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    “So… you’ll show me around the bar too? We’ll be colleagues?”

    Will remains suspended for a heartbeat, his eyes wide with a fleeting, stunned clarity. Then, a sheepish, airy laugh breaks through his surprise.

    “Oh! No, Mike. I’m not behind the bar.”

    A subtle tilt of his head draws Mike’s eye toward the stage. Will catches his bottom lip between his teeth, a nervous habit that betrays the sudden spike in the room’s electricity.

    “I’m a dancer here.”

    Oh.

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    Or: Mike Wheeler finds a job as a bartender at a Burlesque Club in NYC and discovers that his childhood best friend / crush of a lifetime is a dancer. Will he survive seeing Will Byers stripping and dancing on stage every night? Will he be able to win him over, while also trying not to make a fool out of himself?

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Genuinely one of the best fics I’ve ever read.

    So gorgeous and sensual. The chemistry was just absolutely scrumptious

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    The guy laughed again. “Prank calls are a mixed bag. And so are Depeche Mode songs. So, I guess your song fits. I’m Will, by the way.”

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    Mike gets dared to prank call a random number. What he doesn't know is that he is about to fall for the boy on the other line.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    Mike joins a LARP for the first time and keeps his helmet on because being a paladin is easier than being himself. After one mistake, he’s introduced to the “paladin doubt” mechanic and keeps ending up confessing to the same calm cleric in purple robes.

    Then Max drags him to a coffee shop, and Mike realizes the barista smiling at him is the same cleric who’s been hearing his confessions every weekend.

    From there, things get complicated. Mike knows exactly who Will is but doesn't tell him. Will develops a crush on the quiet, devout paladin who kneels for penance and never takes his helmet off.

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    26 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The best Byler larping fic I’ve ever read

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    Byler being dads for far too many words

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.

    “Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.

    “What?”

    Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—

    Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”

    Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.

    “Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”

    When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.

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    17 Apr 2026