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“It was El who broke up with you, though. It’s not like it’s your fault she fell out of love,” Will offered. “That was what she said right?”
For a second their eyes met, but Mike quickly glanced away. He’d been doing that more often recently. Will could understand. Holding eye contact lately… ever since they were spending nights lying awake next to each other, sometimes talking, but mostly pretending to sleep… Let’s say it felt harder than usual to hold Mike’s gaze for him as well.
“… Yes,” Mike answered. “Right. She said that,” he added as if to remind himself.
A loud snort from the main hall pierced through their conversation. “Oh, please.” Murray mocked from the couch. Will and Mike both turned their heads to stare at him with pinched expressions.
“What?” Murray exclaimed. “Falling out of love is not the reason El broke up with you.”OR: Mike and Will get Murray’d and deal with the consequences.
(But, of course that alone won’t be enough to completely burn Mike’s intense repression, so we’re going to rely on our good old friend Vecna to give Mike some insight into his own mind…)- Language:
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16 Jul 2026
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“Mike, stop. You’re not making any sense.”, Will whispers against the skin of Mike’s thumb.
“I’ve never made more sense than right now and we both know it.”, Mike whines, “If you want to kiss me and I want to kiss you, like, really fucking badly, then why won’t you just let me? Who cares if I’m drunk? I’ll remember it, trust me. And I’ll kiss you fifty more times tomorrow.”
“What if I want fifty-one kisses?”, Will hears himself respond, throat dry and, heck, did he leave on the heater?
“Then, you’ll get a hundred.”, Mike murmurs, slowly but firmly pressing his lips against Will’s jaw, “You’ll get as many as you want. And anywhere you want, for that matter.”
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AU were mike comes home drunk, confessing he really, really wants, no, NEEDS to kiss will. the next morning, he doesn't even remember how he ended up in will's room and will is left to deal with the mess. HAPPY ENDING
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16 Jul 2026
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“It was the hottest thing I think I've ever seen,” Mike says, and when Will whips his head over, he’s nodding sagely. Like this is extremely important information.
“What,” Will chokes.
For a moment, Mike just keeps nodding. Lucas calls Almost ready! over the din of panic and Will tries to steady his breathing. He doesn’t know how he’d ended up being the one they trust with the stitches, but he gets their reasoning. Steady artists hands, they’d all said, even Mike, wincing while draining half the bottle. Then: I trust you.
“It was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen,” Mike repeats, like Will simply hadn’t heard him. “When you, like,” Mike dramatically wipes his nose with his good arm, eyes flashing dark. He misses, a little, and Will grabs his hand to bring it gently back down, but he gets the picture.
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Mike is severely injured in the Upside Down. He admits some things to Will, drunk out of his mind. They talk about it.
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15 Jul 2026
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IN THE DARKNESS I WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU by authorsacat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2026
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Mike Wheeler thinks Hawkins is haunted as shit.
Will Byers is back in town.
It only makes sense to go around ghost hunting and maybe, just maybe, falling in love with your best friend.“So it’s settled then. We like each other and we’re ghost hunting.”
“Yes.”
“That’s a phrase I never thought I’d say.”Or: Mike and Will are definitely not just ghost hunting.
Or: Post-college life sucks.
Or: This really isn’t about ghosts…Bookmarked by That_a_e_l
14 Jul 2026
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“Will, this isn’t about me,” he responded, a little bit too blunt for his own liking. “We don’t know if Max is going to wake up. Let’s focus on that.”
“Lucas, she wouldn’t want you to–” Will began, but was quickly cut off before he got the chance to finish.
"Don’t speak for her like she's dead!" Lucas snapped, voice raised and full of agitation. His nerves were well and truly frayed from the sleep deprivation, meaning that his temper had been considerably shortened. "Because she's not. She's not. She's still in there, I know it."
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When visiting Max in the hospital, Lucas and Will have a long overdue heart-to-heart, soon realizing that they understand each other a lot more than they initially thought they did.
(or my attempt at compensating for the lack of fics about this underrated gem of a friendship)
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13 Jul 2026