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    The Understudy by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    11 May 2026

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    Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.

    “Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.

    “What?”

    Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—

    Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”

    Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.

    “Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”

    When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    haven't you heard the word of my wanting? by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    29 May 2026

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    “I’m just saying, you two seem like you’re fucking like bunnies,” Max says, shrugging.

    “I wish,” Will pouts.

    “So why aren’t you?” Max asks, quirking up an eyebrow.

    or,
    will is trying very hard to be patient, but he just doesn't understand why mike won't fuck him. a lingerie store, a mental breakdown, and a sex playbook help him figure it out.

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    31 May 2026

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    i can be needy (way too damn needy) by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    05 Aug 2026

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    Six months of long-distance have turned Mike Wheeler and Will Byers into experts at surviving on late-night phone calls, handwritten letters, and missing each other with an intensity neither of them knows how to contain.

    Then Jane accidentally mails the one letter Will never meant anyone to read.

    What follows is an escalating exchange of Polaroids, confessions, and promises that make hundred of miles feel impossibly small—and the wait until spring break unbearably long.

    But before the letters, before the distance, before either of them learned how to say I love you…

    there was October 1988, and the story of how two best friends finally became something more.

    or, a hellcali byler fic

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    29 Mar 2026