CaughtInTheHeadlight
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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.
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15 Apr 2026
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Edit after chapter 4: I am obsessed with how well this builds the development of Mike and MikeandWll. It just keeps going up, little by little, in such a convincing way.
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"Listen," Will stalled outside the front door. "I have to tell you something."
"Are you okay?" Dustin immediately asked.
"Did Mike bring a girlfriend?" Jane wondered, eyes wide with curiosity.
"No, he brought a child," Will stated, voice falling flat.
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Or, Summer of 1995: The big reunion. Will is recently single. Mike brings his child. Everyone asks the same question: Who did Mike Wheeler have a baby with, and how did Will Byers miss the memo that Mike is gay?
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19 May 2026
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The impossible happened: Will asked Mike to be his boyfriend. Even stranger? Mike said yes.
That's how it started. A letter, an accidental confession, a Saturday afternoon. And that? That was the easy part.
Now, what they do - what they are - is secret. Because if anyone finds out... they don't even want to imagine. Lonnie would kill them both on sight. Mike's parents would send him away to some boarding school. They'd never see each other again. They'd be marked forever. Everything would come crashing down around them.
But they try not to focus on that. They're busy, after all, trying to navigate this new relationship. Kisses, dates, prom, couples' quarrels. And in the meantime, Will has a problem on his hands; a power he needs to learn to control, before it blows up in his face.
It's a crazy end to their school year - but there's more going on behind the scenes than they realize.(This is a sequel to The Red Envelope but you don't necessarily have to have read TRE; this can be read on its own should you wish :) )
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- Part 2 of The Red Envelope
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Bookmarked by CaughtInTheHeadlight
17 May 2026
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Can't believe I've not bookmarked this peak!!!
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An Oath of Flesh and Dreams (Little Oaths Outtake) by midnighteverlark
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2024
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His first night at the manor, Will dreams of his betrothed.
An explicit outtake from Little Oaths. Can be read on its own. Dream sex, but it's both their dreams. (And they're both oblivious.) Shared dreams, yo. It's what's happening.
PWP, basically.
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- Part 2 of Little Oaths
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17 May 2026
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Operation Matchmakers by midnighteverlark for paladinscleric
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2021
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Mike teaches English in room B207.
Will teaches art in B213.
And they clearly, clearly like each other.
Their students hatch a plan to get them together.Gift fic for paladinscleric! Happy birthday!
(Not a text/chat fic! It just has elements of that from the students' POV. Don't be put off by the first bit, it's not all chat.)
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17 May 2026