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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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It's 2003, and Will's life is falling apart. He's just broken up with his long term boyfriend (again), his dad keeps showing up like a bad penny to beg for money, and he's increasingly troubled by the residual memories left in him from his old connection to the hive mind. He needs a break - and Mike knows just the place.
Never mind that they've only been in the same room once since 1991, or that they spent most of the last decade out of contact. Never mind the college thing they don't talk about. Never mind the way Mike disappeared on everybody in the 90s, cutting ties with his family and moving up to Alaska. Spending the summer up there with Mike in his friend's rustic eco-dome is a GREAT idea. He put his embarrassing old Mike feelings to bed YEARS ago. Nothing could go wrong.
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Will learns there are problems and feelings you can't outrun - especially when you're stuck with your best friend slash maybe-kind-of-ex-situationship pining at you from across the room.
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Sequel to before the curtains close
Mike and Will confessed their feelings, came out to the party, and started college. And then they lived happily ever after...right?
Except happy endings are rarely as simple as they look. There are still old insecurities to untangle, new beginnings to navigate, and the occasional crisis waiting to pull everything apart.
When the curtains get drawn back, Mike and Will discover that getting together was only the beginning.
Life isn’t a story you finish just because you’ve reached the happy ending. With a little help from friends, a little interference from fate, and maybe a few costumes, Mike and Will might just figure out what comes next—together.
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- Part 2 of before the curtains close
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"I assume you've already met my son Will?"Mike nodded in Will's direction. It wasn't until their eyes met, just briefly, that Will realized he hadn't taken his eyes off Mike once. It was a purely dissecting gaze, analytical and unsure—but he still felt a subtle warmth spread through his face, as if he'd been caught gawking. He looked away, towards the kitchen where his mother was returning with a clinking glass of ice water, just after catching a glimpse of a smirk from Mike.
"I have," Mike said. He almost sounded smug.
"His full name is William," Jim said, lowering his voice a notch as if it were a secret. Will's attention quickly snapped to him. "Maybe you two can bond over that."
"I don't—"
"William, huh?" Mike interrupted, a stupid half-smile still on his lips. "Anyone else call you that, or just your dad, too?"
Will's brows twitched. "No," he answered, with an air of uncertainty. "No one does."
Mike nodded. His eyes flicked up and down Will again before he responded with, "Cool."
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Cool?
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the Call Me By Your Name fic <3 -
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Mike still had both of Will’s wrists pinned over his head in one hand.
“Working title,” he said. “Part One.”
“‘Everything He Was Given the First Time Is Still Inside Him.’” A beat. “Italicize still.”
“That's awful.”
“Comma. ‘And the Writer Intends to Add to It.’”
He tapped two fingers against Will’s lower stomach. “That’s the it.’”
Will pressed his lips together. It didn’t work.
“Fill the spread.” Mike tapped him again. “No white space.”
OR: Mike Wheeler gets hired to write a sex column for Pink Noise, where his ex-best friend Will Byers is the art director stuck illustrating it. Will thinks Mike writes sex like desire owes him an apology. Mike asks him to prove it and calls it research.
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“You can come. But only if you will tell me what's wrong.”
There's silence on the line again. Then, Mike groans out loud, almost in frustration.
“Shit. Okay, okay. But there's, uh, something you need to know. Before – before you actually agree.”
Will swallows audibly.
“Yeah?”
“I have a kid.”
After years of no contact, Mike appears at Will's doorstep with a child in tow. What follows are hard conversations, overdue confessions and an adorable lesson in mid-20s parenthood.
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Mike Wheeler needs proof that Will is still here. Same bed every night. Mike counts the pulse at Will’s wrist. He knows where Will shivers when he kisses him, and how far he can go before he pulls himself back. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps asking him to stay.
A fight in Will’s studio goes too far. When Will wakes, he is deaf.
Or: Mike spends a year asking Will to stay. Will leaves anyway. Mike spends years earning the chance to ask again.
A psychological slow burn about grief, OCD, codependency, and three thousand miles of yearning.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
13 Aug 2026
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Do you like you feelings hurt....this is for yoooouuuuuuuuu LOL
chapter 36, but read ahead...it's so brutal...may have to wait for resolution
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“What exactly does this pact entail, then?”
Mike leans forward very seriously, bringing his face close to Will’s.
“When they make it legal for you to get married, because they will.” He pauses, as if to make sure that Will is listening. Will laughs and nods for him to go on. “And if we’re both still alone and miserable—”
“Wow. Is that the awesome future you’re painting for us on our last night?”
“Shh.” Mike is doing a decent job at staying in character, but the crinkles around his eyes are giving him away. “If we’re both still alone by then… and at least partially miserable. That part’s important,” he continues dramatically, “I’ll marry the shit out of you, William Byers. Deal?”
Or, before heading off to college, Mike and Will make a pact. Fifteen years later, gay marriage is legalized in the state of Massachusetts. These two events are intrinsically linked to one another.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
08 Aug 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Well written for the most part...a little confused on Mike's logic and didn't really explain. Why would Mike let Will and everyone else think it's platonic and then seem confused when, post marriage, Will thought it was platonic. I don't think the writer had Mike's motivations or how to write thought out.
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At the end of Fireball, Mike and Will confessed their love and sealed it with a kiss.
Now they've gone to New York for college, sharing a dorm and learning how to live as boyfriends as well as best friends.
Things can only go smoothly from here... right?
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- Part 2 of Fireball
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The water ebbs around them, slow and tranquil, but the storm raging inside Will is anything but.
All he sees are Mike’s eyes as he closes the gap. A drop of water rolls down his neck, disappearing into the naked line of his collarbone.
“Say no if you don’t want me to,” he murmurs. “Push me back.”
Or, Will gets swept into Mike’s irresistible pull after a single night that changes their friendship forever. Late night talks turn into even later night kisses, friendly nudges to intoxicating touches, and the creaking of bedsprings now means something other than the return of Will's nightmares. Each new change blurs the line between friendship and something more, and as Will struggles to stay afloat through Mike's confusing storm, he starts wondering what it is exactly they are - and whether he'll sink for good in trying to find out.
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- Part 1 of To love is to drown
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“Hi,” Mike called out faintly, without moving.
“Jesus.” Will’s voice was relieved. His footsteps drew closer. “Why didn’t you bring your walkie? Everyone’s been—oh.” He was beside him now, silhouetted in the moonlight. “Mike.”
“Hm?” Mike closed his eyes. He knew the face Will was making right now without having to actually see it—eyes wide, lips parted. Worried.
Will knelt beside him in the leaves. “When’s the last time you fed?”
“I don’t…” Mike cracked an eye open. Will was too pretty to lie to. “Yesterday afternoon, I think.”
“Okay,” Will said. His voice was tight. “It’s gonna be okay.”
A few moments passed. Will put the back of his hand to Mike’s forehead, and Mike leaned into the touch. This wasn’t so bad, really. He was weak, and everything ached, but at least Will was here.
“Hey,” Will said, breaking the silence. “Feed from me.”
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- Part 1 of vampire mike
Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
07 Jul 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
3 parts- saves the first part.
Damn. All I have to say,
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you took my heart (i was sleeping) Comic Adaptation by Kore_is_cool
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
02 Jul 2026
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Don’t think about tomorrow yet (stay right here) by sadgirlheadphones
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Sep 2026
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The summer of 1989 is supposed to be theirs.
For the first time since they were twelve, nothing is trying to kill them. The Upside Down is gone. Hawkins is quiet. And the Party realizes they’ve never actually gotten to be normal teenagers.
So they make a plan.
One last summer to do everything they never got to do; parties, stupid competitions, late-night drives, bad decisions, and all the reckless things that come with finally feeling like the world might belong to them.
Just one last summer of being teenagers in Hawkins.
But once you’ve spent your whole life surviving the impossible, you learn to recognize when something isn’t right.
Which means that somewhere between the late nights, the laughter, and the slow realization that childhood is slipping through their fingers, the Party might be pulled into one last mystery.
And this time, it might change everything.
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Will Byers swears he’s over Him. Mike Wheeler swears he doesn't have feelings for him. One reckless summer in Hawkins proves they might both be very, very wrong.
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The summer before college is supposed to be easy.
Mike teaches Will how to drive. They get jobs at Family Video. Evenings still belong to the park, the swings, the same routines they’ve had for years. For a while, it almost feels like nothing has changed.
Then their boss gives them ten boxes of unlabeled tapes and tells them to watch them. All of them. Tuesdays, paid, just the two of them in a dark room writing down runtimes and summaries like it doesn’t matter.
Most of the tapes are nothing.
Some of them aren’t.
And suddenly, being alone together starts to feel different. Something neither of them quite knows how to name, or admit, or look at too closely.
Told in alternating POV, this is a story about growing up, denial, and what happens when something you’ve spent years ignoring refuses to stay buried.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
15 Jun 2026
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ch13
laser tag fic
realistic progression
E comes back and knows about them -
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"Mike, come on," Will says, his smile still mid-bloom. "You don't think that's a little weird?"
"No," Mike says simply. "Why would that be weird?"
"Because I'm—" Will gestures vaguely to himself. "Gay. And you're…"
Will trails off, stopping himself, as if it just occurred to him that he could be wrong about the way he planned to answer that sentence. Mike isn't sure how he'd answer it either.
High, he thinks. Will is gay and I am high.
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The party does MDMA and Mike can't stop touching Will.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
10 Jun 2026
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Fire in My Heart: Heatwave of '92 by Thetheoryholdstrue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jun 2026
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
09 Jun 2026
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15- not sure why this isn't a hivemind fic. Chapter 3 and 13 are fantastic
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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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"No," Will said quickly. "It's okay. He's going to be okay."
Nancy turned, the shock freezing her features into something horrifying. "He doesn't have a pulse."
Will held up his hands as he shook his head. "I know. But it—he—will be fine. You'll see."
Nancy choked on a sob. "He's dead! How is he going to be okay?"
Or: Four years after graduation, they're back in the Abyss, where a failing fight leads to Mike being bitten and losing everything about himself, except his love for Will Byers.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
01 Jun 2026
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could be good, wait for more chapters to see how quickly they update.
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into the deep end (take me with you) by sunkissedlover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Sep 2026
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Those protective instincts kick in and Mike can’t help himself as a crazy, irrational idea takes root in his mind.
An idea that has absolutely nothing to do with seeing Will in a Speedo two nights a week for an entire year. Nope. Definitely not.
“What if I joined the team with you?” Mike blurts, reddening.
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Will and Mike join the Hawkins High swim team in their senior year, spend waaaay too much time at the pool together in teeny tiny Speedos and feelings grow deeper…
*Post Vecna-defeat (except El lives) & characters are aged up to 18 because the content is explicit.
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Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
31 May 2026
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chapter 15
The one where Mike and Will sleep together in the hotel and Will leaves Mike.
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party of three (ben there done that) by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2026
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Mike shrugs, setting his glasses back on his face and running a hand through his shaggy hair. “I don’t… what am I supposed to say?”
Will figures he’s going to have to be the one to lay it out there. “You want him to fuck you?” he suggests.
Mike looks like he might be having an aneurysm. “Um.” He stares up at the ceiling. “I don’t know.”
“Like, hypothetically,” Will clarifies. “I’m not saying we call him up again tonight. Although… we probably could.”
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- Part 2 of birthday boys
Bookmarked by TrashPanda01
30 May 2026