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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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21 Jun 2026
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Will Byers has never met the night-shift barista he keeps fighting with through sticky notes. However, after a scheduling mix-up, electrical issues, and one long night, things start getting a lot more complicated.
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(very late) Day 6 of #sttwtpride2026: Enemies to Lovers
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- Part 4 of sttwtpride2026
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09 Jun 2026
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we thought this place was haunted (it was just us) by secretxgardensinmyxmind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2026
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Two years after his husband’s death, Mike Wheeler lives quietly in a cliffside mansion with his eight year old daughter and more ghosts than he knows what to do with. He doesn’t talk about the past.
Will Byers isn’t looking for love when he takes the live-in cook job at Rosecliff Manor. He's just trying to start over in a new town, with a new job and with the walls carefully built around his heart.
Living under the same roof wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But grief recognizes grief.
And sometimes healing looks a lot like falling in love.
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- Part 1 of we thought this place was haunted
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09 Jun 2026
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They're Not You (A Bravebyers One Shot) by Eggsbaconcheese
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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My first entry into the Bravebyers verse
Paladin Michael attempts (and fails) to console Will after a night terror, making it clear that Mike is the only one who can really be what Will needs.
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28 May 2026
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An early flight, candles in a stack of pancakes, and a box of Reese’s Pieces.
Mike Wheeler has a plan to make Will’s nineteenth birthday perfect--if he can just stop being an idiot long enough to say the words.
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Will gets surprised, romanced and spoiled all day by a flustered Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 1 of Icing on the cake
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26 May 2026