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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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Bookmarked by glumped
07 Feb 2026
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MAYBE THE BEST FIC IVE EVER READ AND I DONT EVEN LIKE FANTASY HGHHHHHHHHHHH
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Even in a Different Life (We Would Have Been Timeless) by MazzyStardust7
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike have moved into a new apartment together and go to a thrift store in search of decorations. While browsing, Mike makes up stories about the people who owned the items previously and imagines alternate lives for himself and Will. Inspired by the Taylor Swift song 'Timeless.'
Bookmarked by glumped
04 Feb 2026
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this is incredible, this is perfect, this is gorgeous, this is amazing, this is wonderful, this is glorious, this is magnificent
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i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this). by burgundyshirts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.
When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.
“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything other than sigh like a lovesick idiot. It’s a second too late for Mike, because he grumbles more words Will doesn’t catch under his breath and then physically pushes Will towards the wall to lay beside him, arm over Will’s middle. A second of silence passes, then Mike sighs, only to whine: “Fuck, my head hurts.”
Will can’t help it: he breaks down laughing, much to Mike’s offense.
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Alternatively: five times Mike kissed Will, and one time Will kissed back.
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Bookmarked by glumped
31 Jan 2026
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perfect glorious beautiful and perfect
worth staying up until 3AM for
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we belong together (it finally appears it’s only love) by justjess01
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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“I just need you to choose me back.”
A night out in New York pulls years of unspoken feelings to the surface, forcing Will and Mike to confront everything they’ve been too afraid to say.
Or the time Mike finally gets his shit together.
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What really happened on the radio tower by lithiumcide
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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Mike and will are way too homosexual to be dealing with this shit
Bookmarked by glumped
29 Jan 2026
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cause of death: stupidest thing I've ever read (laughter)
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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etch me into paper (a memory of how you touched me) by bearlyalemon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jan 2026
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“Look, I just, I don't know- want to help you. You know, with your art. Kinda.”
“Okay,” Will says slowly, “How?”
Mike lets out an audible groan, expressing annoyance, likely more at himself than Will, “I heard that there's this… exercise, that like, I don't know- help you draw better.”
“Yeah, isn't that what most exercises do?”
“Uh huh. We could do that.”
“How is that going to be fun? For you especially.” Will quirks his brows up at him.
“You could do it with touch.”
“What-”
(Or Mike comes up with a brilliant plan to help Will practice his skills.)
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”Please” Will murmured in response, his voice coming out much more desperate and breathy than he had anticipated. He was beginning to feel himself drifting off, feeling a sense of detachment from his body. That didn’t stop him from relishing the gentle kisses Mike placed on the top of his head, little dots of love in Will’s hair. Between kisses, Mike mumbled sweet nothings, like “Go to sleep, it’s all okay now”.
Will has a nightmare about Mike dying. Mike is there to comfort him.
(CW: the nightmare is a little graphic, it describes a Chrissy-style death !!)
Bookmarked by glumped
24 Jan 2026
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I love byler. I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.I love byler.
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Will & Mike have been keeping their relationship secret for months. It's going great- until Will, sneaking out of Mike's bedroom at 1AM, comes face-to-face with Jonathan sneaking out of Nancy's in the Wheeler hallway. Mutual horror ensues, followed by the world's most awkward basement conversation.
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Will Byers learns that: 1) Mike's hair is a lost cause, 2) his own hair is also a lost cause, 3) Jonathan has the worst timing in human history, and 4) "we were just talking" is the most unconvincing excuse ever invented.
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Mike clears his throat loudly, dragging Will’s attention back from his thoughts. He snaps his eyes up to him, observing the look on his face which lies somewhere between a ‘I’m ready for a gate to the Upside Down to open and swallow me right now.’ and ‘I’m deeply sorry for what I’m about to do next.’
Oh no.
He’s about to do something really stupid.
Or, Mike kisses Will in front of the Party. Naturally, he has to kiss everyone else.
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(set during season 5 episode 4: the sorcerer)
In the MAC-Z, hell unleashes itself on earth. As Demogorgons swarm the facility, the military attempts to fight them with a flamethrower; much to Will's demise, who is forced to endure the sensation of being burned alive due to his connection to the hive mind. Since Will and Joyce are both preoccupied with his tremendous suffering, Mike has taken on the responsibility of being the children's protector and is determined to get them to hell out of there, no matter the cost.
However, he does not anticipate himself becoming Vecna's target this time, nor the torment he will be put through as a consequence, as Vecna forces him to confront the very memories that hold not only the heaviest emotional weight, but also his deepest regrets.
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It rolls, it rolls, it rolls, Will is clenching his hands into fists so tight his knuckles are white, bracing himself, preparing himself.
He’s so focused on steadying his breathing, on wrapping his heart in a guard of barbed wire before the blow lands, that he doesn’t quite see the number on the dice.
Mike lets out a shaky breath next to him. “It’s a seven.”
Will runs through the list in his head. Three times, before it clicks. He thinks he might throw up.
“C’mon, Wheeler. Don’t keep us waiting,” Max teases, and Will finally catches the satisfied gleam in her eyes.
A 20. He gets twenty minutes locked in a linen closet with Mike.
Two years ago, he would have been jumping for joy.
But Mike won’t even look at him.
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Mike Wheeler asks Will Byers if they can smoke together. And when Mike sucks at it, Will has a solution.
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I Don't Think There's a Name for It (But it's Kinda Like Being In Love) by occasionalpisser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jan 2026
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Mike (idiot that he is) still doesn't know what this unnameable thing is, but what he does know is that it's always been there. Has always been inside of him, has always swirled within the depths of his chest, and has always tried to make itself known whenever he was (and is) in the presence of Will Byers.
But seeing Will in this new light was the equivalent of being whacked across the head with a baseball bat. A baseball bat built solely to amplify any and all already present feelings, making them impossible to ignore. Suddenly, the thing inside him wasn’t quiet anymore. No, it was (and is) loud. Loud enough to override all the other thoughts that should be occupying his brain space right now, and loud enough that even he can’t shove it back into whatever mental closet he’d kept it in.
OR: Mike doesn't clock it. Robin does.
(And then Mike does. And then Will does, too.)Bookmarked by glumped
07 Jan 2026
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AAAAAAAAWWWWWWW MICHEAL WHEELER MY GLORIOUS KING AAAAWWWWWW WILLIAM BYERS MY GLORIOUS KING
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.
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Bookmarked by glumped
06 Jan 2026
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mike’s been acting… weird lately. All secretive and sneaky and unavailable. But what’s even weirder? He’s been icing out Will too. And Will has been giving him the cold shoulder right back.
Determined to discover just what those two have been up to, and to solve whatever's been going on between two key members of their group just in time for Halloween, the Party tries their best to come up with answers.
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5 times the Party thought they knew what was going on with Mike and Will, and one time they actually found out.
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just smile at the sound by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Aug 2023
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“I love you,” Mike mumbles sleepily into his hair, wriggling closer. His arm winds across Will’s stomach, and Will feels the ghost of a kiss being pressed to the junction of his shoulder and neck.
Will blinks his eyes open, warmth flooding the length of his body. He shifts, twisting around to peer up at Mike, squinting. “You- what?” he murmurs, lifting an eyebrow, and Mike jolts up, peeking over his shoulder sheepishly.
“Oh,” he says, blushing as Will nudges his way to roll over onto his back, Mike hovering over him. “Sorry, I thought you were asleep.”
Will stares up at him. “You were gonna say you loved me for the first time while I was asleep?”
Mike lets out an undignified squeak, and drops his head down onto Will’s shoulder. “No.”
A series of 'I love you's, both spoken and unspoken.
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Bookmarked by glumped
15 Dec 2025
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the cure? this is so chloe ALSO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED GAHH
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skip the conversation (when you already know) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Sep 2023
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“People liked me there,” Will says after a few minutes, staring up at the tragically blank ceiling. “In Lenora, I mean. It was- weird.”
Mike snorts, letting his head loll to the side so that he can see Will’s profile, illuminated in the early evening light, tanned skin and freckles and wide hazel eyes still staring contemplatively skyward. Mike wants Will to turn his face and look at him, wants that wide-eyed gaze on him, wants to swallow every breath that Will exhales.
At the same time, he’s not sure he’d survive something like that. He’s already barely keeping it together, just looking at him.
“It was weird,” he echoes, faintly amused. “That people liked you?”
Will’s eyes flick to him just briefly, and Mike’s heart rate increases by one thousand percent. “You know what I mean.”
the one where mike and will missed each other, and they talk about it, and then they kiss about it.
Bookmarked by glumped
15 Dec 2025
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I can't keep bookmarking EVERY fic I read but it's SO HARD