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Mike softens instantly, shoulders relaxing as he presses his lips together. Then, he says, "I don't think you get it." It's hardly more than a whisper.
He swallows. "What do I not get?"
"How important you are," Mike says. "To all of us. To me."
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Just before the end of everything, Will stands in the middle of an avalanche. It takes him an embarrassingly long time to recognize it.
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yes, a sword (will pierce through your own soul also) by drunkrunnings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Nov 2025
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“The unclean,” the priest says, lifting his Bible upwards, the glow of the red light casting a halo around it. “The unclean will be cast out. This is the type that can only be driven out by prayer. This kind.” His eyes slide to Will, a hungry, taunting smile stretching across his face. “Your kind.”
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A church, a possession, a kiss.
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“The taste in Jackie's mouth turns bitter. It feels wrong, so, so wrong, and not just because of what Shauna did all those years ago. Jeff was never meant to be Jackie's forever— she knows that now. But he was never meant to be Shauna's at all.”
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Jackie receives an invitation to Shauna and Jeff’s wedding. She’s determined to put a stop to it.
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In the summer of 1989, Will has two goals. Technically three.
- Find a job.
- Save up for college. See aforementioned goal #1.
- Get over Mike Wheeler.
It’s going badly.
Or: The summer after graduation, Will learns how to move on, and Mike learns how to live with change.
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11 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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02 Feb 2026
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“I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”
Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”
Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.
“...Would we?”
“Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”
Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.
In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.
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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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21 Jan 2026
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Will’s expression smoothes out then, and he’s looking at Mike in consideration, like he sees him in all the ways Mike does not want to be seen.
“You were jealous,” Will offers it like it’s a fact, simple as that, and Mike nearly doubles over with the shock of it, an immediate blow to whatever unbothered facade he’d been attempting to put on for Will.
“Was not,” but his voice is so weak that he nearly collapses in embarrassment, an omission of guilt clear as day.
Mike is in love with Will. He tries very hard to love him quietly.
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