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Sequel to Judith's Head.
Will Byers may not have been Mike Wheeler's first kiss, first time, or first boyfriend, but he was his first best friend. Being best friends is the greatest thing two people can possibly be. First kisses, first times, first boyfriends are fleeting. Best friends are for life.
Of course, Will is finally his boyfriend now, and it's really awesome. Mike has never been happier. Truly. He's so happy that all the pain, self-hatred, resentment, and regret seem trivial. Because they are boyfriends now. It's everything he's ever wanted, even when he didn't want to want it one bit.
To maintain the perfection of the present, Mike tries not to think about the past. Like how much he hated himself for being different, El's decision to take her own life, all the guys he’s been with, and on his worst days, of Will. It's so rare when it happens that it's not worth mentioning.
But when it does, it hurts like hell.
Or: Mike is finally ready to tell the story he could never tell, even when it comes to Will.
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- Part 2 of The Book of Judith
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Since moving to New York City, Will and Mike have been exploring. Like, sailing the seven seas, exploring. They’ve always had overactive imaginations. It should be no surprise that their love of games and roleplaying translates to their sex lives, so Mike comes up with a campaign unlike any other.
Or: the one where Mike and Will roleplay as a hooker and a john, respectively.
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- Part 3 of Explorers
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Will Byers does not like girls. He never really liked anything about girls. Not their faces or bodies or voices. Mike isn’t a girl. But Will really likes to fuck Mike when he’s dressed like a girl. It’s pretty obvious why. Mike comes alive when dolled up with his full lips the color of sin and gorgeous hair framing his made-up face. Then, there are the outfits: short skirts, cute tops, tights, and heels. Mike isn’t a girl but he’s fucking hot when he pretends to be one.
So far, they’ve reserved this kind of exploration for the privacy of their own apartment. But Mike wants to change things up.
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- Part 2 of Explorers
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Mike knows he’s a man. He knows he’s a man who likes men. He also knows his boyfriend is a man who likes men. None of this is up for debate. Yet, Mike is curious. Not about women (duh), but about femininity. It starts with a tube of vibrant, red lipstick: a siren's call at the Bloomingdale's makeup counter, luring him into its rocky shores. But if he's being honest, it started way before that.
Come on. It’s the nineties. Can’t a guy explore?
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- Part 1 of Explorers
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When Will came out, he was relieved to be accepted by the people closest to him, especially Mike, and especially after Will made it clear to Mike that he was his crush. It was just a silly, stupid crush that really wasn’t about Mike at all. The best part is, Will got over it quickly, and they were able to laugh it off and remain friends. Things have been solid since he let those feelings go. That dumb high school bullshit is in the past. Their friendship is far too important to dwell on a crush that is doomed to be unreciprocated.
Imagine Will’s surprise when he catches Mike in a Chicago gay bar making out with another man.
Turns out, Mike is gay. So, what now? What is he supposed to do with this information? More importantly, what does that mean for them?
Friends? No thanks.
Best friends.
Or: The one where Mike is gay and Will is in the Friend Zone the whole time as he helps Mike along his self-acceptance journey.
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- Part 1 of The Book of Judith
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Byler experimenting with different kinks and being freak4freak in NYC in the 90s post-canon because they both would've explored 🔎🌎⚓️🚢
All the one shots can be read as standalones and also are mainly fem!mike so far! Series will be Bottom Mike only 🥰. All stories are canon-compliant and exist within the same verse.
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Two part series. Part one (Will’s POV) is where Will self-sabotages into oblivion and pushes Mike away. Part two (Mike’s POV) is the aftermath of that.
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in knowing that the sun is there by musthavebeen_thewind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 May 2026
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Mike hasn’t prayed since November, 1983. But nearly ten years and 800 miles away from the last time, staring up at the dark stain in the ceiling paint, Mike thinks: God, give me a sign.
And then, the phone rings.
or; new york city in the 90s is just as perpetually rainy as hawkins was in 80s. except for one will byers, who despite mike wheeler's best efforts, is a beam of sunlight. in which, over the course of 5 years, like the sun following a rainstorm, mike and will find their way back to each other.
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In which Mike follows Will to New York University for completely normal and emotionally healthy reasons, and then they try drinking together for the first time and Mike realizes pretty quickly that there were other latent feelings involved in his decision. Featuring truly Gen X levels of casual alcohol use, cranky hours at the Met, laundry in a haunted basement, a Psychedelic Furs concert, the gang reuniting for a party at Jonathan’s apartment, one scary incident reflecting the grittier realities of late 80s NYC, love confessions obviously, and rather a lot of hickeys. (And they were roommates!)
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“Why waste time driving all the way home when I can have you here and now?” Will asks, and all rational thought that Mike might have met this with has long since passed to his dick.
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Mike and Will are sexually frustrated eighteen-year-olds, sick and tired of having absolutely no privacy in their homes. The hand-jobs and the blow-jobs are fun but Mike will go crazy if Will isn't able to fuck him again before they leave for college in five more months. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Bookmarked by basaltdyke
03 Jun 2026
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“No, I don’t think so—we will test for it, but there are some other tests I would like to run, but first,” she leans forward and places a steadying hand on his knee. “Mike, what do you know about male gestational carriers?”
His stomach drops, eyes widening.
He’d only ever heard it referred to as something else—something vitriolic and demeaning.
He remembers hearing the rumors in high school about Peter Miller’s cousin from San Francisco who’d gotten bitched—remembers Peter being beaten bloody in the school parking lot because of it. Vaguely, he knows it was mentioned in a health class—in the same way that AIDS was mentioned—a disease—something that happens to sexual deviants. He knows he has heard Ted Wheeler speak about it—scoffing about so-called ‘paternity rights’ in the paper, “If a man lets himself get bitched he should be ashamed of himself—not asking the world to accept his perversions—It’s sick!”
Mike’s stomach rolls again, acid burning his throat.
He certainly feels sick right now.
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It’s not like Will owes anything to him.
But Mike has claimed his ownership regardless. He wants all of Will, and Will is usually willing to give it to him. Tonight, he wants Will to have all of him, too. Just him and nobody else.
“Tell me you’re mine,” he slurs into his ear, mouth wet and hot against the shell of it.
Mike and Will can't let go of each other, so they hold on tighter. Grip until it hurts. Who else could hold all of them like this, anyway?
OR toxic friends with benefits byler
Bookmarked by basaltdyke
13 May 2026