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"Mike."
"Yeah?" Mike pulls back slightly and Will's eyes flicker down, watching as he sucks his bottom lip into his mouth.
He doesn't know what to say; he's not sure he even knows how to breathe.
"Strawberry," Mike says after a moment, his voice wavering.
"What?"
"The flavor… is it strawberry?"
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Mike and Will play the chapstick game, the line between friendship and something more blurring as they do whatever it takes to win.
Bookmarked by ringerz
22 Jul 2026
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“Don’t be angry,” Will says, voice so hushed he’s barely audible over the roaring in Mike’s ears, a drop of blood trickling down onto his upper lip. “But—the powers, Mike. I still have them. And they’re getting worse.”
Mike hasn't spoken to Will in over a year when, on a rainy November night, Will shows up at his door asking for help with a secret he's kept for years. Mike doesn't know why Will pulled away and stopped returning his calls, doesn't know how they drifted so far apart, but he's never stopped missing him. When Will reveals his long-hidden powers and his struggle to cope, Mike agrees to help master them so Will can get back to his life. But Mike has secrets of his own to keep, like the dreams that have never stopped plaguing him, the truth of his relationship with El, and the long-buried feelings he's never spoken aloud to anyone. Back together in Chicago, they'll either learn how to heal, or burn everything down trying.
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better watch that pretty mouth (you’re rolling the devil’s dice) by slowklancing (notanannoyingfangirl)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jun 2026
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“So,” Will prompts, when Mike still doesn’t offer up any information on the mysterious stack of papers tucked under his arm. “Are you having a party?”
“Oh, no,” Mike says, sounding like it might be the first time ever in his life that he is genuinely disappointed about this fact. He shifts and grabs the stack of flyers, sort of waving them through the air. “These are just for this game I play?” The inflection on the end of what should be a statement makes it sound more like a hesitant question.
“And in this one, you act like you’re… vampires?”
Or: To get out of the sexual rut he’s stuck in, Popular!Will gets dared to ask out Nerd!Mike and ends up attending a Vampire the Masquerade LARP where they proceed to put the ‘role-play’ into ‘live action role-play.’
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“Hey, Mike?” Will asked. “Why now?”
Mike was silent for a long time, so long Will thought he wasn’t going to answer at all. “I just… I don’t know. How can I move on if I don’t know for sure? I can’t stop thinking that if she is out there, if I was right, and I don’t even try to find her, then maybe I really didn’t deserve her.”
A year after graduation, Mike decides to start a search for El and asks Will to come with him. Their friendship hasn't been the same since Will came out and Eleven disappeared, so Will agrees, kicking off a complicated journey that brings them back together. Will is in college, trying to move on, and Mike is idling in Hawkins, torn between his past with El and his confusing feelings for Will. As the search brings them closer than either ever imagined, Will and Mike grapple with first loves, moving on, and growing up together.
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Bookmarked by ringerz
21 Jul 2026
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i’ll meet you in the middle, i will always be your friend by kidovna
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jul 2026
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As Will prepares to leave for college, Mike makes a move that doesn’t quite go the way he expected.
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- Part 1 of Moths AU
Bookmarked by ringerz
19 Jul 2026