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A few years after graduation, the party drive to New York City to visit Will. Will has been thriving in the big apple, he's even gotten himself a boyfriend (much to Mike's dismay). Mike has come to understand that his feelings for Will were never platonic, but it might be too late.
In the days leading up to New Year's Eve, Mike tries to keep his cool around Will. A little flirting couldn't hurt though, could it? Mike doesn't want to go into 1993 with any regrets, and he's ready to get what he wants.
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Do You Think I’ve Forgotten? (About You) by Lovelikenothing
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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1994.
So Mike Wheeler is a depressed little writer in New York and Will is a free little lad who has tried his best to move on. He lives a nice life but when he meets Mike in a random cafe on a random morning, byler fireworks pop and the figure everything out and all the memories are alive again and they fall in love (hopefully). I hated the Season 5 ending so this is my version of what actually happens after. -
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After their final D&D game Will goes to Staceys party. Mike stays at home and sulks. Everything else focuses on the groups two year reunion after college started. Will brings his boyfriend to meet everyone and Mike Wheeler is very jealous and sad.
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Will hasn't spoken specifically to Mike in over a year. After the Byers moved to California that one year, and Will hardly talked to Mike anymore, they promised each other that they’d always stay in contact, even after high school graduation. That’s what a party is supposed to do, right?
Will followed in Jonathan’s footsteps and enrolled at NYU, just a short drive away from Joyce and Hopper in Montauk, who are soon to be married. After a year of going to college, his life’s been pretty great. He’s been taking fun (overbearing) art classes, has a fun (tiring) job, and an amazing (confusing) boyfriend. What more could he ask for?
It isn’t until his second year at college when things take a turn. Mike is back, enrolling at NYU for who knows what. It’s been so long since Will has even seen Mike that he doesn’t even know what to say to him, but one thing is for certain, Mike is different. He’s been acting really weird recently, specifically around Will, and Will is determined to find out why.
A year in college in which Will figures out Mike’s feelings towards him were a little more intense than he once remembered, all while trying to “balance” his “amazing” relationship.
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A little death by bylerlunch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
09 Jan 2026
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Where Mike Wheeler is emotionally burnt out, painfully jealous, and quietly falling apart, and seeing Will Byers again forces him to face everything he never allowed himself to want.
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Where Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have too much history, too many unsaid truths, and, after five years,
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Letters to Will (Live from New York) by sofishortcake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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“Thanks for taking care of me, Mike. I didn’t mean to drink this much.” Mike locks the dorm door behind him with a quiet click. He turns to see Will swaying against the wall. “You know, I could’ve had Carlton walk me back. If you wanted to stay at the party.”
Mike laughs, low and sharp, taking a deliberate step closer. “Yeah, I bet he would've loved that. And, please... stop saying his fucking name, okay?” His voice rises, strained with a tension he can’t hide. Other names in Will’s mouth twist his stomach in ways he can’t explain.
Will swallows, gaze dropping. “Sorry, I just meant…I’m so happy you’re here, but I know you’re not just here to see me, and you probably want—”
Mike cuts him off without a second thought. He grabs Will’s arms, and shoves him lightly but firmly against the wall. Their chests collide, faces inches apart, the air between them charged and electric. Will freezes—but Mike doesn’t back down. “Will…you have no idea what I want,” he whispers, eyes dropping to Will’s lips. Every shred of control he’s ever clung to around him melting.
And there truly must be something in the NYC air, because Mike from Hawkins would have never dared to do what he does next.
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lowkey js an introduction of Will’s and Mike’s life. Trust it builds up
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the lights are so bright (but they never blind me) by karevermore
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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"A drop of tequila slid down Will's chin, and Mike watched in awe as his best friend took his ring finger and wiped it off, maintaining full eye contact. Mike furrowed his brow and tilted his head down. 'I bet I could out-drink you guys. Winner gets bragging rights for the next year.'”
Everyone is home for the holidays, so Mike, Will, and the rest of the party head to their first club to celebrate New Year's Eve. After a little competition and concern about finding a New Year's kiss, Mike realizes how much he's struggled being the last one left in Hawkins.
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don't stop when you hear me calling by bylerreddietruther
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Will Byers has gotten over Mike Wheeler. He's sure.
But three years after they have parted ways, Will is in shock when he sees his former best friend at a bar - a gay bar, at that - in the Big Apple, where he has made a life for himself.
Is he truly over him?
(this is my first fic! song is from Fire In My Heart)
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Feels like the start of a movie I've seen before by Moons_flowerz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Two sets of children becoming friends by a swing set on a playground in two very different times.
Mike's daughter Willow befriends the new girl in her class.
Little does he know, that when she comes home gushing about Jane and her two dads, one of them is the person he has spent years trying not to think about.
This is set about fifteen years after the finale, so Mike and Will are both in their early 30s.
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“I'm so sorry,” Mike adds again.
“You didn't do it on purpose.”
“No, no, Will... I did it on purpose,” he murmurs. Even though it's dark, Will can tell he's looking right at him. “I wanted to do it.”
Will doesn't understand. It doesn't make sense. Carlton's words must have hurt him more than expected. They are very close, and neither of them seems willing to pull away from the other, even though they should.
“I don't understand.”
“I wanted to leave a mark on you,” says Mike, reaching out to touch that patch of skin. "I want... I want Carlton to see it and know it was me."
"Mike.”
"I want him to wonder why you let me do it,“ he adds, as if he can't help himself. "I want that for every time he touches you, he thinks about the fact that I can touch you too."Will is an art student, has a boyfriend, an ambiguous relationship with his roommate and childhood best friend, and a difficult past he has to come to terms with before finding his own truth.
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Mike had figured that moving in with his best friend would be fun. They were both responsible enough to make rent, they were going to the same school, and, of course, they were best friends. They’d had plenty of sleepovers when they were kids. How different would this be?
Well, as it turns out, he was right, at least for the most part. Everything was as he’d expected, except for the sudden heart palpitations and queasy stomach. And the fact that they only seemed to appear when he was around Will.
Another thing he didn’t expect? The anger he suddenly felt when he came home one day to Will hanging out with a guy he’d never seen before.
“Oh, hey, Mike,” Will says, his voice light and joyful, like this guy was such a hot topic. “This is my friend from drawing class, Carter.”
Carter.
Mike flashed a smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes as he waved. “It’s nice to meet you,” he says through a clenched jaw. But he knew one thing for sure.
It was, in fact, not nice to meet Carter.
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Mike realizes he loves Will after they move in together for college and gets jealous when Will starts talking to another guy.
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If you aren't fucking a brother, GTFO by grayson_eskrimas
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Basically I has a dream where Mike was a frat president and this was born
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Mike becomes a frat president & Will get whitegirl wasted and loves party ....What could possibly happen
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Plz don't expect much this is my first fanfic lol
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Mike gets a chance to meet Will after 3 years of not seeing each other and decides he doesn't care that Will has a partner, he's going to flirt with Will no matter what.
Maybe a little selfish-greedy Mike Wheeler, and a very weak-for-Mike Will Byers.
(Cheating byler btw.)
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"Are we seriously doing this now? What do you have against Carlton, anyways?" Will crossed his arms over his chest, and looked at Mike in disbelief.
"He's a prick," Mike noted, as he continued to stare at the floor.
"You don't even know him, Mike. He's kind, and he's gentle. He's... stable. And he's good to me."
Mike remained stubborn, meeting Will's eyes as he mumbled under his breath.
"He doesn't know you..."_____________________________________________
Basically another fanfic about Will cheating on his epilouge college boyfriend with Mike, because fuck you Duffer Brothers, Byler deserved better.
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It was always you since the beginning by desiiforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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It's been 18 months after the final fight with venca and ending the upside down. Everything is back to normal like the way it should be or maybe not. The party + Max have graduated high school, the fruity four have went down their own paths, Joyce and Hopper are enganged, the 12 kids are safe, Murray still comes around often but spends most of his time with Mr. Clarke, and Eleven is gone. (or is she)
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While the party + erica is in the basement playing dnd, will tells them that he has a boyfriend, and mike does NOT take this lightly.
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I just don’t want to miss you tonight by brokenpromisesforbrokengirls
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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It’s been nearly three years since Vecna was defeated and Will’s life as he knew it imploded. He’s living in New York now, established— with a boyfriend, a good job, and a new life that resembles nothing like it did in Hawkins. He’s happy. He’s perfectly happy ignoring the feelings that linger in the for front of his heart and the back of his mind.
Though, his new life might just crumble for a second time when he sees the keeper of his childhood heart, Mike Wheeler, in a gay bar hundreds of miles away from home.
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i can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes by arachnophobiiia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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“Well, what about you?” Mike asks Will, breaking the silence. “Are you still with – what was his name? Carlton?” He says, even though he could never forget the name of Will’s boyfriend. He spent almost too much time dwelling on it, after Christmas when he heard all about the guy from Max.
“What?” Will asks, taken aback. “No- uh, not anymore,” he says awkwardly. Mike can feel the tension leave his shoulders at that, suddenly sitting up straighter.
“Not Carlton,” Max says. “Or James. Or Theo. No, this guy’s name is Charlie.”OR
It all starts in the fall of 1993, inching closer to the tenth anniversary of his time in the Upside Down. When Will finds a discounted book with an all too familiar title, he's plagued with feelings surrounding his old best friend from back home. In his final year of college with a perfect job and a perfect boyfriend, he's not sure how to feel about Lucas and Max's upcoming wedding bringing Mike back into his life once again. Mike on the other hand couldn't be more thrilled for the distraction. A college dropout and a secretly published author, he still has lingering guilt and unexplained feelings relating to Eleven's death six years ago. Will he ever figure out why?
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Will and Mike run into each other at a New Years eve party many years later.
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A version of a post-finale where Mike and Will are roommates in college together, but their friendship isn't going well since Mike stopped talking to Will after he got a boyfriend. However, everything changes one night when Mike and Will run into each other at a party.
This is a slow burn that will have multiple chapters, as well as alternating perspectives each chapter switching between Will and Mike.