You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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Love From the Other Side (I Guess You Can Say Things Are Getting Pretty Serious) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Steve said. “I tried to make her wait until you woke up, I really did.” He tossed something in Mike’s direction, which Mike caught without thinking. “Happy birthday, by the way.”
Mike blinked. He’d completely forgotten, between Holly going missing, frantically searching for a way to get her back, and being possessed by Vecna himself. “Uh, thanks,” he said awkwardly, running a hand through his hair and looking down at what Steve had tossed at him. It was a Kit Kat bar. His favorite. He wondered how Steve knew that.
“Oh, right!” Robin darted forward and hugged him before he could react. He met Will’s eyes over her shoulder, but Will still had a hand covering his mouth and his expression was unreadable, aside from the red on his cheeks. “Happy birthday! There’s a surprise waiting for you in the kitchen. Anyway—mind reading. Totally a thing now, right?”
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Through "the power of best friendship," as Robin puts it, Mike and Will develop a telepathic connection when Vecna tries to take Mike. Neither of them are really upset by it, especially when it gives them the opportunity to finally destroy Vecna once and for all.
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- Part 1 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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Everything I Ask For (That's All) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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Something Will had always known about Mike, long before they gained the ability to read each other’s minds, was that Mike could be a bit of a brat.
Something Will had always known about himself was that he was very much okay with it.
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After defeating Vecna and taking some time to get their lives back on track, Mike and Will move to Indianapolis and make a home of their own. If they pick up a stray dog on the way, well, neither one of them is complaining.
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- Part 2 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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Someone's Out There Waiting (Come Back To Me) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2025
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“She’s alive,” he mumbled to himself, barely noticing El cleaning the remaining blood from his face and sticking a bandage over the cut.
“Yes,” El agreed absently. “Lucas, I need your help.”
This is what finally caught Lucas’s attention, enough to fully draw him back to the present. El had never asked for his help before; he’d never imagined that she would ever need it. She quite literally had telekinetic superpowers, not to mention Mike’s unwavering support even after their breakup and Will’s steadfast presence as her adopted brother. What could Lucas possibly do?
“My…help?” he managed.
“I have an idea,” El said, stronger now, more firm. Something flickered in her eyes. Doubt, maybe, or perhaps fear. She continued anyway: “I think I know how to get her back, but I need you to help me.”
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In the six months since Max fell victim to Vecna, Lucas notices changes in his friends' relationship, El piggybacks into Lucas's head and brings him into the mindscape with her to find Max, and they find her in the midst of her memories, safe from Vecna but unable to escape on her own.
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- Part 3 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
- Part 1 of In The Meantime
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“Can I hug you?” he repeated, voice smaller now. He desperately hoped that Will would say yes.
He didn’t want to, but he held eye contact with Will for as long as it took Will to search his expression. For what, Mike didn’t know, but after a long moment, Will finally nodded. “Yeah, Mike, you can hug me.” And Mike didn’t hesitate to haul Will back to his feet so he could hug him properly, full-bodied and chest to chest.
“I’m so sorry, Will,” he murmured into Will’s hair. “I’m so sorry.”
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In which Mike and El decide to end their relationship in favor of being friends, he punches Troy Walsh, and finally allows himself to feel what he feels for Will while they work on patching up their friendship so that maybe, someday, he can be brave enough to ask for more - not necessarily in that order. A bit of a prequel to the first fic in the series, though they can be read as standalones.
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- Part 4 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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Stained Glass Eyes (Colorful Tears) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Oct 2025
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For twenty-four hours, Max refused to say a word to anyone.
Six months. In six months, it felt like everything had changed, and at the same time, nothing had happened at all. Vecna was still in hiding, hurt and licking his wounds, only sending his monsters to keep Hawkins on its toes and remind them that the worst was to come. School had sort of resumed, but with so few students left in Hawkins, most everyone was studying at home on their own. Military had flooded the town, but the curfew wasn’t very strictly enforced, if at all.
And Max’s mom abandoned her without a second thought. Left her to die alone in a hospital, or to the mercy of Indiana’s foster care system, which was as good as a death sentence in Max’s former condition. If it weren’t for the Wheelers and Steve Harrington, there was no telling what would have happened to her.
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In which Max begins to figure out what life will be from here on out, featuring informal adoptive parents Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley, a devoted Lucas Sinclair, forever scientifically-inclined Dustin Henderson, and a subtly protective Mike Wheeler accompanied by endlessly entertained Will Byers.
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- Part 5 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
- Part 2 of In The Meantime
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Look Up and See Infinity (Keep My Feet On The Ground) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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It didn’t bother him, necessarily, that they had pretty much jumped right into what felt practically like marriage. After thirteen years of being best friends, and the last three of those living together, he supposed it wasn’t really that weird. But he hadn’t even taken Will on a date before they had stripped each other completely bare, emotions torn open and exposed, skin sliding against skin. And he didn’t regret it, even if they hadn’t had sex since then (because that’s what they’d done, right? Fumbling and inexperienced as it was, that’s what that had been), but Mike couldn’t shake the guilty thought that Will deserved better than that. Will deserved everything after the hell he’d been through, again and again, since he was twelve years old. Will deserved something normal, or as close as two boys could get to it.
“I deserve this,” Will told him, holding Mike close to his chest and absently playing with his hair. “I want this. I don’t need anything else.”
But damn it, Mike wanted to do something. It was important.
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Mike and Will go on their first date after defeating Vecna.
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- Part 6 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)