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After returning to Hawkins, Mike Wheeler can’t sleep.
Nightmares bleed into his days, cigarettes replace rest, and his fears keeps circling the same person: Will Byers. As Hawkins waits for the next disaster, Mike begins to realize that what haunts him isn’t just trauma. It's the terrifying possibility of losing the boy he can’t imagine surviving without.Bookmarked by bridgetomadness
15 Feb 2026
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don't let me ruin it (again) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Graduation is supposed to be the start of Mike Wheeler’s future.
Instead, it’s a loop he can’t escape.
As the same day repeats endlessly, Mike is forced to face the questions he’s spent years avoiding. And soon, he’ll have to realize the way out isn’t in saying the right thing.
It’s in finally learning how to listen.
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11 Feb 2026
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Sir Michael assesses them both. He seems to accept whatever he finds, nodding slowly. “I see. My apologies, I have gotten ahead of myself. For how long have you two been courting, then?”
Someone chokes behind them, and for a long moment, Mike honestly thinks he's misheard him. The look on his face is dead serious, though, stoic in a way that makes it very clear he's not joking.
“What?” he croaks. He looks over at Will, who looks just as caught off guard as he feels.
“You need not be shy,” Michael reassures them, back straightening. “I, too, was hesitant when William and I first began our courtship. I understand.”
When Mike's doppelganger shows up dressed like something straight out of one of their D&D campaigns, he thinks he should be thrilled. There are alternate universes. There are alternate universes with knights and wizards and dragons. And, honestly, Mike probably would be thrilled, under normal circumstances. The guy is just so weird about him and Will.
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09 Feb 2026
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One year after the epilogue, the world was technically saved, but it hadn’t gone back to normal. Hawkins is quiet for the first time in years, the party had scattered, and Eleven’s absence lingers in everything they can’t say. Mike and Will are older now, physically and mentally, shaped by grief and distance, learning how to exist in a future that doesn’t look at all like the one they fought for. The one there friends died for.
Life slowly resumed, college, phone calls home, visits that end too soon, they find themselves orbiting each other. Seeking solace in the presence of each other. Best friends, right? What starts as shared loss becomes shared understanding, shared moments of breakdowns only the other could comprehend. Then, something gentler. Something braver than either of them expected. They find that choosing to stay still when the world keeps moving, choosing to embrace the grief instead of being swallowed by it, and finding peace… that sometimes the world doesn’t end, it just changes.
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09 Feb 2026
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this natural thing (that you've undone) by goldenasteri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Sep 2022
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Will's only ever smoked one other time. (It wasn't even cool.)
When Jonathan came in to check on him, glass of water in hand, he was sitting bolt upright. All he said was, ”El’s door doesn’t have a lock, right?”
So for the next 2 hours, as Jonathan dozed off next to him on his bed, Will sat there and drew. After stumbling into his sister’s room and pulling that shitty Polaroid of him off her wall, he conjured Mike up and spat him out into his sketchbook like it was nothing.
Of course—it was the best thing he’d ever drawn.
The whole thing screamed, unabashedly, "I love you".
After that, Will swore he wouldn’t smoke again.
Until Mike comes to him (in the middle of an apocalypse no less), and with that bashful, sweet little smile he reserves for Will and only Will (Goddamnit.), he makes a little joke about dying before he ever gets to do one little regular teenage rebellion.
And who is Will to say no?Or: Mike and Will get stoned in the Wheeler's basement, as the world ends.
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08 Feb 2026