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“You’re enough,” he says, for the second time that night, and there’s no room for doubt anywhere in his voice.
Mike can only shake his head. Tears slip down his cheeks as his lips wobble helplessly. “I’m not.”
Will watches him for a moment before speaking again.
“Talk to me.” His voice is still breathy and weak, the words almost getting lost between shallow breaths. “I love talking to you.”
Mike lets out a laugh through his tears. “I love talking to you too,” he says, wiping uselessly at his face. “I love talking to you more than anyone else.”
or, in which will byers is injured in the upside down and mike wheeler has to keep him conscious in his own way.
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20 Jul 2026
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your eyes have a little green in them by you_get_to_exhale_now_cyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jul 2026
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"I'm just trying to cut loose, that's the point of all this," he replied through a giggle, "c'mon, I wanna go dance!"
Mike watched him skip up towards the rest of their friends, slinging his arms around Lucas' and Max's shoulders. The music became impossibly louder as soon as the door opened, smacking against Mike's chest with a startle. In the blink of an eye, he watched his friends dissolve into the crowd like a cube of sugar in hot tea.
He ran through a brief list of goals before he stepped over the threshold of the house.
Find Will. Make sure he's having fun. Try not to make things weird.
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The Party goes to Stacey's graduation party. Inspired heavily by 10 Things I Hate About You.
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18 Jul 2026
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Mike and Will are forced to stay in a small town, after their car breaks down. Eventually they must outrun a murderous cult.
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fears to fathom:scratch creek but byler
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17 Jul 2026
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After the events at the MAC-Z, Mike tries to bring back their long abandoned tradition from when they were little of “kiss it better” where he insists that a kiss from his cleric-turned-sorcerer can heal any wound. Will isn’t sure how he feels about it.
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15 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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15 Jul 2026
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mom, i'm gay. wait, you are too? by dragons_like_smores
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Nov 2022
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“What if there are no men out there for me, Michael?”
Mike, not focused at all on his mom, said absentmindedly, “Then maybe you can just date a woman.”
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Mike unintentionally starts Karen's lesbian awakening while he simps for his boyfriend, Will, all summer long.
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14 Jul 2026
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torn between two roads (i’m the jealous type) by wisingheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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“Lucas,” Mike starts, already getting angry at the possibility the rest of his answer is putting in the air. “Would you date him?”
Will adjusts his position so he can sit cross legged while facing his boyfriend.
Will shrugs, a gentle smile on his face, “I mean, he’s pretty hot.”
The teasing edge in Will’s voice isn’t enough to keep Mike’s eye away from twitching.
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14 Jul 2026
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@willthewise has posted a new Tiktok
“Hi everyone! My name is Will, and when I was 12…”
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14 Jul 2026
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Byler being dads for far too many words
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14 Jul 2026
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all the bad dreams that you hide (show me yours, i'll show you mine) by vissers
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Dec 2022
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deep conversations and coming outs between will byers and his party
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14 Jul 2026
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The boy turns around, and Mike thinks he must be seeing things. Ghosts, maybe, because that would be the only rational explanation.
All he can do is stare directly at the boy standing before him.
A boy he used to know very well.
What the hell is Will Byers doing at Indiana University?
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In which Mike Wheeler, the captain of the Indiana University hockey team, is forced to help run a skating training camp over winter break to avoid suspension and to participate in the playoffs.
It’s bad enough that he has to miss the vacation he planned with his best friends, but when the figure skater running the camp turns out to be Will Byers, his estranged best friend turned worst enemy, Mike thinks he might actually be the unluckiest person in the world.
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13 Jul 2026
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
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13 Jul 2026
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"My sorcerer," he whispers, reverent. "I knew it." He places his hands on either side of Will's face and kisses him.
It's nothing like the first time, desperate and pent-up from a lifetime of hiding from it. Or the second time, sweet and tender like it was could slip away at any moment. It's its own thing—Will's impossible magic hands in Mike's curls and Mike holding him tight by the waist with the relief of someone who's really, really glad he didn't die.
The world might be coming to an end, but there’s nothing Mike and Will’s love can’t survive.
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12 Jul 2026
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Will Byers and Chance Lawson move through the same halls like parallel lines, close enough to notice and never meant to meet; mirroring each other without conscious thought.
They both watch life from the edges, shaped by different worlds yet bound by the same instinct to stay silent and unseen.
However, in choosing each other despite everything that separates them, they break away from what's expected and step into something a bit reckless, yet entirely their own.
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12 Jul 2026
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
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12 Jul 2026
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And if Will let his guard down, even for a second, he knew exactly what would happen.
He’d lose Mike.
And Will would be damned if he let anything happen to Mike just because he was foolish enough to believe he could have this freely. Because of course he couldn’t. Of course they couldn’t.
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or: loverslakegate inspired by the author listening to a shit ton of ethel cain (specifically nettles on loop.)
set roughly a week after my previous churchgate fic. reading that one first is helpful, but this could probably stand alonetitle from: Nettles - Ethel Cain
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- Part 2 of s5 byler x ethel cain
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10 Jul 2026
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It took his eyes a few seconds to focus, and once they did it only brought him even more confusion because the person standing before him was none other than… Mike Wheeler?
What the fuck?
When he left Hawkins behind in the rear-view mirror of his car yesterday, he did not expect to get such a stark reminder of it again so soon.
Mike is Chance’s college roommate and he hates his guts, the only silver lining is the pretty boy who comes to visit him every week.
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10 Jul 2026
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Will Byers is a poor, charming artist who happens to score tickets for him and his best friend Dustin Henderson onto a massive cruise ship traveling to America from England. While traveling, he spots a distinguished and utterly handsome young duke named Michael Wheeler, who seems desperate to escape his high-class lifestyle. The more time they spend together, the more Will tries to convince Mike to leave the demanding life his father wants for him… and the more Mike’s heart seems to drift towards Will.
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Titanic au: Mike as Rose, Will as Jack
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10 Jul 2026
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"I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."
The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.
There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.
Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"
Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.
Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.
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10 Jul 2026
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Will braves the cold to wish his paladin good luck.
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10 Jul 2026