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   How to Disappear Completely by peachstatic

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 May 2026

   Tags

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Epistolary
   • Chatting & Messaging
   • Future Fic
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Canon Compliant
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Cheating
   • Secret Relationship
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Falling In Love
   • Self-Acceptance
   • Unlabeled Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
   • Online Romance
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Sexual Dysfunction
   • Emotional Intimacy
   • Adulthood
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Eventual Smut
   • 2000s
   • Nerdiness
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Fluff
   • Humor
   • Healing Sex
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Therapy
   • Flirting
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.

   Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   81,437

   Chapters:

   5/12

   Comments:

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   Bookmarked by touchmybut

   02 Jun 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   Ch 5