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“You’re back,” Mike states as his wide eyes catch Will’s.
Will just tilts his head at him as he takes his seat. “Yeah, I said I would be.”
“Right, obviously,” Mike mutters before stabbing his chicken sandwich with his toothpick.
“What?” Will asks despite every inkling in his body telling him to drop this conversation and just pick up his burger. “Did you think I was just going to leave?”
“No, I-”
“Because I wouldn’t just…” Will cuts himself off before he can finish and looks down at his plate instead, the unsaid words resting bitter on his tongue. I wouldn’t just leave with no explanation. Not like you did.
----------After everything they've been through, it is Mike who rips off the final band-aid of their friendship. Years pass of Will pretending like he never thinks about Mike at all. Years pass of him forging his own life and finally letting go.
But when a young boy shows up at Will's apartment, it becomes clear that he'll never fully be done with Mike Wheeler.
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08 Jul 2026
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is it just a game? (i don't wanna know) by chocolatemilk420, pomegranettes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jun 2026
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“I’m sure they didn’t notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often,” he says. “They suit you.” And then he gives Will a smile that seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through him.
A warning bell goes off in his head. Don’t be so stupid. Mike is planning how to kill you. He reminds himself. He is luring you in to make you easy prey. The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.
But because two can play at this game, and Mike and Will have been playing games with each other for years, Will stands on his tiptoes and kisses his cheek. Right on his bruise.
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A chapter-by-chapter Hunger Games retelling through the eyes of Will Byers and Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 1 of darling everything's on fire
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07 Jul 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (it was just us) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2026
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Two years after his husband’s death, Mike Wheeler lives quietly in a cliffside mansion with his eight year old daughter and more ghosts than he knows what to do with. He doesn’t talk about the past.
Will Byers isn’t looking for love when he takes the live-in cook job at Rosecliff Manor. He's just trying to start over in a new town, with a new job and with the walls carefully built around his heart.
Living under the same roof wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But grief recognizes grief.And sometimes healing looks a lot like falling in love.
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- Part 1 of we thought this place was haunted
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07 Jul 2026
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Mike recalls the brief interaction he had this morning in the hallway for perhaps the hundredth time. Maybe his friends can help. Help with what exactly, Mike doesn’t know— but something has been bugging him and he needs to get to the bottom of it.
“Hey, do you guys know that kid that wears all black? Chain belt? Eyeliner?”
“The gay kid?” Dustin supplies.
Oh, that’s right. Mike knew he had heard about him somewhere. He’s kind of famous around school. Well, him and his boyfriend. Even with it being 2006, they’re still the only openly gay people at the school.
Mike nods. “Yeah, I guess. I ran into him this morning. Literally, like we collided.”
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Mike has a run-in with Will Byers, the school’s so-called “gay kid”. He takes it upon himself to befriend him, and quickly learns about Will’s relationship troubles with his boyfriend Matt. Along the way, Mike struggles with his identity, and Will struggles with his self-worth.
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- Part 1 of GUTS (spilled)
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06 Jul 2026
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“Take a sip if… you’ve had or given a blowjob.”
Will drinks. Mike freezes.
“What the fuck, Will?” he whispered, finally. “A guy made you suck his dick and didn't even kiss you for it. Someone—did that to you before you ever got loved—”
During a game of 'Take a sip if—' Will reveals that he was used long before he was ever loved, and Mike... reacts.
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04 Jul 2026