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Take me to church (soft breath, beating heart) by Thymeow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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"Please don't run from me anymore."
"I'm not running, I'm trying to protect you."After saving his friends, Will Byers discovers that the powers Vecna gave him must be fed.
With no heartbeat, and a feeling he can't quite comprehend, he quickly learns that some desires are harder to starve than others.But the question that worries him most, is whether it is still possible to love someone with a heart that doesn't beat.
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Mike had always wondered who he truly was constantly. This also includes questioning his relationship with Eleven. He often pondered if this is truly what he had leading in his life; a relationship where they both have little in common and a lack of communication skills.
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What’s even the point of keeping me around, Mike wonders. His eyebrows furrow at the thought of being left behind. Being forgotten. THE Superman up and leaving him, because if Eleven truly was Superman, he would absolutely leave without hesitation, he can fly, and he has lasers, and—…wait, Eleven’s a girl. Why doesn’t he just say a female hero?
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Basically, this fic is mostly focusing on the internalized homophobia of both Will and Mike as Mike slowly realizes the many traits he thought he loved about El were everything Will had, while Will tries to force himself to like a girl (he won’t).
Written before many leaks/before season 5 release and plot was planned out before as well so this is not fully accurate!
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I Am a Familiar Creak in Your Floorboards by wallowelowen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Dec 2025
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The movie dragged on, but neither of them moved to turn it off. At some point, Mike’s head tipped back against the couch, then slowly, almost accidentally, against Will’s shoulder.
Will went still.
“Is this okay?” Mike muttered.
“Yeah…it’s fine.” Will stuttered.Hawkin's High School was destroyed with the splitting of the town, so Will and Mike are forced to be around around each other everyday and deal with their feelings.
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Will goes to Robin for advice on how to win the affections of the boy he likes, she offers him guidance on how he can navigate these feelings for himself.
Kind of prediction for how byler could happen in volume 2, but if byler happens I definitely think it wouldnt happen like this, this is just for fun and my own enjoyment and hopefully yours
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Will Byers thinks Mike Wheeler is the worst, rude, shit-talking jerk he's ever encountered in his 21 years on earth. Really, he can't stand him. He'd kill him if killing wasn't, well, illegal. He's an actual terirble human. But mostly, he's a terrible roommate. That's why it was that much of a surprise when they became friends. Close friends. Someone said it was too morbid. Too close. Fuck them—they're friends. They were friends even when they kissed.
Will never says it out loud, but he wonders: if only Mike Wheeler was a girl.
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Together We Can Take it to the End of the Line by Meirshmellow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Dec 2025
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Will and El’s lives had always been intertwined. He couldn’t help but to think that he had been living in her shadow, that they both couldn’t exist together at the same time in the same place, when Will disappeared she appeared and when he came back she disappeared. They were not bound to be together, still, they were now siblings, twins. Two sides of the same coin. Two magnets doomed to repel each other that somehow defeated all the laws of physics and united together.
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Or, how Will and El learned what it meant to be family and came to be known as the Wonder Twins.
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Will Byers, living in the house of his best friend (rather, the love of his life) amidst a trying year in Hawkins, stumbles across a secret collection of handwritten letters while picking out clothes to wear. Letters that make him question for the first time if maybe, just maybe, his love isn’t entirely hopeless.
A combination of the ideas/theories of lettergate and mwtfdydgate to answer the question of what could’ve happened between Will and Mike in those eighteen months.
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‘You shouldn’t wear wet clothes,’ Will sniffled, pulling his hand gently out of Mike’s and thumbing his still-damp collar. ‘Didn’t anyone ever tell you, you’ll catch your death?’
Mike frowned.
‘Don’t say that.’
‘Sorry,’ said Will absently. He pressed the buttons of Mike’s polo in a daze.
They were so close that Mike could feel Will’s breath, hot against his chin. Without thinking, he dipped his head forward.
Will’s eyes grazed over his lips, his mouth parting.
Mike pressed closer. Will was so warm, and he smelt like home.
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Fall, 1987.
Will has been living at the Wheeler house for over a year, but as the anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, tensions between him and Mike are at an all-time high. Things come to a head in the middle of one of their missions together, when they find themselves seeking shelter from danger in a familiar cabin down by Lover's Lake...This is a complete work that I'll be uploading chapter by chapter as we wait for Vol 2!
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- Part 4 of It Was Coming All Along
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a jigsaw falling into place (so there is nothing to explain) by chatslexicon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2025
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“Kind of wanted to… Pass the tradition along, I guess - Holly the Heroic.” Mike muttered, restraint in his voice that reeked of uncertainty, a tense side eye towards Will.
“Holly the Heroic… I like it. Alliteration.” Will teased with a pointed finger.
“Shut up! It was convenient, that doesn’t make ‘Mike the Brave’ not metal as hell, and you know it.”
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Or, Mike Wheeler and Will Byers work together to create 'Holly the Heroic.'
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the world was on fire (and no one could save me but you) by multimissworldz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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"Will! Wake up, it's Mike!" He pleads desperately.
At the volume of his words, Will slowly starts to awaken—his wide eyes fluttering open.
Instantly, Will begins to sob, unable to get the gruesome images out of his head. It had felt so real, he was convinced this time it was real, this time it wasn't a dream, yet he had been wrong.
Gripping onto Mike like a lifeline, Will cries, "He hurt you, he made me hurt you! You w-were...you-" He stammers, completely distraught.
"I'm not hurt, I'm right here," Mike smiles nervously.
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A boy asks his friend the age old question after reading the Iliad: were Achilles and Patroclus in love?
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“I said we’d create beautiful things…”
Vecna was suddenly looming over him, and Mike had enough mind to flinch back, using all the strength he had to drag himself backwards. His back hit the wheel of the military jeep and he let out a cry of pain, hands shakily reaching up to hold his head.
“And you’ll be his first witness.”
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What if Vecna decided to ruin Will one more time?
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At The Edge Of The World (I Think Of You) by ASpoolOfBlueThread
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2025
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Will Byers has a lot of feelings. And thoughts. Some he doesn’t understand, while others have always plagued him.
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Author decided to project himself onto Will by writing about him living through life and making diary entries. For some reason…
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Mike doesn't understand why Will didn't keep in contact with him after the Byers family moved to California.
Will doesn't understand why Mike didn't keep in contact with him after the Byers family left Hawkins.
Mike has a shoebox full of unsent letters he keeps under his bed next to his folder of Will's drawings.
Will keeps his unsent letters in his desk drawer, all mixed in with Mike's old D&D campaign notes.
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Now with added Mike and Will playlists!
Mike's mixtape for Will
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Mike should do something. He should tell Will to stay. He should tell Will everything. So finally, he does, starting in the only way he knows how. The only way that he can understand.
Mike sits up, heart pounding in his hollowing chest. Will’s head whips around to face him, his alluring eyes staring deep into his soul. Mike reaches forward, finding his hand in the darkness. Ignoring the warmth he feels at the sudden contact, he squeezes quickly, not once, not twice, but three times. He waits a second then squeezes for a second. Another second passes and he squeezes quickly again, followed by a longer one. Then he squeezes for a second, then quickly, then squeezes two longer ones.
S T A Y
Mike looks up at Will, praying for understanding. He sees no recognition of the words so he tries again, squeezing out the same word and another.
P L E A S E
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During a sleepover, Mike decides to confess his feelings to Will the only way he knows how: morse code.
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what would they say (if they ever knew) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Nov 2025
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“I won’t say anything to anyone.”
Oh.
Robin stops in her tracks and damn near drops her flashlight. “Huh?”
Just a step ahead of her, Will winces, stopping and turning back to look at Robin. His brow is furrowed together, and there’s an earnest expression on his face. “I won’t tell anyone,” he repeats, softer this time. “About… about you and that girl.”
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When Will walks in on Robin and Vickie at the hospital, Robin takes the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart with the younger teen.
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Love was the Law and Religion was taught by itwashisfaulthedidntlikegirls
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Nov 2025
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Mike and Will are in the Upside down and seek refuge in a church
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“It’s nothing,” Will says weakly. “I just… I’ve been having trouble sleeping since then. I guess… I guess that vision really messed with me.”
Mike squeezes his hand again, and Will closes his eyes tightly. His head is pounding even worse now, and this car feels too small. Everything is just too much.
“Will, can I… can I kiss you?”
“Do you want to talk about it?” Mike asks. He’s speaking in that voice again—gentle and warm, inviting Will to open up and bare his heart to him. “What did he show you, Will?”
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Will has a Vecna vision that he can't quite cope with or tell Mike about.
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- Part 14 of random hiatus fics
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What the fuck is Maui Wowie?! by hoppersdaughter
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
29 Oct 2025
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The Byers move to Derry after the Starcourt Mall Fire, Will meets Bill first, but Pennywise is alive, and is targeting both Will and El because they've got the most "tastiest" fears. Too bad that Will and El have seen worse than IT...
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Once he scanned him enough, his gaze slightly lingering a moment on his hips; his mouth crooked into an unreadable expression. Perhaps a smile, mocking and satisfied, or perhaps a disdainful pout. He walked away and Will had finally been able to breathe properly.
He hadn't known then, that a predator had decided to make him his prey.