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Will takes a step couple steps towards Mike, narrowing his eyes. "Yes, Michael. I am being serious. Act like a fucking man."
This causes Mike to sit back a little bit, expression twisting into something Will can't recognize quite yet. His eyebrows raise slightly, taking in the angry man standing in front of him.
They're both quiet for a moment, Will's chest heaving slightly as Mike looks up at him with half-lidded eyes. Will hates how quickly he can feel his anger shifting into something dangerous and familiar. "Yeah?" Mike breathes out. "You want me to act like a man, William?"
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Mike loves when Will addresses him by his full name. Maybe a little too much.
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22 Feb 2026
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“They’re the American frontrunners,” Max explains.
“You’re having lunch with your fiercest competitors?” Mike questions, taking Will’s outstretched hand and giving it a firm shake. It’s warm and soft, unexpectedly so. Will is smiling at him, also warm and soft—and Mike, not usually very smiley, can’t resist returning the expression as he takes his seat at the table.
“Fiercest?” Jane asks, her tone bewildered. She reaches out and grabs Will’s jaw with her hand, shaking his face back and forth as he scowls. “Look at this face! Does this look fierce to you?”
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Or, an Olympic Figure Skating au.
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22 Feb 2026
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After years of fighting for their lives and finally saving the world, the Hawkins kids are off to college and it’s going to be a long drive before they reach campus.
Will and Mike share a car, growing closer with every leg of the trip. Through unexpected detours, shared secrets, and familiar banter, the gang navigates their changing dynamics while Mike and Will navigate their hearts.
Or, the Stranger Things kids are off to college on a road trip and Mike and Will fall stupidly in love with each other.
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22 Feb 2026
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say you love me to my face (am i what you needed?) by hxllcatspangled
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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“I want everything, Mike!” Will shouts. “I don’t want to be your stress relief or your experiment. I want dates, and to hold your hand, and to know what you’re thinking without you having a fucking panic attack about it!”
Mike stared, his face a mask of stunned incomprehension. “I… I can give you those things. We’re best friends. That’s what we do.”
“No,” Will laughed, a hollow, broken sound. “No, you can't. Because you’re not in love with me, Mike. And I am. I am so stupidly, completely, pathetically in love with you that I let you destroy me piece by piece because at least you were touching me.”
Mike’s eyes unfocused, fingers twitching, and then refocused with some newfound clarity. Something passed between them that Will recognized as a decision being made, but he didn't know what.
“...Okay.”
Will blinked. “What?”
“Okay,” Mike repeated, as if it were simple. As if Will had asked him to pick up milk. “If that’s what you want. I’ll do it.”
Or, Mike Wheeler decides that fake dating his best-friend-turned-hookup is a better option than losing him.
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22 Feb 2026
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I'm Finding it Hard to Believe (We're in Heaven) by mioakem
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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“I’m just so proud of you, baby.” He feels a weight lifted off his shoulders- which is ridiculous, he’s ridiculous for thinking that she would be anything but proud. Nonetheless, he feels relieved. He smiles, fiddling with his fingers again.
“It’s really nothing.” He says, “Mike keeps talking about how they’re innate but…but they’re not. They’re siphoned, from Vecna.” The mention of his name makes Joyce’s eyes go wide.
“Well, last I checked no one else can do that.” She shrugs, her eyes still wide. Will chuckles, looking at the floor, “Hey, all I’m saying is that I think you need to have a little more trust in yourself.” She leans forward, putting a hand on his cheek. He leans into it, into the warmth of her hand, “You didn’t fail, okay?” She says, and he nods, even though he doesn’t really believe it, “You saved Mike- all your friends. You did that, baby.” She shakes her head, “Not Vecna, just you.”
Will can feel himself tearing up for about the millionth time that night, “I can make it right.” He settles on, “We just need a new plan, a better plan.”
Right, a better plan. Easier said than done.
or: season 5 vol 2 and 3 complete rewrite
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