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    Mike feels like his heart’s racing a mile a minute. Like he just jumped off a building and is waiting for the fall, the inevitable conclusion of it all. For Will to scream and push him away for crossing some arbitrary line they drew in the sand some number of years ago.

    But he doesn’t. He never lands. Will doesn’t say a thing.

    In the aftermath of everything that happened at the MAC-Z, Mike tries to make sense of where he and Will stand—whenever he gets a chance to in the midst of the world's potentially impending doom.

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    26 Dec 2025

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    I think about finding you on the swings in the first grade. I think about the first time Jonathan showed us the DnD board game, and how excited you were to see all the magic stuff. How I kept giving you different characters to draw just to watch the way your eyes lit up. Was I in love with you then?

    I remember stealing a tape of The Thing from Nancy and watching it when we were ten. I remember being so scared, but you were fascinated. I stuck it out just to watch you gasp when MacReady blows up the station. I remember grabbing your hand when it happened, and you held on. Was I in love with you then?

    I remember the last words you said to me before you went missing. It was a seven. I remember when you came back, when I finally saw you again, and I thought my heart was going to stop. I swear to God, Will, it was like I could breathe again for the first time in days.

    Mike and Will get through Vecna, get through a million almost-confessions and even more death scares. Then, three months later, Will finds a box of unsent letters from freshman year under Mike's bed.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    We can be heroes / Forever and ever / What d’you say?

    “Okay,” Mike says, gripping Will’s hand. “Here goes nothing.”

    He can feel the vines pulsing around his other hand, reassuring him. Mike can almost envision Will’s voice in his head. You’re the heart. Mike prays that it’s true.

    “I really hope this works, Will,” Mike says, and then he presses his lips to Will’s hand.

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    Or, the only way to save Will is with a true love's kiss. Enter Mike.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    Mike is burning up, inside and out.

    Externally, there’s a bubbling burn wound carved across his shoulder— but, to be honest, a simple injury is the least of his worries. He’s more concerned with the aggravating, endlessly-perplexing internal dilemma that’s been plaguing his mind for God knows how long; why is he completely incapable of acting normal around Will?

    Every time he sees Will— or even dares to look him in the eye— Mike feels this sort of fire burning deep in his chest, hot and all-consuming and completely inexplicable. And, no matter how hard he tries, Mike just can’t figure it out;

    What is wrong with him?

    (or; Mike has no idea why his heart starts to race around Will. It takes a near-death, some close encounters, and a few aggressive-but-caring talks from Jonathan for him to figure it out.)

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    25 Dec 2025

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    The Byers’ new house is closer to Mike’s.

    This is a Development.

    Mike sees Will on the weekends. Mike sees Will on occasional school nights. Mike sees Will like he’s living with them again, stuffed into Mike’s back pocket, comfortably, reliably close.

    Turns out, this is a problem.

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    or: Will is lovely, and Mike is in love. Maybe. Probably. Definitely.

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    25 Dec 2025