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    “Can I hug you?” he repeated, voice smaller now. He desperately hoped that Will would say yes.

    He didn’t want to, but he held eye contact with Will for as long as it took Will to search his expression. For what, Mike didn’t know, but after a long moment, Will finally nodded. “Yeah, Mike, you can hug me.” And Mike didn’t hesitate to haul Will back to his feet so he could hug him properly, full-bodied and chest to chest.

    “I’m so sorry, Will,” he murmured into Will’s hair. “I’m so sorry.”

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    In which Mike and El decide to end their relationship in favor of being friends, he punches Troy Walsh, and finally allows himself to feel what he feels for Will while they work on patching up their friendship so that maybe, someday, he can be brave enough to ask for more - not necessarily in that order. A bit of a prequel to the first fic in the series, though they can be read as standalones.

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    27 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    Mike gulped and leaned over the side of the building again, ignoring the shaking in his hands. He noted that Cleric was holding onto the side of the fire escape below him, not moving, instead staring up at him with an expression that radiated worry.

    Great, he even had the criminal concerned for him.

    Scowling, Mike shook out his hands and moved over to where the lip of the roof met the ladder down to the fire escape and slowly made his way down it like a normal person would. Because he was normal and not crazy like Cleric was. Jumping over the edge of a building and grabbing the outside of the fire escape frame to climb down? Like what the hell???

    Mike ignored how his hands shook as he made his way down the side of the building. Slowly.

    It was kind of embarrassing.

    OR: Six times Mike nearly caught the Cleric-- an infamous thief alongside his twin sister, the Mage-- but didn’t, and the one time he did.

    Originally for Byler Week 2022 (Very late. Because the event ended already oops)

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    26 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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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.

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    25 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 37

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    Eddie Kaspbrak is the 2nd best kept secret of Derry, Maine, trailing closely behind It. He is the town's main urban legend of late, a boy who bikes at night with half his face missing and angry red looking skin that seems to scream about pain.

    At least, he was just an urban legend until one fateful night, June 1989, he runs into a group walking home from the movies.

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    25 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 73

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    In a world where your soulmate's last words to you appear on your skin on your thirteenth birthday, Eddie is quietly panicking over his, which reads, "Don't talk, don't talk, you're gonna be fine." Not exactly the last words he was hoping for.

    Richie teases him about being so worked up over it, and Eddie puts it out of his mind. At least until Richie's thirteenth birthday when he comes to school with a pale face and his arm tightly covered in bandages, not meeting anyone's eyes and avoiding the asthmatic boy like the plague.

    Eddie decides to get to the bottom of it.

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    24 Sep 2025