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Knock knock knock
“Jesus Christ! Hold on,” he mumbles, floating down the steps. He flicks on the porch light and yanks the door open. “What the hell are you–” He freezes.
For a moment, he really does believe he’s dreaming. You know, given that not a single fucking thing about this situation makes any goddamn sense. Because on the short trip from his bedroom to the front door, Mike made a list in his head of all of the people that could potentially be on the other side. It was a rather abbreviated list, to be fair: The cops. Nancy. His landlady, Freida. That one drunk guy he occasionally gives a cigarette to if he happens to be smoking on his porch when he walks by.
But it’s not any of those people. It’s Will. A year older, soaking wet, shivering with a waterlogged duffel bag slung over his left shoulder. Yeah. He’s dreaming. Because he had spoken to Will on the phone not even ten hours ago. He was about to go on his three year anniversary date with his long term boyfriend in New York City.
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Will needs some space from his boyfriend, James, and for whatever reason, he decides to take that space at Mike's townhouse in Boston. Mike is going to be so normal about it.
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Mike Wheeler is an overly nostalgic, highly anxious teenage boy with attachment issues. Junior year hits him hard as he watches his friends make post-graduation plans and he can't help but feel left behind, unsure of what he wants his future to look like. To deal with this perpetual existential dread, he starts self-medicating with weed that he buys off of Hawkins own Steve Harrington. It does wonders staving off his anxiety, but his best friend Max seems to think that it has completely shot his personality in the face. When he's caught by his mom, the course of his summer changes for the better, hopefully, when he and Max run into two very interesting figures from Max's past. One of which Mike thinks is so handsome and charming that he hates him. Or loves him, maybe. What's one more crisis?
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honey I'm a prize and you're a catch (and we're a perfect match) by strawbeevies
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jan 2026
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Will and Mike are college roommates and they love hosting Max and Lucas for movie nights. Lucas and Max are sick of watching Mike pathetically yearn for Will when they know for a fact that if he'd just confess his feelings, he could have what he wants. Mike is, unfortunately, stubborn and jealous and is much more comfortable wistfully admiring Will and bullying his annoying boyfriend, Carlton.
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What the fuck is happening? Why are you so upset over this? You should be happy for him. For him and his-
His stomach twists at the thought.
Fiancé. You need to move on. He has.
The sudden realization that he's 5 years too late has him heaving again. He let Will slip through his fingers like water, evaporating before Mike even knew he wanted to find purchase. Like always, Mike arrives when the train has already left the station. Missing every opportunity extended to him by the universe, every goddamn time.
He feels a sharp pang where his heart is, and that must be because it's shattering.
So this is why they call it heartbreak.
or Will Byers is getting married. Mike Wheeler is paying a visit to get some things off his chest.
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20 Apr 2026
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“For the love of God! Mike, I haven’t had an orgasm in like two fucking weeks! That’s what’s wrong!” Will snaps. Mike’s eyes go wide. He opens his mouth to reply, but he closes it again. The silence between them is heavy for a moment. Like they’re both weighing what Will just admitted. “And you have been driving me fucking insane with all this touching. I don’t know what’s happening, but it needs to stop.”
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21 Mar 2026
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Mike is like a cat.
A feral cat.
The kind of cat that you have to pet with welding mitts, or a stick with a glove on it, lest it tries to bite you or lash out at the slightest ounce of affection.
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21 Mar 2026
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you're the closest to heaven (that i’ll ever be) by wisehearts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 May 2026
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When the sermon begins, it doesn’t take long for Will to feel a breath on his ear. “This is gonna be boring isn’t it?”
Will scrunches his face and lolls his head to look at Mike. “Why do you act like you’ve never been to church before?”
“I haven’t.” Mike whispers.
Somewhere around the border of North and South Carolina in 2008, Will Byers is a member of the local church's youth group. Why? Even he doesn't know. When a new member, Mike Wheeler, comes along, Will starts to wonder.
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Mike Wheeler joins a youth group solely because he has a crush on one of the members.
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21 Mar 2026
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“Are you talking about…?” Will lets the question trail off, trusting Mike to know exactly what he means.
“Yeah,” Mike worries his bottom lip between his teeth. “Yeah. I’m talking about our conversation by the tower, Will.”
Hearing his name like that, deliberate, weighted, makes Will’s chest tighten. Mike only does that when something really matters. And this matters.
“I—” Will starts, then exhales in shaky relief when Mike cuts him off. Thank God. He has no idea what he was about to say. He’s barely holding himself together.
“Just let me finish, okay?” Mike insists. Will could swear he shifts closer. “I mean… I can’t be more than your best friend. I just can’t, Will.”
The words hit like a punch, and before the ache in Will’s chest can fully set in, Mike rushes on.
“But I want to do things to you,” he admits quietly, honestly, “that no best friends should ever want to do to each other.”
Or Mike is a repressed POS who wants Will without having to face what wanting him actually means.
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21 Mar 2026