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Something Inside Me to Keep You Bedside Me by paper_star
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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“A nice little heart to heart,” Mike repeats quietly. “About my dead girlfriend.”
“And his dead sister,” Dustin adds, unperturbed.
Or: Post-canon fix-it, from graduation. Four summers, four winter breaks, and four spring breaks in which Mike Wheeler needs to figure his shit out.
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29 Jan 2026
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Will has been having a hard time sharing a house with Mike and room with his brother. Maybe one of those on it's own would be manageable, but being around a touchy-feely Mike 24/7 and not having his own space to let out everything he has been repressing leads Will to a bit of a mortifying situation. Luckily, when Mike finds out he is understanding. Maybe a little too understanding, though because suddenly he's offering up his room in case Will ever needs some privacy.
Things escalate from there..
But it basically became a slowburn mwtfdyd fic with non canon post Vecna resolution.
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It's not even like Will is some godlike specimen. His skin is olivey and a bit summer-tan, and he has floppy, honey-brown hair and a few moles smattered adorably across his face and arms, but he is very much just a boy. Average height, average build, symmetrical face. He's wearing jeans and a Zelda T-shirt and plain white Vans. But he gives Mike an awkward half-smile and a wave as he introduces himself at the box office, and Mike can actually feel himself get stupider.
Will and Mike meet working at their local movie theater, and Mike is so into Will — particularly his hands — that he almost gets fired.
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18 Jan 2026
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Mike marries Will in 2010. They get a dog in 2014. They buy a house in 2003. They have their first kiss in 1989.
Do they?---
Mike gets cursed before the final battle. Will tries to get him back.Bookmarked by rectaacri
18 Jan 2026
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I never ever felt so cool (disguised in your sheets) by wheezingwheeler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Will just wanted to bring his brother home. He didn’t plan on sharing motel beds, surviving Mike Wheeler’s jealousy spiral, or confronting feelings he’s spent years burying.
Mike thinks Will likes girls.
Will thinks Mike will never love him back.
Both of them are wrong.A post-canon (with some small tweaks) road trip full of tension, nightmares, gay panic, and a very long drive toward the truth.
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Water dripped from Will's hair, ran down his jaw, caught on his lips.
Mike stared at it.
Stared like he'd forgotten where he was.
Then, slowly he lifted a towel and pressed it gently to Will's mouth, wiping the water away. His hand didn't even shake. He was steady.
Will's breath stuttered. Tingles tremored all the way up his spine.
He didn't move. He couldn't. He was too aware of Mike's hand, of the way his eyes kept dropping back to his lips.
That look again.
The one Will had seen a dozen times now and never understood.
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18 Jan 2026
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This is the first girl who’s ever asked Mike out — something he had, in the not too distant past, been terrified would never happen. And Mike just stands there, feeling like his dining hall dinner is about to crawl back up his esophagus.
Jeremy, Saint Jeremy, nudges him with an elbow. “He’s kind of private about it, but Mike actually has someone back home.”
Mike turns his head to look at Jeremy, expecting a knowing smile or the hint of a wink. But Jeremy actually looks sincere, which makes Mike’s eyebrows sink down, almost to the top of his nose.
“Will, right?” Jeremy supplies, forever trying to be helpful. “He’s at CalArts?”
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- English
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- 12,635
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- 4/4
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18 Jan 2026
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“You’re thinking,” Will says, skating a finger down the line of Mike’s nose, under his eye, over his cheekbone, then resting, finally, just at the corner of his lips– “about me.”
Oh, Jesus. Mike’s throat is very, very dry. “What?”
Will opens his eyes – slow, a little hesitant – and smiles. “You are,” he says, way, way too smug for Mike’s liking. “You’re turning red!”
“Shut up,” Mike mutters, and Will’s smile grows. “You– I’m just nervous!”
It should be illegal for someone to look this pleased with themselves. “Yeah?” Will says quietly, index finger still hovering at the corner of Mike’s mouth, thumb pressed gently under his chin. “I make you nervous?”
Mike thinks Will might be psychic. (Kind of.) Will is being very irritatingly vague about the whole thing.
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- English
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17 Jan 2026
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take a little moment (find the right words) by astrobi for wiseatom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.”
“Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.”
“Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?”
“Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”
Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.
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16 Jan 2026
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“You’ve really never?” Will asks, finally pulling a box of matches out of his pocket, not the lighter Mike had been expecting. He tips the box of Marlboros out towards Mike again, and this time, he takes one, trying to pretend like the subtle weight of it is not as foreign in his hand as it feels. “Not even once?”
“No,” Mike says, trying to figure out whether he should be getting defensive or not. “Why? Is it that hard to believe?”
“I just figured, you know, it’s easier to bum a smoke off of somebody than it is to get your hands on some booze,” Will says thoughtfully. He tucks the cigarettes back into his pocket and plants both hands on the stack of hay behind him, taking a careful step onto the bale already resting by their feet — and then, when it holds his weight, he hoists himself up, legs swinging. “And you’ve done that, so.”
Will sneaks out for a smoke break. Mike decides to join him.
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16 Jan 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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- English
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- 77,728
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- 4/4
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16 Jan 2026
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- English
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- 34,403
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- 3/3
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- 1,188
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13 Jan 2026
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somethin' about you (that i will always recognize) by andiwriteordie for strangeswift
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Apr 2023
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“I’d find you in any life,” Mike adds, a sad smile tugging at his lips. He reaches over and takes Seven’s hand, intertwining their fingers together. “If I knew you back then… before all this happened… I would’ve done everything I possibly could to find you.”
I know, something deep inside his heart and mind whispers.
And then, for some strange reason, the whisper becomes something new: Because you already did.
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When Mike finds a mysterious boy in the woods who remembers nothing about himself, he never expects to fall in love.
And when Seven meets Mike Wheeler out in the middle of nowhere, he never expects to find a home.
Life has a funny way of surprising both of them.
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09 Jan 2026
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my advice is always ruin the friendship by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Nov 2025
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“Have you noticed the signals?” Robin asks softly.
Will freezes. He’s quiet for one… two… three moments, before slowly, he lifts his head and meets Robin’s gaze. His eyes are still wide—full of an understandable uncertainty but also a hope that’s so infectious that Robin can’t help but smile.
“I… I think so,” he confesses. “I… I don’t know if they actually mean anything, but… but everything you said to look for… all those signals…”
His voice trails off, and Robin offers a wry smile, finishing the thought for him, “They’re definitely there.”
Or:
The one in which Robin witnesses a snowball become an avalanche.
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09 Jan 2026
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been sleeping so long (now i'm wide awake) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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“Well, maybe not, Lucas says, rolling his eyes, “but I know that worrying isn’t going to do shit for Will.”
“Funny — I could say the same thing about Max,” Mike retorts.
A scowl forms on Lucas’s face, and he goes tense, like he’s bracing himself for a full-fledged fight. “That’s different,” he starts to say.
Then, suddenly, he stops.
It’s as if someone has clicked the PAUSE button on a television, and Mike watches as his best friend goes still. Recognition flashes across Lucas’s face, and his brow furrows as he looks up, meeting Mike’s eyes. And though he doesn’t say anything, Mike can tell the exact moment when it clicks.
“Oh, shit,” Lucas breathes.
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In the aftermath of Will's newly unlocked powers and Max's escape from Camazotz, Mike confides in Lucas about his newly realized feelings for Will.
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09 Jan 2026
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deep blue, but you painted me golden by andiwriteordie, kidovna
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Dec 2025
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Will’s voice trails off, and he runs a hand over his face. Mike waits a few moments to see if he’ll say anything else, but when Will doesn’t, he takes a shaky breath and tries to find his own courage.
“And you thought, what?” Mike whispers. “That - that it wouldn’t mean as much to me if it came from you?”
Will flinches. He’s still turned away from Mike, and there’s a desperation in his voice when he whispers back, “Mike, please…”
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After returning to the Wheeler house, Mike finds out the truth about Will’s painting.
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09 Jan 2026
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“There was a boy,” Izzy’s dad murmurs. “He… he was my first friend—my best friend. And I…”
His voice trails off. Tears well in her dad’s eyes, and Izzy reaches across the space between them, taking his free hand. She gives it an encouraging squeeze, and her dad laughs, soft and broken and free.
“I loved him, Izzy,” her dad whispers, meeting her eyes. “I loved him. I really, really did.”
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The one in which Mike Wheeler has a crash out of epic proportions when listening to ’Good Luck, Babe!’ and his daughter, Izzy, decides to do something about it.
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- English
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- 14,041
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- 1/1
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- 279
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08 Jan 2026
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“Oh, don’t worry. That’s my best friend. He knows I’m gay.” Will responds and something about that sentence makes Mike want to internally cringe. “Oh, by the way, Mike this is Tom, Tom, that’s Mike.” Will introduces them. “Hi.” Tom says to him, leaning into Will’s body. “Hello.” He tries for it to sound as nice as possible.
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Mike walks into Will and his boyfriend having sex in he and Will’s shared dorm room and it stirs up a lot of feelings in him he’s been unknowingly suppressing for years. chaos ensues.
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04 Jan 2026
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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- English
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- 144,837
- Chapters:
- 32/32
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- 2,291
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- 8,942
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- 2,144
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- 264,349
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27 Dec 2025
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Когда Адриан знакомится с донельзя странным братом донельзя странной Джулеки, он не обращает на это должного внимания, а потом ныряет в Сену на спор, выпрыгивает из окна под крики "у тебя получится" и получает три лучших в этом чёртовом мире первых поцелуя.
И обещает себе, что всегда будет держать именно эту руку.Bookmarked by rectaacri
23 Nov 2025
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When Taigen found out Mizu was a woman, he told her it changed nothing between them. And it didn't. He had sexual fantasies about Mizu before finding out, and he had such fantasies after finding out. Nothing changed there.
He had never pursued it beyond a personal fantasy because he had never seen Mizu indicate interest in sex or intimacy with anyone. But now he wonders if it is lack of interest, or because she has a secret to keep? Would Mizu be interested in such pursuits with someone who already knew her secret?
(If you're just in it for porn and not the slow burn, skip to chapter 5)
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- Part 2 of Scarf
- Language:
- English
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- 20,614
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- 10/?
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- 125
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10 Nov 2025