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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Hypothetical Season 5.)
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"This is really weird you know that?" Will smiled, "I missed you." He said a little quieter.
Mike's heart fluttered. He knew missing your friend was normal, but the way Will said it felt different. "I missed you too." Mike whispered, "I love you" went unsaid as he bit the inside of his cheek.
or Mike getting his shit together, maybe.
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"Maybe we are the monsters"
Eleven stopped in her search. She turned to her brother with questioning look. Wondering what's going on in his head. She sensed something was wrong with her brother, but for what exactly, she wasn't sure. She sensed whatever was making his heart race and body panting for air, keeping his eyes downward, afraid to look at anyone. Wasn't anything to do with their mission. "Perhaps we are" she said calmly, drawing his eyes to her. "So what are we going to do about it"
Changing the Ending of season 4, this is my version of season 5. Hope you all enjoy :D
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The group is in Hopper's cabin, trying to plan against vecna quickly- before Steve opens his big mouth, that is.
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The Adventures of Zombie Boy & Monster Girl by heliosmoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2025
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Will Byers is tired-out, burnt out, and put out. Things keep changing in his life and yet never in the way he quite wants them to. Previously content to fumble through life as an underpaid barista while he attempts to process the last ten years of mostly resolved trauma, a sudden move to a new flat with his chaotic sibling El and the arrival of a vibrant new friend in their tight-knit little group who seems to want to know absolutely everything about him might make him finally face what he never was able to; the idea of wanting more.
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Every problem in this story could be solved if these homos just talked to each other!
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A Byler centric post-coming of age fic. Tags updated as we go <3 -
I understand I’m not the only one for you by Pornasiun_parapio
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Oct 2025
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“Fuck. Fuck I’m so sorry.” Mike mutters trying to move away but Will’s grip on his waist tightens. “No, don’t be sorry.” He whispers before closing the gap between the two of the again. This time the kiss is both soft and intense. It’s not at all innocent as Will slides his tongue into Mike’s mouth. Mike almost gasps as heat pools in his abdomen. His hands find their way into Will’s hair and he makes it a tangled mess. He can feel Will’s hand exploring his chest and it only makes him moan into Will’s mouth.
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The fic in which Mike and Will stopped being friends when they were 10 due to circumstances and Will becomes popular while Mike stays a nerd. They don’t like each other or interact at all. That is until they are forced to become project partners for a class presentation.
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“Don’t do that. Don’t be nice about it. You can be mad. It’s okay.”
“I am mad,” Will said. “But not about her. I’m mad you disappeared. I’m mad you stopped calling. I’m mad you didn’t show up when I invited you to my graduation. I’m mad that I had to hear from Jonathan that you got married. I’m mad you cut all of us off like it didn’t mean anything. But mostly I’m mad that you waited until your daughter was ten years old and missing to let me see you again.”
“I’m sorry.”
Will didn’t answer. The pause dragged too long. But then his voice came, even and low. “I know.”
; Years after trying to outrun the scars of Hawkins, Mike Wheeler is dragged back when his daughter vanishes without a trace. The past isn’t done with him — and neither is the boy he once braved the dark for.
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Will doesn't know what any of this means, or if it means anything at all.
He figures the two will wake up tomorrow on top of each other, never again to mention the way Mike whispers “you mean the world to me” into Will’s ear as he slips into a deep sleep.
One day they’ll talk about it.
Or at least he hopes so.
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Mike wants more than anything for things to go back to normal. He wants this apocalypse to end, he wants Will to be ok, and he wants these confusing feelings to sort themselves out.Will feels things he knows are wrong. He’s a freak by nature, this apocalypse is his fault anyway. He just wants his old life back, his family and friends, and he wants Mike to just talk to him.
The two boys are stuck in the middle of nowhere, Verna and other creatures constantly at their heels. But soon, this unrequited tension between the two teens, makes them question each other even more than before.
Can Mike and Will figure these feelings out, before they get killed?
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In a galaxy ruled by tradition and colonization, Mike Wheeler of the Solokovs has always been the misfit - a bookworm and a bit of a loser who's been forced into warrior training on the frozen planet of Denorax because he's the backup heir. But when he's appointed to being a diplomat for Denorax instead of a fighter, everything changes, especially when he meets Dhuri.
Dhuri, going by Will behind closed doors, is the first diplomat for his planet Thorara and the native tribe ruling it as well as the youngest diplomat in centuries. He comes bearing warnings of war and threats, but when Mike chooses to align Denorax with Thorara and himself with Will, it begins an alliance like nothing ever seen before - and Mike makes a friend (or perhaps more), which becomes even more important when galactic tensions rise and the two boys and two planets have to rely on each other to survive the storm coming.
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Too caught up in the crossfire and emotions, Michael Wheeler disappears from Starcourt in the middle of the chaos. A Russian soldier stares at Mike's slumped form. A child who had enough strength to get thrown around and still get back up was surely going to excel in Russia.
No one has noticed until they're resting outside the burning rubble that was Starcourt, and Will asks in a shaky voice."Has anyone seen Mike?"
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California wasn't the life changing experience he thought it would be but he learned interesting things about himself there. For example, he loved Mike Wheeler. Romantically.
Finally, he could put words to the emotions he had felt for years: Will Byers was gay and in love with his best friend.
Now, two weeks after the earthquake, Will Byers and everyone he cares for have to face the upcoming end of the world.
This is a story of two boys, one with a broken heart and scary presence crawling in the depths of his mind and another finally coming to terms with the fact he has been unhappy for a while.
(Not beta read, POV changes between Will and Mike.)
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The places where her eyes used to be were hollowed out. A chunk of her face was missing, starting near the eyebrow and extending to below her chin. It oozed blood sluggishly, and purulent discharge was mixed with it. The plasma dripped from the healing wound, stretching from her ear to the side of her mouth. Half of her lips were missing, and her hospital gown was covered in brown blood.
"How did you die?" Mike asked.
"They killed me when I couldn't use the powers the serum gave me," She responded, blood gushing out of her mouth with every word, adding to the mess of her dress, "And they'll do the same to you if you don't figure out how to control the thing inside you."
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"i can't hide from you like i hide from myself" - true blue (boygenius)
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a fateful summer brings mike wheeler and will byers face to face in hawkins after months of silence. familiarity seems to be both a blessing and a curse.
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Mike Wheeler: Homecoming by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
27 Sep 2025
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It's been almost a year since Doc Ock prowled the streets of the city of New York, and almost a year since the anniversary of Mike and Will getting together.
Mike should be the happiest he's ever been.
Except, when the paladin of the Party fears that he's not doing enough, that he quite frankly isn't enough, and that the strain of Will being Spiderman is getting to be too much, what's a paladin to do?
Mike will do anything to become a valuable asset, as supervillain after supervillain comes crawling one after another out of the woodworks, and seem set on taking Spiderman's life with them.
He'd do anything to be the person Will needs most, no matter the cost.
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- Part 2 of Spiderman AU
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November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.
Together, even across dimensions, right?
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Will should’ve realized this sooner. The fifth anniversary of the start of all of this, the day he was taken, was just four days ago. It passed by harmlessly.
That should’ve been a warning sign.
Now Will is paying the price for his naive, yet blissful, ignorance as he dangles between the balance of his two worlds.
One of home, one of nightmares.
El's grip on his bloody hand is tight as she tries to pull him from perdition.
Looking up, he can see El’s face flushing with strain, her limbs shaking. She’s tired. They’re both exhausted. After everything she's done in the past few days, he knows she's spent. Her powers can’t–
She can’t save them.
Will can't be saved this time.
But he can save her.
He inhales, taking in his last breath protected by a night of blanketed stars and faraway brown eyes, and exhales.
Will let go.
And he falls away from Eden.
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“So what’s the plan?” Dustin asks.
Jonathan recognizes the intensity from his time watching the boys play DnD.
“El has to get stronger,” Mike says. “We have an idea on how to do that without One figuring out, we just don’t have all of the details figured out.”
“We have to be prepared for something to come through to try and distract us,” Will adds. “Vecna’s out there. He’s hurt, but he won’t go down without a fight.”
“What’s the idea for getting stronger?” Robin asks. “Like, do we have a solid plan that just needs some minor adjustments or are we basically going off of twelve percent of a plan?”
“More like fifty percent,” El clarifies. “We need to go back to the lab and look for documents that Papa hid. If we find those, they should tell us the fastest way for me to get stronger.”
“So El gets strong enough to defeat Vecna and then the final showdown?” Steve asks. “She beats him and everything’s over?”
Will nods, “That’s the hope, at least.”
“When everything’s settled, we’ll go back to normal,” Mike says.
Or, after the events of the season four finale, everyone's getting ready to continue the fight with Vecna.
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- Part 2 of Stranger Things AU
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Mike’s life in Hawkins feels unsteady without Will. Letters, visions, and the haunting presence of Vecna force him to confront feelings he doesn’t yet have the words for.
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"He's lost his best friend, the one person who has always understood him without asking, the one person he can trust with the things he can’t say to anyone else, the one person who can turn even his darkest days into something lighter.
Will…The thought catches in his chest, sharp and unyielding.
The feeling is foreign, pressing heavier and deeper than anything he’s ever known.
And it terrifies him."
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After Starcourt, the Party drifts apart. With El gone and Will in California, Mike feels invisible in his own life. Then a transfer student, Sim Suk, appears — polite, clever, and just as out of place as Mike. A friendship begins, and unexcitingly feelings that mike cant seem to name appear to.
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You're a failure. A mistake. A fucking disappointment.
You don’t love him. You’re just confused. This isn’t normal. This isn’t right. Either way he’d never love someone like you. You’re a murderer's child.
He’ll kill you. Don’t say anything.
You're crazy.
Mike slammed his hands over his ears and a waterfall tears spilled from his eyes as he squeezed them shut.
“Shut the fuck up!” he screeched, trying to scream the voices out of his head.
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Mike Wheeler is training under his emotionally neglecting father to become the next world renowned vampire hunter and uphold the Wheeler family legacy- which he isn't thrilled about. All that changes when he decides to take a night walk and is kidnapped by a dashing young vampire in the woods. Will he finally break free from his horrible family and find himself or will he be stuck being Ted's heir to his twisted fantasies.
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I fixed my gaze out the windshield, my voice trembling as I forced the words out. “I don’t dress for myself most days. I dress for damage control. For… defense. Like if I wear the right thing, I can blend in just enough to avoid the scrutiny.”
Will absorbed my disclosure, quiet and attentive.
“You don’t have to blend in with me,” he finally said, and his words wrapped around me like a warm embrace, making me feel both seen and safe, intertwined with sadness.
I'm writing about how I want season 5 to go. I know you see another Byler story, but it's more than that.