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   The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   22 Feb 2026

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • mwtfdydgate
   • Pre-Season/Series 05
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mutual Pining
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Happy Ending
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Living Together
   • Gay Panic
   • Holly Wheeler Has a Crush
   • During the 18-Month Timeskip Before Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
   • Ted Wheeler Being Homophobic (Stranger Things)
   • Ted Wheeler Being an Asshole (Stranger Things)
   • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Karen Wheeler Tries
   • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Dreams
   • Lucas Sinclair ships Byler
   • Fix-It
   • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
   • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Making Out
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • Miscommunication
   • Cheating Mike Wheeler
   • Dry Humping
   • Underage Drinking
   • I use really convoluted metaphors for no apparent reason
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Crush on Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
   • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Rewrite
   • Eventual Smut
   • Dirty Thoughts
   • Wet Dream
   • Forced Proximity
   • Slow Burn
   • does it count as a slowburn if we already waited a decade for them to happen in canon only for it NOT TO HAPPEN DESPITE ALL THE SIGNS????
   • I don't think there's a -gate I haven't or won't cover
   • Dom/sub Undertones

   Summary

   Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.

   Having sold their house in Hawkins a year prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.

   Mike had kindly offered up their place during Nancy’s graduation dinner.

   ~

   The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)

   Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

   Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

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