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“Will,” Mike starts.
“No, seriously,” Will says. The hand that isn’t holding his beer raises between them, twitching downwards like he’s physically shoving any of Mike’s other questions back down where they came from. “It was a stupid thing to ask.”
Mike shakes his head, then scoots forward, inching closer to Will. “It’s not,” he insists. “If it’s you asking, it’s not stupid, Will.”
On New Year's Eve, 1996, Will asks Mike a question. He gets an answer and then some.
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22 Feb 2026
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Will comes out as gay, and this is a surprise to no one except for Mike.
Mike deals with his myriad of thoughts and feelings about this shocking revelation mainly through math metaphors, because of course he does.
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22 Feb 2026
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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22 Feb 2026
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Mike sighs, looking down at his hands. "I always thought I would end up with someone more similar to me, you know? Someone I can talk about, like, hobbies and music and stuff with, without them visibly losing interest halfway through.”
You have more in common with him than El, says the voice in Will’s head. He wonders, briefly, whether it would be weird to shove his face back into the pillow and scream.
Will is definitely not qualified to be giving out any relationship advice. For one, he's never actually dated anyone before. Second, one of the people in said relationship is his sister. And third, the other person is the guy he's sort of in love with. There's no possible way this could backfire. Right?
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22 Feb 2026
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“Will, I love you very much,” Max starts, “but there’s no way your weird little coffee shop freak has a girlfriend.”
“His name is Mike,” Will says, because he would know, because he’s the one that’s been writing Mike :) in sharpie on his to-go cups for the last six months, “and he doesn’t have a girlfriend. He has a wife.”
Will’s favorite regular comes in with a girl. Clearly, they’re married.
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22 Feb 2026
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don’t you know (that i love you) by bookinit for satvrnnrings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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Mike opens the door to Lucas’s house, and everything is abruptly not perfect. Not even a little. Not at all.
Because Will—good, handsome, sweet, perfect Will—is sitting on the couch, which is not as good or handsome or sweet or perfect, but that’s okay, because it’s a couch, and couches don’t have to be those things.
But sitting next to him, smiling and laughing and slinging an arm around Will’s shoulders like it has any right to be there, is a man Mike’s never seen before in his entire life.
There’s only one logical conclusion.
Will’s brought a date.
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holiday parties, jealousy, and the horrors of growing up… oh my!
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21 Feb 2026
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Mike and Will have never met, but fate intervenes when a new floral boutique opens in town. Mike enters looking for a birthday present for Nancy but he leaves with a crush he can’t ignore. It's a journey of heartbreak and healing, proving that even in the toughest times, love still finds a way to prevail.
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21 Feb 2026
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
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21 Feb 2026
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Fics written for Byler Week 2022.
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Day 1: Halloween
Day 2: Fake Dating
Day 3: Death
Day 4: Music
Day 5: Accidental Kiss
Day 6: D&D
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20 Feb 2026
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On Monday, Will shows up to school wearing glasses.
After a lifetime of getting bullied for being a nerd, he’d rather show up to school covered in live ants, but it actually goes fine. Weirdly well, even. Jennifer Hayes asks him to carry her books to Geometry, and Denise King enthusiastically volunteers to be his lab partner in Chem. Will is all too aware of the attraction he somehow poses to the school’s most sought-after girls, but this feels like another level. Maybe it’s a charity case thing now, because of the glasses.
“It’s not,” Max tells him frankly at lunch. “You just look really hot with glasses.”
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20 Feb 2026
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Mike doesn’t want to die. That would be insane and pointless and, frankly, disrespectful after everything they’ve all been through. He doesn’t want to die. But on the nights when he’s up until the night turns to deep blue dawn and the days when he sleeps well into the afternoon, when he tries to call the Byers’ house and he gets the busy signal, when he gets another lovelorn letter from his girlfriend — on those days, he wishes he could just disappear.
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20 Feb 2026
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Mike has kissed exactly one girl since El: Gracie Jenkins, at a party Stacey Albright threw a few weeks ago, before everyone went off to college. He hadn’t liked it, but he’d assumed that was more or less to be expected, that moving on from El would be easier said than done. He was making peace with the possibility that he might never move on, really—that any future romance was just doomed from the start.
Eric kisses him and, immediately, he likes it.
It takes one week of college for Mike to drunkenly make out with a boy at a party, and even less time for him to connect the rest of the dots.
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20 Feb 2026
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but at least i finally found it (love) by gaysforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2024
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“So… how did you know you liked boys?” Mike randomly asks Will one afternoon.
“How did I what?” Will swivels his head toward Mike, who’s looking back at him expectantly over the top of his comic book. He’s got on that thinking-face he does— the one that tells Will that Mike has definitely been staring at him for the past ten minutes minimum, trying to wrap his brain around some idea or another, like he’s working out a particularly difficult puzzle.
“Like, what do you like about them? Oh, come on, don’t look at me like that,” he complains, and Will assumes he must be making a face somewhere between skeptical and bewildered. “We never talk about it. Why is it boys for you?”
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Mike wants to know why Will likes boys— in a completely straight, heterosexual way.Aka Byler talking about boys for 7k words.
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20 Feb 2026
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In Mike’s defense, Will should know by now not to leave him alone for an extended period of time.
Yeah, maybe Mike is snooping around his room a little bit. But he’s bored, okay? Will left to tell his mom something or another ten minutes ago. And it’s not like Mike is digging through his drawers or anything— he’s only using resources available to the naked eye. Is that really snooping? He doesn’t think so.
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Mike comes across a notebook that he was definitely not supposed to find. What else can he do besides steal it?
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20 Feb 2026
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“My nose tastes like dust,” Mike says. The statement catches Will so off guard that he can’t help but laugh. Somehow, he knows exactly what he means. He always does.
“How’s your throat?” he asks.
Mike gives a one-shouldered shrug. “Hurts.”
Will brushes his thumb along the side of his neck, frowning sympathetically. He’s being so tough about it. “Do you want me to get you a cough drop?”
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Mike is sick. He’s also a big baby.
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“You can keep flapping, or whatever it was you were doing when I came in,” Will says. “You don’t need to hide that from me. It’s not like I didn’t see it when we were kids.”
Oh. That. Mike doesn’t do that anymore. He’s not supposed to. It was childish even then, at the ripe age of eight. That’s what his mom and teachers said, at least. They’d make fun of him for all sorts of stuff— fidgeting, rocking, chewing on his fingers. He’s grown up now. He doesn’t need it.
Will must read the hesitation on his face, because he nudges his shoe again. “Come on. I know you want to. It always used to help when you were upset like this.”
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Mike doesn’t understand why he’s suddenly lost all control over his thoughts and actions. Will seems to know Mike’s habits better than he himself does.
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19 Feb 2026
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