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   The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   04 May 2026

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   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • mwtfdydgate
   • Pre-Season/Series 05
   • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mutual Pining
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Living Together
   • Gay Panic
   • Holly Wheeler Has a Crush
   • During the 18-Month Timeskip Before Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
   • Ted Wheeler Being Homophobic (Stranger Things)
   • Ted Wheeler Being an Asshole (Stranger Things)
   • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Karen Wheeler Tries
   • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Dreams
   • Lucas Sinclair ships Byler
   • Fix-It
   • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
   • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Making Out
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • Miscommunication
   • Cheating Mike Wheeler
   • Dry Humping
   • Underage Drinking
   • I use really convoluted metaphors for no apparent reason
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Crush on Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
   • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Rewrite
   • Eventual Smut
   • Dirty Thoughts
   • Wet Dream
   • Forced Proximity
   • Slow Burn
   • I don't think there's a -gate I haven't or won't cover
   • Dom/sub Undertones
   • Masturbation
   • Brat Will Byers
   • Sexual Overstimulation
   • Orgasm Edging
   • like accidentally
   • Top Mike Wheeler
   • Service Top Mike Wheeler
   • Bottom Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler gets fingered
   • he shuts down the idea of bottoming right after and Will shuts down the idea of topping.

   Summary

   Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.

   Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.

   Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.

   ~

   The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.

   Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

   Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

   Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP

   Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?

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