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During the mac-z battle against the demogorgons and Vecna, Will Byers unlocks powers, saving three people close to him, one of which is Mike Wheeler.
He barely has time to celebrate, because the one power he still didn't unlock is to get over Mike, who has been acting a little bit too much like Will, and Will is in love with Mike, so what does he do with that information?
He ignores it, until he can't.
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16 Jan 2026
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almost (who the hell is tammy?) by you_get_to_exhale_now_cyrus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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“Hey Will?”
Will glanced up at him, swallowing down the rest of the candy. “Yeah?”
“Can I ask you something…kind of personal?”
In any other universe, Will would probably have sputtered and started panicking like a child that’s lost their parents in a grocery store. "Can I ask you something kind of personal" is the question every queer kid dreads hearing from others, even people that they know and trust with their whole heart. Truth be told, Will didn’t feel completely at ease with the question, but considering today’s events, he tried to push his fear down. He felt like he’s been almost stripped bare of all his secrets after his confession. Almost.
“Yeah, of…of course, what’s up?”
Mike hesitated a moment, looking down at the carpet. He tapped his toes inside of his shoes. “Who the hell is Tammy?”
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or, a different ending of season 5 episode 7 where will and mike have a heart to heart about his coming out speech.Bookmarked by itried
13 Jan 2026
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Mike keeps losing Will, time and time again. Time and time again, he always gets him back.
Or, alternatively: “Mike and Will’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night in the Upside Down: and Other Tales” by Mike Wheeler
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11 Jan 2026
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Will moves back to an upright position, wiping his hair out of his eyes, head and shoulders peeking above the water. “Mike,” he says, pulling Mike up with him, their fingers still intertwined.
“Yeah?” Mike says, tilting his head so the water trickles out of his ears, wincing slightly. “What is it?”
Will’s eyes dart back and forth between his, and then Mike feels his hand squeeze his own. “I don’t want you to, like, think I moved back for you,” he starts, which in and of itself would be enough to get Mike’s soul soaring straight out of his own body, if it weren’t for Will’s thumb pressed against his pulse point like some kind of mortal tether. “Because it’s not like that, I promise. But I think– I think I realized there’s a difference between things you want and things you need, you know?”
mike wheeler on losing people and having them again, the difference between wanting and needing, and finally letting go.
ft. robin buckley, will byers, and the mortifying ordeal of working in the food service industry
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09 Jan 2026
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if i stop laughing, all the blood will just start pouring out by cyclamoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Nov 2025
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“You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—
“You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”
Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.
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05 Jan 2026
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baby i can't fight this feeling anymore by peskeynonbinary
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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In his almost 17 years being alive, Will has learned many things. Very high on that list is that there’s a fine line between “best friend” and “something more.”
Michael Wheeler uses that line like a fucking jump rope.
“You… wish I had saved just you?”
or; Mike and Will chat after the Mac-Z
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04 Jan 2026
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burnin' through the summer (make the moment last) by discoheavven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Mar 2023
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Richie was another business entirely; loud, brash and crude, but painfully funny, looking at Will’s neutral expression and taking it as a challenge, trying to make him laugh until he puked. Messing up his hair and begging him to just let Richie go to town on it with some kitchen scissors. Poking his sides, or pinching his cheeks with an inflammatory remark right on the tip of his tongue, every time. Calling their campaigns ‘nerd shit-’ but sitting in on their session, attentive to every single action taken, with colorful running commentary during it all. Being with Richie feels like fireworks are bursting right under his skin.
The melancholy and brevity of a summer romance does not make the time it happened any less bright.
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04 Jan 2026
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PB&J, Heatstroke, Vomit, and David Bowie by 98z
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
23 Jan 2024
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Will Byers thinks it would be better if he just vanishes from the face of the earth, so he does…kind of. He meets a lost soul on his journey to disappearance, an awkward but somehow extrovertedly obnoxious, free-spirited character with dark secrets to rival his own.
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02 Jan 2026
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Will lets out a small squawk as Mike’s hand— his very cold, very freezing hand— finds its way around the blankets and under his sweater. “I’m sick, you weirdo,” he says, half-laughing into the side of Mike’s head, “I have a fever.”
“I don’t care,” Mike mumbles, “you’re warm and I’m cold. This is nice.”
“You’re going to get sick,” Will tries, for the umpteenth time, but it’s pointless. Mike Wheeler is stubborn and hardheaded and he never does anything halfway— not even this.
Will gets sick. He's dealing with it. Seriously, Mike- he's fine.
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02 Jan 2026
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The Bridge, the Sorcerer, and the Beep Beep: A Very Loud Coming Out by lowkeyks
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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"I haven't told any of you this because I don't want you to see me differently," Will started. His voice was soft, melodic, and Richie felt like he was being hugged by a cloud. "But the truth is... I am different."
Will took a shaky breath. This was it. The big reveal. The moment the music swells.
"I just… I don't like girls."
The silence that followed was heavy. It was the kind of silence that usually preceded a jump-scare. Mike looked like he had been hit with a brick. El looked confused. Dustin looked like he was doing math in his head.
Richie Tozier, however, did not stay silent.
He let out a sound that was somewhere between a pterodactyl scream and a sob of pure relief. He threw his hands into the air, his Hawaiian shirt fluttering.
"I KNEW IT!" Richie screamed, his voice echoing off the concrete walls.
OR Richie Tozier has spent his quarantine pining for Will Byers. When Will finally delivers his dramatic coming-out speech at WSQK headquarters, Richie took his chance.
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01 Jan 2026
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Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
“Take me.”
Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
“Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
“Deal.”---
Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
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01 Jan 2026
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
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29 Dec 2025
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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29 Dec 2025
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Mike is on Reddit.
He needs to stop oversharing online.
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28 Dec 2025
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how to fall out of love with your best friend by miketozier (smallcuts)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2022
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Have you ever been very good friends with someone for a long time? Surely you have. Suddenly, you realize that you're in love with your formerly platonic companion. It happens quite frequently, so you don't need to feel alone in your sentiment. And it can hurt a lot more than standard "unrequited love," as you and this person have a lengthy and supportive history with each other. This puts both your friendship and your love aspirations on the line, and it can be quite painful for both parties.
Will tries to get over Mike. It doesn't go as expected.
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26 Dec 2025
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Is it normal to stand here, and wish that I was back at home? (Is it normal to tell her I can't be normal anymore?) by SilverShadow1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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“Holly, come back inside. Dad’s just being —”
Holly doesn’t know what comes over her.
“Just fuck off, Mike!”OR
Holly Wheeler has a crush. One that feels like life or death.
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26 Dec 2025
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I love you, I love you forever by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Nov 2025
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The first time Mike Wheeler told Will Byers he loved him, they were both standing in the Hawkins Public Library, soaked in demogorgon blood, Vecna’s ashes still settling in the air like cursed snow.
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Mike tells Will “I love you.”
Will tells Mike “I love you too.”
Unfortunately, they are having two completely different conversations.
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25 Dec 2025
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give you my sunshine, give you my best by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2024
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Max clears her throat. “Are you going to get to the part where you tell us what you want, or are you going to keep waxing poetic about Will’s emotions?”
“Fuck you,” Mike grumbles. “I think we should have a Valentine’s Day party. For Will.”
Dustin blinks. “You’re concerned about Will feeling sad because of the romantic connotations of Valentine’s Day and your big solution is to draw more attention to Valentine’s Day?”
“Just listen!” Mike yelps.
In which Will is sad, and Mike has a plan to fix it. Platonically, of course.
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23 Dec 2025
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“W-what if it’s not him?” Will croaks. Once again, Mike’s face just falls, and Will shakes his head slightly, tears welling in his eyes. “What if… what if this is all just in… in my head? A-and that’s… that’s why El can’t find him? What if… I’m just making all this up?”
For a few moments, Mike is just quiet. He looks like he’s trying to figure out what to say, so Will takes another shuddered breath. “I-I feel like I’m going insane, Mike,” he admits, hating the way his voice cracks. “It’s like… like I don’t… have control of my own mind anymore… I-I just feel like I’m… like I’m going crazy.”
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In the year following the opening of Vecna's gates, Mike slowly loses Will, and Will slowly loses his mind.
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17 Dec 2025