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Five years ago, Mike Wheeler destroyed the only person he ever loved with a rejection he told himself was mercy. Now he's an NYPD officer drowning in debt and self-loathing. Will Byers is Manhattan's art-world darling, brilliant and beautiful, hollowed out from the inside, slowly killing himself in ways no one bothers to notice.
When a Mafia money-laundering case turns Will into the only living witness, Mike is assigned to protect the person he once swore to cherish and then shattered with his own hands.
It was only when a bullet buried itself in the chest of the one he loved most that Mike finally understood how merciless fate could be, teaching him the meaning of love at the exact moment it demanded the ultimate price.
But can a heart that has been broken ever deliver mercy to the one who broke it?OR: Mike hasn’t been afraid of dying since 1989. Will has a patron, a penthouse, and a drinking problem nobody asks about. A mafia case forces them back together. The bullets aren’t the dangerous part.
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21 May 2026
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Nearly two years after graduating from Hawkins High, Will Byers had what he’d always wanted. Control. He’s in charge of his life day in and day out.
Mike can’t sleep, write, or do much of anything, really.
Mike didn’t show up to the airport last summer, and Will didn’t come back to Indiana - until he found himself on the Wheelers’ doorstep at Christmas.
In which Mike and Will haven’t spoken in over a year, and neither of them quite know how they ended up on a road trip back to California as roommates.
Or, with a little bravery, some interference from friends old and new, and a whole lot of butter, Mike and Will might actually stand a chance of being honest with each other and getting what they want.
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Mike is assigned to be Will’s body guard, and all hell breaks loose. They fall in love as they process their trauma and make it to the other side together.
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At some point Will realised his hand was still over Chance’s. Maybe it was the liquor sitting heavy in his system, or maybe it was just sheer dumb courage, but he felt himself gently shift his hand to the side, moving until it sat flush beside Chance’s.
Maybe the alcohol was clouding Will’s senses, but he could have sworn Chance’s fingers shifted to brush his.
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Post-S5/Pre-Epilogue Will Byers finds his Vickie.
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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