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“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
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10 Feb 2026
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“His eyes might as well be on his forehead.” Holly muttered.
“Hm?” Will stifled a laugh.
“He’s an id- I mean, Mike's not very good at, um, seeing obvious stuff, Will,” Holly whispered loudly, clearly censoring herself for Will’s sake. “Don’t tell me you’ve never noticed.”
Will very much had. “Don’t tell him this, but you’re absolutely right.” Will admitted, matching her whisper.
Holly looked gleeful. “I won’t say a thing. Promise.”
“Good. You'd better not. He’d probably kick me out or something,” Will added dramatically.
“I wouldn’t let him,” Holly said. “Having you here is like having a second brother! It’s cool.”
Will’s heart actually melted a little. “Thanks, Holly.”
“And you actually like the stuff I like.”
“Mike likes art too!” Will tried.
Holly rolled her eyes again. “No. Mike likes YOUR art.”
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holly asks will for help on mike's 16th birthday present. evidently, will gets to talk endlessly about two of his favorite things: art and mike wheeler's face.
set during the 18 months, the april before season 5 :))
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“Are you having a fucking episode right now?” Max says, furrowing her brows. She doesn’t understand and Mike doesn’t know how to make her. He can’t say it out loud, not in full.
“I didn’t love her because she wasn’t who I wanted her to be.” He admits in a rush of words. 'Because she wasn't Will' goes unsaid.
or: max and mike as steve and robin in robin's coming out scene
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His entire body hurts like a bitch. He wraps his arms around himself as he shivers, a cold, achy feeling settling into his muscles. He swallows, wincing at the soreness and discomfort in his throat. He tries to sit back up, but immediately regrets it as the pounding behind his eyes becomes worse and dizziness overtakes him.
Mike doesn’t even bother lying to himself. He’s definitely sick.
But he can't be late to class. So he's going even if it kills him.
Or Modern-day college AU sickfic where Mike tries to ignore the fact that he's sick so he doesn't miss class, but Will finds him passed out on a park bench. Because of course giving Will a heart attack is part of their relationship
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08 Feb 2026
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PEAKKKKK so freaking peak I LOVE a good sickfic!!
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"He refused to remember anything, to remember a world after Will. He didn't want there to be a world after Will.
Apparently, his subconscious decided that the best way to avoid that was to surround himself with Will.
He assumed that's why he was now in his basement."Or: Will "dies" and Mike has the biggest crashout the world has ever seen.
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“When I saw you… there. From the Demo’s perspective. You were gonna –” Will’s voice breaks, and Mike’s fingers twitch where they rest on the fabric of Will’s jeans. There’s no conscious thought process, but he gently rubs back and forth. “I thought of you,” Will whispers, breath catching slightly.
“Of us. When… um, when we first met, and you asked me to be your friend. I thought of that and… you know. It happened."
Mike’s eyebrows lift. Me. I did it. “Oh.”
Will glances and seems to realise all at once how much he just revealed.
aka after their graduation dnd game, will and dustin persuades everyone to go to stacy's house party. mike is not exactly in the mood, and wonders if drinking will help everything that he's feeling right now. what could go wrong? what could go right?
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04 Feb 2026
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Wash your face (hide your wrists) by Crowley_Supremacy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Feb 2026
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"Mike has been acting… weird. Cheerful, almost, in a way Will hasn't seen him since before Eleven died. Since before everything happened.
He's more carefree now, like the world won't collapse around him if he says or does the wrong thing.
It should be good that he's finally moving on, but it's unnerving, to say the least, and Will has a strange feeling settling in the pit of his stomach."
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Mike is extremely depressed and planning on doing something about it, but doesn't account for Will finding out about it.
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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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“Michael!” His mother's yell echoes out to them for the second time, their time outside too long for her liking, apparently. Mike scowls at her despite knowing she can’t see the expression.
“Okay!” Maybe he shouldn’t be yelling back at her like this, and maybe he should just go back inside like he needs to…but he can’t just leave Will out here alone. Still, Mike grumbles his annoyances with rolling eyes. “Her and that name.” It's more to himself, but Will’s looking at him in question almost immediately.
“Huh?”
Five times Mike shrugs off the questions inside growing up and one time asks about them.
Their friends deliver the answers
(He/him is used for a good bit but if you squint you can catch some they/them moments during Mike’s self discovery)
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03 Feb 2026
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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02 Feb 2026
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“I just– Vecna showed me memories– hurtful memories, when he had me,” Will furrows his eyebrows, diverting his gaze, “but I didn’t let it get to me, I think. It’s a bit blurry, sorry–” Mike interrupts him with a quiet don’t apologize and Will continues, “Then I just– I thought of my happiest moments in life. With the people I love the most.” He looks down at his hands.
“Oh, good. That’s good. Sweet.” Mike shuffles closer, now leaning on the table with his hands.
Will grimaces as he looks up, “Sweet–?”
“Was I there?” When he meets Mike’s eyes, they lock.
During the mac-z battle against the demogorgons and Vecna, Will unlocks powers, saving three people close to him, one of which is Mike.
He barely has time to celebrate, because the one power he still didn't unlock is to get over Mike, who has been acting a little bit too much like Will, and Will is in love with Mike, so what does he do with that information?
He ignores it, until he can't.
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love was the law and religion was taught by mugamuchyuu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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“Oh, you weren’t aware?” Will clicks his tongue, his slow steps sounding menacing against the quiet surrounding them, “Guess you’re not much of a protector after all.”
Mike can’t do anything but stare. Think, Mike, he tells himself, think.
Will doesn’t waste any time as he flips through a Bible left on the pulpit. “And you call yourself my best friend,” he almost spits those words, and Mike tries not to feel hurt, “but that’s not entirely correct, either, am I right?”
What?
Will and Mike get sent out on a mission to a place that’s suspiciously guarded in Vecna’s mind, which is Hawkin’s Church. Mike has a general dislike for churches that he put aside in favor of accompanying Will.
When Will’s connection to Vecna spirals out of control, Mike is caught in the fallout, not only forced to confront the truth he’s been carrying with him for years but also try to get Will and himself out of there alive. The biggest issue is, Will is possessed and Mike isn’t leaving the church without him.
What begins as a desperate attempt to wake Will up, ends in Mike realizing he would rather face hell than lose Will again.
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“But it can’t be. I’m not…” His mouth opens and closes a few times. “I’m not—” He shakes his head and mumbles, “Jesus.” He isn’t sure what he was about to say. Traumatized enough? Great fucking job, he says to himself.
Now he knows he’s really worthy of a trophy for undergoing terrifying encounters with interdimensional monsters.Bookmarked by splocks
01 Feb 2026
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never cried to them, just to your soul by Demiwitchwoodwalker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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The last time he’d stood this close to the edge, Will had been gone, he’d thought he was dead. Nothing had mattered anymore, except protecting his friends, keeping those he had left safe. He hadn't wanted to live then, not without Will. He didn’t want to live now. Not because Will was gone—he was just across town in Mike’s room, probably not thinking about him or where he was for even a second—but because he didn’t deserve to. Because he was wrong, because he was sinful, because he didn’t matter, because nobody needed him and they never had. He’d just wanted them to need him because he’d needed them.
All he ever did was hurt the people he needed. Why would anyone ever need him? He was–
“Mike, where the hell are you?” Will’s voice latched a tether around his chest, pulled him back, pushed down his younger voice, silenced Troy and James.
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It's October 1986, the Byers have been living with the Wheelers for 3 months now, and Mike can't sleep through the night, waking to nightmares and struggling to reconcile his growing awareness of his feelings for Will with the expectations of everyone around him. It all comes crashing down around him very quickly and suddenly (though it was a long time coming).
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Maybe he deserves this. Penance for years of locking lips to prove how totally straight he was instead of asking her if she had any, like, hobbies or whatever… It can’t be as bad as the time he joined her and Hopper on a hike and nearly died of dehydration (true story), so Mike reluctantly agreed. Even if the idea of it made his heart race, just a bit.
“It will be fun, I promise,” El had said as she dragged him over to the window for better lighting, pushing Mike into her desk chair. She started arming herself with pencils and compacts and brushes while Mike fidgeted in his seat.
“Fun, yeah,” he had croaked as she pinned his bangs out of the way. Maybe this won’t be so bad - it’s only blush and lip gloss, right?
Or: Mike gets a makeover and has a lot of feelings about it. El helps him through it
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"Does anyone else think their partner is… edible?” Mike asks, not really directing the question to anyone specific as he spreads blankets over the couch.
When he looks up, the room has gone silent and is staring at him. Dustin’s eyes are wide, looking slightly mortified, Lucas’ eyebrows are furrowed in blatant confusion, and Max looks like she wants Mike to never open his mouth if those were the words he was going to speak. Mike can’t help the way he immediately flushes.
aka; mike wants to eat will affectionately, the party knows this but not their relationship, and he's so, so whipped.
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31 Jan 2026
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something's burning (I think it's love) by stupidwithu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t say, “You’re burning up,” afraid the words will sound too soft. He cages them in his mouth, letting them dissolve on his tongue like sugar.
He also doesn't say, “This is the first time I’ve felt warm since I was 12.”
He just stands there uselessly, listening to Mike breathe as sweat pools between their skin.
Eventually, Holly breaks the silence by jabbing Will in the spine. She perks up on the tips of her toes and hooks her chin over his shoulder.
“Look, Will,” she huffs. “Your hand finally stopped shaking.”
Will is so tired of being cold and alone. Enter Mike Wheeler with a fever on Christmas.
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31 Jan 2026
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Here’s the thing – Mike is selfish. He always has been. When Will went missing, he forced everybody to look for him. He forced El to stay and help until she was overstimulated and in danger, forced his friends to deal with him jumping off a cliff, forced El to save him, and then inadvertently forced her to become his girlfriend. Then he forced her to break up with him.
Eighteen months after the world almost ends, Mike finds himself floating.
In which Mike Wheeler tries to deal with everything, implodes, and Nancy remembers how to be a big sister again.
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31 Jan 2026
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“You used to talk to me,” Mike whispers.
Will’s lungs seize. Shit.
“We’re talking now,” he tries for casual, voice small, hoping it’s enough.
“Not like this,” Mike says. “Real talking.” He swipes at his eyes angrily, pulls away, wraps his arms around his knees. “You used to tell me everything. Even the stuff you didn’t tell Dustin or Lucas. It used to be just… us.”
In which Mike falls apart mid-mission, and for the first time, Will is the one to catch him.
Bookmarked by splocks
31 Jan 2026
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I need more fics where Mike just gets to let it all out
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In a desperate, last-ditch flail of an effort to salvage the situation, Mike grabbed Will’s arm.
The silence veered from heavy to charged. All of Mike’s attention surged into his hand. He felt like the entirety of his consciousness was suddenly located in the place where his skin touched Will’s.
What the fuck, thought Mike for the second time in ten minutes.
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After first using his powers, Will falls unconscious—and stays that way. Refusing to leave Will's side, Mike reflects on the last year and a half while he waits for Will to wake up.aka mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate, FEATURING: wound cleaning, bed sharing, disco, Jealous!Mike, queer literary analysis, & the most horrifying eldritch specter of all (gay panic). Canon compliant through S5 Vol 1.