lympathetic
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Will Byers is possessed. Again. But this time it's coming for him fast and hard, and it's not something they can just force out by poking him with a fire iron; he needs a different form of release, and Mike Wheeler has been waiting.
It's El that answers for Will, and for every truth that she utters everything begins to click into place.
"Will would need someone to help him."
And there it finally is, the undeniable truth: Someone needs to fuck Will through it. It doesn't land like a sucker punch to the gut that would have left him winded like Mike had expected. Instead, the fact consumes him like a sudden blast of cold wind, eliciting a tingle in his skin and leaving goosebumps in its wake to travel from his arms up to his shoulders and to his nape, at the back of his ears. He feels it settle in his scalp like a hundred pinpricks from a needle.
"I'll do it."
Mike signs his death sentence in three words. He finds it hard to regret—even poor bastards due for the executioner's block are granted their last meal, after all.
Or: byler Fuck Or Die, wherein mike has to exorcise will by fucking the possession out of him as it is actively ongoing.
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“Then explain why, Tobio-kun, instead of Kageyama, what is written on your paper instead is ‘Tsukishima?’”
There is silence inside the faculty office. So, Tsukishima tries to put Kageyama out of his misery because the boy looked two more words from Tachibana-sensei away from falling dead flat on the floor unresponsive. He gets straight to the point, not wanting to drag this out any longer lest he joins Kageyama in his trembling.
“Sensei, if I may speak; Kageyama asked for my help for this homework because he wasn't able to answer it in time. The bell rang before I could walk him through the lesson, so I just told him to copy the answers directly from mine. In his panic, he must have copied my name, too.”
or: Tsukishima and Kageyama bond through long walks, homeworks, and occasionally shit talking their classmates.
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You may not look like it, but you have always been a firm believer in soulmates.
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"He plugs the projector into the wall with gusto, and the beam of light jets out of the lens and clears the white wall next to their broken TV. In large Times New Roman, Mike’s words flash at them. Why I Should Be Your Boyfriend, and in tinier font below, A Briefing by Mike Wheeler."
(or) the one where Mike makes a presentation to convince Will to be his boyfriend.
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“You’re not coming this summer. I haven’t seen you in a year and a half and I know it’s-it’s pathetic—“
“It’s not pathetic,” Will interjects quickly, shaking his head, “It’s not—“
“It is, Will,” he hears Mike’s voice break over another hitched breath, “I know you’re… I just want you to be happy. I never want you to come back to Hawkins, but I’m fucking selfish. I’m so selfish, and I’m sorry.”
Will lets the tears spill over and he lets that want that’s always itching under his skin show itself.
“My whole life I’ve missed you every second you’ve been away from me,” Will confesses quietly into the receiver.
If you’re pathetic, I’m wretched.
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Not long after the final battle, Mike and Will were inseparable– until Will moved out to New York.
Despite the weekly calls and the freedom of living their lives without terror, there’s no world in which they could last so long apart without it feeling like torture.
Will gets a call, and three days later, Mike is at his doorstep.
It only takes a day for them to fall back together again.
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Bookmarked by lympathetic
08 Jul 2026
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maybe the most beautiful and tender byler i have ever read <3
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“Am I hard to read?” Mike asks, his tone harsh and his grip on Will’s wrist harsher, “I’m hard to read?”
How can you tell if someone has a crush on you when they're hard to read? Will had claimed. And it ticked Mike off because who else could he possibly be referring to? How many other hard to read people has he been in love with? No, scratch that, how many people has Will been in love with at all?
Mike has known him all his life.
And he has some nerve trying to paint Mike as the villain; as if he hasn't been sitting here with his chest open and his heart hanging on display for the better half of the past hour, begging Will to reciprocate even a fraction of how he feels for him.
or the one where byler finally talk without being interrupted. things get off to a rocky start, but between mike's candour and will's patience, i think they'll work this out just fine
Bookmarked by lympathetic
24 Jun 2026
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As if Mike’s heart doesn’t skip where it sits: melded with the skin of Will’s open palms.
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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19 Jun 2026
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beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
I’ll see you in Paris - M.B-W
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"We're basically a cover band, but Mike’s actually been doing a bit of songwriting as well. And we want to debut his first song tonight for you guys before we go. So forgive him for slowing things down and getting sappy."
What is happening?
Mike wrote a song?
A slow song?
A sappy song?
Oh god. A wave of sickness stirs in his gut.
He's been writing songs for El… that's what this is.
Or: The one where Vecna was defeated in Season 4, nobody died, Hellfire is a band, and Mike Wheeler can't stop writing love songs.
Bookmarked by lympathetic
19 Jun 2026
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"You look good in my shirt," Mike says into his ear.
"Well, apparently I had to wear my boyfriend's shirt… just like everyone else." He gestures toward Max, El, and Steve.
"Boyfriend, huh?"
Will freezes.
"Lucky me," Mike says, tightening his arms and swaying them both to the music.
They sway to the music, then dance. Max and El drag him away for the more upbeat songs, his eyes always finding Mike's to see him smiling back. Each time he meets the gaze of someone else: his mom, Jonathan, or even Mike's mom, he sees nothing but happiness in their eyes.
And in this moment, when Max is twirling him around, and he spins and falls into Mike's arms, causing them both to laugh until Mike leans forward to kiss him sweetly, he feels that finally, everything is going to be okay for them.
More than okay.
They get to have happiness.