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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 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 and a half 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 dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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- English
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- 328,136
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- 45/45
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07 May 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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- English
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- 52,599
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- 8/8
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15 Apr 2026
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your signal in the distance (to whom it may concern) by writercody
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Mar 2026
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Will Byers didn’t want to survive jumping off that bridge. But he did. Now he's stuck in the hospital for who knows how long, with a roomate in the freaking psych ward. Lovely.
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05 Apr 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jul 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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- English
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- 127,065
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- 16/17
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07 Mar 2026
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and i haven't seen you since last winter break by you_get_to_exhale_now_cyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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It’s the middle of December 1989, and everyone is finishing up their first semester at college. They’re all returning back to Hawkins for the break, excited for a few weeks of rest, relaxation, and catching up with old friends.
Mike should be excited; he hasn’t spoken to many of his friends since he started college, the losses of the last few years still weighing heavily on his mind. But instead of excitement, his stomach is filled with dread. Dread of being back in his shitty hometown. Dread of all the memories that still haunt each corner of Hawkins.Dread of seeing Will again for the first time in months.
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winter break in hawkins with our favorite stranger things characters :)) (title from winterbreak by MUNA)Bookmarked by 2SadArosProjecting
09 Jan 2026
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What Do I Do Now? (I Don't Keep Love Around) by Arstoryels
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Feb 2026
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Mike wakes to the sound of movement in the kitchen. He pushes himself up, still groggy, and steps into the hallway.
“Hey, baby,” a voice says easily, not looking up. “You want coffee—?”
Carlton turns around, stops short. Blinks once.
“Oh,” he says, then laughs under his breath. “You’re… not Will.”
Mike freezes.
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Post-canon, Mike Wheeler crashes at his best friend’s New York apartment for a book deal. But he wasn't ready to see this version of Will Byers: confident, successful, in love, surrounded by community and so, so free.
While Will lives the life he has always deserved, Mike grieves El and comes to the quiet, devastating realization that he might be in love a few years too late.
Despite everything, they still seem to find their way back to each other.
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- English
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- 54,227
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- 11/11
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08 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler, now 53, hears Good Luck, Babe! on the radio when going to the supermarket, which reminds him of an old friend.
Or Mike Wheeler battling his demons and winning (for once).
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01 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler has spent the last four years of college wandering aimlessly through life. He'd followed Will to California, only for Will Byers, his best, most trusted friend, to slowly phase himself out of his life. And frankly, he'd seemed happier without Mike. What was he supposed to make of that?
But then, Mike discovers some things about himself. He starts to find the pieces that he was looking for. And... what is Will supposed to do with that?
(aka: a post-canon "mike finds his way back to will eventually" 90s college fic, in which will byers gets to scream at mike a lil like he deserves, and mike gets to prove himself in return)
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29 Dec 2025
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So Tell Me What’s Wrong With the Feeling? by Mic_Olivyn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Mar 2026
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“You’re not gonna forget me,” Mike pressed, heart pounding against his rib cage. His hands twitched, picking nervously at the cardboard. His voice wobbled. “Right?”
Will shook his head quickly, crossing the space between them in a quick jog.
“No,” he whimpered, and his arms hooked around Mike’s waist, face pressing into the crook of his shoulder. “No, Mike. I could never forget you. You won’t-?”
“No,” Mike hissed, dropping his chin down on top of Will’s head. He was starting to catch up to his height, after years of having to look up or down at each other. He tilted his head down, nose squished against Will’s hair. He squeezed his eyes shut, and Will’s arms around him tightened, hands clasped behind his back.
They’d call twice, the first month Will was gone, and then never again.
After four years without contact, Mike chances a visit to the Byers' on his way to college. It changes everything.
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- Part 1 of Don't Forget About Me
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13 Jul 2025
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08 Jul 2025
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Inspired by a tiktok by @loafwheel
It's 2006 and Mike now has a wife and a daughter. One day Mike's daughter discovers old pictures of Mike and his childhood friends which leads to old thoughts and feelings that Mike thought he had buried coming back.
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29 May 2025
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I'm a Wreck (Without You Here) by oldfashionedmorphine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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Mike has been living 2,200 miles away from his family and hometown for the past fourteen years. He rarely visits, but when he receives heartbreaking news, he’s forced to return home for a funeral. It’s in this unfortunate chapter of life that Mike must come to terms with the consequences of abruptly running away from home and perhaps reconnect with the one person he’s tried his damnedest to forget about.
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22 May 2025
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After getting dumped the summer before college, Mike takes Will on the cross-country road trip he was planning to go on with Eleven. Floating through scorching desert heat, cheap motels, mountain hikes, visits to old friends and nights in big cities, he has a few realizations.
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07 May 2025
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The story of two Wheelers and a Byers …
Will Byers, 24 and a single father of two, recently moved into Hawkins from sprawling New York, feels like his life is pegged out as miserable. With his ex-wife Jolene leaving him after his second son, Joseph, was born. But once he realizes his next-door neighbor is his old friend, he thinks he might be in for something even worse than miserable.
Mike Wheeler, 24 as an auto mechanic, has owned his late mother’s old home, his childhood home, for four years now, gaining full custody over his younger sister. He thinks his life will be okay after all. With no romantic love required, but when his old childhood friend moves in next door, he feels like he can’t breathe.
Holly Wheeler, 15 and recently losing her mother, feels like she can’t reach out to anybody. And she needs to reach out more than ever. Her feelings for her lifelong best friend has extended into something she doesn’t even know yet. But she’s always been considered a late bloomer when it comes to love. But she just doesn’t know.
Daughter and son of Will Byers, and they ought to inherit his clinginess. After the loss of Jolene, they’re equally saddened.
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11 Apr 2025
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Before high school, Mike and Will thought they'd be thick as thieves along with the rest of the party. However, they discover that they don't have any classes together and drift apart making new friends outside of their childhood friends or focus on their separate hobbies. Then, a rumor happens that further puts a wedge in between Mike and Will. Now, on graduation night, Mike and Will try to make amends and perhaps confess their feelings, only for things to go astray as the next day they have switched bodies. After not seeing eye to eye in so long, perhaps this is their chance to be in each other's shoes.
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17 Nov 2024
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used a belt, on his back (hit it hard, made it crack) by prttyboys (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 May 2023
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“Do I seriously have to?’ Will whines, throwing his head back into the headrest, soon after that the impact makes him feel a little bit lightheaded. He was always a little bit sensitive on his head. Jonathan glances at him, unimpressed by his youngest brothers’ complaining.
Jonathan knows how he feels, not necessarily, because he had never been sent to a psychiatric ward. But he knows how it feels to just feel like you are unheard. Will needs this, though. He needs help, as bad as that sounds.
“Yes,” Jonathan replies, taking his eyes off the road to shoot his brother a glare without a hint of real fire, “This could help you, Will, this might—”
“—But I don't want to be helped!” Will interrupts, turning his whole body as much as he could towards his brother, “There's nothing wrong with me!”
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mental hospital byler au. its kinda fucked up.
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21 May 2023
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With the end of the world impending, Will Byers has never felt less sure of himself. When Will finds himself tasked with walking a mile in Lucas Sinclair's shoes, he learns more about his friends -- and himself -- than he ever expected to.
Or: A bodyswap fic, since I saw people asking for more of them.
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20 May 2023
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"He makes his way upstairs like a zombie, using the actual hallways, staircases and doors for once, not trusting himself with the fire escape.
'Jesus Byers, you look like death-'
'Mike and El are engaged.'"
After spending the last few years trying to move on with his life, Will finds himself back in Hawkins for his sister's wedding and comes face to face with the feelings he's been trying (and failing) to bury.
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11 May 2023
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It's the summer of 1991. Mike's childhood bedroom is too blue, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch makes him feel sick. He's the loneliest nineteen-year-old in the entire state of Indiana.
Or: Mike Wheeler versus bisexual growing pains.
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07 May 2023
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Something is wrong with Mike and in a very Nancy Wheeler fashion, Nancy is going to get to the bottom of it
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04 Mar 2023