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After Mike finds out that he’s Will’s crush, very little changes—they’re still friends, Mike is still dating El, and Will is still hopelessly in love with him. Eventually, Will has to lay some ground rules. In order to finally get over his best friend, Will tells Mike all of the endearing things he’s no longer allowed to do. Will thinks this will make everything better. Mike… realizes some things.
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19 Oct 2026
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“Hey, neighbor,” Will said.
“Hey, neighbor.”
“I’m Will Byers. I live next door.”
“Mike Wheeler.”
Of course. Even his fucking name was hot.or
Will can handle a harmless crush on the guy next door.
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10 Oct 2026
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Cute Boy in Trader Joes・9/14・Manhattan
Ran into you (sorry again) at the Trader Joe's on 14th. I complimented your shirt and you complimented mine. I thought you were so pretty and wanted to ask for your number but wimped out. I hope you see this.
"That one's sweet," Max says. "And look! That's the Trader Joe's that we go to."
Will is silent for long enough that Max looks back at him questioningly. She scans his face, and he's sure that his cheeks are bright red.
"Max," he says finally, voice quiet and disbelieving. "I think that one's about me."
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A Byler Craigslist Romcom
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26 Sep 2026
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Technically, he doesn’t know this is Mike’s daughter, because she hasn’t even spoken yet. Also because the last time he saw her she was a two-year-old in a picture Mike had in his wallet. So he has an obligation to act normal, because even if it is her, she’s obviously not here to sell Girl Scout cookies if her panicked expression is anything to go by.
Or: Mike has been avoiding Will’s calls for fifteen years. When his daughter shows up at Will’s apartment with a box full of letters, Will finds out why.Bookmarked by offttr
23 Sep 2026
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Will is trying to move on.
A night out at a midnight shadow cast performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show seems like a good start: outrageous costumes, bizarre traditions, and a cute guy who might just be worth giving a chance. For the first time in a long while, Will is ready to step into the world—and maybe even into something new.
What he doesn’t expect is seeing the one person he can’t stop thinking about standing under the stage lights—in fishnets, a corset, and looking entirely too good.
Suddenly, moving on is the last thing on Will's mind.
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30 Aug 2026
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“You should just tell her,” Mike says from behind his comic book when Will hangs up the phone.
“I know,” Will replies, because he does. They’ve had this exact exchange at least once a week for the last month. “But—”
“Yeah, I know.” Mike tosses the comic onto Will’s bedside table and sits up. “But I mean, El broke up with me. And we were fifteen years old. I think she can handle it.”
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- Part 7 of Byler Week 2022
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20 Aug 2026
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“Woah,” Will whispers to himself incredulously, laughing a little under his breath as he shuffles through the pages of the letter again. He can’t help but admire the smooth, off-white stationery, its pleasant weight in his hands. A serious-looking “MJW” watermark adorns the top of each page, totally at odds with the entertaining missive and its author’s garbled cursive. Will laughs quietly to himself again. What sixteen-year-old boy on earth has monogrammed stationery?
Michael J. Wheeler, apparently. Where did Max find this guy?
Mike Wheeler is insecure, even by normal teenage standards. So when his friend, Max, connects him with her old friend from California, he's surprised by how easily they get along. But as the weeks wear on, their letters grow increasingly personal, and they make plans to embark on a week-long trip, Mike can't let go of one inconvenient, anxiety-inducing thought: What if he wants to be more than friends?
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26 Jul 2026
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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25 Jul 2026
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“What did you mean, ‘we’re not friends anymore’?” Will demands.
“Oh god,” Mike says faintly, because he can’t think of a single other thing to say.
“It’s Will, actually,” Will says. “Or maybe you forgot that in the five years since you last bothered to speak to me before you sent me this.”
He unfolds his arms to brandish a crumpled envelope in Mike’s face, and he knows without even looking at his own handwriting on the front exactly what it is.
(or, the summer after all his friends graduate from college, mike writes will a letter to say goodbye. predictably, nothing about this goes as planned.)
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25 Jul 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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13 Jul 2026
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Isn't There Someone You Forgot to Tell by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2026
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“Hopper doesn’t know I’m gay.”
Jonathan squinted at him, mind prone to lag in the morning. “Why would Hopper not know? You told us as clearly as you could without using the word—”
“He was already on the way to Radio Shack,” Will said in a rush. He gripped his bag tighter so his arms wouldn’t start to flail with panicky emphasis. “He wasn’t there when I came out.”
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11 Jul 2026
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Today isn't about him at all. It's Jane's perfect reunion with her boyfriend, and Will doesn't have a place within it. It doesn't matter that he's missed Mike, too. It doesn't matter that today is Will's birthday. He shouldn't even be there, not when their plans are only really for Jane and Mike. He's intruding, and he knows himself well enough to know that he's not going to be able to put on a happy face and let himself be excluded without showing just how badly it hurts him. He'll only ruin their time together if he sticks around.
Will decides to go home by himself rather than go with Mike and Jane to Rink-O-Mania.
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09 Jul 2026
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There stood Mike, frozen like a statue. In front of him, Will was bent over, digging through the fruit drawer of the refrigerator. After a moment, Will straightened up with a ripe peach in hand. Ted watched his son continue staring at the exact spot Will’s backside had just occupied, wearing an expression of pure, hopeless longing.
Ted considered quietly backing out of the room.
"For God's sake, Michael," He said, instead. "Either take something out or close the door. I'm not paying to refrigerate the whole neighborhood."
Will turned around, blinking in mild confusion.
Mike’s face bloomed bright red. The blush was quickly overtaken by a scowl. He slammed the refrigerator door hard enough to rattle every magnet on it. “I was getting something! Sorry it took more than two seconds-"
“When exactly did your mother start storing the snacks in the back pockets of Will’s jeans?”
“Oh my God.” Mike spun on his heel and stormed toward the stairs. “You are so-" The rest was lost to thundering footsteps and the inevitable slam of his bedroom door.
Or, Ted realizes sometimes you need to be locked in the closet before coming out of it.
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09 Jul 2026
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It was Lucas who broke it, looking over at Mike "Hey. The floor's open, by the way. If you wanted."
Mike blinked. "What?"
"Oh yeah! We always end up talking about this stuff without you." Dustin said, rolling onto his side. "Lucas talked about Max. I've been monologuing about Stacy for over a month, which in retrospect was a waste of everyone's time-"
"Tremendous waste." Mike agreed. "Historic, really."
"-and you've got something going on now." He shrugged. "It's your turn."
Mike looked at Lucas, who raised his eyebrows in a quiet yeah, what he said.
He looked back at Dustin. "You want me…to talk to you about having sex with Will?"
In which Dustin is a shit head and Mike ends up oversharing about his sex life.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mike clears his throat loudly, dragging Will’s attention back from his thoughts. He snaps his eyes up to him, observing the look on his face which lies somewhere between a ‘I’m ready for a gate to the Upside Down to open and swallow me right now.’ and ‘I’m deeply sorry for what I’m about to do next.’
Oh no.
He’s about to do something really stupid.
Or, Mike kisses Will in front of the Party. Naturally, he has to kiss everyone else.
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27 Jun 2026
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With one last summer ahead of them before college, Mike has many plans involving Will, a forever expanding definition of quality time, and what he optimistically calls reaching new heights of manhood. Except, knocking around is easy, but standing there when the door opens is another story entirely.
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- Part 3 of Me and William
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21 Jun 2026
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Vegeta was nobody's uncle and just because Goten called him that didn't make it true.
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15 Jun 2026
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Trunks is nineteen when his future counterpart crash lands in his front yard and stumbles out of his time machine half dead. Again. (For the third time!)
He’s not quite sure how to feel about it.
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15 Jun 2026
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Will’s breath hitched and he resumed his movements in Mike’s hair, unable to resist him,
“You’re drunk.”
Mike chased Will’s hands, his mouth parting, closing his eyes like he was savoring the touch,
“Not that drunk.”Bookmarked by offttr
15 Jun 2026
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Trunks winds up overworking himself to a fatal degree in the office, and has to do the most humbling and humiliating thing in the world: ask his father to come pick him up.
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15 Jun 2026