bobblehat7



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    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?"

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    140,998
    Chapters:
    27/27
    Comments:
    13,683
    Kudos:
    48,370
    Bookmarks:
    6,880
    Hits:
    1,468,769

    24 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 39

    Tags
    Summary

    After an exhausting January workday, Mike comes home to face yet another tense evening in a life that feels stuck and repetitive. His teenage son, Miles, asks to talk with him. Mike begins telling Miles a carefully edited version of his past—about growing up in Hawkins, losing his best friend Will for a time, loving Eleven, surviving disasters, and enduring deep loss. As he recounts these memories, it becomes clear that Mike has spent his life suppressing unresolved grief, guilt, and feelings he never fully confronted, including his complicated love for Will and the feeling of fear of leaving everything behind.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    15,274
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    41
    Kudos:
    154
    Bookmarks:
    39
    Hits:
    3,359

    17 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    He didn’t really understand why someone would want to go to a cemetery for a birthday party, but hey, maybe Will was a bit of a weird kid.

    “Hey Will.” Mike called, his voice gentler than he had ever heard it.

    He whipped his head around, scanning the rows for another figure, desperately looking for Will. It didn’t really click until Mike stepped forward and knelt beside a grave, placing his perfectly imperfect cake in front of a well-kept headstone.

    Oh.

     

    Will Byers is dead.

    So how the hell did he end up stuck haunting Mike Wheeler's basement?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    86,242
    Chapters:
    15/15
    Comments:
    417
    Kudos:
    1,631
    Bookmarks:
    396
    Hits:
    31,819

    16 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—

    “You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”

    Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    30,239
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Comments:
    474
    Kudos:
    4,262
    Bookmarks:
    956
    Hits:
    50,429

    08 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Will attends a baseball game with his friends and struggles with jealousy over the coworker Mike has been talking to a lot lately. But when the Kiss Cam highlights Mike and their coworker, Mike doesn't kiss her. He kisses Will.

    Update: I have since started posting chapters of an extended version of this fic. It is not completed, but I will be posting chapters regularly. I start it back to when Will moves after losing his job.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,509
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    126
    Kudos:
    2,373
    Bookmarks:
    330
    Hits:
    18,460

    27 Feb 2026