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    "They were satellites in unstable orbit, trying desperately not to collide while being pulled toward each other anyway."

    Will Byers thought he'd buried his feelings for Mike Wheeler somewhere between Hawkins and Chicago. Then Mike walks into his life again, and eight years of distance collapse into nothing.

    What starts as a forbidden attraction becomes something neither of them can name - desperate encounters, painful misunderstandings, emotional manipulation, and Mike's inability to reconcile who he is.

    When Mike finally stops running, he might just be too late.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.

    Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’

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    13 Feb 2026

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    The thing was, Will loved Mike. He had always loved Mike. Loving Mike felt less like a choice and more like gravity. Something he’d learned to live with, something constant and unyielding, even when he’d tried, desperately, to move on.

    “Your… your what?” Will managed finally. His voice sounded distant to his own ears, thin and unsure.

    Mike swallowed. “My boyfriend,” he repeated, a little quieter this time, like maybe if he said it softly enough, it wouldn’t sound as insane. “I need you to be my boyfriend."

    💕💕💕💕

    After coming out, Mike asks Will to pretend to be his boyfriend for a trip home to Hawkins. It seems simple enough.

    Except pretending is harder when you’ve already been in love for years.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    Mike teaches English in room B207.
    Will teaches art in B213.
    And they clearly, clearly like each other.
    Their students hatch a plan to get them together.

    Gift fic for paladinscleric! Happy birthday!

    (Not a text/chat fic! It just has elements of that from the students' POV. Don't be put off by the first bit, it's not all chat.)

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    06 Feb 2026

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    “Guys, Mike’s not like me, he just can’t name characters.” They both give him a pointed look, clearly not believing a word. “I’m serious, every character is a reference to someone we know.”
    “Are they now?” Dustin raises an eyebrow at him.
    “Yes!” Will is perhaps a bit exasperated, “Stephen and Jay are clearly Steve and Robin, and James is Hopper,” at the blank look they give him, he clarifies, “his first name is Jim.”
    This somehow only makes Lucas seem more unimpressed, “okay, but you do see how that’s more suspicious right?”
    “What? That Mike can’t come up with names?”
    “No,” Lucas shakes his head and clasps Will in the shoulder, “that the first name Mike thought to cannibalize when coming up with a boyfriend for you was his own”.

    The party grows closer after Will moves in with the Wheelers, picking up D&D again. It all goes well until Mike introduces a new character, Sir. Gabriel Whepler, whose sole purpose seems to be flirting with Will.

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    02 Feb 2026