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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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03 Jun 2026
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“Hey, Mike?” Will asked. “Why now?”
Mike was silent for a long time, so long Will thought he wasn’t going to answer at all. “I just… I don’t know. How can I move on if I don’t know for sure? I can’t stop thinking that if she is out there, if I was right, and I don’t even try to find her, then maybe I really didn’t deserve her.”
A year after graduation, Mike decides to start a search for El and asks Will to come with him. Their friendship hasn't been the same since Will came out and Eleven disappeared, so Will agrees, kicking off a complicated journey that brings them back together. Will is in college, trying to move on, and Mike is idling in Hawkins, torn between his past with El and his confusing feelings for Will. As the search brings them closer than either ever imagined, Will and Mike grapple with first loves, moving on, and growing up together.
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29 May 2026
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The smile that spreads across Mike’s face is involuntary, like it must exist in Will’s presence. It’s like he waters the parched soil of his mind.
Mike doesn’t realize how badly he needs him until he’s had a drink. And right now, he thinks this weekend is exactly what he’s been needing.
OR: After years of grappling with his feelings, Mike visits Will in Chicago for a weekend during his junior year of college.
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- English
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- 96,320
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- 13/15
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29 May 2026
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
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- English
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- 189,724
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 6,439
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28 May 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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- English
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- 104,916
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- 22/22
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28 May 2026
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Will is no stranger to running from danger. Only this time, it's on his terms. And the one chasing? Is who he's always wanted to be caught by.
OR: Mike and Will explore their kinks on a massive scale.
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28 May 2026
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The Price Is Right (The Advice Was Wrong) by discomedley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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“No, Robin, you don’t get it. I’ve known those boys basically their entire lives, Mike is not Will’s Tammy. It’s just, like—” he huffed, frustrated now. “It’s not even a comparable situation.”
Robin didn’t seem to get it. “Sure it is! Mike’s straight, and Will’s crush on him is what helped him to come to terms with his feelings. It’s a completely comparable situation.”
Steve grabbed his keys from the dish next to the front door and started shoving on his shoes without a second thought.
“Where are you going?” Robin asked, gesturing back to The Price is Right on the TV. “This isn’t even a re-run!”
“There are more important things than the big showcase right now, Robin. You’ve led little Byers completely astray here, and I’ve gotta go fix it.”
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Steve finds out that Mike is Will's Tammy and has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
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27 May 2026
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“Are you going to share your art or should I just sit here and wait until you’re done reading my smut?”
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An epistolary-style fic in which Mike is a fanfic writer and Will is a fan artist for Cleradin as Baldur’s Gate 3 OCs.
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- English
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- 14,575
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- 1/1
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25 May 2026
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All Mike can think of is Will. Will – fuck, Will in the attic, Will getting tortured, Will stuck with Kay and the Demogorgons, stuck at their mercy –
As if on cue, the gods above hearing the spiralling turn his thoughts take, a scream – an all-too-familiar scream – echoes from upstairs, travelling down from the attic to the dungeon. Mike freezes, unable to move, unable to even draw in a breath, as Will screams again – more drawn-out, filled with more agony.
It sinks into his bones, the knowledge that Will is in pain. In pain, and screaming with it. “Will,” he breathes. “WILL! WILL!”
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Their seventh year should have been spent at Hogwarts but instead, Mike, Will and Jane are on the run, hunting for Horcruxes to take Vecna down once and for all. Things take an awful turn when they're taken by Snatchers and Will is taken to a separate room to be tortured, Mike unable to do anything but listen to his screams.
(aka, a scene-rewrite of hermione getting tortured in malfoy manor in deathly hallows but with will as hermione and mike as ron that absolutely no one asked for)
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- Part 1 of harry potter au
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19 May 2026
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touch me with a kiss, feel me on your lips by jeaanmoreau
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 May 2026
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“Is it cause you used to have a crush on me?” Mike asked, abruptly.
“What!” It was Will’s turn to blush harder, giving him a glare reserved for Mike Wheeler and Mike Wheeler only. “No. God. That was ages ago. I’ve been past that for a long time.”
Mike motioned like he’d made his point. “See? So? It wouldn’t be weird.”
So, Mike likes guys. Fine, Will can live with that. Except now Mike's worried about having fallen behind and would really like some help practicing how to kiss a guy from his also-into-guys best friend. And Will is trying really, really hard to be a good mentor to him, so what is he going to do, say no?
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- Part 1 of heavenly
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- English
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- 149,086
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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- 6,196
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16 May 2026
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oh, mother (i can feel the soil falling over my head) by jurassicwill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 May 2026
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In the months after Joyce's death, grief keeps finding him in ordinary places - grocery store aisles, subway platforms, the reflex to reach for the phone - while Mike learns how to hold him through all the moments that still need her.
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an exploration of illness and grief after Joyce Byers is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
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15 May 2026
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Will's friends notice a quiet, nerdy boy at their college who keeps staring at him and they dare Will to ask him out. The date goes very well and Will's friends don't believe him until they accidentally overhear the pair.
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this post on twitter- Language:
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15 May 2026
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Paint me a picture, one I can look back on when I lose you. by sunniesdoll
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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Sometimes, all he can think about is how he’ll kill himself.
“Will! Will, come on- come on, wake up-”
His lungs shudder as he breathes in, hands gripping his face, his shoulders, alternating wherever they could.
“That’s it- that’s it, come on, come back to me-”
He feels dizzy, out of it, the way he always did. He’s pulled into a chest, a heartbeat he could spend forever memorizing, and tries to get his bearings.
Or, Will is going through some shit. He knows a way to get out of it, but... no one seems content to let that happen.
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- English
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- 17,910
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 171
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14 May 2026
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Nightmares weren’t new. They all had them.
But Will knew—knew—that they still treated him differently. Not because they knew he was queer. He almost wished it was that.
No.
It was the way they hovered. The way they watched him. The way they handled him, like he might break.
Like he was still the kid who’d gone missing.
Like he was something unfinished. It was probably some strange instinct they all had that he didn't because he hadn’t presented yet.
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Another omegaverse fic where Will finally presents as a rare male omega. The only one in Hawkins High.
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12 May 2026
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Mike taps Will’s foot with his own. “I hate hearing you call me Lord Wheeler. You needn't do that.”
“We were not alone, your footman was scarcely two feet away,” Will says, rolling his eyes. “What would you rather have me say?”
Alone in the carriage, Mike lets his gaze fall to the pressed collar of Will's shirt, to the emerald silk of his waistcoat, round golden buttons leading down to fawn-coloured trousers that sit tight around his thighs. He exhales slowly. “I can think of a great many things I’d rather have you say.”
Pink stains Will's cheeks. “Not here,” he says quietly, before looking determinedly out of the carriage window.
Lord Michael Wheeler, only son and heir to the Duke of Richmond, has fallen hopelessly in love with London painter William Byers.
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- English
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- 19,501
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- 1/1
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11 May 2026
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“You need to stop having sex with your boyfriend.”
“Excuse me?”
“I know I was the one who suggested it, and I know you have good intentions,’ Robin continued to his mortification. “But it really hasn’t been helping. In fact, I’d say it’s gotten worse.”
“You have pavloved Mike into yelling at us,” Lucas cut in, impatient. “It’s sick. It’s cruel.”
Snapshots of the 8 months worth of planning for the Byers-Wheeler wedding
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07 May 2026
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a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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07 May 2026
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He took a step forward, his eyes scanning the shop for the source of the heavenly scent. His tail caught the edge of a tall wooden stand displaying dozens of small potted lavender plants.
Crash!
The stand wobbled precariously for a moment before tipping over completely. Terracotta pots shattered on the polished wooden floor, spilling dark soil and lavender sprigs everywhere. The sound was deafening in the quiet shop.
"Shit!" Mike yelped, his ears flattening against his head with pure mortification. He dropped to his knees immediately, trying to gather the broken pieces, his tail still going a mile a minute, now knocking over a nearby watering can. "I'm so sorry! I'll clean that up."
"That's... quite alright." The voice was soft, a little hesitant, but it sent a shiver down his spine.
Mike looked up.
And the world stopped.
Or: The werehare omegaverse flower shop au nobody asked for.
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- 26,114
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- 1/1
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07 May 2026
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Will doesn't have high expectations for his return to Hawkins. He wants to blend in, heal people, find clues about Robin's whereabouts and maybe wipe out a monster nest or two before he and Jane get killed by the most evil wizard of the millennium.
He hasn't considered that Mike might hinder his plans, because the Prince was meant to forget him eleven years ago.
Mike didn't really get the memo.
(sort of-not really cleradin Prince-Knight Mike/Wizard Will, ft. established witch girlfriends ElMax & Mike's horrible courting attempts)
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- Part 1 of It Is You I Have Loved
- Language:
- English
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- 123,843
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- 12/12
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05 May 2026
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
- Language:
- English
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- 154,503
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29 Apr 2026