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After entering the hive mind, Will suspects their next clue lies within a familiar spot. Unfortunately for Mike, this exploit catapults him into his worst fears...
In more ways than one.
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03 Mar 2026
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The Byers are living at the Wheeler house, which is making it a lot more difficult for Will to push his feelings down for Mike. And when Mike notices he is feeling jealous over certain events, the proximity makes it a lot more difficult for him to push down his feelings for Will.
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Nightmares prevent Will from sleeping. Mike seemingly prevents nightmares.
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27 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler has been noticing things about Will Byers lately... things he's been trying not to think about. After a D&D campaign ends in victory, Mike invites Will to stay over, and they finally start to figure out what they mean to each other.
Canon divergence from season 2 where Mike realizes his feelings for Will instead of El.
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24 Feb 2026
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i can't read your mind! by mminamoto
Fandoms: 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Manga), 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Anime)
14 Feb 2026
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Kamome Academy's star basketball player, Minamoto Kou, has the biggest crush on Mitsuba Sousuke, one of the smartest kids in their year. In fact, Kou's had a crush on Sousuke since he first saw him in their first year of middle school. The problem? Whenever Kou tries his best to flirt with Sousuke, everything he does and says ends up being the opposite of what he really means.
To make matters worse, Sousuke totally hates Kou.
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Kou is terrible at talking, so he tries to convey his feelings in another way.
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16 Feb 2026
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“Are you having a fucking episode right now?” Max says, furrowing her brows. She doesn’t understand and Mike doesn’t know how to make her. He can’t say it out loud, not in full.
“I didn’t love her because she wasn’t who I wanted her to be.” He admits in a rush of words. 'Because she wasn't Will' goes unsaid.
or: max and mike as steve and robin in robin's coming out scene
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10 Feb 2026
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Will has never had his first kiss. Mike is happy to lend a hand.
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08 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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07 Feb 2026
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The Wheelers and the Byers have been living together for eight months. Mike and Will have been dating for two of them.
Will figures keeping their relationship quiet should be simple enough. After all, he kept his feelings for Mike hidden for years on end—with Jonathan the only person to realize something was going on. But in the Wheeler household, as it turns out, secrets aren’t so easy to keep.
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01 Feb 2026
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Will Byers is a storm that Mike Wheeler just can’t seem to escape. Somehow, Lucas is the first person who notices that something is going on.
“You’re being weird.”
“Weird? How am I being weird?”
Lucas raised his eyebrows. “Seriously? You don’t see it?”
“No!” Mike exclaimed. “I don’t. I really don’t.”
“Come on, man,” Lucas said slowly. “The overprotectiveness…? The stares? Not letting anyone else help?”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“You and Will.”
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29 Jan 2026
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Except he wasn’t truly alone in the garden.
Will tore his eyes from the paper and looked over at the frog: it had not moved an inch, all the while Will had filled the page and got lost in his thoughts, found his way out and got lost anew.
The frog blinked slowly at him. Will lowered his sketchbook. It was definitely staring.
or; Mike gets cursed a little too often.
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- Part 1 of Beneath The Willow Tree
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28 Jan 2026
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Something is Wrong with Mike Wheeler by The_Bees_Want_Arson for Orcareux
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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“Jeez, you really are sick.” Will muttered and Mike choked out a laugh.
“‘S just my luck.” He murmured, ignoring the way his head spun when he lifted it from the toilet seat.
Even under the harsh white light of the bathroom, Will still looked good, his honey brown eyes furrowed in concern and lips slightly parted. He was beautiful, and Mike wanted to bite him.
He recoiled a bit at the thought but now that he had thought it, it wouldn't go away. He could imagine it, digging his teeth into Will’s wrist, blood beading from the teeth marks faster than he could lick it up. The rushing in his ears got louder, twin heartbeats thudding in his ears and Mike turned to heave into the toilet again, not even bothering to stop the sobs that were ripping through him.
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Mike Wheeler has always had shit luck; he just didn't think it was this shit. Something is wrong with him, and it all started when he was attacked by a stray Demo-bat.
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- Part 2 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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24 Jan 2026
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The group stood on the hill overlooking the town, watching the dark plumes of smoke drift up towards the sky, gathering in a cloud of lightning. Red light seeped from the gates, casting a glow over the town, and in combination with the falling spores, it truly looked as though the Upside Down had spread through the gates into Hawkins.
The grass was ashen, crunching under Jane’s feet as she stood up ahead of Will, a withered flower clenched in her fist. Mike was beside him, only a few inches away, breathing in synch as they took in the sight.
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A Will and Mike-centric season five rewrite starting from the end of season four.
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22 Jan 2026
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“Also, if I might remind you, we are all actively going through hell—I think I’m allowed to look like shit.”
“Now, I didn’t say all that!” Mike protests immediately, so overexaggerated that it cannot be entirely serious. “You don’t look like shit—quite the opposite, actually.”
Will stumbles immediately, and Mike catches him, because of course he does.
A military base is burning down behind them, casting everything in a golden glow that could perhaps even count as romantic were it not for the circumstances it came to be in the first place, adding a blurry, near-dreamlike quality to the air, and he stumbles like an idiot, and Mike catches him around the waist as if this were some romantic comedy.
Maybe he didn’t do shit back there, in actuality, and got ripped apart by a demogorgon limb by limb, died and ascended, because surely Mike didn’t just say—
“The—opposite?”
“Yeah,” Mike says, unrepentant, straightening him up and continuing like nothing is off about this line of conversation at all. “The blood is quite a good look on you.”
or: how the season should have gone
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18 Jan 2026
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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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15 Jan 2026
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Getting trapped in the Upside Down with a Demogorgon wasn't part of the plan. Neither was the kiss.
Now they're safe in Mike's basement, and he can't stop thinking about it—about Will, about the way his lips felt, about how nothing with El ever felt like this.
The problem is figuring out what to say when Will is sitting five feet away, looking like he wants to disappear into the couch cushions, and Mike's terrified of making it worse.
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13 Jan 2026
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At the age of five, Mike finds out that he lives in quite a peculiar world.
It’s the day before kindergarten and when his parents sit him down in the living room, Mike doesn’t know how to feel: his mother carries worry in her gleaming eyes, while his father looks like he’d rather be anywhere but there.
“Mike. Do you remember when you asked us about the tattoo you’ve seen on Grandma Julie’s wrist?”
Mike nods and a whole new world opens up for him.A series rewrite where Mike and Will fall in love in a world made of soulmates and monsters.
Day 7 of Byler Week 2023: Soulmates
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- Part 7 of Byler Week 2023
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13 Jan 2026
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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- Part 1 of landslide
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08 Jan 2026
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gay panic in the mcdonald's bathroom (bonus scene) by hopelessromanfic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2023
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bonus scene from chapter 5 of landslide.
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- Part 2 of landslide
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08 Jan 2026
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sends shivers down my spine (body's aching all the time) by bisexualwreck
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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“Hey, sorry, forgot my jacket!” Will calls out to Mike as he runs down the stairs of the Wheeler basement.
He pauses when he doesn’t get an answer, looking to see where Mike went. Will finds him standing at the shelf where their D&D binders sit, gently brushing his fingers over the spines of his and Will’s books. He hears a sniffle come from Mike. Is he crying?
or, I rewrote the end of the epilogue because that was bs
prompt from @ellewluvr on twitter <3
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08 Jan 2026
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Prompt: "Picture The Party playing Truth or Dare and one of them dares Mike or Will to kiss the other and they become extremely flustered" (from an anonymous ask on Tumblr). I liked the prompt so much I wrote a tiny oneshot about it. Pure fun and fluff. Tiny little ficlet. Enjoy.
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08 Jan 2026