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“Mike? C'mon, wake up!”
Mike felt shivers down his spine. Breathed in, breathed out. Okay, he thinks to himself. Okay. You’re exhausted, and hallucinating your ex-best friend screaming your name. That’s perfectly normal. That’s fine.
Eighteen months after everything ended, Mike Wheeler is failing to write a story about a paladin who waited too long. Then Will's voice starts calling to him from the void, and Mike has to relive every moment he was too blind to see what was right in front of him.
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11 Jan 2026
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Stranger Things Five Finale rewrite.
The party heads into the Upside Down with a plan to destroy both it and Vecna once and for all. Will thinks he has taken the steps necessary to keep Vecna from using his fear and his secrets against him. But he is not the only one who is scared and he is not the only one who is keeping secrets. Vecna has spotted Will's weakness, and if Mike can't face up to his own demons, admit his own feelings and stop being the most repressed asshole on the face of the planet then he risks losing everything that matters to him.
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- Part 2 of Byler: The Heroes Trilogy
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11 Jan 2026
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“No, you could’ve. You’re Mike the Brave, remember?”
“Yeah, in DND Will, not real life.” Mike groans, stretching out across the smooth marble island. He smiles a little at Will bringing up his DND character. He hasn't let himself remember DND since Eddie. “In real life I’m… not. I always run away when I’m scared.”
"That's not true. You stayed with me when I was possessed by the Mind Flayer.”
Mike says too quickly, “You’re not scary.”
“Not even when I’m being controlled like a puppet by an interdimensional shadow monster?”
He says it like it’s funny, but Mike doesn’t think it’s something he can laugh about.
“Never.”
or, Somewhere along the way, Mike Wheeler forgot how to be The Heart.
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11 Jan 2026
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A stranger things what-if where Mike can see the camera, leading him to realize things like foreshadowing and symbolism apply when the camera is present.
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11 Jan 2026
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children get older (and i'm getting older too) by Kody (saturated)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jan 2026
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Everything sucks, so when Mike gets a chance to try again, he's not gonna say no.
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A time travel fix-it fic
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11 Jan 2026
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The door to Mike’s garage burst open. Mike scrambled backward, body feeling heavy from the water on his clothes. From the door came Will Byers. His bowl-cut was longer and overgrown. He wore a grey shirt with red and blue stripes and red denim shorts. He looked pained. This makes no sense, Mike thought. This was a younger Will, from the summer of 1985. How was Mike back here?
“Will? What's going on?” Mike asked the younger Will.
“Will, come on!” came another voice. “You can’t leave, it’s raining!”
It was Mike at fourteen. He looked awful; he had a bright yellow striped shirt with grey shorts. He was a gangly mess of long limbs. His hair… Mike was embarrassed of his past self.
“Listen, I said I was sorry, alright? It’s a cool campaign, it’s really cool. We’re just not in the mood right now!” the younger Mike explained. Will didn’t stop packing his bag. He spun on Mike.
“Yeah, Mike! That’s the problem, you guys are never in the mood anymore. You’re ruining our party!” the younger Will shouted.
OR: Byler season 5 re-write (canon compliant), including the painting lie, Mike getting Vecna'd, and a proper coming out scene.
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11 Jan 2026
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time cast a spell on you (but you won't forget me) by crazierstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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“It doesn’t matter, Michael.” His voice is low when he responds, almost as if he’s trying to hold back anger. Will takes a deep breath, composing himself, then finally walks down the hallway and out of Mike’s sight.
Mike is left standing alone, staring like he’s in a trance at the place where Will had sat on the couch. Only one thought circles through his mind.
He called him Michael.
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something's wrong with will. and mike seems to be the only one who cares. what else is new?
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10 Jan 2026
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His hands were cupping his face, the pressure of his fingers against the wound making him scream again. He couldn't see, his eyes blurred with tears and pain in a way that made everything fuzzy,
No… wait… only one of his eyes was bouncing around wildly, eyeing the snarling Demogorgon that was sniffing at the fresh splatter of blood on its claw. He was watching it, a keen rising in his chest when he realized that it was only out of one eye.
It was- It must've been the blood that was making it hard to see, the blood was gluing his eye shut, that was why he couldn't see. He cried out when the Demogorgon turned back towards him, flinching away when it roared in his face, tensing like it was about to lunge.
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The Demogorgon got to Mike a few seconds earlier, claws ripping through fragile skin and now Mike had to fight to heal and adjust while trying to rescue his sister from an inter dimensional monster. Which is actually pretty hard when he's in pain, drugged to the gills, and can't stop blurting out things that he would really rather not. Case in point: the Quarry, the box of unsent letters in the back of his closet (Ironic, yes, he knows) and his embarrassingly massive crush on his best friend.
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- Part 4 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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10 Jan 2026
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"That's ok," she says. "So, have you been sleeping better?"
Mike nods.
"No more headaches?" She asks.
"Nope."
"Nightmares?"
His breath catches.
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10 Jan 2026
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houseguest from hell by hairrington
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King
18 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler does not have a crush on Will Byers.
He does, however, become deeply invested in hating Will’s very annoying, stupid, dumb boyfriend Richie, who also happens to be his cousin and the worst thing to ever happen to Hawkins.
Eddie Kaspbrak would like it on record that he is also not jealous—Richie just stopped paying attention to him, and that’s weird.
Two accidental relationships, zero self-awareness, and a lot of jealousy later, everyone figures it out. Eventually.
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09 Jan 2026
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Mike and Will stay closely in touch after the Party goes their separate ways post-graduation, leading to Will asking Mike to be his roommate at NYU for the spring semester. In doing so, Mike finds out a lot about Will, and himself, ultimately changing their relationship forever.
**This work will likely, eventually, become explicit. Chapters will be indicated as such**
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09 Jan 2026
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it's over my head (i don't mind if it's lonely) by jupitertwix_13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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He’s not entirely sure how he missed all of the signs.
They were right there, the entire time. In fact, he’d been living with Mike Wheeler since they’d gotten back to Hawkins, yet it seemed to slip through the cracks.
Or: A comprehensive explanation of how Will missed the warning signs that Mike was being targeted by Vecna.
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09 Jan 2026
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I Can Remember (and colors shone above our heads) by irl_batman26
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2026
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*CONFORMITY GATE*
What happens when Mike realizes the past 18 months were a creation of Vecnas mind and no time has passed at all? How will he cope with having to fight Vecna all over again and the truth that this time it won’t be so easy?
Or a rewriting of volume 2 and 3 of stranger things because conformity gate didn’t happen
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09 Jan 2026
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It's been three years, and everyone seems to have moved on except Mike Wheeler. Stuck in the same routine, days blending together over and over. He's opted to accept his fate, but some feelings can't stay repressed forever.
As he grapples with his demons he realizes escape is an option, leading him down a twisted road of memories past. Reliving each trauma reminds him, however, exactly why he was choosing to conform all along. If Mike can escape his repression and Vecna's curse, he just might rewrite a love story they've heard before.
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09 Jan 2026
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me and michael (solid, as they come) by mayonaisie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Lucifer (TV), Lucifer (DC Comics)
19 Feb 2026
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Mike bikes and bikes and bikes, going as fast as he could go, as far as he could think of. His stomach whirling, the end of summer. The start of Highschool. Without Will. God, doing anything without Will nowadays felt like he was missing a limb. Constantly turning to speak only to find himself talking to midair, going to the arcade and seeing Will’s name, Will’s score, staring back at him. This was a mistake- How could he ever think he could survive High School without-
Mike abruptly stopped before he could slam into the post. The mailbox in front of him. This white and red one looked strangely familiar despite the fact every Hawkins house shared the same mailbox, but there was one identifying detail. The huge ‘SIXTY-FOUR’ hastily scrawled on the side with-
With a wizard hat.
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Mike, and his mysterious mentor Michael for the summer.
PREVIOUSLY TITLED: "michaels in the bathroom (..by himself?)"
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09 Jan 2026
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Nothing lasts forever (even cold November rain) by Allstar13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2026
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Mike was pulling away from everyone and everything these days, when all he really needed was for someone to pull him right back in. Not that he'd ever say that out loud, though.
Or: a fic where we actually get to see and explore Mike's feelings because the Duffers did my boy dirty (also, Byler will be canon in this one, js be patient😁)
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09 Jan 2026
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Mike gets everything he ever wanted, and nothing is wrong.
(or, Mike Wheeler does morally questionable things for the people he loves, and everyone worries he might be suicidal)
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09 Jan 2026
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After Starcourt, the Party drifts apart. With El gone and Will in California, Mike feels invisible in his own life. Then a transfer student, Sim Suk, appears — polite, clever, and just as out of place as Mike. A friendship begins, and unexpectedly feelings that mike cant seem to name appear to.
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09 Jan 2026
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“You, uh, cut your hair.” Is the first thing El says, wonder in her voice as she picks at a strand of his now much more even haircut. “You never said you cut it!”
Mike feels Will’s eyes burning into him when he smiles at her, trying his best to look sheepish, “It was on a whim, didn’t think it was important.”
There's a lot he hadn't told them and a lot he hopes they never find out.
Mike Wheeler believes he can change, or at least he hopes he can, because otherwise there's no way he'll ever be able to fix himself before his girlfriend and his best friend come back and figure out what a freak he's become. But maybe change isn't up to him because everything he does seems to make matters worse, including the way he just can't seem to stop thinking about his best friend.
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Mike deals with internalized biphobia in the best way he knows how- by almost ruining everything with his best friend and then kissing him, because yeah, he knows how to make good choices.
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09 Jan 2026
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the time problem (maybe this time we'll get it right) by GodsFavoriteUser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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They were finally free. The sky had returned to its natural blue, the ground closed up, and the fog of black smoke no longer hung over Hawkins. Mike had to keep reminding himself of that fact. Everything was perfect.
Maybe too perfect.
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Post season 5 fix-it, where everyone was Vecna'ed and the world did "end," and now they have to figure out how to get back home. But the way to get home might suck more than if they were to stay in the messed up, distorted version of Hawkins. At least for Mike.
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08 Jan 2026