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Once I Ran From You (Now I Run to You) by arsonsmatch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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That’s because he’s my boyfriend, Mike!” Will shouts.
“And us?” Mike presses, a sick sense of deja vu creeping coldly over his brain.
Will exhales sharply, “We’re friends. We’re friends! You made sure of that. So I don’t know why you’re so mad at me!”
“Because it was supposed to be me!”
Will blinks, “What are you talking about?”
“I’m mad because it was supposed to be me!” Mike shouts it desperately, like a plea, like this is making him go crazy, and fuck, maybe it is, “After everything—at the end—it was meant to be me. Not him. I don’t want it to be him. I want it to be me.”
Or, Mike doesn't realize his own feelings, until Will's are staring him dead in the face. Vecna's gone, they're nearing the end of their senior year, and all of a sudden Will has a boyfriend. Everything goes downhill pretty quickly from there.
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Mike dreads the nights.
Not for any of the reasons he'd deem "normal," whatever that godforsaken word even means. He's not afraid of the dark, nor what lies in it, no, he fears the stillness. That empty stretch of hours where shadows fall, the world itself falling silent.
The nights give Mike the time to think, and good god, Mike does not want to be given the time to think.
OR: Somehow, Mike and Will would be doing alright if it wasn't for the nights.
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Will Byers is very good at surviving things that should kill him.
Loving Mike Wheeler might be the hardest one yet.
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Post Season 4, Mike and Will find each other in a friends with benefits relationship. As time passes and the final battle with Vecna nears, tensions rise. Can Will survive his love for Mike long enough to survive the darkness that wishes to break him?
Season 5 rewrite with a focus on Will's mental health, filled with tender moments, angst that leaves you staring at a wall, and action that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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Eight years since the final battle, Mike and Will share a cramped Brooklyn apartment where the silence is heavy with a predatory rot Mike has carried for nearly a decade. When Will taps back into the Hive Mind, he discovers his best friend in the next room isn't just distant—he’s starving for a source of life only Will can provide.
Or: Mike Wheeler is a vampire, and Will is the only one keeping him alive.