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    Modern Day AU: no cannon from the show will make an appearance in this story.

    Mike spends his free time working at Dustin's coffee shop, Level Up Latte. A visit to the tattoo parlor across the street, Stranger Inks, sets his life in an unexpected trajectory.

    This story will deal with mature themes including self mutilation, sexual identities, assault, and other mature situations. The tags and rating will change as content is uploaded. Please read tags and proceed at your own discretion.

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    Will bent over, adjusting his lamp so it illuminated the tattooed portion of skin. He looked at it for a moment before taking Mike gently by the wrist, startling him, and drew Mike’s arm closer to his face. Mike sat still, watching the other man examine the tattoo. He resisted the urge to jerk away when Will ran a finger lightly over the ink and clicked his tongue. Will moved his fingers from the tattoo to bare skin, pressing down on it, almost testing it. What was he looking for? Mike’s fingers twitched at the contact and he focused on watching the other man’s face.

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    Mike Wheeler has spent the entire beginning of his life upholding the perfect Wheeler family image. Now that he’s in college, he’s promised to let loose and really explore his identity.

    Even though he’s deathly afraid of needles, Mike has decided that he’s getting a tattoo. It helps that his tattoo artist, Will Byers, is pretty cute.

    Will has been hiding from his problems for way too long. When Mike, his crush, introduces him to his best friend, Will freezes up. They’re well acquainted. In fact, she is his now estranged twin sister. They’ve hardly spoken since he moved to the city with their Dad.

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    11 Jan 2026

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    The first person Mike ever killed was Lonnie Byers.

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    IAN! @poppytuft: someone write fic where they all go to the party that night after their campaign and mike and will make out in the bathroom bc Will says I hate your hair like this. please let me fix it. and he’s running his hands through mikes hair and he goes oh. OH. don’t give a fuuuuck

     

    IAN! @poppytuft: Dustin henderson kat stratford ten things i hate about you dancing on the kitchen table moment while mike and will are dry humping in the bathroom. Who cares anymore

     

    IAN! @poppytuft: I'm doing it myself

    (or: the party DOES go to Stacy’s party, and mike and will get so gay off that vodka)

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    11 Jan 2026

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    Mike Wheeler has fallen into a comfortable rhythm of his life, getting over the grief of his lover and coming up with his best stories, but an encounter with his still good friend Will Byers and his new boyfriend, Carlton, tells him that he is not ready for the anger it puts in him. He does not like Carlton. Not one bit. And is persistent to prove his faults to Will. As he tries to understand his anger he also understands another thing about himself.

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