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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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26 Jul 2026
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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25 Jul 2026
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“What did you mean, ‘we’re not friends anymore’?” Will demands.
“Oh god,” Mike says faintly, because he can’t think of a single other thing to say.
“It’s Will, actually,” Will says. “Or maybe you forgot that in the five years since you last bothered to speak to me before you sent me this.”
He unfolds his arms to brandish a crumpled envelope in Mike’s face, and he knows without even looking at his own handwriting on the front exactly what it is.
(or, the summer after all his friends graduate from college, mike writes will a letter to say goodbye. predictably, nothing about this goes as planned.)
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25 Jul 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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13 Jul 2026
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Isn't There Someone You Forgot to Tell by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2026
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“Hopper doesn’t know I’m gay.”
Jonathan squinted at him, mind prone to lag in the morning. “Why would Hopper not know? You told us as clearly as you could without using the word—”
“He was already on the way to Radio Shack,” Will said in a rush. He gripped his bag tighter so his arms wouldn’t start to flail with panicky emphasis. “He wasn’t there when I came out.”
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11 Jul 2026
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Today isn't about him at all. It's Jane's perfect reunion with her boyfriend, and Will doesn't have a place within it. It doesn't matter that he's missed Mike, too. It doesn't matter that today is Will's birthday. He shouldn't even be there, not when their plans are only really for Jane and Mike. He's intruding, and he knows himself well enough to know that he's not going to be able to put on a happy face and let himself be excluded without showing just how badly it hurts him. He'll only ruin their time together if he sticks around.
Will decides to go home by himself rather than go with Mike and Jane to Rink-O-Mania.
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09 Jul 2026
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There stood Mike, frozen like a statue. In front of him, Will was bent over, digging through the fruit drawer of the refrigerator. After a moment, Will straightened up with a ripe peach in hand. Ted watched his son continue staring at the exact spot Will’s backside had just occupied, wearing an expression of pure, hopeless longing.
Ted considered quietly backing out of the room.
"For God's sake, Michael," He said, instead. "Either take something out or close the door. I'm not paying to refrigerate the whole neighborhood."
Will turned around, blinking in mild confusion.
Mike’s face bloomed bright red. The blush was quickly overtaken by a scowl. He slammed the refrigerator door hard enough to rattle every magnet on it. “I was getting something! Sorry it took more than two seconds-"
“When exactly did your mother start storing the snacks in the back pockets of Will’s jeans?”
“Oh my God.” Mike spun on his heel and stormed toward the stairs. “You are so-" The rest was lost to thundering footsteps and the inevitable slam of his bedroom door.
Or, Ted realizes sometimes you need to be locked in the closet before coming out of it.
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09 Jul 2026
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It was Lucas who broke it, looking over at Mike "Hey. The floor's open, by the way. If you wanted."
Mike blinked. "What?"
"Oh yeah! We always end up talking about this stuff without you." Dustin said, rolling onto his side. "Lucas talked about Max. I've been monologuing about Stacy for over a month, which in retrospect was a waste of everyone's time-"
"Tremendous waste." Mike agreed. "Historic, really."
"-and you've got something going on now." He shrugged. "It's your turn."
Mike looked at Lucas, who raised his eyebrows in a quiet yeah, what he said.
He looked back at Dustin. "You want me…to talk to you about having sex with Will?"
In which Dustin is a shit head and Mike ends up oversharing about his sex life.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mike clears his throat loudly, dragging Will’s attention back from his thoughts. He snaps his eyes up to him, observing the look on his face which lies somewhere between a ‘I’m ready for a gate to the Upside Down to open and swallow me right now.’ and ‘I’m deeply sorry for what I’m about to do next.’
Oh no.
He’s about to do something really stupid.
Or, Mike kisses Will in front of the Party. Naturally, he has to kiss everyone else.
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27 Jun 2026
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Mike has many plans for the summer before college, most of them involving Will, a forever expanding definition of quality time, and what he optimistically calls reaching new heights of manhood.
Except, knocking around is easy, but standing there when the door actually opens is another story to tell.
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21 Jun 2026
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Vegeta was nobody's uncle and just because Goten called him that didn't make it true.
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15 Jun 2026
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Trunks is nineteen when his future counterpart crash lands in his front yard and stumbles out of his time machine half dead. Again. (For the third time!)
He’s not quite sure how to feel about it.
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15 Jun 2026
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Will’s breath hitched and he resumed his movements in Mike’s hair, unable to resist him,
“You’re drunk.”
Mike chased Will’s hands, his mouth parting, closing his eyes like he was savoring the touch,
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15 Jun 2026
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Trunks winds up overworking himself to a fatal degree in the office, and has to do the most humbling and humiliating thing in the world: ask his father to come pick him up.
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15 Jun 2026
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Mike fumbles in his pocket for a moment, pulling out his wallet and fishing out a twenty dollar bill before he frowns, thumbing through the other compartments. “Shit man, I only have a twenty. I don’t have money for a tip.”
There’s an opportunity dangling in front of him, and before Will could back out—convince himself to not even try—he bites. “I accept more than just cash tips.”
They both stand frozen and Will watches with baited breath as Mike’s eyes widen—it’s obvious he’s picked up on what Will meant.
“Yeah? You do?”
And Will hoped he wasn’t looking too much into this because Mike sounded almost breathless—hopeful.
“Yeah.”
“Like what?”
“A kiss.” He says it before he can stop himself. He’s already dug the hole deep enough anyway. “A dollar per kiss.”
OR Surfer Boy Pizza delivery boy Will is working one Friday evening and makes a delivery to what ends up being Mike's house—the Scoops Ahoy worker he's had a secret crush on all summer.
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07 Jun 2026
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The Price Is Right (The Advice Was Wrong) by discomedley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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“No, Robin, you don’t get it. I’ve known those boys basically their entire lives, Mike is not Will’s Tammy. It’s just, like—” he huffed, frustrated now. “It’s not even a comparable situation.”
Robin didn’t seem to get it. “Sure it is! Mike’s straight, and Will’s crush on him is what helped him to come to terms with his feelings. It’s a completely comparable situation.”
Steve grabbed his keys from the dish next to the front door and started shoving on his shoes without a second thought.
“Where are you going?” Robin asked, gesturing back to The Price is Right on the TV. “This isn’t even a re-run!”
“There are more important things than the big showcase right now, Robin. You’ve led little Byers completely astray here, and I’ve gotta go fix it.”
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Steve finds out that Mike is Will's Tammy and has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
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28 May 2026
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In a world where soulmates bring colour into each other’s lives, Will Byers has almost accepted that maybe his world will stay grey forever.
Then, Mike Wheeler walks into the flower shop, soaking wet, and immediately starts freaking out.
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24 May 2026
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can’t start a fire without a spark by jediknight, jediwill (jediknight) for Cleric_Will
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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Mike grins. “You and Max better not ditch me and Lucas at Prom. I don’t think I’ll be able to convince Lucas to dance with me.”
Will’s stomach flips. “What, and you think you could convince me?” He’s trying for a playful tease, but it almost comes out flirty. He rolls his eyes for good measure.
“I—don’t know, actually,” Mike admits. “Maybe if I earn it.”
“…Earn it,” Will repeats slowly. “And how would you do that?”
Mike shrugs. “I think that’s up to you, right?”
Mike has asked Will to the Prom as friends, but Will’s long-dormant romantic feelings are starting to reawaken.
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24 May 2026
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“No!” Mike exclaimed, “Holly, I’m not marrying him!”
“Why?” Holly whined, as Mike tried to walk away. She threw both arms around his legs and sank to the floor, sitting on his feet so that it was extremely difficult to walk.
“Because,” said Mike, trying to free himself from her grip by shaking his legs. She only held on tighter.
“But he’s so amazing,” said Holly, as Mike shuffled his feet slowly when he realised she would not be relinquishing her hold on him anytime soon. He dragged her into the hallway so he could put on his coat. “He’s the best, most incrediblest, most fantastic babysitter in the whole world! You should marry him!”
Or; Will Byers, well-known as an outcasted freak at Hawkins High, is Holly Wheeler’s babysitter, and perhaps the loveliest person Mike has ever met.
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16 May 2026
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Graduation weekend was supposed to be fun and uncomplicated.
Instead, after a year of kissing Will, Mike has to accept he can’t have his cake and eat it, too.
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- Part 2 of Me and William
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30 Mar 2026