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A sharp crack tears through the air. Mike flinches back, staring down at Will's lifeless body. He gets one last look before the ground is giving way beneath them, and all at once, they’re falling.
A shrill cry tears from Mike’s throat as he finds himself flailing through the open sky. A sharp crack of lightning shutters in the distance. Will's limp corpse contorts, dropping faster than he can. He’s screaming, unimaginable terror ripping through his body. He writhes, reaching for Will, crying the boy's name.
He’s falling, plummeting through a destabilized upside down and there's nothing he can do to stop it. He’s going to die.
Mike reaches out, eyes squeezed close. He tears the watch from Will's wrist, seconds before colliding with the Exotic Matter.
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Colliding with Exotic matter as the Upside Down collapses in on itself sends Mike hurtling through time. He’s given the chance to save Will before any of this starts.
But he can’t seem to get it right. Reliving moments throughout the years, helpless to warn Will. He just wants to keep him safe. Why can’t he keep him safe?
He’ll do this again and again until he gets it right. He won’t lose him again.
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18 Feb 2026
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It’s the complete opposite of what they are doing right now, though. This has nothing to do with lust, or desire, or the feeling of wanting more. This is letting someone in, and even though Theo hates letting people in, he lets Boris do it this time. Because pulling up walls is something so exhausting, so extremely tiring, that he simply can’t do it anymore. Not again. Not tonight.
Or, in which Theo has another panic attack and Boris is there to calm him down.
(Soft, sleepy boys, nothing else.)Bookmarked by exorspace
13 Feb 2026
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Strawberries & Cigarettes (Always taste like you) by s0ld_it
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
09 Oct 2022
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“I want to show you a trick,” Boris said brightly, taking another quick drag off the joint. His lips quirked up at the sides.
Theo only knew a few, so he raised his eyebrows in interest. “Yeah? What is it?”
“I think is called shotgun. Is fun.” Boris grinned, leaning closer. “Let me show you.”
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Boris shows Theo a trick and Theo, the pining idiot, realizes the two of them might be more than friends.
-Inspired by the song Strawberries & Cigarettes by Troye Sivan-
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13 Feb 2026
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"Boris," suddenly my voice sounds wobbly and uncertain, as though I were about to cry. "You're important to me too. You can't...you have to take care of yourself." He cracks an eye open at that, expression lost somewhere between pain and amusement.
"But you don't remember."
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12 Feb 2026
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He was here, seven years later. The outline of his cigarette pack visible in his pants pocket. His thick, tobacco-laced cough. His dimples. His elbow against mine, my knee against his thigh, his cold fingers tangling with mine as he handed me the plastic straw—and my heartbeat, which had never taken the time to slow down since the frat house.
It’s just Boris, just Boris, just Boris, I kept telling myself. But it was Boris—grown, who had become everything he could have been in the best possible way, and I didn't know how to act around him without being sick in the stomach.
Or: Boris and Theo bump into each other in New York, at a frat party, seven years after Vegas.
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07 Feb 2026
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Pinky Promise Kisses by femlacy
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
24 Jan 2026
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“‘Course not, Potter. I remember all.”
“All ?”
“все.”
Theo smiled again.
“You look handsome when you smile.”
Boris and Theo come back to the latter's apartment, and they talk. They remember.
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25 Jan 2026
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What if Theo’s dad didn’t go and get himself killed and Theo stayed?
“Can I kiss you again?” Boris asked, staring down at Theo’s bright red lips, slick with saliva, as he caught his breath.
“Please,” Theo all but whimpered, pressing his forehead against Boris’.
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- Part 1 of You’re My Drug
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Boris and Theo get drunk, and Boris regrets it the next morning. Theo doesn’t.
“I want to kiss you until I cannot think.”
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- Part 3 of You’re My Drug
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24 Jan 2026
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we can do this, together (i believe in you) by lovez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
22 Feb 2026
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2002, exactly 13 years after Mike and Will graduated from high school, decide to start a family.
13 year old Theo Decker has no where to go. Not to his grandparents house, not to the Holiday Inn, not to the Barbours, so he has no choice but to be placed in a new home by Social Services.
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Mike and Will adopt Theo Decker to give him another chance of happiness with a family.Bookmarked by exorspace
20 Jan 2026
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𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜.
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- Part 2 of Holiday Collection
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11 Jan 2026
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What a Cruel Display of Affection by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
22 Jul 2022
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Theo kills Boris (out of some sick and twisted idea of “love”?)
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07 Jan 2026
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i'm a scholar and a gentleman (and I usually don't fall when I try to stand) by raymaddie
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
28 Dec 2025
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“You don’t need another, Boris,” Theo dragged his hand away from the box
“Does not matter, Potter,” He whined, “Just…one more. Promise.”
Theo shook his head, “Trust me. You’ve already had too much.”
Boris intertwined his fingers with Theo’s, rubbing his thumb against the side of Theo’s hand. He leaned his body closer, looking up at him, eyes sparkling and his lips pouting. He could tell Theo was affected by the way his cheeks grew red, and he tried to scoot back to no avail—he was already pressed up against the wall as much as he could.
“Please, Potter,” Boris whispered, “One more. Then I am done. Promise.”
Theo was blushing furiously. He opened his mouth to say something, but was unable to get the words out, so he closed it again.
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Boris drinks too much because he's a fucking alcoholic and Theo takes care of him
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07 Jan 2026
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While living in Antwerp, Theo discovers, entirely by accident, that Boris's dick is pierced. This proves to be more psychologically disruptive than any of the drugs they do together.
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28 Dec 2025
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Theo can't stand the fact that Boris only wants him when he's drunk.
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16 Dec 2025
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Have you ever kissed before? by Minimonie_koo
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
31 Jan 2026
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One night, Boris asks Theo if he has ever kissed before- Theo definitely has not, and freaks out at the idea of it. Always scared to fuck up, his anxiety is absolutely through the roof about it. Besides, he hasn't really met a girl who he really wanted to kiss anyway. After confessing this, Boris has a proposal: they're best friends, and Boris has had a lot of practice. He should totally teach his best friend how to make out. After all, isn’t that what friends are for?
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15 Dec 2025
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As children, their height difference had always been something that made Will’s stomach flip-flop in that familiar, weightless manner. Fluttery, before he had ever known what it meant.
Mike would never loom over him, ominous and terrifying like adults were.
Now, with a few years and a handful of growth spurts between them, the difference isn’t as obvious. If Will stood up at full length, he’d meet Mike’s eye with ease. But Will has never learned how to control himself around Mike. So he makes himself smaller, without really meaning to.
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Four times someone points out Will acting weird around Mike, and the one time Mike asks him about it.
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14 Dec 2025
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"So you- you haven't, like. Kissed anyone, then?" Mike asks, fully aware that he should probably just quit while he's ahead but needing to know, suddenly, if Will has any sort of romantic entanglements that he's neglected to tell Mike about. He's not sure why, but there's something in his gut that demands to know, has some sort of sudden need to know if Will has kissed anyone that's not him.
If Will has kissed anyone that's not-
Wait, what?
or: Mike is jealous of himself.
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13 Dec 2025
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“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
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09 Dec 2025
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His brain finally catches up with Mike’s words, and Mike is saying things like, “C’mon, Will—you can do it,” and “I’m so proud of you,” and “Don’t rush, it’s okay.” In the softest tone imaginable, and if Will maybe pretends to still be a little more out of it than he actually is just to keep hearing Mike talk to him like that—well, that’s his business.
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After Season 5 Vol.1, Mike refuses to leave Wills side.
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08 Dec 2025
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Mike’s expression softens. “No but—seriously, Will. He’d be stupid not to like you.”
He hopes the sincerity lands, because he means it. He just hates the thought of sharing Will with someone else. Hell, even Dustin and Lucas get on his nerves sometimes when they hog Will’s attention. Mike knows it’s a personal problem. He knows he should work on it. He just… hasn’t.
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Mike and Will are best friends—like, best, best friends. And Mike cares about Will so much that he can’t help getting irrationally angry anytime Will pays attention to literally anyone who isn’t him- in a purely platonic way. Obviously.Bookmarked by exorspace
08 Dec 2025