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Will is fully expecting Mike to pull back once they’re in front of the others again.
He wouldn’t blame him; Mike has a tendency to dive into things headfirst without thinking about the consequences, and then freak out once he’s neck-deep with nowhere else to go but forward. But the carefully crafted, casual distance that Will is expecting doesn’t come. Mike pretty much glues himself to Will’s side. The only thing that might actually be more incriminating is if he decided to hold Will’s hand.
Shamefully, Will kind of wishes he would.
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In which Max is awake, no one is telling the full truth about what they've been through in the Upside Down, and Will deals with the fact that Mike Wheeler is, apparently, the clingiest person known to man (and does absolutely nothing to stop him from being so).
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- Part 3 of I Told You To Leave Me and You Stayed
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Mike, What Did You Do? (the Curse of Strahd) by ByeDisaster
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Mar 2026
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What Mike did in the 18 months between S4 and S5. The answer includes: touching, sleeping in the same bed, playing D&D but only the two of them, and Mike casually calling Will beautiful. Best friend shit. Will Byers is toast.
Now expanded to include a very different (gay) Season 5.
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“I look for the vampire.”Mike’s face is turned towards him. Will was looking at the ceiling, but he shifts, just enough, his nose points at Mike’s nose. His lips in a line from Mike’s lips. His mouth is slightly open on the pillow. “Do I find him?” Will prompts.
“Yeah,” Mike breathes. “He’s beautiful.”
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Everybody has a secret.
Some secrets, you just can't speak of. Not even Will to his childhood best friend, Mike. However, Will is bad at keeping secrets and Mike is good at making Will talk. In efforts to keep Mike from asking any further, Will proposes a deal. Surely this won't backfire on him. Right?
Or: A Will-focused anthology series about secrets
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Like a Sorcerer (As the World Falls Down) by LyraMoon22
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2026
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Why was it so easy for Mike to release every fear he had when Will needed him? But then again, why do the stars explode into galaxies? Why does the moon yearn for the tide and rise? Why does anyone do anything for anyone at all? Why does a boy bring his friend into his arms to satiate what the body remembers? The answer is simple: It is what moves the sun and the stars and the thing they say makes a person crazy.
“Do you see it, Michael?” Vecna says, his voice rumbling in the sound of the flickering lights. “Do you see it yet? Why I chose you too?”
As Mike falls into a loop of fake memories from Vecna’s Curse, Will must find a way to save him using his connection to Vecna and the Hive Mind.
A rewrite of volumes one and two with anything and everything that happened in the eighteen months the Byers lived with the Wheelers.
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When the Earth splits in four and the Military takes over Hawkins, the party has to work in secret to protect Eleven and find Vecna before they are arrested or the world ends - whichever comes first. But trying to keep their heads down and a low profile is hard work when half of Hawkins is blaming Hellfire for everything that has happened, and every day is a battle to not get beaten up. At least Will is back in town, and he's living with Mike now, and that's completely uncomplicated. Friends? No thanks... Best friends! That's absolutely all Mike wants. Just because the world has gone to shit doesn't mean it's weird that Mike is the happiest he's ever been.
A canon compliant story set during the 18 month time skip between ST4 & 5 that follows the party as they adjust to life in quarantine, set up The Squawk and start up The Crawls and which answers that age old question: Mike Wheeler, WTF did you do?
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- Part 1 of Byler: The Heroes Trilogy