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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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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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"Mike…" his voice comes out so low that he barely hears. "You don’t understand, do you?"
At last, Will turns his face toward him. Mike freezes.
The green eyes, intense and expressive, are wet. He has forgotten what it is like to see Will’s tearful eyes up close, and the image touches something deep in his heart. His hands, once warm, turn cold, and the chill that rises from his stomach to his throat seems to grow stronger. He swallows hard, Will’s face close, all of him far too close.
"I don’t… understand?" Mike asks, still lost in the flashes coming from Will’s eyes. His gaze drops to Will’s mouth, pink and trembling, just like the rest of his body.
"No, you don’t understand", Will says, shaking his head. "You never understand. You’re so stupid."
Mike does not react. He keeps staring at Will’s mouth, fighting against that desire that has lived inside him for God knows how long.
"Stupid…" he repeats, until he realizes what he just said. "Wait. What?"Or
Will and Mike return to the Wheelers’ basement after what happens at the Mac-Z. It is cold, but the feeling inside them is warm and corrosive, eating through everything until it spills outward.
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Mike and Will procrastinate coming out to their friends and families, so they sneak around a lot. One time they mess up and get caught though. Everyone deals differently with finding out about them. Hopper for example crashes the fuck out.
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- Part 4 of random byler one shots