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pancakes and butter by orphan_account for bobnewbyhero
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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It's autumn in Hawkins, which means it's time for the annual Fall Breakfast-- a PTA event for students and their dads. Joyce worries that Will can't enjoy the festivities because of Lonnie's absence, but Bob Newby steps up to play Dad for the day, adopting a few more kids than he bargained for.
Or: 3,000 words of Bob Newby POV because I still mourn this man every day.
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- Part 5 of Stranger Things One-Shots
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22 Jul 2026
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Something's been feeling weird lately by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 May 2026
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Mike’s heart lurches into his throat, constricting his airway as he takes in his face. Because he knows that face. His eyes have wandered along that strong nose, those bunny teeth peeking out between parted lips, that mole beside his mouth. He’s catalogued every detail of that messy brown hair, those long eyelashes, and that pair of enchanting hazel eyes, over and over again, to the point where it burns behind his eyelids when he kisses his girlfriend.
“Holy shit,” the man breathes, gaping in shock, and for once in his life, Mike doesn’t need a trick to stop his loud mouth. For the first time, he’s truly struck dumb.
Because it’s him. Older, taller, and different, but it’s him.
The man standing in front of them, somehow, is Will.
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18-year-old Will Byers gets sent back to July 1985, tries to help them out using some awesome superpowers and futuristic wisdom, and Mike does his best not to combust in the process.
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A month in a half after the events of "My Will Is Good," Mike and Will spend a weekend in Montauk, get closer than ever, and navigate life as a couple. Mike grapples with the idea of coming out and what it means to be gay in the 90s.
Or: Mike and Will have fun in Montauk, do it without condoms, and are really nerdy and in love.
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- Part 2 of Nirvana
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08 Jul 2026
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It's 1992, and Mike and Will are juniors in college and living together in a tiny NYC apartment. Life is great. It's everything Mike could ever want: his best friend, an incredible city, and the world at his fingertips. The only problem? He's in love with said best friend and has no idea how he could ever tell him.
Luckily for him, he's presented with an opportunity to get much closer to him every Friday night, as long as he promises not to get all weird after. How hard could that be?
Or: Mike and Will become friends with benefits and the universe laughs because they're both ridiculously in love with each other.
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- Part 1 of Nirvana
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Mike barks a laugh. “I’m, unfortunately, requesting your companionship Thursday night to see Child’s Play 2 with Will and I.”
She sends him a look of bewilderment. “How did I get dragged into your date with Will?”
“Y’know, it’s really great that I can count on such discretion from you and Lucas. Super awesome that you don’t tell each other everything.” Max ignores him and he continues on. “Well, I tried my best, but he kind of looked at me all-dumbfounded and wasn’t saying anything, so I panicked.”
“Well, duh. He’s liked you since, like, birth. Did you even give him enough time to answer?”
“Of course I gave him enough time to answer.” Mike grits out, voice tight. “I know how to have a fucking conversation with someone, Maxine.”
Mike Wheeler can’t pick a major to save his life, is fighting for said life in the worst class ever (Astronomy 101), and is desperately trying to romance the best person in his life.
Enter: Will Byers, his advanced concepts in painting final project, and his pretty eyelashes.
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- Part 2 of devotion | Indiana University
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07 Jul 2026
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Every Friday night, Mike Wheeler gives advice to strangers on his college radio show. When a caller asks what to do about their feelings for a friend, Mike tells them to test the waters. He never expects Will Byers, his best friend, roommate, and biggest weakness, to take that advice as well.
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Join Mike and Will alongside the rest of the party for a week of summer employment as they experience the epic highs and lows of teenage lifeguarding and relationships.
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04 Jul 2026
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It only took a moment before the physician smiled. “Well,” he said, with satisfaction. “That settles it. You are approximately nine weeks along, Your Highness.”
Nine weeks.
Without thinking, Will’s hand drifted down, resting against his lower abdomen. There was nothing there, not really. No visible change, no difference he could feel beneath his palm yet.
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or: As an Omega, Will knows what he was married for. It was merely to form a political alliance between their two kingdoms.
So when he finds himself pregnant, and Mike suddenly begins to care in ways he never did before, the reason seems obvious. It’s not love, it’s only the heir.And then, when he loses the baby, Will is certain he will lose everything else too.
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02 Jul 2026
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It was only supposed to be one harmless lie. Sneaking around with Chance Fernandez wouldn’t hurt anybody. For once, Will Byers was going to do what he wanted. For once, he’d have control over something in his life. Just this once, he wanted to experience something normal.
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Will starts hooking up with Chance behind everyone’s backs and it triggers a downward spiral.
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30 Jun 2026
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“Do you remember what I said to you… when I first visited you in the hospital?”
“You’re going to have to be more specific.”
There it was again, that patronizing, not Will tone.
Mike’s breath hitched. “When I said… that I am sick like you.”
Will hummed as if to indicate he was thinking about it, but to Mike it seemed insincere.
“Well, now that we both know this, maybe we should just carry on.”
“Don’t you want to talk about it? You never told me what you thought about my letter.”
Will sighed irritably, “We’re here, together, isn’t that enough for you?”
Mike’s stomach tightened. Enough was enough.
“It would be. But you’re not Will.”
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A Will Byers possession fic with a bit of a twist.
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29 Jun 2026
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we must stay indoors (i will stay close to you) by foxandfate
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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He hears a huff of laughter, and a hand brushes his bangs away from his eyes. “You should rest,” Mike murmurs.
“I’m not tired,” says Will, and it’s true. He’d slept away the evening that blended into the night, and with a full stomach and a somewhat better leg, he’s feeling more like he can stay up a little longer.
“Your eyes are shut,” Mike protests, and Will takes the comment as a way to open them back up, though he might as well shut them again from how the sight completely takes the breath out of him.
Mike’s looking down at him, eyes shining in the moonlight, cheeks tinged pink. There’s something familiar in his face, something Will hasn’t seen in years. Since…since he was thirteen, seeing visions of the Upside Down and a shadow hovering above it all. “God, I was so worried when we got that call.”
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Will gets injured and there's only one person who can possibly offer him comfort. Only, he can't exactly ask for what he wants.
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28 Jun 2026
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i never knew my name until you spoke it from your chest by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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When Mike first filled out the paperwork, he didn’t know if anything would come of it. He’d just arrived back in Ithaca after a spring break visit to the city. His neck was stiff from the weird nap he’d taken on the bus. It was snowing, in April. He didn't even have any friends to call up and announce his return, unless you counted his roommate, Jeremy, who greeted him with an indifferent head nod and a “hey, man” when Mike spilled through the door of their dorm room, shaking melting snowflakes out of his overgrown hair.
He trudged across campus the next day, past dirty iced-over snow drifts that seemed like they might never melt, and knocked on the door of his advisor’s office.
“If I wanted to transfer to another school next year,” he said, fidgeting with his backpack in his lap as he sat down in the squeaky vinyl-backed chair, “how would that work?”
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you could kiss a hundred boys in bars by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Mar 2026
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Will got shitfaced drunk for the first time in his life, that night in the Village. It was good to feel loose, dizzy, to leave the lonely boy shivering in the woods behind for a few hours. It was even better to feel eyes on him, wandering hands on the dance floor—to feel wanted, seen. He didn’t quite remember how he got from the club to the guy’s Chelsea apartment, but he remembered the rest. Hands, lips, muscled biceps. The pain, the stretch, the aching pleasure. The pre-dawn cab ride home. It was a wholly decent first time, all things considered. He told himself that in the dark, cold days that followed, hiding away in the studio, furiously working, avoiding all his new friends. The guy was nice; he used a condom, Will was 95% sure. Weeks passed. Will didn’t get sick. And the next time he picked up the phone and heard Mike’s voice on the other end of the line, he went out and did it again.
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we don't have to talk about it (but I need to tell someone) by will_bvers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Mar 2026
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"Mike found Will sitting in the grass outside the radio station at 2:36 in the morning.
It was a weird place to be sitting at any time, and Will knew that. There were plenty of chairs and benches to be sitting at, both inside and out. The wind was biting, and the morning dew had somehow already set in. His spot was cold, wet, and impractical all at the same time. It was why he’d chosen it. No one would expect it. No one would find him. No one would see him.
He should have known better."
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As the battle with Vecna wages on, Will struggles with memories he had fought to suppress. As always, Mike is there.
(Takes place mid season 5. A further look into Will's trauma from the upside down. Please read the tags)
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25 Jun 2026
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When he was lying back against his pillows, shucking his shirt and opening his mouth for Mike to kiss, Will was positively godlike. He was Mike’s savior, Mike’s redeemer. If the world was doomed, Will could save it with a kiss.
Mike and Will, at the end of the world.
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24 Jun 2026
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Brooklyn, 1991. Will is having nightmares again, and he doesn't know why. He has a loving boyfriend, doting friends, and a vibrant community. He's happy. Almost.
Whenever he can't sleep, he steals into the city armed with nothing but a paintbrush, making his mark in places only he knows. Will intends to keep these paintings- and his harrowing past- a secret forever.
When he begins to lose inspiration, he signs up for a summer course, hoping it will bring the change he needs. And then he meets Tony.
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Will smiled back, soft and sweet, like he always was. It was, all in all, the same smile Mike had grown up knowing as well as his own reflection. It was Will's teeth peeking through the slight pull of his chapped lips, and Will's skin wrinkling near his eyes. Mike would know Will's smile anywhere.
Only, that wasn't his smile.
Because that wasn't Will.
"Follow me?" Will asked, and one yellow ray of sunlight punctured the fog, illuminating the tufts of his mud-spattered hair like a halo. It was fitting. If the rest of the town thought Will was the devil, he'd always been an angel to Mike.
And for the life of him, Mike couldn’t remember what it was he’d been so worried about just a second ago.
"Yeah," he answered, treading behind Will and headed for the woods. "Always."
It's the summer of 1987, the town is under lockdown, the people are panicking and praying, and they've pinpointed Will as the one to blame for it all. In fact, nearly everyone seems a little afraid of Will these days, except for Mike.
(Or: Following a desperate ritual to cast the devil out of Hawkins, Will starts acting strangely. Mike starts having dreams.)
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The first thing Will notices when he wakes up is the throbbing headache that follows a night of too much drinking.
The second thing Will notices is the dull ache in his lower back. The sensation is not unfamiliar – Will has had sex plenty of times to recognize it.
Which leads to the third thing Will notices.
This is not his bed.
And the fourth thing?
The body lying next to him is very much not his boyfriend.
Will and Mike have a night out and accidentally cheat on their partners.
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16 Jun 2026
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It's 2012 and the release of the latest book in Mike Wheeler's fantasy series inspired by him and his friend's perilous childhood brings about an unexpected response. Fans of the series are rooting for him and Will's characters to get together. Mike finds himself reliving all the time he's spent pushing down his feelings for his best friend, and wondering if maybe, somehow, it's actually not too late to do something about it after all.
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Vecna’s gaze doesn’t leave his. He reaches out and grips Will around the jaw, gently, as the vision changes in the background.
“I think you’re ready Will.” Vecna purrs in Will’s ear. Will wants to scream.
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Part 2 of my series Endless Circles.
Where Will gets his powers mid-way through season 3 and it changes everything.
Multi-POV with a focus on Mike/WillSeries
- Part 2 of Endless Circles - Series
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15 Jun 2026