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Secret Ruiner (The Mike Wheeler’s Worst Nightmare) by willgentleboy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 May 2026
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"Why are you getting flowers?" Dustin was already leaning over the table, interrogating him.
"I don't know… there isn't even a note here." Will was turning bright red, looking incredibly shy. Lucas was certain Will would rather pull a vanishing act than have to give any explanation.
"Ooh, does Will have a secret admirer?" Lucas started to tease, making Will turn an even deeper shade of crimson and sending Dustin into a fit of giggles.
"Who has a secret admirer?" Mike’s voice came from behind Lucas, casting a startled silence over the table.
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Lucas starts to suspect that Mike and Will are dating in secret and decides that the best way to make the couple come out is by flirting with Will until Mike loses his mind.
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it’s 2010.
myspace still matters, and will byers spends most nights doomscrolling instead of sleeping. college would’ve been lonely if his roommate lucas wasn’t constantly yelling into his headset at some douchebag called mike wheeler — alt-boy musician, internet pretty boy, and apparently the most irritating person alive sometimes.
at least until mike sends will a friend request.
what happens when lucas sinclair’s childhood best friend can’t seem to stop messaging him?
or worse, flirting with him.
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08 Jun 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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22 May 2026
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Jackson curled further into himself, eyes glued to his lap, and Will deflated some, forcing himself to calm down. Jackson didn’t want this. He didn’t want a scene. It was why Will had insisted he’d cover this, because he knew how much Mike hated dealing with asshole parents.
Maybe he should have let him take this one. Mike had practice dealing with this sort of thing, even if it was usually from the other side of the desk. Will had dealt with plenty of rude comments about how he was raising his son, sure, but it hadn’t given him thicker skin. It had worn away at him until he was sharp and angry, whirling around in supermarkets and snapping at the old ladies who’d mumble under their breath.
He was just- he was so tired. He was sick and tired of everybody else thinking they were entitled to saying this shit, just because he didn’t fit into some cookie cutter mold. He was tired of Jackson having to hear it, and Ceci. They shouldn’t have to.
Sometimes, Will wished he was normal, just so they could be too.
The circumstances through which Will became a father weren't conventional or ideal, but he would raze the Earth to the ground for his kids if he had to.
(Runs in the family.)
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- Part 2 of To Hold Onto and Treasure
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16 May 2026
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“Max,” he says, panicking. “What’s going on?”
Max – who is rarely left speechless – is currently just that. Her eyes rake Will up and down before finally meeting his gaze.
“Don’t panic,” she says slowly, arms outstretched towards him. Too late, he thinks. Then she says the exact words he was praying she wouldn’t.
“I’m not sure how,” she starts. “But I think you may have turned into a…girl.”
In which a summer bucket list and Will Byers waking up as a girl version of himself finally causes Mike Wheeler to realize his feelings for his best friend. Set post-S5 finale. Summer after graduation.
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10 May 2026
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"I want to kiss you, Will."
Fuck.
"Mike, we're at work," Will said, running a hand through his hair, letting out a humorless laugh. "There are cameras everywhere."
Mike tilted his head. "Can't you turn them off?"
And for a second, Will considered it. I can. Fuck. "I can," he admitted.
two years after hawkins, will byers is living in new york, trying to find stability between work and college, convinced the scars from the past have finally been buried. but everything changes when mike wheeler suddenly moves to the city and starts working at the same coffee shop, forcing old feelings to bloom again beneath green uniforms and chaotic shifts.
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07 May 2026