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“I- I just…” Mike starts. “I don’t understand… Why do they make it such a big deal?”
Will is confused, has been confused since Mike asked to watch this movie in the first place, and Mike’s vagueness isn’t helping him come to any conclusion.
“Make what a big deal?” Will inquires.
Mike bites his lower lip in embarrassment. “Kissing.”
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Mike and Will go through epiphanies together. Will about how he isn’t over Mike. And Mike about how much he likes to kiss Will.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
14 Jan 2026
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It's like Will's body moves before he can even process what he’s moving to, like his senses know when he’s near and pull him there before he can realize what he’s doing. His former well gripped want is bleeding though his fingers. He feels as if everyone can see it in the way he blinks, can smell the desire pooling out of his pores.
“—definitely overreacting, I mean, he’s as oblivious as they come!” Robin’s voice cuts through his thoughts.
“I don't know... I think even Steve could have picked up on what was going on in my head,” he squeezes his eyes shut at the onslaught of aftershock anxiety rushing back at the memory.
“I whimpered, Robin!” he pulls his hands to cover his face, to try to ground himself.
“You’re probably right... Steve could have picked up on what was going on,” she’s facing him on the couch, her knees leaning further to press up against his legs as she moves further into his space. “But Mike wouldn’t know sexual electricity if it was shooting from his own dick.”
OR: Will's been in love with Mike Wheeler since before he can remember, it was bound to slip out at some point.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
14 Jan 2026
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Mike’s mouth is warm.
Warm, and a little chapped, and pressing against his with an uncertainty that makes something in Will’s chest ache. He should pull away. He knows this. He knows it in the same way he knows not to touch a hot stove, not to stare too long, not to let himself imagine impossible things. His body seems uninterested in logic, though, and he supposes he can’t blame himself, not really.
Mike shifts slightly, trying to figure out what to do with his limbs. His lips move against Will’s with more intention, and Will’s breath stutters out of him in a way that is deeply embarrassing and entirely involuntary.
Oh, his brain supplies, unhelpfully.
It’s something he’s imagined countless times before, kissing Mike Wheeler. He imagines it so often, in fact, that he cannot even recall the first time he imagined it. It’s an ever-present fantasy, always lurking in the back of his mind.
And yet, despite his thorough experience in imagining this moment, he somehow never imagined it quite like this.
Or: Five times it doesn't mean anything, and one time it finally does.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
14 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is forced to relive the worst day of his life - March 22nd.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
14 Jan 2026
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Will opens his mouth, inviting Mike inside with open arms (or lips), and their mouths become a warm, tangled mess. It’s a sword fight, one slowly becoming more tiresome, to then eventually surrender to the other. Will’s knees get increasingly weak the more Mike firmly fights back, making a mess out of Will.
Mike pulls their lips apart for a moment, leaning his forehead against the other. “Wanted to do this all day,” Mike confesses softly, half because he’s catching his breath and half because he wants to whisper the confession to Will like a prayer. “Missed you.”
Will grins at Mike, “Yeah, not like we’ve been together since yesterday.” Will looks at Mike’s glowing eyes, a hint of hunger lying in the black void of his pupils. “I missed you too,” Will whispers back.
After a lack of alone time together, Mike and Will are left with an empty house. Certain things lead to one another.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
14 Jan 2026
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will byers technically lives at home.
emotionally, he lives at the wheelers’.
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13 Jan 2026
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Don't be Afraid of the Clocks (they are our time) by TashaTasha
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jan 2026
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"Nobody was really thinking in that moment. Not Will, and certainly not Mike. Ten years down the line and three glasses of wine deep, Mike would proclaim that it was simple science—Magnetic attraction. North and South meet halfway to the west.
The closer you place them, the more likely they’ll collide
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Will gets some new (totally not gay) friends, and Mike is a jealous, needy loser. Coming out, crying, and sappy confessions await.
This Fic is meant to be an intermission between Season 4 and Season 5, with the assumption that Vecna doesn’t return with full force until all the cast are 18.
Mainly Will Byers POV but some chapters are Mike because he is also very fun to write.Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
13 Jan 2026
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"It's fine," Will reassures them with a dismissive hand as he pulls back, "We don't have to ignore the fact that it's, like, ten days into the semester, and I'm already visiting."
"Can we also not ignore how it looks like you've been crying?"
"Jesus Christ, Lucas," Mike's voice carries through the apartment from his room, bursting back into the living room after setting Will's bags down. "He's been here for, like, four minutes."
It’s 1993, and Will is having a hard time. Mike loves Will, according to Lucas.
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- Part 1 of it feels good to be known so well
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
12 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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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
11 Jan 2026
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The Byers’ new house is closer to Mike’s.
This is a Development.
Mike sees Will on the weekends. Mike sees Will on occasional school nights. Mike sees Will like he’s living with them again, stuffed into Mike’s back pocket, comfortably, reliably close.
Turns out, this is a problem.
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or: Will is lovely, and Mike is in love. Maybe. Probably. Definitely.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
10 Jan 2026
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“What?”, Will huffs, shaking his head in disbelief. “You know blue does not only equate sadness, right? It is one of the blatantly obvious meanings, sure, but it can also imply tranquility, loyalty, trust, peace, and—"
Shut up, shut up, shut up, the voice in his head screams by now, but one cannot interrupt Will in the middle of one of his art rants. Impossible. No chance. “And with the vastness of the sky or sea, blue is also often associated with distance, longing, yearning, and— stuff.”
“Distance”, Mike echoes, and only then does Will truly understand what he has just admitted into the air freely, completely unprovoked and voluntarily. “Longing. Yearning.”
Obviously, this is the exact moment Robert Smith decides to sing about the fact that it is Friday, and that he is very much in love.
Five times Mike distracts Will from his art assignments with his stupidly flirtatious ways, and one time Will actually needs his help to complete a coursework.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
10 Jan 2026
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“Does he take care of you?” He asked softly, almost whispering. Like he was genuinely curious. But there was something else entirely there too.
“What do you care?” Will turned his head away then slouched into himself. He tried to shake Mike’s hand away from his waist but Mike’s hold only got stronger.
“I don’t.” Liar.
“It sure sounds like it.”
orWill has a nightmare. Mike is the only one who can comfort him.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
10 Jan 2026
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Operation Byler. Max's Master Byler Plan. by heavenlyofficialsmut
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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It's the last summer for college after they spent their childhood quite literally saving the world. Nothing is really normal but it's close enough and the party are hunkered down in the Wheeler basement watching bad romance movies, a little bit buzzed on alcohol, discussing all their bad romance takes and choices.
It takes exactly one movie before they realise that Will can't join in because he doesn't have any romance stories to tell.
They decide right there that the end of summer is going to be spent helping their best friend become the very best he can be so that when he goes to college he can have as many romantic moments as he wants.
From there it's fashion shows, flirt training, practice dates and realising that he's already in a romance story and has been since he got off that swingset.
Hopefully this one has a happy ending.
---No actual willxothers happens in this fic it's purely hypothetical as a way to push their plans to get byler together!
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
10 Jan 2026
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After Will's confession, now it's Mike's turn.
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"Oh my God, your arms," Mike breathes in awe, and Will lets out a burst of laughter at how Mike, king of the earnest romantic speech, has suddenly lost all eloquence.
"My arms?" Will raises an eyebrow.
"Girls don't have biceps like that," Mike elaborates, his blush intensifying as his mind starts to register some of the more specific ways being with a boy might be different.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
09 Jan 2026
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3 times someone observes how Mike treats Will after they get together, and one time he considers it himself.
(spoiler: it’s complicated. But also, somehow, not.)Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
09 Jan 2026
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It's Michael Wheeler's first day of sophomore year at Hawkins High, and he's completely, terrifyingly alone. Eleven has broken up with him, and he hasn't seen his friends all summer. His world is crumbling around him, and he doesn't care enough to stop it.
Until his English teacher sets an assignment to write a retelling of Romeo and Juliet - and his project partner is his ex-best friend, William Byers, the boy his world once revolved around.or,
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers write a self-insert superhero comic book together about doomed, forbidden lovers and realise that they are also doomed, forbidden lovers.
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
08 Jan 2026
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"It's your first day," Karen tells him. "This is exciting! You'll make so many friends."
"You think so?" Mike asks nervously, his wide eyes staring at her.
"Absolutely."
Karen Wheeler doesn't condone lying to her children, but she believes white lies can be considered harmless. They won't remember, anyways. But if Karen was telling the truth to her son, she'd have to admit how she's actually desperately nervous about his compatibility with his classmates.
After school, when Mike is rambling about his new best friend, Karen decides that if Will Byers makes her son this happy, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay friends forever.
Or, Will and Mike's relationship through the eyes of their friends and family (plus their own). Will is nonverbal autistic, and Mike has allusions to also being autistic. Neurodivergent friendly fic with them falling in love!
// title from Coming Home by beabadoobee
Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
07 Jan 2026
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tell me, is it really love? by agustplz (shout_out_lou)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Sep 2022
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Will Byers loves Mike Wheeler.
It shouldn’t be a big deal. Of course he loves Mike. He always has. But it’s never felt like this. It’s never hurt to think about it, but it also never felt like a revelation rather than a fact. It hurts, and there’s nothing he can do to ease the pain. He looks across the room at Mike and all he sees is beauty where minutes ago he only saw his best friend. He notices entire constellations in the freckles strewn across his nose, stars glittering in his eyes, and it all seems inevitable. He loves Mike. He loves him and it’s a foregone conclusion, a wish on a shooting star destined to burn out. He loves him and he can’t ever have him, not in that way, and there’s nothing in the world that can ever hurt him again quite like this.
OR: When the party dares Mike to tell someone he loves them for one hundred days, Will doesn't expect to be the unlucky recipient. He definitely doesn't expect it to consume his last three months in Hawkins. But like most things in his life, absolutely nothing goes to plan.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
07 Jan 2026
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A Stranger Thing au-everbody lives, focusing mainly on realistic trauma, learning to accept it, and move on. And growing into people they could never be before. With a mix of outsider pov fics and character stories to show their lives after Hawkins.
3/3, but last work needs to be completed.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
07 Jan 2026
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I want to breathe in the open wind (I want to kiss like lovers do) by Nehm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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The day that Mike Wheeler presented as a prime alpha was also the day that everything changed for him and Will.
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Will and Mike make a promise to each other to never abandon each other no matter who they present as and what happens. But when Mike presents as an alpha, he apparently does everything in his power to go against that promise.
Everyone says it's for Will's protection. Mostly Mike.
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Bookmarked by soupstar (treetrying)
05 Jan 2026