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(someday i'll be) falling without caution by wimpyqueer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Sep 2025
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Without a word, Mike joined Will with his back against the cold brick wall. He reached in his pocket for something, and soon after Will heard the tell-tale chick-chicks of Mike using his lighter. Sometimes he’d pull it out and fidget with it like a toy. It pissed his mom and Mrs Wheeler off, but Will didn’t mind. He understood. Sometimes, it’s nice to feel in control of something as chaotic as fire.
The flame was so bright in the dark alleyway, Will couldn’t help but be drawn to it. He watched Mike bring the flame up to his face and light a cigarette—god knows where it came from. Will tried not to think about it. He’d never see Mike smoke before, and he wasn’t entirely sure how he felt about it. On one hand, it was gross. On the other hand, the way he held the cigarette in his mouth and inhaled like it was giving him life—it was so…captivating. He watched Mike’s side profile, the angle of his jaw and the sharpness of his nose, as he tilted his head back against the wall and exhaled smoke into the wind.
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safe by babygirlmikewheeler (winchestered_again), winchestered_again
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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mike wants his body back, is that too much to ask?
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Mike, Will, and The Party prepare for Vecna's final stand. Mike is too busy surviving his father's abuse to try anything, and his mental state declines quickly, leading to things no one will be able to forget.
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- Part 2 of of course it isn't just me!
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Will grabbed one from the fruit bowl and started chopping, which meant that he turned away from Mike again. Something in his chest hurt. Why wasn’t Will talking to him more? They were best friends, were they not? He understood that they must’ve grown apart over the time since they last saw each other, but surely that should mean they should be catching up, right?
“Can you get El? This should be done in a few minutes anyway.”
“No prob-” Will had already covered his ears again, leaving Mike’s response to die on his lips.----
When Mike Wheeler landed in California to spend his sophomore spring break with his girlfriend and his best friend after not seeing them for over a year and a half, he thought that everything would go smoothly. But Will's distant, and El's keeping something from him. When the military show up at the Byers' house the night after he arrives searching for El and Will, things take a turn that nobody ever expected.
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- Part 1 of Stranger Things ‘What If’s
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A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Aug 2025
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When the Byers move to California, Will is lonely, bullied, and struggling with his mental health. When Mike comes to visit, he notices that something is off, but doesn’t know what’s wrong or how to help while his best friend feels so far away even though he's physically there. However, maybe Mike finds the answer after they are brought closer than ever after El is abducted by the government and they end up facing capture, interdimensional monsters, torture, the past, their own feelings, and attempting to prevent the apocalypse. (Post-s3, rewriting s4, and predicting s5).
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- Part 1 of The Glimmer Series
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Season 2: It's No Stranger to You or Me (I Can Feel It) by justlleena
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Aug 2025
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It's October of 1984, and Steve Harrington's life is completely normal.
A new sort of normal, but still...completely normal. It doesn't matter that there are still gaping holes in his memory or that Will is having more and more episodes because Steve has everything under control...right?
(A continuation of my 'What If Steve Got Taken by the Demogorgon instead of Barb' re-write fic series)
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- Part 3 of Flipped, Turned Upside Down
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The other wo(man), will cry her(him)self to sleep
The other wo(man) will never have his love to keep
And as the years go by, she (he) will spend her (his) life alone
Alone
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it's hard to say i love you.
especially when she’s far from the one I love.
(updates once or twice a week)
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And the sorrows of love’s slow passing (Goodbye, Will) by judectionary
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Aug 2025
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At first, it felt impossible to move on. All the deaths that happened, the long-term injuries he was subjected to—he thought they would haunt him forever, even after Vecna’s death. But he did move on, everyone did. And moving on included cutting some people out of his life.
However, one day, after 2 decades, Will heard it again—Vecna’s voice.
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Or; 20 years after Vecna was defeated and everyone separated, Will started hearing him again as an adult. Is Vecna back, or is Will descending into insanity due to a mid-life crisis?
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“What’s wrong?” Mike prompted, his voice impossibly soft, rubbing his thumbs gently where they rested on Will’s cheeks.
That seemed to snap Will out of whatever state he was in, and he finally spoke.
“It was my dad.”
or: lonnie byers finally calls. things don't go well.
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And if Will let his guard down, even for a second, he knew exactly what would happen.
He’d lose Mike.
And Will would be damned if he let anything happen to Mike just because he was foolish enough to believe he could have this freely. Because of course he couldn’t. Of course they couldn’t.
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or: loverslakegate inspired by the author listening to a shit ton of ethel cain (specifically nettles on loop.)
set roughly a week after my previous churchgate fic. reading that one first is helpful, but this could probably stand alonetitle from: Nettles - Ethel Cain
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- Part 2 of s5 byler x ethel cain
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Mike stares at him, blinking a few times. “Hey. Uh… what’re you doing here?”
Will doesn’t make eye contact and keeps looking away.
“I’m buying cereal, what else would I be doing here?”
Mike awkwardly rubs the back of his neck.
“Right, duh. Sorry, I just…” He licks his lips nervously. “I wasn’t… expecting to see you.”Mike and Will reunite after cutting contact
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Will Byers makes a bad decision and not by choice now it is only up to Mike to take care of him for the rest of the night and maybe this will resolve the unspoken tension of the two and maybe more.
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Mike steps closer, gently grabbing Will’s chin and lifting his head up. He furrows his brows at the sight of his watery eyes and wet cheeks.
“What’s wrong?”Mike finds Will crying in the bathroom and comforts him
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Mike lost El - forever. But he has Will back. His best friend Will.
Will was trapped in the Upside Down for a week. Now he doesn’t remember normal life.
Two struggling teens work through their issues together in a dangerous world.(Post Season 1, El actually died after killing the Demogorgon)
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Will opened his eyes and he was, thankfully, back in the normal world. Will was sitting in the foetal position on the floor with Mike sitting next to him, holding Wil's arms that were wrapped around his legs.
"Mike..." Will whispered. Will glanced down at Mike's lips, somewhat against his own will. They were so close. So close
Then Mike came closer. He wrapped his arms around Will and whispered in his ear, "You're okay," in the softest, most caring voice Will had heard ever. And he repeated, "You're okay," over and over again.
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Will Byers returns to the town he was born in and bonds with, befriends, and falls for Mike Wheeler--His step sisters boyfriend.
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I follow him carefully to his bedroom, my shoes faltering on the hardwood. ‘What I would give to live in a house like this one’
He leads me up the stairs, glancing back at me as we travel upwards. We walk down a short hallway until-
“Here we are,” he says with a smile.
The door creaks open gently, an invitation. I stay in the hallway as he sits on the bed, expectantly. He said his parents aren't home, but I survey the hallway until I deem it safe.
‘No one saw.’
I approach Chance unsteady, lips trembling, heart in my throat. He doesn't seem to notice.
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Will’s expression relaxes upon hearing Mike’s words. They make him feel reassured. He smiles. It’s a bittersweet smile, one that tries to hide the fact that he’ll miss his friend like crazy.
The Byers move away from Hawkins and to California
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Spring 1984: Always Something There to Remind Me by justlleena
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Mar 2025
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Spring was here, but Steve Harrington still felt stuck in November.
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- Part 2 of Flipped, Turned Upside Down
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Karen opens the door to find little Will Byers standing there, soaking wet and shivering. His eyes are red like he’d been crying. It’s not the first time Will has shown up out of the blue, and it makes Karen worried. She thinks she understands the problem.
After a fight with his parents breaks out, Will goes to Mike’s house for the night
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Everyone was changing.
Mike was just less fun lately and more of a moody asshole that you wouldn't want to leave your snacks around, El was constantly in her mind Palace, looking for vecna and maybe new ways to stay useful, despite Hoppers warnings she's overexerting herself.
Max and Lucas were always looking for food and ammo, and Dustin wasn't here.
Well, not really here.
He didn't joke around or cheer up the group like he used to, and the only person he really talked to every day was Steve, who had essentially become the therapist.
It all just seemed like they were barely hanging on, especially Will, So forgive him if he was hungry and didn't see Mike's name on the fucking wrapper.Or thing’s aren’t going so great in the apocalypse, and it only gets worse when Will accidentally eats Mike’s forever weed brownie.