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Will and Mike are insanely competitive. Incapable of losing or letting the other win, it comes up in quite literally every aspect of their lives – whether it be one-upping each other while playing games, or drinking with their friends, or even arguments, neither side is ever willing to give up until it gets too tiring to keep going.
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Will thinks for a moment, biting his lip and picking at his fingernails, before looking at Mike with a mysterious glint in his eyes. There's a rosy tint to his cheeks, and Mike has to stop himself from leaning over and biting them.
“Do you want to play Mario Kart again tonight?”
Mike and Will play video games. Just for fun. Totally, totally not as an excuse to get naked.
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21 Jul 2026
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Something happened between Mike and Will during winter break of ‘89, and they haven’t spoken in four years. When Mike moves to New York for grad school in 1993, he is finally starting to figure himself out, and he wants to fix things with Will. He has no idea where to begin, so he writes a play about it.
Will has been building a life for himself in NYC as a painter. He has a boyfriend, volunteers with an AIDS housing program, and pays his rent by acting in other people’s plays – including, as it turns out, Mike’s.
A story about the damage of being loved before you’re ready, and about trying to make your way back (with a little help along the way from your meddling older siblings).
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19 Jul 2026
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Two weeks into summer break, Mike finds Will's diary.
And steals it.
And from one day to another the line between Will and Diary-Will starts to blur. With one thing in common: they are both madly, deeply in love with Mike. But only one of them hides it.
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17 Jul 2026
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The water ebbs around them, slow and tranquil, but the storm raging inside Will is anything but.
All he sees are Mike’s eyes as he closes the gap. A drop of water rolls down his neck, disappearing into the naked line of his collarbone.
“Say no if you don’t want me to,” he murmurs. “Push me back.”
Or, Will gets swept into Mike’s irresistible pull after a single night that changes their friendship forever. Late night talks turn into even later night kisses, friendly nudges to intoxicating touches, and the creaking of bedsprings now means something other than the return of Will's nightmares. Each new change blurs the line between friendship and something more, and as Will struggles to stay afloat through Mike's confusing storm, he starts wondering what it is exactly they are - and whether he'll sink for good in trying to find out.
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10 Jul 2026
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“So,” Dustin announced as he brought back drinks for the whole table and very pointedly tipped his head in the direction of Mike and Will, who were mid-heated discussion where they’d left them. “Is anybody going to tell me what happened there?”
Max rolled her eyes and said, “Will had a real ‘don’t meet your heroes’ moment,” at the same time as Lucas said, “Mike got his feelings hurt.”
Miscommunication kings Will and Mike have a falling out in the aftermath of their first kiss. Three years later, Jane & Dustin are getting married in the Florida Keys, and they want the whole party there. Sometimes it's easier to pretend to kiss and make up than to face your problems.
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07 Jul 2026
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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12 Jun 2026
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Almost three years into being roommates at college, Will starts to notice that Mike is willing to do anything for him... like, literally anything. He decides to test Mike, to see how far he's willing to go just to make Will happy.
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11 Jun 2026
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sweet taste in my mouth (i can’t get it out) by robinsgrlfnd
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jul 2026
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For a fleeting moment he prays it’s him. That Mike could somehow be pining for him again after all these years. That Mike really has improved after five years away and maybe all they needed was time apart and everything could go back to the way it was. Go back to normal.
But things are different now. Will has a fulfilling life in New York, he had a boyfriend that he’s since broken up with. He had successfully moved on romantically. He made new friends, went to bars and kissed boys. He’s different. Mike couldn’t possibly fit now.
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mike and will dated for the entire summer after high school graduation. they were inseparable at the time, but haven’t seen each other since.
mike hasn’t dated since they were eighteen. max and lucas’ wedding is the only reason they’re in the same room right now.Bookmarked by bowiearcher13
06 Jun 2026
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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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- 328,136
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- 45/45
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Bookmarked by bowiearcher13
05 Jun 2026
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The smile that spreads across Mike’s face is involuntary, like it must exist in Will’s presence. It’s like he waters the parched soil of his mind.
Mike doesn’t realize how badly he needs him until he’s had a drink. And right now, he thinks this weekend is exactly what he’s been needing.
OR: After years of grappling with his feelings, Mike visits Will in Chicago for a weekend during his junior year of college.
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- Part 1 of SKYA Universe
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- 113,205
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by bowiearcher13
04 Jun 2026
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New York ain't a city for the weak.
Less so if you’re in your twenties, balancing college and work while trying to live a normal life.
Even less if you were bitten by an altered spider that gave you powers in the blink of an eye.
Even less if your best friend is a journalist who has made it his life's mission to follow your every step to discover your true identity.
And miles less if you’re hopelessly in love with him, and he has no absolute clue.
Again, this city ain't for the weak. Especially not for the weak of heart.
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Will Byers is a member of a Brigade that protects the city, and Mike Wheeler is a journalist who, at least at the beginning, has no idea of anything. Literally, anything.Bookmarked by Ro (bowiearcher13)
22 May 2026
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For their senior year spring break, the Party sets sail on a 7-day cruise to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. Not much has changed since their last reunion, as long as you don’t count Mike and Will breaking up two years ago, which fractured the friend group permanently and made it so neither of them could stand to be within ten feet of each other.
It’ll be a trip they never forget - that much Will is sure of.
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13 May 2026
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It all started with a game of ‘Never Have I Ever.’
Mike and Will find themselves quiet as their friends put their fingers down when the questions of sexual experience come up.
Later that night, Mike approaches Will with a risky proposition. "What if we practiced together? Just for experience, so we don't feel so behind when we get to college."
Will, surprised but intrigued, agrees to Mike's plan. What starts as a strict arrangement for ‘practice’ slowly turns into something more meaningful as the two childhood friends explore intimacy together throughout the summer, discovering not only physical desire but the surprising connection they share.
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- 17/26
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12 May 2026
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Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.
Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’
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12 May 2026
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Will’s brain blanked.
Mike pulled back just enough to look at him.
“We shouldn’t,” Will said, barely audible.
“So tell me to stop,” Mike murmured, close enough that their lips brushed with every word.
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Will Byers arrives at California-Davis Campus after repeating a year in Hawkins High. He’s excited to reunite with his friends, but the thought of meeting Mike after their last awkward interaction makes him… nervous.
But there was nothing to be worried about, right?
Because Mike was happy with El.
And Will was happy with Chance.And these were the first lies of the story.
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12 May 2026
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don’t wanna talk down on your lover (just know i can be better) by Wikelanchie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Apr 2026
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Mike puts the car into park, but doesn’t tear his gaze away from the windshield. “Say it.”
Will splutters. “Say what?”
“Like we’re what, Will? Say it. Why do I make your boyfriend so nervous?”
“You’re being a jerk.” He looks down and picks at a loose thread on his sweater.
Mike is being a jerk, but he’s just tired. And Will is here in Mike’s car in the middle of nowhere, protected by the growing darkness of the evening, and goddamnit, Mike wants to hear him say it. He wants to hear Will say Mike isn’t better.
Or: Mike and Will have been Mike and Will for sixteen years. Mike is not going to Will let someone else ruin that.
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- Part 1 of better together
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22 Apr 2026
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This book is an intimate retelling of the events following the renowned 1970s rock band Sorcerer & The Six's rise to fame—and their abrupt split while on tour in Chicago on July 12, 1979. From the humble beginnings of the Brave Brothers and Will Byers to their legendary run at the top of the charts, their career as a band was short-lived compare to the mark they left behind on rock ‘n’ roll.
Lead vocalist Will Byers and frontman Mike Wheeler exploded on the stage with a messy, kaleidoscopic bang. The bandmates, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, and Max Mayfield, as well as band photographer and creative director Jane Hopper, were among the collateral.
This story aims for a literary approach, but in it lies the truth. As deceptive as the most famous among us can be, they cannot hide from themselves as we travel back to 1972 and follow Sorcerer & The Six all the way to their inevitable end in 1979.Or;
A Stranger Things/Daisy Jones & The Six AU. Love, lust, and loss work in tandem as they come to terms with their overwhelming fame. Whether it be a moment tucked in the privacy of a hotel room or happening in front of tens of thousands of fans on stage, you see it all.
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- 8/30
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19 Apr 2026
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I hope you can see if you read through these lines by bowiearcher13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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It’s the summer of 1990, and the life in Hawkins has turned back to normal at the point that reality allows it to be. Life took many of the boys to different places, states, persons, but one wedding would make the blue and the yellow combine in the sky to complete the sunrise, and clarify, for once and for all, what the hell is going on between the two of them.
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A fic where Will and his family move to San Francisco after defeating Vecna, but still spending the holidays with the Wheelers. Eighteen months later, they come back to town for Nancy and Jonathan’s wedding. There, Mike and Will re encounter and try, for once and for all, to understand and embrace whatever’s going on between them.
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08 Apr 2026
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Nearly two years after graduating from Hawkins High, Will Byers had what he’d always wanted. Control. He’s in charge of his life day in and day out.
Mike can’t sleep, write, or do much of anything, really.
Mike didn’t show up to the airport last summer, and Will didn’t come back to Indiana - until he found himself on the Wheelers’ doorstep at Christmas.
In which Mike and Will haven’t spoken in over a year, and neither of them quite know how they ended up on a road trip back to California as roommates.
Or, with a little bravery, some interference from friends old and new, and a whole lot of butter, Mike and Will might actually stand a chance of being honest with each other and getting what they want.
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- 120,351
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- 17/17
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30 Mar 2026
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A New Shade of Blue by assortedspoons
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
28 Mar 2026
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Winter, New York City, 1992.
Mike Wheeler has always been late. Chronically so. Late to school, late to work, late to realize just how head over heels he was and is for his best friend, Will Byers. During Winter break, Mike visits Will in NYC, excited not only to explore the big city but to explore Will’s version of it. He finds Will brighter, more social, less repressed, and he seems happy with his new boyfriend, Carlton, but things aren’t what they appear.The two explore Will’s new life, while Mike battles nostalgia, his heart’s heavy yearning, and his own morals. If Will is happy, that’s all that matters- or at least that’s what he tells himself. The more time they spend, the more the lines seem to blur, and it becomes harder to ignore the feelings between them that maybe never really went away.
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Bookmarked by bowiearcher13
28 Mar 2026