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You Never Cried to Them, Just to Your Soul by princessglittertiger
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Dec 2025
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It happens when he gets a phone call. It’s around 10:30 at night. El is asleep on the couch, and Jim is nearly there himself when the phone starts to ring. He picks it up, clearing the sleep from his throat. "Hello?"
“Oh thank god,” He hears Nancy sigh. The relief is nearly palpable through the phone. “It’s Mike."
Goddammit.
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10 Feb 2026
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“Yeah. So. Please tell me if you’re starting to hate me,” Mike says. “I thought it crushed me when El …” He shakes his head. “But, I think this would be worse. So. Please don’t let it sneak up on me.”
Will’s mouth falls open, just a touch. Mike has one leg on either side of his dorky offroad bicycle in the middle of a tree-lined street, the weak January sun painting him in a halo ring of white, and he’s asking Will not to leave him.
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Or, Will realizes that teaching Mike Wheeler how to love him might be a lifelong project.(Told through the months of 1988.)
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- Part 2 of Come On, Pilgrim
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09 Feb 2026
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“I’m about to do something really shitty,” Will said. “But I think we might die today. And I guess I’d rather live with you hating me than die without you knowing exactly what I am.”
Or, Mike Wheeler gets kissed, lives, and tries his hand at a happy ending.
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- Part 1 of Come On, Pilgrim
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08 Feb 2026
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“Are you having a fucking episode right now?” Max says, furrowing her brows. She doesn’t understand and Mike doesn’t know how to make her. He can’t say it out loud, not in full.
“I didn’t love her because she wasn’t who I wanted her to be.” He admits in a rush of words. 'Because she wasn't Will' goes unsaid.
or: max and mike as steve and robin in robin's coming out scene
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08 Feb 2026
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No one ever talks about what happens after.
No one told Will that the monsters would never really leave him. No one told Will how being taken and possessed would sit in his stomach like a coiled-up vine. No one told Will how he'd never feel like himself again.
No one told Will what to do, now that the worst is over and he doesn't feel any better. No one told Will how to handle the after, the in-between of not dying and still feeling dead.
No one told Will how to feel alive, so he figures it out for himself.
(Or; A study of how Will handles— or doesn't handle— the aftermath of what happens to him.)
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08 Feb 2026
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"'So, what? You have a crush on Will?' Max asked sarcastically. Then Lucas looked back at her seriously. 'Oh.' She softly spoke."
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Max, Lucas, and Will go to college and live together. Polyamory ensues.
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- Part 1 of More Than A Feeling
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01 Feb 2026
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“Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”
Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”
The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.
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- Part 1 of fix-its
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22 Jan 2026
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We enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire.
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Surely, at some point, the nightmares will make him feel less frightened. Maybe Will will become stronger, or the dreams themselves will weaken, or perhaps even through sheer repetition, the hold they have over him will lessen. As of right now, they are as strong as ever.
It’s not even that they necessarily are scary, although many of them are. It’s that they bleed into what’s left of his day, leaving Will feeling hopeless or anxious-sick, like a child that’s just thrown up in the middle of the night and in need of their mother’s comfort. He would be able to shake the dreams off if they didn’t feel so real. But, hey, after someone’s survived possession and interdimensional kidnapping, every threat is real. The world is capable of more evil than Will ever realized.
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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11 Jan 2026
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
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07 Jan 2026
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this is the golden age (of something good) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Oct 2025
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Mike glances down at the wet fabric of his sweatshirt and grimaces. “Fair enough.” He squeezes Will’s hand. “Just think warm thoughts, okay?”
Sometimes Mike is disturbingly similar to Will’s mother. “Thinking,” he confirms, squeezing his hand back. It does help, actually - picturing the long, hot shower he’ll be taking the second they’re back at his house, followed by hot cocoa, and dry clothes, and cuddling with Mike under several layers of blankets until the bone-deep cold seeps out of them both, and-
“Whoa,” Mike says abruptly, frowning. “Holy shit? What was that?”Mike and Will get caught in the rain, but luckily Will knows just how to warm them up.
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- Part 4 of bylerween 2025
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02 Jan 2026
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dear author i hope you get everything you want in life
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you can just talk (and i'll stare at your mouth) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Nov 2025
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Mike’s hand, which is still brushing Will’s, shifts just slightly, and his pinky finger hooks loosely around Will’s own. Which is a lame, cliche move to get worked up over, probably, except that Will also might be forgetting how to breathe over it. “What if we split up?” he hears himself say, his voice coming out impressively even considering the fact that his heart is making a very valiant effort to beat right through his chest and leap into Mike’s palm, “In pairs, maybe? Mike and I can take the garage.”
“Oh, I’m sure,” Lucas mutters. Will chances a glance at Mike, whose cheeks have turned a dusty shade of pink, and who is gnawing harshly on his lower lip in what appears to be an attempt to press down a smile.Dustin plans a murder mystery party. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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- Part 7 of bylerween 2025
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i'll kidnap all the stars (and i will keep them in your eyes) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Oct 2023
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Will blinks again. Their noses bump. Mike is so close. “I, um. What?” he hisses out, voice hoarse. It can’t be- there’s no way Mike means-
Mike looks mortified, but he’s also not moving away. “Do you think there's a universe,” he repeats, slow and shaky, “where you and I are- you know.”
“Mike,” Will says, verging on exasperated, but too shaky to fully accomplish the tone he’s going for. He can feel Mike’s heart racing where it’s pressed against his own. “Use your words.”
“I want to kiss you,” Mike blurts, dazed and harried. A strand of hair falls into his eyes, and it tickles Will’s cheek with their proximity.
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Mike can hear the smile in Will's voice when he picks up, and it’s startling how easily he can imagine it.Will, leaning against the wall of his new house. Probably wearing bright colours and flip flops- or whatever it is that Max keeps assuring him everyone in California wears. He knows the exact angles at which Will’s smile tilts, different depending on whether he’s teasing or just excited.
Closing his eyes, Mike tries to remember the angle of El’s smile.
He can't. It troubles him enough to ruin everything.
“Is El there?” he asks. When Will responds, there is no longer a smile in his voice.
Only a couple of Mike's calls to Lenora actually go through, and he never says quite what he means.
Until he does.
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31 Dec 2025
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dear will (your love is all i want) by hxllcatspangled
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2025
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I think about finding you on the swings in the first grade. I think about the first time Jonathan showed us the DnD board game, and how excited you were to see all the magic stuff. How I kept giving you different characters to draw just to watch the way your eyes lit up. Was I in love with you then?
I remember stealing a tape of The Thing from Nancy and watching it when we were ten. I remember being so scared, but you were fascinated. I stuck it out just to watch you gasp when MacReady blows up the station. I remember grabbing your hand when it happened, and you held on. Was I in love with you then?
I remember the last words you said to me before you went missing. It was a seven. I remember when you came back, when I finally saw you again, and I thought my heart was going to stop. I swear to God, Will, it was like I could breathe again for the first time in days.
Mike and Will get through Vecna, get through a million almost-confessions and even more death scares. Then, three months later, Will finds a box of unsent letters from freshman year under Mike's bed.
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23 Dec 2025
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But I know, if the world turned upside down / Baby, I know you'd always be around
“Mike?”
It’s a whisper, but it’s filled with something so earnest, so true, that it strikes through Mike’s very core. Rips apart at his chest, with the familiarity of it. The way his name sounds in this younger Will’s throat, soft and gentle and so, so relieved.
“Will,” Mike says back, matching his whisper. “Hey, Will, it’s me. Mike.”
“But—” Will frowns. He’s so unsure, Mike wants to cry for him. “You’re so tall.”
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Or, when Will is possessed by Vecna and trapped in his own mind, Mike is the only one who can save him.
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22 Dec 2025
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“Just think about it, William," Henry continues, likely after he's decided Will has ruminated on this for an appropriate amount of time. "All the things we could do together. We could build a new world, clean up the muck in the one that exists. No one has to get hurt. Think about it. I’ll be waiting for your answer.”
Henry’s arm lurches out in front of him, and all Will can do is stare in horror as one bony finger moves in towards his forehead. His eyes squeeze shut as a fingernail breaches his skin, and his vision goes white, then black.
“Will?”
That is definitely not Henry’s voice.
It's 1987, the Upside Down is infiltrating Hawkins, and Will's new home is Mike Wheeler's basement. As if that isn't bad enough, Will starts having odd dreams. At least, he thinks they're just dreams -- but if they're only dreams, why is he waking up in the Wheeler's front yard?
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20 Dec 2025
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Will Byers is in his bedroom. It is 10:34am. He is going to take a shower. He is not in the Upside Down. He is not possessed.
He tells himself these things like a mantra, as though they will bring back some semblance of sanity. His chest hurts. His lungs still do not work. He is used to it. It still hurts.
or: Will has a bad day, and Mike is a good friend.
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12 Dec 2025
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Robin pauses for a long moment, thinking maybe her and Steve's insane plans to get Mike and Will together didn't encompass this. This internalised struggle, one she thinks Will is still having even after he came out to her a few months before, after Vecna. The struggle she sees in Mike's eyes here, tonight, as he works up all of his courage to ask those seven words. And yeah, maybe he's just curious, maybe he just wants to make conversation. But from Robin's point of view, it sure as hell looks like he wants to know for a reason.
Robin comes out to Mike on a long drive, hoping to encourage him to open up to Will.
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- Part 1 of the kids in america
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11 Dec 2025
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“Uh, yeah? I thought you knew who I was talking about?”
“I thought I did!”
“Wait, if you weren’t talking about Will—" There was her confirmation, she couldn’t say she hadn’t slightly suspected it. "—is there another gay person?”
Robin paused. Moment of truth here. She had to be incredibly convincing. "Um. No?"
____ft. misunderstandings, robin and mike friendship, and dustin being horribly unsubtle
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11 Dec 2025