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All this time, he’d thought El was penance, for his failure to protect Will. That being with her was atonement, for wanting the wrong things, for feeling the wrong way. But it hadn’t helped— Will kept leaving. And El did, too. Mike keeps losing people, and nothing he does brings them back.
Each time Mike thinks of Will, he feels the weight of cosmic responsibility.
He's doesn't know what he feels for Will anymore. But he knows for certain that it isn't allowed.
non-linear series retrospective, from mike's perspective. (aka: the mike pov we all deserved)
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He sits at his desk and thinks to himself about the story he can never tell.
It isn't the story of the mage; that, perhaps, is the easiest story to tell. An acceptable one, a story of love and loss, of power and politics, of magic and monsters.
The stories he grew up on are the same stories he's doomed to tell now. Of supernatural entities and learned helplessness.
No, the story he can never tell is one he's never seen or read before. One that could never have a happy ending.
It goes like this:
Four boys playing a tabletop role-playing game in a basement. Loud, chaotic, wild. There is a distinct air of youth surrounding them. They are untouched by trauma and unharmed by life.
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mike wheeler, grief, and the (love) story he cannot tell.
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you're lookin' like you fell in love tonight by starrydoie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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They're climbing the tower when Mike pauses for a drink of water. He offers it to Will, who takes it without a second thought. The others moved faster than them, bringing Mike and Will to the rear. Will wonders if Mike lingered for him, and then shakes himself out of it. Not the time, never the time.
Mike has the same conflicted look on his face. The same one from after MAC-Z, and after Will came out. It seems later has finally found its way into now.
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a fix-it fic, because fuck the finale.
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- Part 2 of is there somewhere
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i try to refrain (but you're stuck in my brain) by starrydoie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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He'd never given much thought to how he'd come out, or to whom. But now that he has to do it— now that he's been backed against a corner with little else but the knowledge that he has to do this —Will finds himself wishing.
Wistfully, uselessly wishing. That he could have done this in his own time. With some semblance of autonomy; heaven knows it would be the first time.
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a fix it fic, to make will's coming out a little less cruel, a little bit gentler.
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- Part 1 of is there somewhere
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Dear Will,
I hate falling asleep. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I feel sick all the time. You're so far away. I'm not used to it. It's like you've died all over again. There's no El to show me proof you're alive.
I keep seeing you dead. Gone. I say something terrible, your face falls, and you leave me. You keep leaving. You tell me it was a seven, and I see the demogorgan behind you. You call my name and the Mind Flayer has you. And I let you go. I keep letting you go. And you keep leaving.
mike wheeler, and the letters he never sent
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A bunch of Ao3 Skins with flag pride colors!
Happy pride month!
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- Part 7 of CSS code scripts for Ao3
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