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Hold the Line, Love isn't always on time by heavenlyofficialsmut
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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"Does he love the mage? In the end?"
He can't open his eyes, he can't because if he has to look at Mike as he says yes he's going to - he might punch him. He might actually punch him. Why did he agree to this? Why did Mike have to come here and be beautiful and loving and make him think just for a moment all over again.
"You'll have to read it and find out?"
Excuse the fuck out of yourself Michael. What.
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Mike finally starts getting his life together again just before they're all ready to leave after getting all of his feelings out into his writing and he goes to will for help in finishing it. Together they paint and write a new ending for the story whilst rediscovering themselves along the way.
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05 Jan 2026
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we can do this, together (i believe in you) by lovez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
17 Feb 2026
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2002, exactly 13 years after Mike and Will graduated from high school, decide to start a family.
13 year old Theo Decker has no where to go. Not to his grandparents house, not to the Holiday Inn, not to the Barbours, so he has no choice but to be placed in a new home by Social Services.
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Mike and Will adopt Theo Decker to give him another chance of happiness with a family.Bookmarked by Pythoness
04 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler insists he’s fine, but the silence left behind by Will says otherwise. As Hawkins settles into an uneasy calm, Mike spirals around feelings he won’t name and truths he refuses to face. The more he avoids them, the closer he comes to breaking.
(I’ll add more tags as I go)
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04 Jan 2026
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Too Young to Hold On (Too Old to just Break Free and Run) by arcade_is_tired
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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Everyone is moving on. Will is pursuing art at NYU with his brother Jonathan, Max and Lucas are together at a university out of town, and Dustin is doing wonderfully at a university for sciences. Everyone is moving on, except Mike.
Mike, and Eleven, who will never get the chance. And Mike is miserable about it.AKA
A Mike centric angst fic with eventual byler. Post canon/epilogue, there will be mature themes in this as it deals with the reality of trauma and depression.
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04 Jan 2026
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The pain strikes all of a sudden, shooting up from his neck as if to accompany the fog in his mind. He tries to move and realises that Wilhelm is pressing him against the wet wall. His body heats up at the threat, wanting to pick up his arms to push the boy off, but instantly Mike realises that his limbs are frozen. He looks down to see the cigarette slowly sliding through his limp fingers until it drops to the ground. The heat in his body quickly becomes torture, spreading like a thousand needle pricks. Even when he opens his mouth to scream, Mike doesn’t hear any sound come out of his throat, the only noise in the alleyway being Wilhelm shifting against him, tilting his head so he can sink his fangs deeper into Mike’s neck.
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[In the months after March 1986, the Party recovers even as they continue their search for Vecna. Mike Wheeler, as always, does not get a break.]
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04 Jan 2026
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Mike still blames himself for the death of Jane. 18 months later. He's given up. On everything.
It takes new addictions, phone calls, and an attempt on his own life to realize his own feelings.
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03 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler is a loser with a 4.2 GPA and a mind full of static. To the world, he’s just cynical; to himself, he’s a black hole. When he decides to end his calendar in April, he thinks he’s finally freeing the people he loves.
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03 Jan 2026
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A look into Mike Wheeler and moments of him being the heart of the party.
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03 Jan 2026
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Something was wrong with Will.
Something was seriously wrong with Will Byers.
And Mike was beginning to feel crazy, thinking he was the only one who noticed.
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A season 5 rewrite, following The Sorcerer
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03 Jan 2026
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Spring Break is coming up and Mike Wheeler has never felt worse. He is plagued with nightmares and shame he can barely handle.
The Byers family comes back to Hawkins just in time to witness Mike crumble and fall victim to the latest villain from the Upside Down.
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03 Jan 2026
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They were sneaking around to sleep in the same bed. He felt like he was being kicked or laughed at, it felt like a sick joke. His mouth became awfully dry and he was glad Will had brought him water.
“Baby, if you’re really worried about it I can go now,” Mike spit out his water. He choked-like completely dying sputtering, gasping for breath. He knows he should keep it down because of the others in the house but he can’t. Will now looks confused and who gave him the right to be confused because here he was calling Mike baby and being super sweet and it was like, it was like-
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Mike starts getting weird dreams, and when they suddenly stop he doesn’t know how to react, because he fell head over heels for his best friend.
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31 Dec 2025
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When Mike was twelve years old, his best friend went missing. When Mike died the day he jumped off the quarry, he saw him in the water. No one believes him. Three years later kids are going missing again. The lights keep flashing and they always lead him to the water. Will Byers is not dead—Mike just doesn't know how to prove it.
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31 Dec 2025
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Cherry Wine (Don't Leave Me Here To Die) by Hoeya, Yeonnah (Hoeya)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2026
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In which Vecna offers an exchange.
Mike for Holly. And the party doesn't hesitate to make a choice - well, more specifically, Nancy makes a choice. One she can't take back.
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Should also mention that while there is a hint of Byler and a hint of Mileven, it isnt talked about much until a particular chapter, and that's it. Hence the no romance tagBookmarked by Pythoness
31 Dec 2025
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this house is not a home but you are by strawberry_hiraeth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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Mike hesitated before he added, “You’re my home, Will.”
He felt Will’s breath hitch, and he turned slightly, curling around Mike protectively. “I love you, sweetheart.” No more words were needed. Mike knew Will understood what he was saying, the weight of his words.
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Mike Wheeler hates his home, hates how the fights never stop. He just wants to be able to live, not survive, after Vecna. All he wants to be able to do is sleep and not hear screams. Will, compared to his house, feels like a home
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31 Dec 2025
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Mike knows it’s probably stupid — sneaking out without his mom’s permission just to walk his friends home. But there are things he simply can’t do, and letting them go alone when half the neighborhood has lost power is one of them. And when Will smiles at him — brighter than before — Mike just knows: even if his mom yells at him later, he won’t regret this decision for a second.
And he doesn’t. Not even when some creature knocks them off the road, clearly intent on taking them. Because at least this way, they’re together.
// Or: Mike ends up in the Upside Down with Will. And somehow — that changes everything.
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- Part 1 of C.O.L.D
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31 Dec 2025
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in every life, through every door by probably_ren
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
12 Jan 2026
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The year is 1987 and Mike Wheeler hasn’t been seeing a strange, tall, and pale man— but he has been getting nightmares involving the Upside Down. Pretty par for the course, lately.
Until the demogorgon breaks into his fucking house.
OR, ALTERNATIVELY— Mike Wheeler is taken and The Party begins to crumble.
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30 Dec 2025
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Time after Time (If you're lost, you can look and you will find me) by Artemisunicorn1000
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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"One minute he was with Lucas at the Quarry the next he was in his bed with a pounding headache and wave of nausea that made the room feel like it was being turned upside down.
Something was off.
He looked at the clock trying to figure out how long he had been asleep.
His heart jumped out of his chest when he looked at the date.
The clock read may 21st 1987.
It was suppose to be 1991."Or
After the deaths of Eleven and Will, Mike Wheeler is left griefing over the two people he loved. One night, drunk and overwhelmed, he jumps from the quarry—and wakes up in 1987.
He’s sixteen again.
Only this time, there’s no Vecna. No Demogorgons. No Upside Down.Hawkins is normal.
Mike is certain it has to be a dream. He just doesn’t care. If this is all he gets, he’ll take it.
A Mike-centric fic about second chances, growing up and finding love without fear and monsters, and discovering who you are when the world doesn’t demand you be a hero.
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30 Dec 2025
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“I’ve seen what you’ve done,” Mike says, anger cutting through the fear now. “You destroyed my home. You killed kids. Kidnapped them, you break them.”
Vecna stops in front of him.
“And I get the feeling you only care about one kid in particular,” his tone is never-changing, he’s calm, “Do you ever stop to wonder why I took him that night? Why didn’t I take you?”
Or: the one where Vecna takes Mike instead of Holly, and he is the one who, with Max's help, has to venture through painful memories to find the exit.
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30 Dec 2025
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The Christmas of ‘86 is drawing nigh.
With the Byers-Hopper family finally visiting Hawkins and the Upside-Down seemingly under wraps, it looks like for the first time since ‘82, it’s going to be a truly happy holiday. Now all Mike needs to do is wrap presents, host guests, and keep Will from finding out about his feelings.
If only he wasn’t so distracted by a sudden onslaught of headaches and ultra-realistic nightmares…
OR: Season four but CHRISTMAS and CREATIVE LIBERTIES!
(people seemed to like my season 3 rewrite, so i'm officially taking a crack at season four)Series
- Part 2 of In World Works: Somewhat Canon Stranger Things Stories
- Part 3 of 'Tis A Season: Stranger Things Holiday Specials
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30 Dec 2025
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something in the static (i’ve been having revelations) by animalthemuppet
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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He’s twenty-two in his room in the dark, holding the Christmas lights close to his chest, waiting, wishing, hoping, praying for anything.
The lights flicker.
Mike should call Nancy, he should call his sponsor, he should call Lucas, he should call Dustin, he should call Jonathan, he should call Max, he should call Jane, and he should call his mom.
He should call anyone for help, tell them it’s getting bad again, call for anyone except for who he does-
“Will?” He calls out, voice shaking, strangled, a question and a prayer.
The room glows.or: Will Byers died in 1983, Mike Wheeler lost it. Ten years later he's talking to the lights again (nothing is really as it seems)
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30 Dec 2025