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“I kind of lost myself trying to be who I thought I was supposed to be in that relationship,” he admitted, the gravity of his honesty hanging heavily in the air. “So when she broke up with me,” Mike said, exhaling deeply as if releasing a breath he had been holding for too long, “I think I’m just… starting to let myself feel again. To do what I want. To figure out who I really am.”
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Will grapples with the guilt and grief of witnessing a Demogorgon drag his boyfriend, Mike, into the Upside Down, a place that shattered his peace and that of his friends.
Mike's disappearance sends him racing against time, uncertain whether Mike is alright and if he can reach him in time before it's too late.
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My Panic’s at the Ceiling, but I’m Face Down on the Carpet by CrimsonWolf715
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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Six months after most of the kids in the Party died in the final fight against Vecna, Mike’s living in his own personal Hell. Everybody has moved on and has continued their lives like almost everyone that he loves isn’t dead.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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Billy Hargrove hit Mike just a little bit harder, Max woke up just a little bit later and Mike Wheeler had always had shitty luck. He gets drugged, hauled to Russia and jabbed with so many needles that he doesn’t know where he began and the needles ended.
But it’s not so bad (He’s lying, it fucking sucks) at least he has the boy in the bed next to his, and relatively regular mealtimes and- Yeah, he's having trouble coming up with anything positive.
He just wants to go home, but the doctor and this strange new thing in his chest isn’t going to let him. That’s fine, he’ll just have to get himself out.
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TLDR: Mike Wheeler gets taken to Russia, gets powers and has to figure out how to get himself the hell out of there without killing himself or getting killed first.
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What if in “The Battle of Starcourt”, Eleven managed to escape through the elevator after Max was knocked out by Billy?
What if Mike didn’t?
What if the Mind Flayer (AKA Vecna) took an interest in him and decided to make him a part of the hivemind, knowing Eleven would most likely walk right into the trap trying to save him?
What if the only person who could bring him back from possession was Will Byers?
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STRANGER THINGS CHAT FIC!!!!
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mik: sofia by clairo
dus: damn not even a hello..
mik: hello
dus: ohhKAYY then.
max: bruh stop choosing lovey songs im gonna hurl all over you micheal wheeler. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.
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Au/headcannon that Mike is suicidal and struggles with self harm, ed, and mental health as a whole.
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Mike Wheeler has a problem. He might be sent to Pennhurst if this keeps up. Or maybe just grounded for life if his mom ever sees his recent chemistry test. And it all started with Will and his stupid, small waist.
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Mike watched her go with a feeling of relief that he instantly tried to repress. Will sat down next to him, almost immediately, holding a pile of x-men comics with a bag of chips balanced on top of it.
“Oh cool, I was I just going to get those.” He said, turning to Will.
“Yeah?” A small smile flickered at the edge of Will’s mouth.
And the small, traitorous thought of ‘It would be nice if it was Will’ flashed across his mind.
People keep bringing up sitting on each other's laps around Mike. It has an effect.
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- Part 1 of byler shorts
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The Monsters Gone (and your brother's here) by GhoulSanderson
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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Mike has a flashback, and Jonathan is the only one around.
Or: Pushing my 'Jonathan Byers adopted Mike Wheeler the second Will brought him home', agenda.
This is a spinoff oneshot from the universe of my other book, The Faces You Wear. If you haven't read TFYW, this will contain spoilers. It is not strictly necessary to have read TFYW to read this; just read the beginning author's note.
[Set after the events of The Faces You Wear]
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- Part 3 of TFYW Spinoffs
- Part 30 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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Mike arrives home just in time to try to save his family… and pays the price.
What would happen if, instead of Karen, it was Mike who ended up gravely injured? What would that mean for Nancy and Will?
Easy: Nancy feels like she’s about to lose her mind.
And Will? He feels even worse.-------------------
Spoilers for season 5!!
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Mike knew from the start, try as he might to bury the thought, there was no coming back from this life.
He didn't expect to survive.
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The dizzying darkness tilted his sight until he felt tiny splashes speck his hands. As Mike’s internal vision settled into something more clear, Will’s blood came replaced by mere water. Droplets paved down from a stormy opening in the heavens, no longer peaceful now.
It was pouring.
This was a kind of hurt not caused by the rain.
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Following the sudden death of Will Byers, Mike is brought into his own mindscape and made to relive his worst day. However, as he soon discovers, there may be a piece of the main memory he was made to forget.
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Upside Down (Boy You Turn Me Inside Out) by Bella85421
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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Steve spoke up for the first time, side-eyeing Mike as the younger boy picked on the skin around his fingernails, a bad habit he had adopted since the disappearance of his sister, "Stop it both of you, Robin's right about the risks this suggestion carries," he added more as Dustin's jaw dropped, "...But, it's the best idea we've had yet, and I propose that we vote on it. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea?" His own hand rose as he finished his sentence, as did Nancy's, Will's, Jonathan's, Dustin's, Lucas's and Erica's. Only Robin and Mike didn't raise their hands.
Steve's eyebrows shot up, surprised so many agreed with him. Usually, he was the only one.
Robin sighed, an exasperated sound coming out of her mouth. She turned to look at Dustin, his hand still up in the air like a quiet rebellion against Robin's protest, and then at Steve, her eyes saying I didn't think you had it in you to betray me like this. She rolled her eyes as she looked in front of her where the rest of The Party sat, splayed across the couch and floor.
Or: my own version of Stranger Things Season 5
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Starting high school with the whole party would be a dream, or Mike thought it would be but his own questioning of the reality of his home life is causing him to spiral.
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The year is 1984, and after Ted Wheeler dies because of some stupid lab accident at his annoying government job in Hawkins, Indiana, Thirteen-year-old Mike and his family are forced to move there and stay at some lousy trailer park because 1.) moving there was the closest thing they had to still being with him, not that Mike really cared, 2.) it was the cheapest place his mom could afford when you’re in charge of a family of four with no man in the house, and 3.) because Mike had kinda maybe sorta did something really, really bad to another boy at school that unfortunately just lined up with the time him and his family had to move so… nothing important really.
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I didn’t see you before,( but i see you now ) by chiqiu
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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‘And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God—”
That’s what Max wanted—or thought she wanted. She wanted to trade places with Billy, the guilt was weighing her down. So much that she wanted to die. But she hadn’t really wanted to die. Mile heard it from El whenever she opened up about what she had witnessed that night. Max didn’t want to die, she wanted to live. And now that wasn’t even her choice.
‘And get him to swap our places.’
Mike looked up at the radio, an idea brewing up in his head.
He knew what to do.
Or: self sacrificing (depressed) Mike Wheeler trades himself with Max.
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El's eyes flickered from the caramel freckles to the familiar deep eyes. They were the wrong colour, but endless all the same, and—no. It couldn’t be.
It couldn’t be Mike because Mike died in 83, snatched up by Demogorgon.
But here he was, covered in gills and scales.
And he didn’t recognise any of them.
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So, I rewatched H2O Just Add Water, and well, here we are.Series
- Part 29 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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After finding out about their son's relationship, Karen and Ted give Mike an ultimatum.
Lose everything, or lose everything.
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- Part 27 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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should i stay or should i go? by exthernal, unebellecatastrophe for BewitchingNotes, FangirlingStrangerThings, OTTSTF, Pythoness, GhoulSanderson
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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★ [second] - noun
/sekənd/
— a unit for measuring time.
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Will is one second too late, and the Demogorgon has it claws through Mike's chest.
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i've been way too deprived of Mike angst for 5 seasons, so i did it myself.
can be read as both byler and mileven.