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  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  22 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley
  • Joyce Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Erica Sinclair
  • Murray Bauman
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • byler
  • BYLERBYLERBYLER
  • Angst
  • Stolen Moments
  • stolen touches
  • Post Vol 1/Pre Vol 2 (ST5)
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Forced Proximity
  • Childhood Friends to Lovers
  • Best Friends to Lovers
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • Conflict
  • Mutual Pining
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Rejection (Then Confession)
  • Memories
  • Repressed Feelings
  • Falling In Love
  • Love Confessions
  • Idiots in Love
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Which gate will it be? You'll have to wait and see
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
  • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
  • Mike and Will in the Upside Down Alone Together
  • Internal Conflict
  • Internal Monologue
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Trauma
  • Phone Gate
  • MWTFDYD Gate
  • Will Byers's Painting
  • Painting
  • First Kiss
  • miwi
  • wiseheart
  • cleradin
  • Mike wheeler experiencing gay panic for 5 chapters straight
  • Gay Disaster Mike Wheeler
  • Mike wheeler is a pathetic loser

  Summary

  It's about to be the end of the world. Not that that's a main concern for Mike Wheeler, whose priority is figuring out how he feels about his best friend of ten years.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  16,565

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Kudos:

  12

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

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