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"This okay?" Mike presses his fingers down, ever so slightly. Will inhales sharply and nods, but strangely, Mike isn't satisfied. Because of this, he says something so, so stupid—
"Can you use your words for me?"
Another sharp noise escapes Will. Mike stiffens, tugging his hands away as he mentally calculates the flight cost for a one-way trip from New York to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, until Will leans back into his hands with a soft sigh.
"Yeah," he says, softly. "Yeah, it's— it's good."
When Mike touches the back of Will’s neck, Will loses himself. Mike, obviously, decides to abuse this.
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- Part 2 of between the sheets
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18 Feb 2026
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Maybe Mike would’ve felt brave for once and held Will’s hand. Maybe, Will wouldn’t have minded. Maybe then, he’d ask to go somewhere else, a broom closet or something, and maybe in there, Mike would have had the guts to spill everything out. Tell Will how much he cared for him, how he was the most important thing in Mike’s life, how he would rather his dad die a thousand times over than Will leave him. Tell Will just how much he lov-
Ding!
His coffee’s ready.
or: What if Mike was the one to see rovickie kiss at the hospital instead of Will? (this is pretty much a volume 1 rewrite, except I make Mike an actual character with feelings and not a cardboard cutout (yes, im still mad about the finale))
(title from “The Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunnymen)
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18 Feb 2026
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Maybe I don't want to be friends (I want to be more) by the3amAccount
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Sep 2024
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“I don’t-“ Mike begins, sounding very defensive even to his own ears. “There isn’t.” His eyes, the traitors, flick to Will for just a second, “anyone I like, I mean.” He can feel his ears starting to burn.
“There so is,” Lucas decides to join in, staring at him intently. Oh joy. Did he mention he hates his friends? Only Dustin and Will are nice.
“You’re right, look at his ears, they’re totally turning red!” Dustin all but shouts in excitement and – scratch that, only Will is nice. The nicest.
“So, who is it?” Lucas pushes.
“Is it someone we know?” El asks.
“It’s got to be,” Dustin reasons. “Who does Mike know that the rest of us don’t?”
Max gets an almost evil glint in her eyes. Whatever she’s about to say, Mike knows he is royally fucked.
“Is it…” Max hesitates, smiling at Mike like she knows and, knowing her, she probably does, so Mike opens his big stupid mouth, interrupting whatever she could have been about to say – is it Will – and blurts out, “it’s someone from my English class.” What the fuck? “You wouldn’t know him.”
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or: Mike comes out to the party then tells them he likes a guy from his English class - cue jealous Will and miserable MikeBookmarked by readerElliot
18 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike play truth or dare in the Wheeler's basement. What's some cheap wine and some making out between best friends, right?
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“So if you don’t really, uh… think about what kind of girls you’re into,” Will starts, words slow and a little slurred together, “what do you, you know…”
Mike leans back further into the couch, head tipping against the cushions. Will watches as his curls fall away from his neck, exposing the line of his throat.
“What do I what?” Mike asks.
His words are just as clumsy, and the thought brings a pleasant warmth to Will’s stomach.
“What do you think about,” Will tries again, gesturing vaguely with his hands—hands that don’t feel entirely connected to the rest of him. “When you…” He trails off, face heating. He makes another gesture with his hands, one that he sees guys do in the hallways to gross each other out.
Mike’s mouth curves upward, slow and amused. His eyes are heavy-lidded, glassy in the lamplight.
“Jerk off?” he supplies, almost playfully.
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OR byler play truth or dare and fuck :)Bookmarked by readerElliot
18 Feb 2026
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“It’s just that when I see my wife laying in bed, I don’t want to leave.”
His students all awww in one voice as if they are the imaginary public of a sitcom. Mike feels himself blushing like an idiot.
When he starts to talk about it, he’s unable to stop thinking about it. He starts to daydream about the legs, the arms of his alleged wife wrapped around him. Them, together, in bed, under the covers.
He’s sure he looks stupid.
“Does Mrs. Wheeler get sad when you leave for work?”
Mrs. Wheeler.
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18 Feb 2026
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“Mike?” She tries again, her throat bubbling. She hates this. She hates not knowing how to fix things.
More heavy breathing blows through the receiver.A shaky sob.
And a response.
“I’m gay.”
A scared weep rattles into her ear and Nancy’s chest squeezes.
Fuck.
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In the middle of the night, Mike comes out to Nancy over the phone.
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18 Feb 2026
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every dead-end street (led you straight to me) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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Will winces, and he finally manages to look back up, meeting the man’s eyes. “Rough first date?” he guesses.
The stupidly gorgeous guy groans, burying his head in his hands. “Was it that obvious?” he asks pitifully. “I’ve been trying to escape all night. Marianne is insane. I’m actually scared.”
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Five times Will witnesses Mike on a failed first date, plus one time Will and Mike go on a first date.
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- Part 2 of i'd find you in any world
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17 Feb 2026
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Will’s expression smoothes out then, and he’s looking at Mike in consideration, like he sees him in all the ways Mike does not want to be seen.
“You were jealous,” Will offers it like it’s a fact, simple as that, and Mike nearly doubles over with the shock of it, an immediate blow to whatever unbothered facade he’d been attempting to put on for Will.
“Was not,” but his voice is so weak that he nearly collapses in embarrassment, an omission of guilt clear as day.
Mike is in love with Will. He tries very hard to love him quietly.
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16 Feb 2026
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Tell Me Why (Now Number Five) by nomdeplume08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
15 Feb 2026
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“I didn’t know you were such a lightweight, Byers,” he teases. The cool morning air hits Will like a punch on their way to the dining hall, and Mike's demeanour is a direct contrast from last night.
“Shut up. At least I go out sometimes. You’re a complete house mouse.”
“Okay, for your kind fucking information, I went over to Charlie's place three days ago, remember?”
“Yeah, to study. It's like New York made you even nerdier.”
“Oh, shut up. I'm not the one who regularly discusses, like, Plath with my classics professor.”
“I- hey! Classics are cool!”
Mike grins. “Yeah, to a nerd.”
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New York, 1990. Will and Mike enter a new life away from Hawkins as roommates. Under the tutelage of Professor Kevin Cozner and Officer Raymond Holt, they navigate the chaos of the city- and find themselves along the way.
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16 Feb 2026
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"Dustin?!" Steve exclaims, startling the younger boy who promptly falls onto the ground.
"Steve?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Dustin blinks hard as if his own eyes are betraying him.
"I could ask you the same thing!!" Steve replies.
"I was just.." Dustin starts while Steve's eyes drift up to the window above their heads lined with purple curtains.
"Youre here to see Jane!" Steve gasps.Or: Steve goes to sneak into Jonathan's room when he finds Dustin trying to sneak into El's.
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14 Feb 2026
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“It was a pleasure finally meeting you, Michael.”
He freezes right on the spot then abruptly turns back to the man. The dizziness only gets worse. It comes crashing down on him like a tidal wave. Then the light flickers right above man's head, making the smile plastered to his face – too sculptured, too intent – look more terrifying than all the Halloween movies combined.
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In order to escape the mind prison Mike Wheeler and Max Mayfield have to go through Mike's memories he is anything but willing to relive. It doesn't make it easier that the order of those memories getting constantly interrupted by Max's own nightmares.
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14 Feb 2026
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deep blue, but you painted me golden by andiwriteordie, kidovna
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2025
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Will’s voice trails off, and he runs a hand over his face. Mike waits a few moments to see if he’ll say anything else, but when Will doesn’t, he takes a shaky breath and tries to find his own courage.
“And you thought, what?” Mike whispers. “That - that it wouldn’t mean as much to me if it came from you?”
Will flinches. He’s still turned away from Mike, and there’s a desperation in his voice when he whispers back, “Mike, please…”
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After returning to the Wheeler house, Mike finds out the truth about Will’s painting.
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14 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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12 Feb 2026
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When Mike apologizes to Will on the tower, Vecna jumps at the opportunity to get into his head. Will then has to use a combination of his powers and The Cure's Just Like Heaven to bring Mike back out of the trance.
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12 Feb 2026
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got actual legit butterflies in my stomach over the kiss scene in this and im arospec-ace. lovely!!
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Will Byers had a crush. Mike, Lucas, and Dustin wonder which one of them it was.
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12 Feb 2026
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the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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07 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler Self-Support (Hate?) Group by izzietaylor
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2023
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“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up.” Mike feels like his brain is going to split open any moment now. He has so many questions, most of them much more pressing than what ends up coming out of his mouth, but he can’t help blurting out, “How come you’re being so nice to him and not to me?”
“Because he isn’t a jackass,” Older Mike retorts. “Oh, fu - I mean, shi - uh. I’m sorry." He looks at eleven-year-old Mike apologetically. "Excuse my language.”
Little Mike giggles. “You can say jackass.”
Older Mike smiles fondly. “Okay.” He turns back to Mike, scowling. “Jackass.”
“Why is he a jackass?” Little Mike pipes up.
“Yeah, why am I a jackass?” Mike asks indignantly. He can't help feeling like he's being ganged up on. By himself, no less.
“Do you want a list?” Older Mike growls.
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or, the self-indulgent time travel byler fic featuring mike wheeler being extremely done with himself that i couldn't find and had to end up writing myself
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07 Feb 2026
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Will couldn't believe it. This has to be Vecna's doing, right?
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Or, 16-year-old Will wakes up in his 14-year-old body during one of the worst years of his life.
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06 Feb 2026
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In the final battle against Vecna, Mike falls into a temporal time loop, forced to relive days from his past over and over again. For some reason, the days all revolve around Will. Will, and Mike's inability to save him.
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Basically, the Shadow Monster is messing with Mike's mind, but it's a Byler shipper tooBookmarked by readerElliot
06 Feb 2026
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“I feel like I’m going to go to hell,” Will whispered, the words barely surviving the thick, suffocating air of the Upside Down.
Mike didn’t hesitate. He stepped into Will’s space, his eyes fierce with a protective heat that defied the frost creeping over the trees. “Well, we’re already in hell, Will,” Mike said, his voice low and jagged. “So I’m going to take it for everything I can.”
He leaned in and kissed him—a desperate, defiant strike against the dark. Mike expected a flinch, a hesitation, or the familiar pull-back of Will’s internalised fear. Instead, he felt Will surge forward. Will pushed back, his hands tangling in Mike’s jacket with a strength that felt like a revolution, answering the kiss with a hunger that screamed he was done hiding. In the heart of the world’s worst nightmare, they finally found something worth waking up for.
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06 Feb 2026