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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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Mike wheeler is not okay cuz I say so
This will be long I hope
Im lazy
Mike wheeler is GAYYY
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After asking the literal last person on earth to take her to prom. She and Mike find themselves at a club and more is revealed about what Mike's been hiding.
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Following the Byers' departure from California, Will finds himself unable to configure his emotions, both towards himself and Mike.
Inspired by 40 Days, Souvlaki, and other songs by Slowdive
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He thought that when he returned —if he returned—he would feel better surrounded by his mother’s love and in his own bed, protected from the monsters that clawed their way into his nightmares, but they grew invincible in his own mind. His brain couldn’t protect him, so how could anyone else? He left a burden, tainting the lives of everyone around him forever. He wanted to yell. He wanted to go back in time and stop himself from leaving Mike’s basement. He wanted to become the boy he used to be. But he can’t. He can never know youth again.
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The year is 1984, and after Ted Wheeler dies because of some stupid lab accident at his annoying government job in Hawkins, Indiana, Thirteen-year-old Mike and his family are forced to move there and stay at some lousy trailer park because 1.) moving there was the closest thing they had to still being with him, not that Mike really cared, 2.) it was the cheapest place his mom could afford when you’re in charge of a family of four with no man in the house, and 3.) because Mike had kinda maybe sorta did something really, really bad to another boy at school that unfortunately just lined up with the time him and his family had to move so… nothing important really.
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He takes a slow, deep breath in and exhales shakily, like his lungs do not want to let go of the air, as if they know that this may be the last time they get any. He's okay, he thinks to himself. He's okay. Mike's finger twitches against the trigger and images of blood and mangled skin overpower him for a moment. He's okay, right?
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Mike's never been all that great dealing with things
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stranger things: dysfunctional perspective by evrything_is_madeofstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dysfunctional Perspective (Webcomic) - Fandom
04 Oct 2025
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“NOTHING? HE TRIED TO KILL ME!”
“Well, this wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t provoked him, right? You have only yourself to blame.”
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a stranger things dysfunctional perspective au
(cw: graphic child abuse)Series
- Part 2 of mike angst
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Too caught up in the crossfire and emotions, Michael Wheeler disappears from Starcourt in the middle of the chaos. A Russian soldier stares at Mike's slumped form. A child who had enough strength to get thrown around and still get back up was surely going to excel in Russia.
No one has noticed until they're resting outside the burning rubble that was Starcourt, and Will asks in a shaky voice."Has anyone seen Mike?"
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California wasn't the life changing experience he thought it would be but he learned interesting things about himself there. For example, he loved Mike Wheeler. Romantically.
Finally, he could put words to the emotions he had felt for years: Will Byers was gay and in love with his best friend.
Now, two weeks after the earthquake, Will Byers and everyone he cares for have to face the upcoming end of the world.
This is a story of two boys, one with a broken heart and scary presence crawling in the depths of his mind and another finally coming to terms with the fact he has been unhappy for a while.
(Not beta read, POV changes between Will and Mike.)
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The places where her eyes used to be were hollowed out. A chunk of her face was missing, starting near the eyebrow and extending to below her chin. It oozed blood sluggishly, and purulent discharge was mixed with it. The plasma dripped from the healing wound, stretching from her ear to the side of her mouth. Half of her lips were missing, and her hospital gown was covered in brown blood.
"How did you die?" Mike asked.
"They killed me when I couldn't use the powers the serum gave me," She responded, blood gushing out of her mouth with every word, adding to the mess of her dress, "And they'll do the same to you if you don't figure out how to control the thing inside you."
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Mike Wheeler: Homecoming by MogulMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spider-Man - All Media Types
27 Sep 2025
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It's been almost a year since Doc Ock prowled the streets of the city of New York, and almost a year since the anniversary of Mike and Will getting together.
Mike should be the happiest he's ever been.
Except, when the paladin of the Party fears that he's not doing enough, that he quite frankly isn't enough, and that the strain of Will being Spiderman is getting to be too much, what's a paladin to do?
Mike will do anything to become a valuable asset, as supervillain after supervillain comes crawling one after another out of the woodworks, and seem set on taking Spiderman's life with them.
He'd do anything to be the person Will needs most, no matter the cost.
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- Part 2 of Spiderman AU
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i might just die, it would make no difference by thewraith15
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Sep 2025
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He swallowed and turned around, forcing one foot in front of the other as he began to move towards the cliff edge. Around him, sounds faded into the high pitched whistle of cold wind whipping through trees and past uneven rock faces. He could vaguely hear Dustin yelling in the background, something about not doing it and how he didn’t need baby teeth anyway, but his brain turned it into white static.
or the quarry scene in stranger things season one but I made Mike a lot more suicidal and gave him a lot more self hate.
TW: there are suicidal thoughts and technically a suicide attempt in this fic, please consider your own mentsl health and do not read if it will trigger you. stay safe :)
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If I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places. . .
Mike Wheeler can't make a deal with God, but he can make a deal with Vecna.
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summertime (until we find a way in the dark and out of harm) by aangazonprime
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Sep 2025
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It's the end of the world. The stress is wearing Mike down, whittling away his confidence in his own leadership. So one night, in a moment of weakness, he suggests the unthinkable:
"Run away with me?"
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Starting high school with the whole party would be a dream, or Mike thought it would be but his own questioning of the reality of his home life is causing him to spiral.
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Don't Wanna Die (But I Don't Wanna Live Like This) by PobodyNerfect
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2025
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“Nancy…” He gets out through a choked, small, almost vulnerable tone. “It- it’s so bad.”
Nancy furrows her brows, blinking down at him. “What is?”
Mike hiccups. “It- I-” He clears his throat, trying to control his sputtering. “I need to tell you something.”
Without another word, Nancy opens her door and invites him in. Because, as much as he drives her crazy, this is her brother.OR
Mike tells Nancy about the quarry the same night it happens
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don't leave me (i can't breathe) by PrimroseMoon11 for sweetpotatoTM
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Aug 2025
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I didn't think he'd follow through. He gave me signs and I spray-painted over them because he’d never, never, never do it, and now he did it and he’s gone and I need to look, I need to look, I need to look. If I don’t and he’s left to rot what does that mean? I’ve failed again, again, again, Will, El, Max. Max I never could have saved if I tried because I was two thousand miles away, but even then I didn’t push El hard enough, didn’t encourage her to save Max in time, but maybe that’s selfish to think that I was the only one to help El. She doesn’t need me, doesn’t need me, doesn’t need me, so I couldn’t save Max, I can’t save El, and Will is gone, I couldn’t save him and I tried but too late, too late, too late. Fuck this, fuck losing people over and over, fuck not being able to help, being useless while people die.
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Will makes a decision. Mike tries to find him to no avail.
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When Vecna is healed after his encounter with Nancy, Steve, and Robin, he knows that there is only one way to destroy Eleven before she can intervene in his world domination.
And that is Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 2 of Love Me Like You Do
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The body at the lake (in season 1) was really Will's and Mike is going through grief. Mike is writing in a diary because the school psychologist told him to. This is a diary fic.
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It's Not Over 'Til It's Over (It's Never Over) by howsthatanklehealingup
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Aug 2025
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“I had a dream where El wasn’t there when you jumped,” Dustin mumbled into Mike’s shoulder. Mike tensed. He didn’t need to finish the thought; Mike understood.
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Dustin has a nightmare about the quarry. He goes to Mike's house afterwards.