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a fault you could follow (if you weren't so afraid of falling) by refrigeratorlights
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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And for the first time in a long time, Mike isn’t scared.
He doesn’t feel ashamed of the way his heart beats too fast, or the way it’s always known where it belongs. He doesn’t feel like the little boy he once was—hands red and aching, glitter still clinging stubbornly to his fingers, terrified that wanting something too much meant losing it.
Mike Wheeler has always believed that loving Will Byers is something to endure.
Something quiet and private. Something you survive rather than choose. Something you bury beneath loyalty, fear, and the unspoken understanding that wanting too much is dangerous—especially when the world already knows exactly where to hurt you.But some truths don’t stay buried.
As a year of silence gives way to proximity, to touch, and to the quiet devastation of being seen, Mike is forced to confront what he’s been running from all along: not the fear of losing Will, but the fear of wanting him openly. Of choosing him without bracing for impact.
Because earthquakes don’t always destroy things.
Sometimes, they reveal what was always there—waiting to be held without shaking.
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After losing Joyce and Jonathan in a car accident he can barely remember, Will Byers is left living with Lonnie and trying to survive a life that feels permanently broken. A new school brings familiar cruelty especially from Mike Wheeler, a boy hiding his own fear and desire behind violence/homophobia. When a class project forces them together, hatred turns into something far more dangerous: truth.
This story is sad asf BUT has a happy ending! You will feel so sorry for poor Will :((
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Max can’t get pregnant. Mike can. Lucas wants to be a dad. Nobody’s talking about it, not really. It’s 1994, the CD skips, the snow keeps falling, and someone’s gonna cry before this baby is born. Probably Mike. Or Max. Or both.
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The ones, the mistakes, who fall in love with their best friends knowing the whole world would damn them for it. Isn’t that right…
Mike has to look away from Will. Those horrified tears that pour down his cheeks, the gape of his mouth, everything set against the dark truth that is about to be loosed.
Vecna’s eyes land squarely on Mike.
Michael?
The party has suffered a major defeat.
When Will is taken back into the Upside Down, Mike doesn't hesitate to follow. He knows the risks, but he still isn't prepared for the moment when Vecna sets his sights on a new victim.
When Will awakens to find Mike in the clutches of Vecna's curse, he does everything in his power to rescue him. Mike is left with some wounds that need tending to.
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Mike Wheeler Loses It Once and For All by brachylophosaurus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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A handful of wildly different takes on the end of Season Five Volume One - all from Mike's perspective.
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The demogorgon does not die quietly.
After the attack on the Hawkins Military Base, Will Byers is left with power he doesn't understand and a connection that was never truly severed.
As the Upside Down presses closer to the surface, Will realizes that when he fought back, something on the other side noticed.
And it wants him.
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don't be surprised if one day, i'm just out of here by TWENTY8STABWOUNDS
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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'A storm was coming and no running was going to save them now.'
Y/N Dawn L/N is a normal girl. She simply exists in her small town to play DND with her friends, recite lines on stage, and try to keep her grades up. Y/N Dawn L/N is supposed to be just a normal girl. But she isn't. And everything else in her life isn't either.
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give it a hundred years, it won’t go away by wistfulenchantress
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Good Place (TV)
15 Dec 2025
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The woman sits behind a desk, and Mike sits across from her. “Hi, Mike. I’m Tahani.” He notices a peacock bowtie around her neck. “How are you today?”
“I’m good,” Mike replies. “Thanks.”
He pauses, and some semblance of reality kicks in.
“Where am I? What is this?”
Tahani nods. “Right, yes. Ah, I almost forgot. You, Michael Wheeler, are dead. Your time on earth is over, and you are now in the next phase of existence.”
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"Mike?" Will said, scooting his chair away from his desk and rolling it towards to bed.
Mike looked up and once he locked eyes with will he felt all his fear, doubt and confusion sinking and settling away. For the first time in months he finally felt at ease. Like nothing else mattered in the world, like nobody else mattered. Like the only thing worth paying attention to was Will and this confusing conversation they were having.
"Mike tell me, what's going on with you?" Will asked again, putting his hand on Mike's thigh, his knee positioned between mike's.
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Mike has a sexuality crisis, resulting in a fight with his dad and he goes to the only person he thinks will understand: Will.
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- Part 1 of Byler shenanigans(with other ships too just not as big of a focus)
- Part 1 of Mike Angst
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“Since when do you smoke?”
The words hit Mike like a wall. He sucked in a breath too fast, coughing as the smoke caught in his throat. He bent forward, hand over his mouth, sputtering.
“Shit,” he muttered, his voice coming out low and rough as he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
He looked up slowly, and the boy standing in front of him was a version of Will that Mike had not yet gotten used to.
Jesus, when did he start smoking? It felt like a lifetime ago. As he thought about it further, a small realization hit him.
He started smoking the night that Will left for California.
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Will moves back from California, and when he and Mike end up living together, they realize how much they’ve both changed, and must figure out how to navigate the tension, awkwardness, and unspoken feelings between them.
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the loneliest by aubsgracelandtoo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
14 Dec 2025
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Will bites his lower lip, contemplating. “The difference is that the day after tomorrow, they give you permission to be a monster. Because you have to be if even the smallest part of you wants to survive. But right now, you don’t have to be. You’re better than that.”“Not if it means letting you have a bit more of a chance. I’m already dead anyways. I’m dead right now.”
──during the 75th hunger games, mike and will are both drawn as tributes.
fate dooms them.
love binds them.
let the games begin.
a stranger things/hunger games au
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yes, you’re gay, yes so are your three other brothers by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti), The Goldfinch (2019), The Turning (2020)
14 Dec 2025
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mike: guys
mike: GUSY
mike: guys.max: waht the FUKC do you want
mike: my three brlthers arw comign ovr
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i want to lie down like a tired child and weep away this life by willel (bannermanroad)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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"I am not sure what I want," El says, and she sits with that for just a moment because she can feel there is more to it than she is prepared to unpack. "I want to find Max. I want to find Vecna. I have to save her and I have to kill him."
That is all she knows right now. She mourns the summer when Max and her suddenly became friends, and she stayed over at a friends house and tried on new clothes and lied to her dad because that's what teenage girls do. She mourns what could have been if she and Max had knew each other before then, if her childhood wasn't lost and Max lived in Hawkins. But, she supposes, that's what that summer was - that lost part of her, Max helped her find it; losing Max feels like losing it all over again, and that is why she has to find her.
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El navigates who she is and what she wants in the aftermath of losing Max.
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- 1/1
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Will Byers and Mike Wheeler have been best friends their entire lives. But Will has always felt something more and Mike realized he has too.
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Eleven understood love, Mike had taught her that.
Eleven understood sex, health class had taught her that.
The fact that the two generally went together, nobody thought to teach her that.A chance invitation to a party opens El's eyes to a whole new world. One with rules nobody ever thought to explain, and one she quickly finds she can't live without. Is it cheating if she doesn't know the concept?
* Utter sexual absurdity set between S3 & S4
* S5 note: This story's direction is finalized and does not contain any spoilers or change based on the new episodes. -
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Mike Wheeler has always been good at solving problems… until the problem is his own heart. A ridiculous romance book becomes his worst enemy when it makes him imagine the impossible.
Will has no idea what’s happening.
Nancy sees it all.
Lucas is exhausted.
El knows exactly what’s going on and can’t understand why anyone is making it a big deal.
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Steve pauses and looks ahead past his own car to see none other than Eddie Munson for the second time today. The lights in his beat-up dark blue Chevrolet are on, giving Steve a perfect look inside. Eddie seems to be getting ready to pull out of the parking lot, a cigarette in his mouth with smoke winding around the air and leaning back with his eyes closed against the seat. Suddenly, as if he knows he’s being watched, he looks up and catches Steve stopped in the middle of the lot, staring.
Eddie doesn’t flinch, just raises an eyebrow, his expression unreadable under the faint glow of the dashboard lights. The smoke curls upward, haloing his face in a way that makes him look more like a phantom than a guy who just bought records across the mall. For a split second, neither of them moves. Then Steve, still clutching his keys, shifts awkwardly and offers a small nod, casual, like he hadn’t just been caught standing there staring like a total weirdo.
Eddie tips his chin in return, something like a half-smile ghosting across his face. With a two-fingered salute, Eddie just turns up the music in the van and starts backing up his car.
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- Part 1 of The Summer of '85
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El Hopper, a computer science student, is desperate to find an internship in tech while balancing her advocacy for feminism in the patriarchal society. When she starts at Wolfhard, Inc. she is delighted to work alongside Mike Wheeler. She soon starts developing a crush on him, but her past sabotages her every step.
Mike Wheeler is content. He has a good job, a good life and good friends. But something is crucially missing. And he doesn't realise it, but it comes around to find him.TL;DR what happens when recently heartbroken college student El Hopper starts working alongside Mike Wheeler and they inevitably fall in love. It's going to be a bumpy ride, though, with detours along feminism, the fucking patriarchy, manager Steve shenanigans.
Title from the Taylor Swift Song on The Tortured Poets Department.
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Mike had always wondered who he truly was constantly. This also includes questioning his relationship with Eleven. He often pondered if this is truly what he had leading in his life; a relationship where they both have little in common and a lack of communication skills.
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What’s even the point of keeping me around, Mike wonders. His eyebrows furrow at the thought of being left behind. Being forgotten. THE Superman up and leaving him, because if Eleven truly was Superman, he would absolutely leave without hesitation, he can fly, and he has lasers, and—…wait, Eleven’s a girl. Why doesn’t he just say a female hero?
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Basically, this fic is mostly focusing on the internalized homophobia of both Will and Mike as Mike slowly realizes the many traits he thought he loved about El were everything Will had, while Will tries to force himself to like a girl (he won’t).
Written before many leaks/before season 5 release and plot was planned out before as well so this is not fully accurate!
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How Obvious? (as obvious as my eyes searching for you) by EnchantedMyth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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"How Obvious?" #MikeWhatTheFuckDidYouDoGate [What happened in those 18 months.]
As obvious as Mike's eyes landing on Will again, and again, and again.
Vecna had torn Hawkins in half. The air tasted like chemicals and ash. Schools shut down, and soldiers patrolled the streets like the world had tilted just past survivable. Everything was wrong, but Mike Wheeler wasn’t complaining, because two months ago the Byers had moved in with the Wheelers.
Mike’s breath stumbled in his chest. He tried to ground himself, tried to think of anything, anything except the awareness of how close Will was (he was sitting at a normal distance), except the shape of Will’s mouth when he spoke. Maybe if he counted to ten, he could shake off whatever the hell this was instead of staring at Will’s lips like some creep.
One… two… three… four…
When he lifted his eyes again, Will’s eyes were still on him, he was still talking, and he looked so alive.
Five… six—
Mike’s pulse thudded hard enough that the numbers broke apart in his head. The air felt too thin, his chest too tight, everything tilting just slightly off-center around the curve of Will’s smile.
God.
Fuck.