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Will and Mike go to college together at NYU. Will starts dating Chance to get over his feelings for Mike. However, things don't go as planned for Will when he finds himself unable to let Mike go.
Mike puts all his unspoken feelings into writing, making Will a novel of all the reasons he loves him. A novel he is scared he'll never get to share.
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Mike and Will take over for Robin on The WSQK. Mike is coming to terms with his feelings for Will as he realizes that they are definitely more than friendly feelings, and also coming to terms with the fact that he was a shitty friend to Will. One faithful night, the power goes out at The WSQK, and Mike makes a lot of confessions
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What do we watch all these horror movies for if you’re never going to face your fears? We’ve already seen the worst life has to offer. Literally, what could be scarier than what we’ve already faced?
Losing youOr
Mike spends the hot summer nights watching horror movies with his best friend and comes to terms with his feelings.
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“You’re not coming this summer. I haven’t seen you in a year and a half and I know it’s-it’s pathetic—“
“It’s not pathetic,” Will interjects quickly, shaking his head, “It’s not—“
“It is, Will,” he hears Mike’s voice break over another hitched breath, “I know you’re… I just want you to be happy. I never want you to come back to Hawkins, but I’m fucking selfish. I’m so selfish, and I’m sorry.”
Will lets the tears spill over and he lets that want that’s always itching under his skin show itself.
“My whole life I’ve missed you every second you’ve been away from me,” Will confesses quietly into the receiver.
If you’re pathetic, I’m wretched.
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Not long after the final battle, Mike and Will were inseparable– until Will moved out to New York.
Despite the weekly calls and the freedom of living their lives without terror, there’s no world in which they could last so long apart without it feeling like torture.
Will gets a call, and three days later, Mike is at his doorstep.
It only takes a day for them to fall back together again.
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19 Mar 2026
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mike works at a sex shop. will happens to walk in.
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16 Mar 2026
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“Why does it even matter?”
“It matters because you lied.”
“About a stupid painting?”
“It’s not stupid to me!"
“Mike! What do you want from me!” The question is desperate and so loud, it fills the entire room, knocking the fight out of them both. Will’s eyes brim with tears.
It's the last night of his trip visiting Will at NYU and Mike finds something curious in a sketchbook. Before he can face what it might mean for him, he has to find out what it meant (or means) for Will.
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15 Mar 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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11 Mar 2026
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I got your number (I need to make you mine) by readandwritesilver
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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He brought it in with the mail a few days ago. Alongside bills and bank statements and miscellaneous junk, all addressed to W. Byers and M. Wheeler, there was a half-size flyer. Vague enough, so as to be acceptably distributed where children or bible thumpers or whoever else may find it, but still plenty clear to any worldly adult in what it was advertising. Lonely? in swooping cursive, over a picture of a landline not unlike the one currently in Mike’s sweaty deathgrip laid artfully across silk bedsheets, with a 1-900 phone number printed at the bottom. Your first call is free.
This is so stupid.
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Mike, feeling lonely when Will starts working nights at a mysterious new job, turns to an operator on a phone sex line that he feels like he can spill his guts to about all his problems. His biggest problem, of course, being that he's in love with his roomate-slash-bast-friend-since-age-five. Not that it matters if he tells some random guy in a call centre about that, right?Right?
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07 Mar 2026