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My skin is clean, Will tells himself, staring down his reflection as if it’s challenging him. I’m not possessed, I’m not in the Upside Down.
I’m a second-year student at the Art Institute of Chicago. My apartment is shitty and tiny and expensive and incredible. Will stabilizes himself by gripping the countertop, looping the words through his mind. Mike is in the other room, waiting for me. He’s an English major at Loyola, and his dad has no idea how he’ll land a job. He’s waiting for me. He loves me. He’s patient with me, and he understands. My brother lives in New York, and my mom’s safe at home in Indiana. My skin is clean, and all of this is real.
I disappeared seven years ago today, and I was found.
And he’s dead, and far away from me. He can’t touch me ever again.
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15 Feb 2026
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“What?” Derek breathes, and the glint in his eye that Mike had mistaken for mischief looks a lot more like panic now. “Are you kidding me—I swear I'm like, the only one who gives a shit about Holly.”
Mike’s eyebrows rise high on his head. Maybe this kid is annoying, but sometimes annoying people just…have to be that way, for their own reasons. And there are many good reasons.
aka holly's missing, and her friends are determined to find her and bring her home. one person in her friend group in particular is more passionate than the others about finding her, and soon mike finds out why that is. and why he felt so different about will to his other friends when he was a kid.
(set after the mike clip from the recent teaser)
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15 Feb 2026
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It starts with a documentary about Area 51 that neither of them is really watching. It begins with Will fighting sleep, dark circles under his eyes, and Mike doing something stupid—offering his lap as a pillow.
It ends with Mike's hands in Will's hair, Will's face pressed against his stomach, and the sudden, terrifying realization that this isn't just friendship. It never was.
Or: Mike Wheeler has an emotional crisis while his best friend sleeps on his lap, and discovers that being in love is equal parts heaven and hell.
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15 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler spends years trying to be “normal.”
Normal son, normal friend, normal boyfriend, normal boy.But growing up with Will Byers — through disappearances, monsters, trauma, high school, and finally college — makes “normal” feel less and less like something he actually wants.
This is the long, messy, painfully slow journey of Mike figuring himself out, losing himself, finding himself again, and realizing that the only thing that ever made sense — the only thing that ever felt right — was Will.
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Hide From The World (In Your Arms, Preferably) by vecnabutworse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2022
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"Alright, Doctor Wheeler. You're up."
"What?" Mike replied. His gaze bounced between Will's wound, his eyes and his lips.
"I can't do the next part, my hands are too shaky. You'll have to stitch it up."
Mike felt like throwing up. He looked down at the needle and suture sitting in the kit. It's like they were staring at him, mocking him.
"I-"
"Please, Mike."
"I don't want to hurt you, Will."
Will thought that was quite generous of him, considering how much Will had hurt Mike within the last 20 or so minutes. Within the last year and a half, actually.
Will was sure he was looking at an angel, not Mike Wheeler. Or maybe Mike Wheeler was the angel he was looking at. Who would've thought that Mike also had a secret identity this whole time? An angel in disguise.Logline: While on the brink of death, Will decides to pay Mike a late-night visit after not seeing him for a year and a half.
Logline 2: Mike finds out in the craziest way possible that his best friend (who he hasn't seen in over a year) was actually a rooftop-swinging, tight suit-wearing, complete idiot of a superhero and it all starts with waking up to Spiderman bleeding out in his living room.Bookmarked by medically_mad
15 Feb 2026