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Mike Wheeler has spent his entire life making decisions based on what other people want. He’s a coward who settled for a life he didn’t really want. That’s how he ended up in this mess.
Mere hours after saying “I do” to his longtime girlfriend, Mike discovers that what he has always secretly wanted could have been his all along. But now, it’s too late.
Or is it?
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11 Mar 2026
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Every Breath You Take (I'll be Watching You) by ElleIsOdd
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler is obsessed with Will Byers—the beloved, magnetic barista who seems to draw everyone in without trying. From a careful distance, Mike memorizes Will’s routines, his class schedule, his coworkers’ names, the way he takes his coffee. Watching is safer than touching. Will is perfect—warm, artistic, adored by everyone who meets him, including him.
But perfection is a mask. Mike accidentally discovers that the sweetness is curated and the charm deliberate. Something sharp and dangerous lives beneath Will’s gentle smile. And as Mike’s fixation deepens, he begins to realize that just maybe he wandered too close.
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05 Mar 2026
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"You really can’t see yourself at all?”
Mike shrugs, like: what can you do about it.
“It’s fine,” he says, with a toothy grin that reveals his fangs. He’s so focused on making the crease between Will’s eyebrows disappear that he doesn’t even stop to consider the words that are leaving his mouth. “As long as I can still see your face,” he says. “I'll be alright.”
It's hard to face your feelings when you can’t even see your own reflection. Mike tries to be brave about it.
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05 Mar 2026
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"They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."
Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.
"Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"
"But you do," said Henry. "You need him."
When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.
Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.
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05 Mar 2026
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during Nancy’s graduation dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
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02 Mar 2026