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    Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
    White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
    Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
    He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
    Fuck. Not now. Not again.

    Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.

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    13 Mar 2026

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    “You didn’t tell me Will had a boyfriend!”

    Shit. Mike felt his own jaw drop without even realizing it.

    “No, he doesn’t,” Max said, but it came out more like a question than anything. And then she looked over at Mike, who was horribly red in the face and was suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to reconnect with nature after this. “Wait. Does he?”

    OR: Mike gets jealous at a party, accidentally reveals that Will has a boyfriend, and neglects to tell anybody that he's the boyfriend in question.

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    10 Mar 2026

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    Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
    “Take me.”
    Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
    Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
    “Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
    Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
    “Deal.”

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    Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
    Mike takes this about as well as can be expected.

     

     

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    09 Mar 2026

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    "Boys!” Hopper barked.

    They broke apart instantly this time, Mike nearly fell again, but Will held onto him.

    “I leave for one goddamn second,” Hopper snapped, voice rising, “ONE SECOND—”

    “Hop—” Will started.

    “No,” Hopper cut him off, pointing at Mike. “I scream at you, I leave the room for a second, and you think that means permission to continue—” he gestured wildly between them and stared right at Mike, “—DEFILING MY SON?”

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Love is a fickle thing.

    At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.

    Love is a fickle thing.

    Just not for Mike.

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    After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.

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    06 Mar 2026