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sing me to sleep (i will feel so glad to go) by mae_writes_stuff
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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“I’m not afraid of you now.” Will felt his eyes go glassy with anger, shining under the weight of everything taken from him.
Frantic voices echoed from his radio again.
Will, come in. Will, are you okay? Where are you?“That doesn’t matter anymore. It started with you, William. No amount of… courage will change that.”
Vecna’s voice was rough, like shards of glass trying to puncture the carefully crafted defences Will had built.
“Then I’ll end this.” His eyes burned and throat closed. He always knew it, really; that this had to end with him.---
Will Byers has spent his whole life running. Whether it was from his drunken dad, an inter-dimensional monster, or his own secrets--he kept going.
He was tired. He just wanted it to be over; the constant hiding, fleeing, preparing, fighting for his life. He wanted to end it all--Vecna, the Mindflayer, and deep down... maybe himself. -
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“I like you.” Mike blurts out.
Time stops for a moment. Just the two of them, looking each other in the eyes, and trying to make their hearts beat quieter.
“Like… romantically.”
“Mike, you’re being mean.” Will's voice cracks, letting out a shaking breath.
“What..?” Mike replies breathlessly, and Will hates how oblivious he looks. Like he doesn’t even know what he’s doing.
“Mike, you don’t.” He blinks quickly, trying not to cry. “You don’t like me. Not like that. Don’t do this.” He feels like his words are choking him, twisting in the air to wrap themselves around his neck.
“But– Will, I do.”OR
Mike Wheeler confesses his love to Will Byers.
Will doesn't believe him.
Angst and fluff ensues.
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Come, the ground murmurs, echoing in the soles of his bare feet, in the grain of his bones. There are vines there, crawling just under the thin layer of dirt, reaching ever-outward to the sky. He should feel cold, shouldn't he? Should feel the painful press of the ground on his bare skin. Come, the sky echoes, an enticing tune. Where, Will doesn't wonder, because all is whole and the same to the swarm, the pull of it steady, a magnetic force that doesn't need to be questioned, a True North-
“Will,” he hears Mike say, a whisper in the darkness, and it sounds like rain but kind, a soft drizzle, sounds like low lamplight buzzing in a basement full of his childhood drawings, sounds like home, a sin of thought. “Will, you're scaring me,” Mike says, voice soft and pleading.
At the edge of the end of the world, people are going missing, the sky bleeds ash, and Will Byers can't seem to run forever.
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Before he leaves, Mike peers into the hall, looking around to check if anyone is around, before rushing back to Will’s side and pressing their lips together again. This time Will realizes it’s coming in time to close his eyes, like people who kiss on tv do. He feels Mike smile against his lips and he smiles back automatically.
Mike’s face is grinning and flushed when he backs away, saying, “I’ll be back tomorrow!”
Maybe Will should be upset by the secrecy, but it’s actually relieving, because Mike definitely does understand. He understands what this is, and that no one else can know, and that it won’t be easy, and he wants to kiss Will anyway. He wants to be crazy with him anyway.
Crazy together.
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Or, Will and Mike get together in season 2 because I thought it would be cute.
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Disconnected by calmb4storm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow
07 Jan 2026
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Panic begins to run through his veins, speeding up his pulse and his breathing. “I can’t– why don’t I remember it? I don’t remember any of it.”
Mike blanches. “Any of what, Will?”
Jonathan’s hand is on his knee. Both of them are too close. He can’t breathe.
“The Upside Down. I… I can’t remember any of the Upside Down.”
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OR: A Will Byers-centric/Byler canon version ST5!
(now a post-finale fix-it fic.)Series
- Part 1 of Disconnected Universe
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Bookmarked by mae_writes_stuff
15 Mar 2026
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beautifully tragic. i'm gonna have a toaster bath if i have to think about this one more time. but it's okay it was very good. 10000/10.
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if i stop laughing, all the blood will just start pouring out by cyclamoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2025
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“You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—
“You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”
Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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Bookmarked by mae_writes_stuff
22 Feb 2026
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Amazing amazing amazing omfg one of the best fics ever made I love it sm literally I've been reading for 4 hours it's 4am it's a school night and idc it's so good