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Please don't leave me (I'll always need more) by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Oct 2025
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“Did you know?” he asked at the last moment, voice cracked and warbly from crying. He hadn’t sounded that young in years.
She hesitated for one painstaking moment, and at last replied, “No, Mike.”
She almost closed the door, but stopped again.
“I am sorry,” she whispered, remorse staining her voice, and quietly closed the door behind her.
Three days after graduation, Will disappeared in the dead of night with nothing but a note left in his absence, and Mike's heart left with him.
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the longer burn, the sweeter that you smell by aviannabuckley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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The words Spiderman said surprised even him, but Will didn’t laugh or brush them aside. He just sat there, sketchbook resting loosely on his knees, eyes fixed on the glow of the skyline as if listening in awe. “You really have a way with words, huh? Reminds me of someone.”
When distance grows between him and Will, Mike finds a new way to be near him, even if it's from behind a mask.
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I wanna get better ( at sending letters ) by MirellaIndigo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Sep 2025
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Can I still call myself a writer if I can't even write a decent letter to my best friend? Can I still call them letters if I never send them?
Pretty much (almost) every letter that he writes to Will ends up in a box under his bed right next to the art binder. On their senior year Will finds them.
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Mike and Will look to each other for comfort when things get rough. But everything takes a turn when they are invited to a Halloween party. Will they fall in love? Or will Mike keep his feelings bottled forever..
Wanted to write a byler fic based off a Conan song so tada! To anyone who read this before I changed it up a bit I’m sorryyyy I hope it’s not too confusing.
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- Part 1 of Making Conan Gray songs into Byler fics!
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by slytherflower
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2025
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In a world without monsters, just messy teenagers and the ache of growing up, fifteen-year-old Mike Wheeler travels to California to visit his girlfriend and best friend. He’s not prepared for the letter that changes everything — or the feelings it brings to the surface. As old tensions resurface and new connections begin to stir, Mike is forced to confront everything he thought he knew — about Will, about himself, and about the feelings he’s spent too long trying to outrun.
This is a sequel to “Last Summer”, another work of mine.
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- Part 2 of Growing Up
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The curse or a miracle, hearse or an oracle by Meirshmellow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2025
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”Six shall sail on storm-swept tide,
to find the fleece and fate they crave.
The blind shall speak beneath the skies,
and one shall be taken by the gods as price.”Mike’s summer at Camp Half-blood takes an exciting turn as he and his friends are set to go on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
The thing is Mike does not only have to navigate a ship now, but also the strange things he is feeling towards his best friend, all while trying to stay alive and proving everyone what he is capable of.
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say don't go (i would stay forever) by daymillerparty
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2025
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Will leans into Chance.
Mike clenches his jaw.
“Like Will would even talk to you if he wasn’t?”
Mike flinches.
Mike is well aware of how much he screwed up with Will. He knows. He knows.
And it’s killing him.
Will's leaving for Europe. Mike doesn't take it very well.
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You're coming back and it's the end of the world. by jupiterinretrograde, lions_eyes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jun 2025
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Will Byers comes back to Hawkins, and Mike Wheeler's whole world falls apart-- but he wouldn't take it back for anything.
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“I, uhm, I don’t have any clothes here” He deadpans and Mike’s face, at first neutral, grows with astonishment as he processes what Will just said.
Shit.
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After they get to Hawkins, all of Will's belongings stayed in Califoria, it's been days with the same clothes so he really wants to change. Mike helps, but notices some things on Will.
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- Part 1 of Can't Stop Looking
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Basically just Mike pining for his best friend but Will knows.
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Shy and timid William Byers wants to reinvent himself.
So of course, he downloads Tinder.
Maybe, he'll find more than just, a one night stand...
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- Part 10 of The Stranger Gay Twilight Zone!
- Part 3 of The BYLER Multiverse
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[podfic] got your spell on me, baby by boundbypods (atrophiedemotion)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Dec 2024
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Podfic of got your spell on me, baby by astrobi.
Originial summary:To be fair, Will’s costume is great, now that Mike knows what it is. And, okay, wait-
“Oh, this is so good. This is so good.” Max points at Mike, wheezing. “Because you’re dressed as-”
Will’s still looking straight up at the sky. The length of his neck is very, very flushed. Mike can feel his entire face going redder than Vader’s lightsaber. He clenches his hands into tiny little fists, and says, around a groan: “I’m not Han Solo, guys.”
In which Lucas has a thing for Bowie, Will has a thing for Han Solo, Mike has a thing for Will, and El should never be allowed to watch Star Wars again.
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It's November sixth. Seven years ago, Mike’s world went to shit in the woods outside Hawkins Laboratory. For three years, his life was a bloody, twisted wreck with a hell of a lot of casualties. Somehow, this just feels like another extension of that, like the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be a train, and it’s bearing down on him at full speed while he’s just standing there and letting it.
Seven years ago today, Mike Wheeler lost his best friend, and then he lost himself.
November 6, 1990, in the corner of a crowded room with another boy’s hands in his hair, he feels like maybe, just maybe, he’s finally got a little bit of himself back. He doesn’t know if it’s a part that’s worth keeping, is all.
(or, mike wheeler on kissing boys, growing up, losing your best friend, and finding him again.)
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- Part 2 of boys in bars
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one of Mike's unsent (love) letters to Will
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Mike Mayhaps be Missing his Melodious Not-Boyfriend by howsthatanklehealingup
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2023
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Did they really think he missed El, who he met last year, over Will, who he’s known for basically his whole life?
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Mike misses Will and pining and then gay mentor Robin
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if you could see my thoughts, you would see us by no_flocks_given
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Sep 2023
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As soon as the door creaks open fully, the boy jumps back, clearly not expecting anyone to be in the room. His eyebrows furrow together slightly, as if in thought.
“Oh, wait. You’re the guy from earlier, right? Sorry, I forgot to ask your name,” The boy trails off, eyes flicking from the floor to Will’s face.
“Uh, yeah, I am.” Will replies, blinking repeatedly as if that would clear his head. “I’m Will.”
“Hi, Will,” The boy says, voice gentle. “I’m Mike.”
Will can feel his heart stutter in his chest, in the way his name sounded when the boy - Mike spoke. Lips curling around soft syllables making a simple name like ‘Will’ so… infatuating.
“Hi” He replies, slowly and drawing the syllable out for too long. Mike doesn’t move, he hangs in the door frame, waiting.
“I can leave, if you need the room” Will offers, his shoulders dropping slightly.
“What?” Mike asks incredulously, shaking his head. “No, no. I was just kind of looking for a place to be alone. But I’m assuming you are too, so maybe…maybe we could be alone together?”---
or, a friends to lovers, meet cute inspired, college au with #1 wingwoman max
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Am I allowed to look at him like that?
Could it be wrong when he's just so nice to look at?~
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He’s too close, too handsome, too real. And Will wants to cry because the shield has almost completely collapsed.
“Mike,” he says or begs, he doesn’t know.
Mike stares at him and he has never looked so serious.
“I really want to do this with you.”
The shield breaks. Will feels his mana bar diminish by hundreds of points. He's out of it. It will take weeks to recharge, months even.
“Now?” he wails and he hates how frail he’s sounding. -
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“But it can’t be. I’m not…” His mouth opens and closes a few times. “I’m not—” He shakes his head and mumbles, “Jesus.” He isn’t sure what he was about to say. Traumatized enough? Great fucking job, he says to himself.
Now he knows he’s really worthy of a trophy for undergoing terrifying encounters with interdimensional monsters. -
you can see me (as a secret mission) by andiwriteordie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2023
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Mike wonders what Will must be thinking about right now. If he, like Mike, notices the charged air; if he, like Mike, wonders what it might be like to caution to the wind and break all sorts of protocol for each other; if he, like Mike, ever daydreams about tugging on his necktie and pulling him into a room far away from the others and throwing his jacket onto the floor and —
“We’re spies, Mike,” Will finally says, breaking their silence and their tension in one fell swoop. A smile dances across his face, and he gives Mike a look like, You should know this. “I don’t know if we’ll have a good week, but at the very least, it’ll be interesting.”
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Mike Wheeler is having a pretty boring week — at least for a spy. Luckily, that gives him some more time to daydream about his co-worker, one Special Agent Will Byers.