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    Because even if Will might have everyone in the room fooled, even if everyone thinks he’s happy and relaxed, he still doesn’t have Mike fully convinced. Because he’s still glancing at the staircase every few minutes. His shoulders still tighten when he hears a floorboard creak. And somehow his eyes still flicker toward the dark hallway anytime anyone asks him a question, like he’s incapable of answering without a script.

    Nobody else notices this.

    Mike wishes that he didn’t, either.

    Everyone thinks Will Byers is lucky to have married the successful and well respected Carlton Van Note. Will believes he should feel so, too.

    Except— no one sees what goes on behind closed doors, not when Carlton drinks too much, not when jealousy turns into rage, not when Will learns how to fawn just to keep the peace that only now echoes in the empty, silent halls. No one sees the physical evidence left on his body after violent nights, hidden under long sleeves and careful smiles. And for years, Will has gotten good at pretending.

    Unfortunately, Mike Wheeler knows him all too well.

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    14 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Three months after the truth finally came out, Mike Wheeler and Will Byers are together, and still trying to figure out how to build a life with each other.

    Rosecliff Manor no longer feels quite as haunted as it once did. Will is making a home there. Mike is trying to step back into the world. Lily is determined to make sure neither of them takes anything too seriously.

    But the past doesn't disappear just because they've chosen to move forward. As Mike begins facing the grief he spent years hiding from, Will discovers that some shadows are harder to escape.

    Falling in love was only the beginning.

    Now they have to learn how to stay.

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    14 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 92

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    "Sullivan's pace quickened as he strode down the halls of the lab in the Hellish dimension, the last thirty minutes stuck in his mind on a loop. Some trouble makers breaking into the base, a swarm of those vile undead monsters, a demon shooting his hand through the face of Ramirez-

    And a boy, snapping the limbs of one of those monsters without even breaking a sweat- a brand new variable that Sullivan hadn’t predicted discovering."

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    When Joyce, Mike, and Will leave the MAC-Z after discovering Will's powers, they assume that the only enemy they have left to deal with is Vecna. However, they fail to notice that Lieutenant Jack Sullivan wasn't killed in the massacre- and that he saw Will using his newfound powers. Once Sullivan informs Dr. Kay, it doesn't take too long for the military to set their sights on a new target, one that has powers that they would love to get their hands on...

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    12 Jun 2026

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    After years of running from past mistakes, trauma, and the life he left behind, Will has finally settled. He’s found his purpose as an art teacher at a group home for troubled kids, and he’s starting to believe he can actually cauterize his own wounds by tending to the fresh ones of others.

    But as he starts his second year - the new creative writing teacher helps him realize you can’t grow new flowers when your roots are still displaced.

    Or: An entire school year in which Mike and Will rediscover themselves and their relationship after 8 years no contact, bonding over their shared love for the sweetest children with familiar, painful histories.

    "Every time I make you cry, it starts raining," Mike states quietly. His voice is barely audible over the roaring downpour, but it cuts through the thunder like a blade.

    "Only the times you've witnessed," Will says in return, his voice barely a whisper.

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    11 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 68

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    Mike and Will are not completely new to intimacy. They show each other affection constantly. Be it holding hands, bumping knees, kissing, compliments, pet names, leaving hickeys.

    But that's where it stops.

    They've talked about sex, discussed their feelings on it, agreed that they want to do it together, whenever they're both ready for it. And for a while, that was it.

    It never came up again, and they both felt content with it. Maybe it'll come naturally, work out, like things usually do with the two of them.

    Only lately something has shifted. Neither of them is sure when and how it happened, but things have started to heat up.

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    Mike and Will exploring more intimate parts of their relationship in their little New York apartment.

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    11 Jun 2026