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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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- English
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- 71,098
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 1,222
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05 Jun 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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 125,264
- Chapters:
- 6/12
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- 1,596
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- 3,668
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05 Jun 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
- Words:
- 154,503
- Chapters:
- 23/23
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- 2
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- 4,384
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- 12,020
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- 2,668
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- 346,077
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13 May 2026
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i'll love you (even at the end of the world) by ziahra
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Mike,” Will had said to him, voice calm despite how hard it was for him to even make a sound. He didn’t try to sit up, but Mike wasn’t sure he could, even if he wanted to. “I need you to kill me.”
Mike shook his head, holding Will closer to his chest.
“Mike, please.” Will pleaded, closing his eyes against the light, or perhaps it was too much effort to keep them open. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t,” Mike whispered, surprised at how vulnerable he sounded, at the shake and utter defeat in his voice. “You won’t kill me, Will. Because we’re the same. We can’t hurt each other, even at the end of the world.”
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It's been three years since the start of the zombie apocalypse and Mike is finally returning home. He discovers that not only is he not the sole survivor of Hawkins, but that his friends and sister are alive, too. As he begins to reconnect with them, the tension between them begins to increase, and Mike doesn't know how long he can stay with them.
Because while some of the group are more than happy to have him around, others don't like the company he keeps...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 101,450
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 417
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- 2,077
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03 Mar 2026
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Mike and will drunkenly sleep together after Stacy’s party.
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He’d thought he was over Mike. He’d told himself he was. He’d accepted that Mike would never feel the same way. Mike wasn’t like him. Untouchable. Unavailable. A dead end. He’d made peace with that over 18 months ago when the world was ending.
But now Mike was here. And he was touching him. Looking at him like this. Like he wanted him.
And Will was too drunk, too raw, too undone to shove the feelings back down where they belonged.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,452
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 183
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- 3,675
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28 Feb 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jun 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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,541
- Chapters:
- 14/17
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- 20,351
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- 86,684
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27 Feb 2026
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“It’s just that when I see my wife laying in bed, I don’t want to leave.”
His students all awww in one voice as if they are the imaginary public of a sitcom. Mike feels himself blushing like an idiot.
When he starts to talk about it, he’s unable to stop thinking about it. He starts to daydream about the legs, the arms of his alleged wife wrapped around him. Them, together, in bed, under the covers.
He’s sure he looks stupid.
“Does Mrs. Wheeler get sad when you leave for work?”
Mrs. Wheeler.
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22 Feb 2026
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“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.”
Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?”
“If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mike explains. “But if we shotgunned, we’d both get two.” God, this is the best idea he’s had in ages. He should’ve stolen Will’s weed, like, months ago. “That’s like, bang for your buck. This is simple math, Will Byers. Keep up.”
In which it’s well past midnight in New York, Will can’t sleep, and Mike feels like they barely know each other anymore.
So, they get a little high. Mike is very normal about all of it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 23,567
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 895
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- 14,057
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21 Feb 2026
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i hate poetry (but not when you read it to me) by chaotycznosc
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler is a poet — in every possible sense of this word.
Will Byers hates English.But he still has to somehow pass it.
Mike is happy to help, but Will turns out to be nothing like his romantic novels.Or: Mike signs up for a tutoring program in his high school to get some extra credit. What a surprise it is when he gets to tutor a boy he’s had a crush on since freshman year.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 257,425
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Comments:
- 547
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- 1,201
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- 201
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- 32,936
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18 Feb 2026
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It's Michael Wheeler's first day of sophomore year at Hawkins High, and he's completely, terrifyingly alone. Eleven has broken up with him, and he hasn't seen his friends all summer. His world is crumbling around him, and he doesn't care enough to stop it.
Until his English teacher sets an assignment to write a retelling of Romeo and Juliet - and his project partner is his ex-best friend, William Byers, the boy his world once revolved around.or,
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers write a self-insert superhero comic book together about doomed, forbidden lovers and realise that they are also doomed, forbidden lovers.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 88,820
- Chapters:
- 15/20
- Comments:
- 872
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- 2,523
- Bookmarks:
- 535
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- 57,595
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18 Feb 2026
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dear will, (and all the things I'm too much of a coward to say) by Aloyx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2026
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Summer of 1989. Before the group splits up for college, they plan one final camping trip in the woods.
Trapped in a tent with Will, Mike is writing an apology letter that gradually turns into a heartfelt confession as he comes to terms with his true feelings. He has one week to find the right words, or he'll lose the love of his life forever.
Or: after s5, Mike Wheeler writes a love confession he’s absolutely not ready for.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,344
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Comments:
- 448
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- 1,784
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- 576
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- 44,760
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18 Feb 2026
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once i ran from you (now i run to you) by arsonsmatch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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That’s because he’s my boyfriend, Mike!” Will shouts.
“And us?” Mike presses, a sick sense of deja vu creeping coldly over his brain.
Will exhales sharply, “We’re friends. We’re friends! You made sure of that. So I don’t know why you’re so mad at me!”
“Because it was supposed to be me!”
Will blinks, “What are you talking about?”
“I’m mad because it was supposed to be me!” Mike shouts it desperately, like a plea, like this is making him go crazy, and fuck, maybe it is, “After everything—at the end—it was meant to be me. Not him. I don’t want it to be him. I want it to be me.”
Or, Mike doesn't realize his own feelings, until Will's are staring him dead in the face. Vecna's gone, they're nearing the end of their senior year, and all of a sudden Will has a boyfriend. Everything goes downhill pretty quickly from there.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 75,295
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 324
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- 1,832
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- 623
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- 43,390
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18 Feb 2026
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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- Part 1 of Super Soaker Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 140,998
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Comments:
- 13,689
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- 48,395
- Bookmarks:
- 6,882
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- 1,469,718
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18 Feb 2026
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Public Bookmark 3005
Mystery Work
Part of gootbai miek
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,333
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 466
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- 11,582
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- 123,922
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10 Feb 2026
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the great big mystery of mike wheeler's no good, very bad, terrible feelings by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Apr 2023
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It’s at that very moment that, for reasons completely and utterly unknown to anyone at all, every single possible word he has ever learned from any language ever has suddenly disappeared from his brain, and his throat feels relevant to the Sahara Desert.
None of this, of course, has to do with the fact that Will is very, very, very – shirtless.
Will blinks at him. “Are you okay?”
“Shoulders,” Mike says, sounding vaguely chipmunk-like, and he hears Max barely choke down a snicker.
Will comes back for the summer, and Mike deals with it.
Kind of. Not really.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,641
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 163
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- 6,617
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31 Jan 2026
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It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.
The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 189,454
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,657
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- 21,032
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- 4,600
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19 Jan 2026
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show me how you do that trick (the one that makes me scream) by sleepdeprived4this
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jan 2026
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Mike has spent the last three years figuring out what on earth to do with his life. From painting like will to writing news articles like Nancy— nothing seemed to work. Until, eventually, he turned back to DnD, landing right back where he started. A storyteller.
He ends up applying for colleges to get a creative writing degree, and much to his surprise, he’s rejected from all but one. And the one he was accepted to?
Will’s college.
Mike tells himself it’s a big enough school and that they’ll never run into eachother. He won’t even have to think about what happened two years ago.
And then he meets his roommate, Will Byers.
Or;
The voice sounded a lot like—
He turned around.
“…Mike?”
Mike’s mouth dropped open for a split second, his hands going clammy.
“Will.”
Mike silently hid the scroll behind his back, putting on a smile. The silence hung thick in the air.
“Uh, are you my roommate?” The words scratch their way up Mike’s throat, his free hand pointing to the random guy that Will was with.
“Uh, no, it’s-“
“It’s me,” Will interrupts, raising a small hand before quickly putting it back to the bottom of the boxes.
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19 Jan 2026
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Brand me with your hands so everyone can see. by sunniesdoll for elenarowan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Mar 2026
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Max arches a brow. “Carlton, though? You two are dating and you don’t even kiss? Is it just a preference thing?”
Will sighs, resigned. He drops his hands. “Okay. Honestly?” He hesitates, then shrugs. “He was a bad kisser. And I just… couldn’t get excited around him. At all.”
The reaction is immediate and merciless. Dustin makes a dramatic gagging noise. El gasps like she’s been handed gossip gold. Lucas high-fives Max, shaking her hand in his.
Mike doesn’t say anything. He just watches Will, watches the way he shrugs it off, the way he laughs a little too loud, the way his ears go red.
Or, Will's new boyfriend is a bad kisser. Mike thinks it's a crime that no one has kissed Will properly. He's on a goal to change that, Carlton be damned.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 172,551
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Comments:
- 5,668
- Kudos:
- 16,270
- Bookmarks:
- 3,233
- Hits:
- 553,005
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19 Jan 2026
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“You didn’t care to tell me he’s a… vampire?” by lixsun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jan 2026
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“Your bat gave me a surprise last night,” Will continues, voice low.
Dustin shifts uncomfortably. “Will—”
“But there’s something you didn't tell me,” Will says, stopping and staring at Dustin, as he sinks back into his pillow. “Something kind of crucial.” He leans forward slightly, lowering his voice even more, turning the words into a furious whisper.
“You didn’t care to tell me that he’s a… vampire.”
or; Will starts college with unexpected excitement. His roommate is funny, if a little strange. But when he ends up in the infirmary with a broken arm, asking Will to look after his pet, a damn bat, Will is pulled into a situation that is anything but ordinary.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,196
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 427
- Kudos:
- 3,238
- Bookmarks:
- 574
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- 37,115
Bookmarked by Pimpsuke
19 Jan 2026