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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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it's been a long, long time since i've memorized your face by etherealboobs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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Freshman year came and went, quiet and disappointing. They barely saw each other, despite being minutes apart. Will’s an Art Education major. Mike’s in Nuclear Engineering. Different buildings, different schedules, different lives. Mike tried. He called. He reached out.
"I can’t, Mike. Maybe a different day."
"I promised I’d study with a friend."
"Not tonight. I’m sorry."
Every excuse landed heavier than the last. And slowly, so slowly he didn’t notice until it was already too late, the progress he’d made began to erode. The hopelessness crept back in, familiar and cruel, dragging him backward. He didn’t make friends. Not real ones. His roommate was unbearable. His classes felt endless. Each day blurred, dull and colorless. So when the year finally ended and they decided to live together, Mike didn’t hesitate. He’d latched onto the idea like a lifeline. Just him and Will. No dorms. No distance. Mike and Will, like it used to be. Against the world.
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04 Apr 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (it was just us) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2026
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Two years after his husband’s death, Mike Wheeler lives quietly in a cliffside mansion with his eight year old daughter and more ghosts than he knows what to do with. He doesn’t talk about the past.
Will Byers isn’t looking for love when he takes the live-in cook job at Rosecliff Manor. He's just trying to start over in a new town, with a new job and with the walls carefully built around his heart.
Living under the same roof wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But grief recognizes grief.
And sometimes healing looks a lot like falling in love.
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- Part 1 of we thought this place was haunted
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18 Mar 2026
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a year without her (a year with you) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Eleven is gone. And Mike feels like the world should’ve ended that day.
Over the next year, he tries to convince himself that he’s just grieving. But winter doesn’t last forever. Spring brings rain and cracks in old walls. Summer arrives hot and relentless – and so do the feelings he’s been trying to outrun.
By autumn, when Will’s future no longer includes Hawkins, Mike has to decide whether he’s brave enough to stop pretending.A four-season story about loss, growing up and falling in love when you least expect it.
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10 Mar 2026
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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