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what a wicked game (to make me feel this way) by blybloompy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Sep 2025
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In November 1987, with Hawkins slowly “back to normal” after Vecna, Mike Wheeler finally admits the truth he’s been dodging: he’s in love with Will Byers. The realization flips an old clinginess into a quiet, private obsession
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the mike yearning fic??
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(Please Don’t) Say You Love Me by mentally_unstable_bee
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Sep 2025
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When the end of the world is happening, you tend to ignore all your feelings, but that’s a little hard when the beast you’re fighting uses your trauma to kill you. Surely that won’t happen to any of them. (Right?)
All of Mike’s repression finally catches up with him and he is forced to either face it and grow, or keep hiding and die. Neither is a fun option.
TW: Swearing (other trigger warnings will be placed by chapter)
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My cousin got me back into Stranger Things and Byler. She’s the only reason this fic exists so shout out to my cousin! -
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There was something wrong with him- no he knew there was something wrong with him. Why couldn’t he just say that thing to El to make her happy? Why couldnt Mike love El? Why couldn’t Mike look into her eyes without the thought of a certain brown haired boy nagging in the back of his mind?
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Mike realizes hes truly in love with his best friend and can't figure out what to do
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Hawkins is under quarantine after the Rift opened, and tension hangs in the air. The town pretends life goes on, but something is lurking. Vecna isn’t gone — he’s preparing to return. To crawl back.
The heroes are scattered, worn down, and changed. But one thing is certain: the countdown to the final battle has begun. And this time, no one will come out unscathed.A prediction of season 5
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El and Mike broke up on the way back to Hawkins, but Will is not aware of it until Mike confronts him about the painting.
Or basically just a post season 4 fanfic.
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“Mike,” this time Will hoped to convey his eye roll through his tone.
“Will,” he said back, mimicking and with an audible smile.
“Are we just going to spend this entire call saying each other’s names?”
“If it means I get to keep hearing you say my name, I wouldn’t mind,” Mike said, beginning playfully but ending on a much softer note. Will sucked in a breath, surprised at the honesty in his tone. It made him feel raw.
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Byler college fic post-canon where the party goes different places and it’s centered around Will and his closest friend who is also queer and she despises Mike after hearing about Will pining for him but one day in November, Will has a worse panic attack than usual and she can’t help him and is forced to call Mike and for the first time learns Will went missing and goes home with Will to Hawkins during winter break because her family sucks and learns about the Upside Down and Mike is jealous because he thinks they’re dating and the second the friend sees Mike, she knows she’s right and that Mike is in love with Will too.
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Senior year prom after the chaos of the upside down has long since ended, from Will’s pov
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I Saw Sparks by miwiflashbacks for Lyss, Scarlett
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Maze Runner (Movies)
22 Aug 2025
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"Green-bean, meet Will." Lucas said, gesturing to the scruffy brown-haired boy that just walked up, a friendly half-smile on his face, his hazel eyes squinting through the sun. "When I'm not around he's in charge."
Will looked at Lucas. "Good thing you're always around then." He said cleverly. The two smirked at each other, then the boys attention fell to Mike. he stuck out his hand to shake.
"You made quite the dash earlier." Will commented as Mike politely shook his hand and admired his features. "For a second there, I thought you could be a runner." Will smiled then raised his eyebrows. "Until you face planted, that is."
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- Part 1 of I Saw Sparks
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slice-of-life story in which mike and will attend school as boyfriends after the events of season 5.
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Why would you lie to me about this? by Mynameismorganandishipbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jul 2025
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Mike finds out about the painting. both points of view. Waiting for Season 5 is going to kill me.
EDIT: Just Mike's point of view sorry I couldn't escape it.Series
- Part 2 of Byler (Stranger Things)
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Max isn't present as she talks, her eyes zoned out and recalling the smell. Recalling the instinct to flee, the instinct that danger was near and she needed to either prepare to fight or run. Fight or flight, over a smell she didn't even recognize, but inherently knew. She knew what she was smelling without having smelled it before. And she knew she needed to get far away.
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Boys in Hawkins start turning up dead and the kids get pulled into the mess. Mike Wheeler is the one to find the first victim, catapulting him to the top of the cops' list of suspects, who seem hungry to blame anyone they can, regardless of evidence. Max and the group are roped in, determined to get to the bottom of things and to prove Mike's innocence. With the help of our favorite young adults, of course.
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Hawkins has been put in a complete lockdown following the infiltration of One through the bleeding of the Upside Down into the Rightside Up - while the train of Mike’s thoughts have been unleashed ferociously upon himself. Confusing thoughts and ideas - especially involving that of his best friend, girlfriend, and a particular painting - have pushed him somewhat distant from Will Byers and the others in the party. Through the months of quarantine, however, he attempts to strengthen the bond he shares with his first ever companion in order to protect him and the fate of the world from the grasp of Vecna - all the while navigating the halls, academics, and heartbreaks of his hectic junior year of high school.
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waking thought, sweet dream, and my everything in between by aviannabuckley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jul 2025
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The grass underneath them was slowly dying due to the toxicity as they got further and further towards the cabin. “It feels different this time.”
He felt Mike falter slightly beside him but they continued to walk together. Will could feel his burning gaze on the side of his head but chose to ignore it. “Different how?”
Mike turned to him slightly but Will couldn’t find it in himself to meet his eyes, staring straight ahead at the wooden door. “Like it’s the beginning of the end.”
Or where Hawkins turns into a living nightmare and Will and Mike are still internally dealing with their feelings for each other.
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After Vecna attacks, the Byers are back in Hawkins and are staying with the Wheelers! El is in Holly's room, Jonathan’s in Nancy's room (with the door open 3 inches), Holly’s staying in her parents room, Hopper and Joyce are in the guest room, and Will is in Mike's room. All is going as well as it can with inter dimensional monsters all over the place. However a problem does arise when Holly develops a little crush!
This was just going to be one chapter, but I like to split the story up, so all the chapters are pretty short.
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A long-overdue update to the down for you is up universe, set between seasons two and three.
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- Part 4 of down for you is up
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Will and Mike basically being oblivious with each others feeling while Lucas and Max have to suffer through it.
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The summer before her junior year, Eleven has an accident as she dives into a lake and hits a log in the water. She injured her C4/C5 vertebrae, and she's now quadriplegic. On top of that, she realizes she can't use her powers anymore.
Max, who survived Vecna's attack thanks to Eleven and who is now recovering from her own injuries, tries to be there for her, as her girlfriend.
They both try to manage their new life and understand how it changes their relationship and their world. Eleven's friends are there to support her through her adaptation, and she slowly learns to live again.
Or: Eleven becomes quadriplegic and Max and her friends help her accomodate.
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- Part 1 of Commissions
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Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! by InsrtName
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2025
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"And then California put so much distance between us all, and it's like. It's like I never grew up. Does that make sense? Like you've all moved on and have your own lives now, and I'm still the kid that needs to be protected."
Mike nods.
"Yeah... shit, I didn't even realise, I'm sorry."
"No, it's fine—God—Don't apologise, you're the only one treating me like a normal human being!" Will punches his shoulder playfully.He pauses, retracting his arm and bringing it to fidget with his other hand, looking down at them like he wants to say something else.
"I just wish... I could be more at ease around them. The more they treat me like a kid, the more I feel like I need to act like one."
He looks back up at Mike, biting his lip as if debating adding to that statement. Mike gives an encouraging smile."I wish I could be more like you."
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Mike and Will bring out the best and most honest parts of each other by pretending to be in love, for a game of course.
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Once A Spy, Always A Spy (Forever, Whatever) by jasperthejester
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
30 May 2025
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At the end of the day, Mike loved his job.
Who wouldn’t? The thrill of a chase, the sneaking and snooping around, kept alert by the exhilaration bubbling just below the surface, getting glimpses of luxurious parties and lifestyles that he thoroughly savored in the few moments before his mission took over. The rush of triumph that washes over him when he snags files or places bugs in particularly good places, the glory that came with being one of the best in the business. He wouldn’t trade being a spy for the world.
No, he wouldn’t trade it for anything. That doesn’t mean he enjoyed it all, though.
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Or, a 1906's spies AU where Mike --after failing to save Will on a mission-- returns to the spy business in an attempt to move past his grief. While grappling with his lingering guilt, he finds himself entangled in a web full of supernatural occurrences, unexpected allies, and secrets that change everything.
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Or or, the Stranger Things x Spies are Forever Au no one asked for. -
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Mike wouldn’t imagine his first school dance with anyone else but Will.
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- Part 3 of stranger things