Do You Want to Know a Secret?

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Listing Series

• The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  01 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • mwtfdydgate
  • Pre-Season/Series 05
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • Mutual Pining
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Happy Ending
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Living Together
  • Gay Panic
  • Holly Wheeler Has a Crush
  • During the 18-Month Timeskip Before Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
  • Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
  • Ted Wheeler Being Homophobic (Stranger Things)
  • Ted Wheeler Being an Asshole (Stranger Things)
  • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Karen Wheeler Tries
  • Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
  • Dreams
  • Lucas Sinclair ships Byler
  • Fix-It
  • Mike Wheeler Finds Out About Will Byers's Painting
  • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Making Out
  • Mild Sexual Content
  • Miscommunication
  • Cheating Mike Wheeler
  • Dry Humping
  • Underage Drinking
  • I use really convoluted metaphors for no apparent reason
  • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
  • Mike Wheeler Has a Crush on Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
  • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
  • Stranger Things 5 Finale Rewrite
  • Eventual Smut
  • Dirty Thoughts
  • Wet Dream
  • Forced Proximity
  • Slow Burn
  • does it count as a slowburn if we already waited a decade for them to happen in canon only for it NOT TO HAPPEN DESPITE ALL THE SIGNS????
  • I don't think there's a -gate I haven't or won't cover
  • Dom/sub Undertones
  • Masturbation

  Summary

  Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.

  Having sold their house in Hawkins a year prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.

  Mike had kindly offered up their place during Nancy’s graduation dinner.

  ~

  The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV (with a season five rewrite because what the fuck!)

  Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate

  Steve "the ally" Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will

  Series

  • Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?

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