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    Mike teaches English in room B207.
    Will teaches art in B213.
    And they clearly, clearly like each other.
    Their students hatch a plan to get them together.

    Gift fic for paladinscleric! Happy birthday!

    (Not a text/chat fic! It just has elements of that from the students' POV. Don't be put off by the first bit, it's not all chat.)

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    28 Apr 2026

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    “You’re insane! I can’t just write something as obvious as that. What if he figures out it’s me?”

    ”Um, then you get a super-cute boyfriend who you’ve been in love with for, like, as long as you’ve known him?” Vickie blinked at him, arms crossed over her lanyard. “I don’t understand the issue, why don’t you just… tell him?”

    ”The issue is that he could hear me, Vick.” Mike emphasised. “He could hear me, and realise I’m actually a loser, and ride away on the back of that dumb jock’s motorcycle-”

    “C’mon, Mike,” Vickie interrupted his rambling with a teasing sing-song tone, bunny teeth glinting past her pink lips. “Valentines is a day for the brave. Besides, what’s the worst that could happen?”

    Or, four times Mike Wheeler sends the cute art teacher a candy-gram for Valentine’s Day, and the one time he doesn’t need to.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Once, when they’d been kids, they’d been inside Castle Byers, and they’d pretended they were a knight and a cleric. Would you save me? Will had asked. If I was in trouble?

    And Mike had answered, Always.

    But now he’s the danger. Will’s at his mercy. What a cruel twist of fate it is, and Mike is the cruelest monster of them all.

    Mike discovers a lot about himself in the scope of six months. Mainly, that he’s a terrible and selfish person.

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    28 Apr 2026

  4. Rec *

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    Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.

    Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’

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    22 Apr 2026

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    Mike grins so widely that he displays each one of his baby teeth. "Open it," he says. "It's a card. I made it for you."

    When Will gingerly peels the birthday card open, Mike’s uneven handwriting is displayed across the page.

    The p’s in happy are backwards, the y wobbly and curled at the end, and the k in Mike is also flipped the wrong way. The word birthday is etched in their kindergarten teacher’s steady print, and it seems like she'd also added the punctuation for him. 

    Happy birthday, Will! 
    Love,
    Mike W

    Or: Will Byers' birthdays from age six to adulthood, told through cards from Mike.  

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    23 Mar 2026