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Mike recalls the brief interaction he had this morning in the hallway for perhaps the hundredth time. Maybe his friends can help. Help with what exactly, Mike doesn’t know— but something has been bugging him and he needs to get to the bottom of it.
“Hey, do you guys know that kid that wears all black? Chain belt? Eyeliner?”
“The gay kid?” Dustin supplies.
Oh, that’s right. Mike knew he had heard about him somewhere. He’s kind of famous around school. Well, him and his boyfriend. Even with it being 2006, they’re still the only openly gay people at the school.
Mike nods. “Yeah, I guess. I ran into him this morning. Literally, like we collided.”
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Mike has a run-in with Will Byers, the school’s so-called “gay kid”. He takes it upon himself to befriend him, and quickly learns about Will’s relationship troubles with his boyfriend Matt. Along the way, Mike struggles with his identity, and Will struggles with his self-worth.
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- Part 1 of GUTS (spilled)
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21 May 2026
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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14 May 2026
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What's It Gonna Take To Break Your Heart? by blackeyetwokisses
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 May 2026
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“I was in love with you,” He mumbles, voice heavy with wetness and choked down tears, barely coherent. But Mike stills beside him at once, the furious up and down of his chest stopping entirely.
Will harshly swipes off incoming tears.
“What?” Mike says, dumb and stupefied, “When?”
“Before,” He replies, trying his best not to cry. Mike, finally, leans away and ends their contact leaving Will cold.
“Before or after Tammy?”
His voice came out tight and controlled. Will felt like a child throwing a tantrum.
“Mike,” He somehow gains the strength to match that collected cadence, “You are Tammy.”
It's been two years since everything ended. Since the Upside Down closed, El died and everything went back to normal. And now it's the summer after graduation, the last summer he ever spends in Hawkins, spends with Mike Wheeler who Will Byers has been trying to get over for the past two years among other things such as trying to pretend he isn't actively falling apart.
When Max, Lucas and Dustin all leave town for a week, leaving Mike and Will to each other. A series of explosions occur between them, decisions are taken, mistakes are made and things change.
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14 May 2026
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“So you’ve been excited for Prom. Is that it?”
Will hesitates. “Yeah, I mean— I guess I just sort of…pictured myself with a date.”
“Oh,” Mike says, a little surprised. He doesn’t really know how to talk to Will about this part of him yet. He usually avoids the topic—unlike their friends—and waits for Will to bring it up first.
“It’s…stupid, I know.”
“No!” Mike says quickly. “No, nothing’s stupid.” Suddenly, an idea comes to him. “What if you and I go together?”
Will has always wanted to go to Prom with a date. And Mike—well, Mike doesn’t have a date, but he does have an idea.
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02 May 2026
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GroupMe Chat - Apex Vol. 83
Mike (EIC): @apex REMINDER: the AP StyleBooks are located on the wooden shelf to the right of our adviser’s desk. They’re on the third level up from the bottom. Some of you are unaware of this fact. Please take note of this and adjust your writing habits accordingly.
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(The Apex Yearbook will meet its winter deadline, regardless of whatever Mike Wheeler's got going on with the design editor.)
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23 Apr 2026