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• An Inch Away From More Than Just Friends by Gradually_Birdie

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  22 Jan 2026

  Tags

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Robin Buckley
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Steve Harrington
  • Alternate Universe - College/University
  • Post-Canon
  • Drinking
  • Drunk Will Byers
  • Clingy Mike Wheeler
  • Kissing
  • Drunken Kissing
  • Drunken Confessions
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Childhood Friends to Lovers
  • Gay Will Byers
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Panicked Gay Mike Wheeler
  • House Party
  • Will Byers Deserves Love

  Summary

  Mike and Will have been dancing around their feelings for each other for months. It only takes one party (and a lot of drinks) to turn their once comfortable, very close friendship into something more.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,585

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  4

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