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It's been nearly ten years since they saw each other. Ten years since they lived in the same state, much less occupied the same room. Ten years since they were friends; eight and a half since Will stopped referring to Mike as such, much less his best one.
Ten years, and here Mike is, and here Will is, and here’s the guy in the chinos who just bought Will’s first friend, first love, first heartbreak a drink. Here is what the poets call cosmic fucking irony, Will thinks: the setup for the world’s unfunniest a guy walks into a bar joke, and Will’s the punchline. Will’s been punched in the gut.
(or, after ten years of no contact, will encounters mike wheeler in a new york city bar, and he doesn't know what to do about it.)
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- Part 1 of boys in bars
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18 Sep 2026
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Will Byers wasn't just Mike Wheeler's neighbor, the boy next door had been his very best friend growing up. But the summer after graduation, Will climbed onto the back of a stranger's motorcycle and disappeared without looking back. Three years later, a frantic phone call brings Will back into Mike's life, along with witchcraft, murder, and one very inconvenient curse: Mike can no longer tell a lie. As a relentless police chief starts asking questions, Mike and Will must survive the consequences of the magic they've unleashed—and finally face the one truth that just might save them.
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Practical Magic Byler Style
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03 Sep 2026
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“Good?” Will asks as if he already knows the answer. Mike can hear it in his voice—the way the corners of his mouth are lifted into a small smile. He likes that he knows this about Will; can tell just from listening.
Mike nods, face buried into Will’s sweater. His cheeks are bright pink, but Will can’t see that from this angle. He doesn’t seem to think that anything’s wrong, either because his fingernails are still running over Mike’s head at the same, maddening pace; only now he keeps tugging at his curls in between before resuming, coaxing more of those unintentional noises from Mike’s throat. Little hums and whimpers that should be oh-so-embarrassing, but make Mike feel like he’s floating instead.
Very suddenly, Mike thinks about Will doing this in a completely different context. One that doesn’t have his face pressed into Will’s chest, but his yellow plaid pillowcase instead.
Or, Mike discovers that maybe, he wants to be taken care of sometimes, too.
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23 Aug 2026
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At seventeen, Mike Wheeler falls in love with the new kid. They spend an entire summer doing everything together—except admitting how they really feel. Six years later, Will Byers moves into a summer sublet only to find the one boy he never managed to get over living down the hall.
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16 Jul 2026
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mike wheeler's guide to falling in love with a superhero by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2022
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“Uh-huh,” Mike says faintly, and he yelps when they narrowly avoid the edge of a shining skyscraper, and his hands clutch onto Spiderman instinctively. “Oh – my fucking God, that –”
Spiderman’s fingers press a little firmly into Mike’s shirt. "Just – hang on!"
"What do you mean just hang – was that a pun," Mike sputters, clutching onto Spiderman for dear life as they swing through the city, and he can hear the superhero laugh through the racing wind in his ears, the rumble of it under Mike’s arm wrapped around his middle.
In a city of superheroes, Mike keeps running into Spiderman, much to his dismay.
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14 Jul 2026