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    "It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."

    "You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.

    "Absolutely."

    Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.

    After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.

     

    Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonverbal autistic, and Mike has allusions to also being autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!

    // title from Coming Home by beabadoobee

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    18 Feb 2026

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    interconnected post season five explorations of the characters in and adjacent to the party, how they are shaped by their experiences but also heal together and continue to love and support each other. can be read in any order, but are organized here alphabetically by character last name.

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    15 Feb 2026

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    Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.

    So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer. 

    “Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”

    Will felt his breath stop. 

    “…I think he’d want to know.”

    OR: Yet another buzzy post vol 1 fic where Will grows more confident, Mike short-circuits over it, and they save the world together !!

    **Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale

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    13 Feb 2026

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    11 Feb 2026

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    “Uh… earlier when you went upstairs…” he started. Mike’s face scrunched in confusion before realization dawned on his features.

    “Max wanted lame stories of you- you know how she is..” Mike rolled his eyes fondly, relaxing into the pillows. “And Dustin told one we hadn’t heard before…” Will averted his eyes, suddenly gaining interest in the hangnail on his right thumb.

    “What was it? I’m sure I’ve done enough dumb shit in my life to fuel Max’s entertainment for a few years more, it can’t be that bad.” He grinned, only faltering when Will didn’t smile back at him.

    “Mike,” he really didn’t know how to say it best. “Dustin told us you jumped off the quarry to save his life.”

    That works.

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    The Party, and more importantly Will, finds out about Mike's incident at the quarry back in 1983 and the news is taken about as well as you'd expect. Mike revisits some unresolved trauma as a result, but he's not alone this time.

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    06 Feb 2026