.

    Mike stared at it.

    Stared like he'd forgotten where he was.

    Then, slowly he lifted a towel and pressed it gently to Will's mouth, wiping the water away. His hand didn't even shake. He was steady. 

    Will's breath stuttered. Tingles tremored all the way up his spine.

    He didn't move. He couldn't. He was too aware of Mike's hand, of the way his eyes kept dropping back to his lips.

    That look again.

    The one Will had seen a dozen times now and never understood.

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    22 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    He doesn’t have to justify it or ground it in reality, he just knows it to be true before he opens his eyes. Will.

    “Why are you…” Mike trails off, his eyebrows draw together as he takes in the face hovering above his, “…me?” He genuinely is perplexed now. Not shocked. No, Mike thinks his ability to be shocked is probably zero at this point given the state of his world. But he’s definitely confused. The boy above him looks on in horror and disbelief. Although the face is certifiably, completely Mike’s face, the expressions and eyes are easily identifiable to Mike as belonging to Will Byers.

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    Mike and Will get FreakyFriday-ed but with more angst and yearning. Post season 5 volume 1, with some artistic liberties with canon + a sprinkle of s5 v2 rewrite

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    21 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 53

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    After applying to work at Scoops Ahoy over the summer, Max had found herself holed up in Scoops Ahoy with Mike Wheeler for 7 hours a day, 4 days a week. Eventually, the two warm up to each other, even enough for Max to consider Mike her best friend. Although they are closer than ever before, Max still hasn't touched on any of Mike's darker thoughts or experiences, which led her to believe that he didn't have any.

    As they experience the wrath of terrifying Soviet officers while hundreds of metres underneath Starcourt mall, Max learns that there is more to Mike Wheeler than she had previously thought.

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    18 Feb 2026