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you can take me (hot to go) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler walks into a gay bar... and it's not the start of a joke.
It's the start of learning how to exist without apologizing for it.
Newly out and still kinda terrified of taking up space, Mike is sure everyone will clock him as an intruder the second he steps inside. But instead of judgment, he finds Will Byers. His quiet confidence, the kind that doesn't demand anything, makes Mike feel safe in a way he's never felt before.
One conversation turns into hours. Hours turn into something that feels dangerously like connection. The air between them turns electric, charged with something neither of them names.
Nothing happens.
But everything changes.
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When Will took a job as a gay phone sex operator, he just wanted to pay the bills.
Enter Mike... his still closeted but extremely gay flatmate and best friend, desperate to explore his sexuality but too much of a pathetic mess to actually go out and meet someone.
Over many late night phone calls Mike and Will discover slightly more than either of them bargained for...
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“We haven’t done this since middle school,” Will says, voice barely above a whisper.
“Huh,” Mike whispers back. “Yeah, guess not.”
A couple years ago, Mike read a National Geographic article about a phenomenon called the polar night. In the farthest north and south regions of the globe, there are weeks, sometimes months depending on how close you are to the poles, where the sun does not rise above the horizon, plunging the world into a perpetual nighttime. Living in such conditions, the article had explained, can affect one’s circadian rhythm, heighten issues with concentration and energy levels, and cause a spike in depressive symptoms among local populations. Some resort to using light therapy lamps to mimic the daylight.
It was only after the Byers moved away, all those years ago, that Mike began to understand what the prolonged absence of the sun can do to a person.
The Upside Down is gone, and everyone has made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the not-so-end of the world, snowballs turn into avalanches. Sometimes it just takes time.
or: Mike gets into Brown, Will gets into RISD, and the friends-to-???-to-lovers slowburn that ensues.
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“How would I know his favorite color is yellow and his least favorite food is asparagus, especially when it’s all floppy. How would I know that if he didn’t tell me…”
Mike Wheeler knows Will Byers so well that he doesn’t realize his friend is ‘nonverbal.’ Mike uses stories and playing pretend to get to know Will and is shocked to learn that he ‘can’t’ talk.
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When Will took a job at infamous nightclub CBD he wasn't expecting to like it.
He also wasn't expecting to meet someone who could rearrange his soul with a simple look.
or..
Towards the end of his third year at college, Will takes a part time job at a busy alternative nightclub and meets Mike Wheeler. Tattooed, pierced, confident, breathtakingly gorgeous - and taken. However Mike is also throwing more mixed signals Will's way than a railway crossing on the fritz, flirting and teasing Will in a way that makes him think there might be more to Mike than he first suspected.