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In a universe where soulmates exist, Will Byers grows up believing he’s doomed — marked with his best friend Mike Wheeler’s unrequited soulmark.
That is, until he meets Chance Lawson.
Mike is only just realizing what he lost, but Will is secretly finding comfort in another's arms.
Chance Lawson is not his soulmate. Somehow, his love is strong enough to change that fact anyway.
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ORSimply put: bychance Soulmate AU fic!
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"Hi," he waved awkwardly.
"Hi, are you Will?" she asked.
"Uhh, yes, I am." He stared at her serious face. One would think that Will, after living with Holly in the same house for more than six months, would know how to act around kids, but...
"I am Lizdebeth. You can call me Lizzie," she said, still standing in the doorway, all serious and a bit... judgmental? Huh.
"Oh my god, Lizzie," Will heard Chance's voice from inside the house. Then he appeared next to her, turning to Will. "Hey, you came! Come on in, sorry," he said sheepishly. He then turned to his sister, "Lizzie, what did we talk about when opening the door to strangers without me, Mom, or Dad present?"
"He's not a stranger, it's Will!" she said matter-of-factly. Chance rolled his eyes, and Will was two seconds away from laughing.
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Six months after the "earthquake," Will Byers is trying to balance Hawkins High with his own darkening thoughts. When Vecna reemerges, Chance, a classmate who offered to help him with Geometry, gets drawn into the horrors the Upside Down hides.
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I Would Go Through Hell Knowing You’ll Bring Me Back by Vitaliy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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Mike and Joyce could only watch as the soldier picked Will up like a motionless doll and threw him in the back of a bloodied Jeep, the only car that was left upright. Joyce flinched at the sound of Will’s body hitting the floor of the vehicle. The engine growled to life, tearing through the silence.
It disappeared into the passageway to the Upside Down, diving into the cold and cruel world Will once escaped from.
There was no catching up to them now.
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When the military discovers Will Byers' connection to the Upside Down, they take him. Leaving Mike and the others to fight a war without him, and Will to survive one alone.
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Monday, you can hold your head. Tuesday, Wednesday, stay in bed. by StaysBlossom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2026
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Feeling flooded back into his body. His head throbbed mercilessly, skull heavy and aching. The light overhead scorched his eyes, forcing them to squint against the brightness. It didn't help that the world tilted again, spinning just as it had earlier that day, colors bleeding into one another as shapes warped and bent unnaturally.
His tongue felt thick. Uncooperative. His lips numb and sluggish. Blurred shapes crowded into his periphery. Darkness pressed in at the edges of his vision.
And then there was nothing.
OR; Will gets a concussion after hitting his head during The Crawl and Mike looks after him.
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- Part 2 of BYLER
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"I’m still mad at you," Will whispers, even as he presses his face into the hollow of Chance’s throat.
"Okay, baby," Chance murmurs back, so lovingly.
It was a stupid argument. One of those sharp, exhausting nights where everything feels too loud and too much. But as it turns out, "space" is a cold, lonely thing, and the bed in their Brooklyn apartment is far too big for just one person. Even if Will is still technically holding a grudge.
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- Part 3 of Love In The Sunlight
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i'm not in love (so don't forget it) by blueandyellowarc
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2026
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He knows, it’s all his fault. He knows. But there are tears stinging in his eyes and he calls Will again, because how the hell is he supposed to figure this out on his own? He calls again, and again, and again, and again, until Will picks up.
“Mike. Let it go. It’s almost morning, you should sleep. Why can’t you do as I ask and not call me?”
Mike swallows, voice coming out as a pathetic croak, “Will. Will, I can’t lose you. I can't-” The tears that have been burning in his eyes impatiently, finally roll down his cheeks in fat, slow, drops.
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Will needs time away from Mike, time to focus on college and time to get over his unrequited feelings. For the first time, Mike is not the one to push Will away and he cannot stand the feeling. He ends up calling Will, even though he asked him not to, desperate to get him back. It's not too late, is it?
inspired by "I'm Not In Love" (10cc) lyrics!!
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Then he heard kissing.
Loud, wet, enthusiastic kissing.
Oh. He stared at the ceiling while his brain caught up to his precarious situation. After living in New York for so long, he'd forgotten how well sound traveled here. How little insulation there was between his room and Will's. He'd lived with that fact his whole life and it had never once mattered, and he would have lived a long happy life having never thought about that fact again.
He heard a short bit of creaking, then the soft rustling of fabric.
“Fuck, Will…most perfect ass I've ever seen.”
Oh God, NO!
In which Jonathan Byers has the worst night's sleep of his life, and learns several things about his brother he had no business knowing.
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Will Byers hadn't the words to use at twelve to explain just why the invasion of the Mind Flayer left shame hot across his cheeks. He didn't dare explore why his memories of Vecna's voice were the times he'd heard it praising him, a lilt of adoration twisted up in his possessive tone. He didn't think to tell his friends just why his body remembered Vecna's presence before his mind.
For years, Will had managed to hide the sides of himself that were nauseated by affection and writhed under intimacy, but after one late night argument in the winter darkness of the Wheeler kitchen, Will finds himself wrapped up in Mike's plan to heal that part of him he'd once swore to never let anyone see.Still... Will can't help but wonder how many weeks of Mike touching him like a lover he can take before losing the few splinters of sanity he'd had left.
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Will has severe intimacy issues due to the predatory nature of how Vecna used/treated him as a child, and Mike decides to fix that through touch-exposure-therapy (He's not the smartest boy, cut him some slack).-
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i MAY potentially come back to this and write some one shots that detail my "fade to black" scenes LOL and perhaps graduation
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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Three unconnected stories, all with the same intro and shared epilogue, where the universe is sick of Mike and Will dancing around each other and pulls some supernatural bullshit to force them to sort it out.
[It’s me. I’m the universe.]
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Her gaze dropped to Mike’s hand on Will’s wrist. “Don’t hurt Papa!” she begged desperately.
For a split moment, Will didn’t understand, the thought so far-fetched, improbable, and ridiculous that it didn’t even cross his mind, but then the realization hit him like a bucket of cold water being dumped over his head.
She thought Mike was going to hit him.
Mike must’ve understood it at the same time, because his hand fell away, quick, like he’d been burned.
.........or: When Will and Mike’s four-year-old daughter walks in on an argument, she mistakes raised voices and hands for something far worse: she thinks Mike is going to hurt Will.
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"Have you talked to him today?" Jonathan asked, gesturing to Will, who was now approaching the sink. Mike didn't need Jonathan to explain who he was talking about.
"No, he's been in the basement all day. I thought he was just painting or something," Mike replied, shaking his head before lowering his voice. "I think he's having an episode."
Jonathan nodded. "I mean, maybe, but he hasn't had one in a long time," he said, voice growing softer.
Mike knew Will was still recovering from everything, still adjusting to being back home. Everything that had happened in the past couple of years certainly hadn't been great, but Mike thought things were getting better, or at least easier.
"I know," Mike whispered, looking back to Will, making sure he hadn't left the kitchen yet. Will was finishing up rinsing off his plate. Mike turned back to Jonathan. "What should we do?"
"I don't know. I mean, you were always the one that he wanted. You always knew how to talk to him and knew what he needed," Jonathan said, pausing before continuing. "Honestly, I think he would probably just want you."
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Will had an episode, and Mike was there to help.
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"Seriously, Wheeler that douchebag. He doesn’t hang out with us, now he doesn’t even talk to you? You know what, I’m going over tonight and kicking him right in the—”
“Max!”
She turns, only to see poorly concealed tears swimming in WIll’s eyes. El peers curiously at the both of them. “Oh,” she says softly.
Or, Will and El visits Hawkins instead, and finds out that the Party is breaking apart. Oh, and he goes to Lucas's game as well.
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Mike is waiting for Will in the basement, a look of suspicious, nervous excitement on his face. He cleared the table and laid out upon it are two card games.
"Now, I know you’ll resist," Mike blurts out, stepping toward him. "But I think this will be good. For both of us! For when we... you know,” Mike trails off, “When we get partners.”
Will scoffs, stepping closer to inspect the titles.
Spill or Sip and Truth, Dare, or Strip.
Or: Mike suggests a spicy card game to help Will loosen up before college. It works a little too well, and suddenly they’re gambling with unresolved feelings, and clothes, that were meant to stay in place.
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Left off at chapter 15
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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- Part 1 of Super Soaker Series
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“Why’d you stop?” Will whines, hands going to cup Mike’s face to bring him back to the moment.
Before he can change his mind, Mike reaches over to the nightstand and picks up the vibrating phone. He turns it so Will can take a look for himself and see the caller ID. “It’s Carlton.”
Will’s hands drop. He groans, “Please don’t bring him up right now. I’ll block him later.”
A grin spreads on Mike’s face, shocking Will at the odd reaction but what Mike says next makes his jaw drop. "No, no. Why don’t you answer it?”
“You want us to stop fucking so I can answer his call?” Will inquires, tremendously bewildered at the suggestion.
Mike’s smile diminishes into something more taunting, his irises twinkling with mischievous excitement. Will’s stomach drops.
“Oh, baby. Who said anything about stopping?”
He tilts the phone so they can both watch as Mike presses down on the green button with his thumb, sliding it across the screen to answer the call.
Mike hands him the phone and harshly thrusts back into him.
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Will's shameless coworker, Carlton, doesn't know how to stay in his lane. Mike teaches him a lesson by fucking Will during a phone call.
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Mike raised the shovel once more. Blood glistened on the metal of the weapon and on his face where it had splattered, dark eyes glinting with hatred. It was wrong. Mike never looked at him like that.
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What if Will tapped into the Demogorgon’s mind just before Mike began his attack?
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because you're behind my eyelids when i'm all alone by blue360
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Apr 2026
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“You left a jumper behind.” Mike says. Will’s brows furrow. “The night you presented, you left your jumper behind and I only found out after you’d left. So I just… kept it.”
“So?”
“So, I spent the whole of my first rut buried in that jumper.” Mike huffs out a little nostalgic laugh as he tells Will that. As if he hasn’t just taken Will’s world and spun it on his axis. “Seriously. Nobody smells as good as you, Will.”
“Nobody?”
“Nobody.”
(or: 5 times Mike scents Will and 1 time Will scents Mike. omegaverse au set during and after season 4)
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- Part 2 of stranger things but make it omegaverse
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After everything he survived in the Upside Down, Will Byers was already different. According to Dr. Owens, the trauma twisted more than just his memories — it disrupted his hormones, forcing him to present far earlier than anyone else in his grade. And not just early
He presented as an omega.
As if that wasn’t overwhelming enough, Will has been in love with his best friend, Mike Wheeler, since they were thirteen. A secret he’s carried quietly, painfully — especially now that Mike is dating his sister, Will knows how wrong it feels. He knows Mike doesn’t feel the same way. He knows he should let it go.
He just… can’t.
Meanwhile, Dustin is stuck in his own hopeless situation — head over heels for someone he can’t have. Two best friends, both in love with people who are already taken, both terrified of ruining the only friendships that matter most.
So they make a deal.
If they can’t have the ones they love, they’ll fake date each other instead. A harmless distraction. A temporary solution. A way to convince everyone — and maybe themselves — that they’re moving on.
The plan is simple: pretend until the feelings fade.
The problem?
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