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The Byers are living at the Wheeler house, which is making it a lot more difficult for Will to push his feelings down for Mike. And when Mike notices he is feeling jealous over certain events, the proximity makes it a lot more difficult for him to push down his feelings for Will.
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Nightmares prevent Will from sleeping. Mike seemingly prevents nightmares.
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24 Feb 2026
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Anonymous letters, a suspiciously knowing look, and a chocolate kiss. What the fuck is going on?
“Do you want a kiss?” He asks, voice sounding so casual that Will has to question if it’s forced.
He blinks. Then blinks again, registers the words, and flinches a step back. The heel of his shoe hits the locker behind him.
“I— Do I what?” Will sputters.
“Do you want a kiss?” He repeats, like that’s a normal thing to say to your best friend who is a boy.
Again, “What?”
Mike raises a closed fist up to Will’s face, so close that his eyes cross slightly to focus on it. Slowly, like he’s purposefully dragging this on, Mike unfurls his fingers. There, in the center of his palm, sits a small, silver-foil wrapped chocolate.What the hell.
; It’s Valentine’s Day. Will is going to shoot himself soon, seriously. It’d be easier than trying to understand why Michael Wheeler is acting like that.
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21 Feb 2026
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He takes a deep breath.
“I want him the way I should have wanted Jane.”
Max is quiet, when he finally manages to look at her again. Her brows draw together slightly, pausing.
“But,” she whispers, in the space between them. “Will is a boy.”
Mike feels new tears well up behind his lids.
“Max.”
Something shifts in her expression, her mouth parting slightly.
“Oh.”
It’s quiet. Mike’s mouth pulls itself into a bitter smile. “Yeah, oh.”
or, it’s summer ‘90, and while everyone is off to college, Mike and Max scoop up ice cream in the rebuilt Starcourt Mall, reluctantly bonding over their shared hatred for children (and Mike’s little sister and idle friends) who just can’t seem to leave them alone.
or, 5 years later, it isn’t Robin and Steve working at Scoops Ahoy: it’s Max and Mike (who also get accidentally drugged. It's definitely not Steve's fault.)
(inspired by that gorgeous fanart by falloutlaw on twitter!)
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20 Feb 2026
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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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08 Feb 2026
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The feeling of being wanted is a powerful drug. Being wanted by the one you want is incomparable.
"Mike," Will says lowly. "You’re— You’re so close."
Too close, his brain supplies, a little hysterical. Too much.
Mike doesn’t pull away. "I know."
"Why?"
"Keeping up…" Mike exhales a short laugh that Will feels on his neck, "appearances."
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A guy hits on Will at a party, Mike leaves with a hickey, and by morning everybody thinks they're dating.
Will knows it’s supposed to be pretend. He just doesn’t know how to act like he hasn’t wanted this for as long as he can remember.
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06 Feb 2026
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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03 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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03 Feb 2026
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The Upside Down isn't the only alternate universe the party has to worry about it seems. When something inexplainable happens during a game of D&D, Will is replaced by... Will? Will the Wise appears before everyone, confused on why his friends are wearing such strange garbs and what dungeon he has stumbled into. Meanwhile, Will finds himself surrounded by fantastical versions of his friends clad in armor and robes somewhere far, far from Hawkins. The party now has a new mission to figure out how to get their Wills switched back around, and Mike needs to figure out what this feeling in his chest is all about.
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If Will had a nickel every time he was transported into an alternate reality that had some similarities to his normal reality, he'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice, right?
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02 Feb 2026
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They’ve kissed, they’ve talked, and Will is still learning how to convince himself that it’s real. That they are happening.
And Mike gets softer every time — insisting on proper dates, on details, on staying a little longer each time, as if daring Will to believe. It’s just during an afternoon of paint-stained hands and quiet intimacy that Will finally understands that love isn’t about proving anything — but about tending to every fragile thread that bound their hearts together long before either of them knew what to call it.
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- Part 2 of out of me, into you
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01 Feb 2026
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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26 Jan 2026
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Will wakes up to find Mike Wheeler sleeping on his floor, only four years younger. Now it’s up to the Party to get him back to his own timeline.
Title from the song Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
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- Part 1 of landslide
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23 Jan 2026
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(Byler one shot! ❄️)
After a long day, Mike just wants to practice some figure skating at his local rink. Unfortunately, it’s closed. Fortunately, a cute hockey player named Will who just so happens to have connections to the owner and a key to the building, arrives at just the right moment. They skate together, listen to Fleetwood Mac, and Mike is a pretty big gay mess.
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Nearing footsteps crunching on the salt-sprinkled sidewalk cause Mike to jump away from the door. He looks to his left as a boy around his age approaches from the parking lot, shoving his keys into the back pocket of his sweats. He’s wrapped up cozily, in a thick winter jacket and big, fur-lined snow boots. A hockey bag is slung on one arm casually with a stick peeking out of the top.
The boy looks up and they meet eyes.
“Oh!” The boy says, obviously surprised to see Mike.
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07 Jan 2026
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Will Byers has a simple commute, a simple job, and one not-so-simple crush on the mysterious boy who always sits across from him on the train. One stumble, one smile, and suddenly Will's whole world begins to shift.
He only meant to catch his train. He didn't expect to catch feelings, too.
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07 Jan 2026
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want to hate you (half as much as i hate myself) by MazzyStardust7
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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For not the first time that night, Mike wonders if Will is still awake in the basement.
Tossing and turning on the old spare mattress that Mike had relegated him to instead of- Well. Mike's thoughts slam into a wall. Even if he had let Will sleep in his room, he'd still be on that mattress. Just... just on the ground beside him instead of two floors down.
"You're a freak," Mike mumbles to himself, squeezing his eyes shut.
Or, Mike and El are taking a break, and in the absence of being able to pour himself into that relationship, he's spending entirely too much time thinking about Will... who just so happens to be living in his basement. During the 18-month time jump where the Byers have been living with the Wheelers.
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06 Jan 2026
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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Or:
A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
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06 Jan 2026
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Will knows what having a crush looks like. He’s known it for years.
And lately, he's been seeing the signs on the face of one Mike Wheeler every time he looks at him. Maybe it’s always been there, but not to this degree.
In the last six months, though, the planets had aligned in some strange pattern, or the earth had been tilted on its axis by the hand of God, or something, because Will noticed it pretty quickly.
So, Will's finally decided to start testing the waters. For example: he has been flirting.
Well, okay…
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02 Jan 2026
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School is finally out for winter break, and Mike Wheeler is having a full-on crisis. Not only is he running into his “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” more often than he would like or expect, but he's simultaneously having to endure the excruciating experience of falling in love with his best friend.
…Of course, there’s also the fact that said best friend and Spider-Man are the same person, but Mike’s still figuring that out.
To put it simply, this Christmas is bringing him nothing but a mental breakdown.(Essentially, Will is Spider-Man, and Mike has no idea. For now, at least.)
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30 Dec 2025
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Robin made it clear. You can’t search for signals when your person is Tammy.
But things have changed.
Will has powers.
Mike thinks Will and Robin are dating.
And Mike’s reaction to those things makes Will try one more time.
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28 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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07 Dec 2025
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in which max loves messing with one certain michael wheeler, and in which will has one too many secret admirers.
title from conan gray's 'yours'!!
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05 Dec 2025