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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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“I wouldn’t be who I am without you… and… whatever happens next— I just need you to know that no matter what—” he said with a choked voice. “You’ll always be important to me.”
Whatever happens next... no matter what...
Will felt his soul slowly leaving his body.
Time seemed suspended, as if they were trapped in a parallel reality.
Then Will started to cry. A terrible cry, sobbing and heaving. The tears streamed down like a waterfall and he didn’t even try to stop them, he just lay there, in the arms of the man he loved and who, apparently, was preparing him for the inevitable end.
will thinks mike is preparing to leave him. mike is preparing to ask him to marry him. these turn out to be very different things, as you can imagine
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Red Strings and Orange Juice by courfee for drarriesliv, thefuckinrainbow
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 May 2026
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James Potter has Regulus’ name written out across his heart. Or, well, not Regulus’ name. The one that his parents gave him. The one Sirius hasn’t called him anymore since Regulus corrected him that first meeting after nearly a decade of no contact. The one he never wanted to hear again.
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or: the struggles of being trans in a society where your soulmate is determined by a name tattooed on your chest -
The Price Is Right (The Advice Was Wrong) by discomedley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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“No, Robin, you don’t get it. I’ve known those boys basically their entire lives, Mike is not Will’s Tammy. It’s just, like—” he huffed, frustrated now. “It’s not even a comparable situation.”
Robin didn’t seem to get it. “Sure it is! Mike’s straight, and Will’s crush on him is what helped him to come to terms with his feelings. It’s a completely comparable situation.”
Steve grabbed his keys from the dish next to the front door and started shoving on his shoes without a second thought.
“Where are you going?” Robin asked, gesturing back to The Price is Right on the TV. “This isn’t even a re-run!”
“There are more important things than the big showcase right now, Robin. You’ve led little Byers completely astray here, and I’ve gotta go fix it.”
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Steve finds out that Mike is Will's Tammy and has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
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The smile that spreads across Mike’s face is involuntary, like it must exist in Will’s presence. It’s like he waters the parched soil of his mind.
Mike doesn’t realize how badly he needs him until he’s had a drink. And right now, he thinks this weekend is exactly what he’s been needing.
OR: After years of grappling with his feelings, Mike visits Will in Chicago for a weekend during his junior year of college.
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- Part 1 of SKYA Universe
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For someone like Mike, it is never enough to just be an onlooker. He can’t be passive, not now, especially when the opportunity is practically thrown at his face.
Kiss your homie for 5 seconds and win a brand new TV!
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19 May 2026
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05 May 2026
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“I—I would tell you.” He says reflexively, but he doesn’t take it back. The words are true. He hears Mike’s breath catch and his hand twitches. “I just wouldn’t want you to– to pity me. Or see me… differently.”
“I would never.” The response is instant. “You’re strong. I’d never pity you. I… god, how do I explain?” Mike turns his body to face Will head on and grabs his hand properly. Will feels a shiver run through him, but he squeezes back all the same. “I’m sorry. I’m so fucking sorry, for what you’ve been through, whatever it is. But it would never, never make me look at you differently.”
“Promise?”
“I promise."
Or: Will breaks down after the events at the MAC Z and trusts Mike to help him pick up the pieces.
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15 bucks says we know by the end of junemy stalker
Whoa someone’s confidentdustin
you guys are not seriously betting on thisdustin
how bored are you????el
Verydustin
fine 10 bucks says nothing’s going on between them and you’re all insanemy stalker
Are we bad people for betting on thisdustin
probablyOr: The party (and some special guests) place bets on whether or not Will and Mike are together.
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29 Apr 2026
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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“Isn’t that lonely?” Max had asked early on in their friendship, after Lucas and Dustin had offhandedly mentioned his aversion to affection. Mike couldn’t even be mad at them for having brought it up. It wasn’t typically a topic they avoided; it was simply a given. A rule. Mike was to be left out of group hugs and celebratory pats on the shoulder. To Max, however, it seemed to be a mystery.
Mike hadn’t really thought of it as lonely. He never saw hugs as something he was missing out on. He didn’t crave them like Will seemed to. He simply did not care.
At least, he usually didn’t.
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Mike was battling with being both touch averse and touch starved. There was only one person who he’d even consider turning to; one person whose hands didn’t cause his skin to erupt in flames.
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16 Apr 2026
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I Was Made For Lovin' You, Baby (You Were Made For Lovin' Me) by occasionalpisser
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Apr 2026
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Halting his blubbing, Mike blinks his eyes back open and allows for his vision to adjust to the unreasonably bright light that’s still surrounding him. His head lolls to the side, vision still coming in and out of focus as he tries to take in the image in front of him, blocking out all of his other senses.
Mike squints and… Oh.
Okay—why is God the dictionary definition of the word 'gorgeous'?
OR: Upon getting his wisdom teeth removed, Mike Wheeler doesn't remember much of anything—including Will Byers, and the fact that they're married to each other. He still feels all the love and adoration he has for the man, though... so he can't be blamed if it all comes spilling out of him in one way or another.
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15 Apr 2026
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“Your boyfriend?” she prompted, speaking quite slowly and carefully as though she was talking to a toddler, “You know, the fake boyfriend you use as an excuse every time someone asks you out?”
Will blinked surprisedly, then cracked up laughing, “What?” he said, “Fake boyfriend?” he repeated, grinning, “You do realise — you know my boyfriend isn’t fake, right? I do have a boyfriend. For the past year and a half, actually.”
Will Byers’ boyfriend is something of a myth amongst the residents of RISD. Nobody has met him, he supposedly helped to save Will’s life, and he goes to Brown. Seriously… who is this guy?
Or; Byler from the perspective of Will’s college friends.
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13 Apr 2026
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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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11 Apr 2026
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if i stop laughing, all the blood will just start pouring out by cyclamoon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2025
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“You should go back to sleep”, Mike mutters, but Will’s eyes are already flying over his face, and he is probably taking in the embarrassing number of tears, and the sweaty hair sticking onto his forehead and—
“You’re bleeding”, Will whispers, and then, as if the realization strikes just now as he says it out loud, his voice increases in volume, but shakes harder all the more, “Mike, there’s— there’s blood pouring from your mouth.”
Mike would have been perfectly content with never exploring the depth of his repressed feelings, if it wasn't for the deadly flowers blooming in his lungs.
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01 Apr 2026
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“Alright,” Max murmured. “I’m starting. Harrington. Discuss.”
Will made a happy, breathy sound. “Oh my God,” he whispered. “Steve is so….”
“So what?” Max pressed, already laughing. “Come on, out with it!”
Will sighed. “So, so dreamy.”
Lucas’s shoulder bumped Mike’s.
Max snorted, pleased. “Thank you!”
Will kept going, words spilling out now that he’d started. “It’s the hair and that stupid jacket.” He laughed, then dropped his voice. “Also, he’s got huge hands.”
Mike scowled.
Lucas’ shoulders shook beside him, silent laughter vibrating the floor. He leaned in and whispered, “Huge hands, huh.”
Mike hissed, “Shut up.”
Max, meanwhile, sounded delighted. “He totally does. Also, I saw him a few years ago with his shirt off and, oh my God!”
Mike side-eyed Lucas. From the face he was making, it looked like he didn’t think the situation was so funny anymore. Hmph.
After Stacey’s party, the gang ends up at the Wheeler house for an unplanned sleepover. Mike and Lucas eavesdrop on Max and Will’s “girl talk” and stumble into a confession Mike was never meant to hear.
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01 Apr 2026
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“You can keep flapping, or whatever it was you were doing when I came in,” Will says. “You don’t need to hide that from me. It’s not like I didn’t see it when we were kids.”
Oh. That. Mike doesn’t do that anymore. He’s not supposed to. It was childish even then, at the ripe age of eight. That’s what his mom and teachers said, at least. They’d make fun of him for all sorts of stuff— fidgeting, rocking, chewing on his fingers. He’s grown up now. He doesn’t need it.
Will must read the hesitation on his face, because he nudges his shoe again. “Come on. I know you want to. It always used to help when you were upset like this.”
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Mike doesn’t understand why he’s suddenly lost all control over his thoughts and actions. Will seems to know Mike’s habits better than he himself does.
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28 Mar 2026
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Will Byers has been aching for as long as he can remember. Sometimes it feels as though he was born aching, a gaping wound from the moment his infant lungs took in a breath of air and cried.
Now he’s eighteen, and he tries to imagine a future where he smiles easily, where every day doesn’t feel like a battle, but the thought collapses into grey ash. In that ash, he catches a flash of his child self smiling, a ghost of innocence he can never return to. He will never be that kid again. He will never get that time back, and he will spend his life regretting it all.
Or: Will’s depression has gotten bad again, and Mike refuses to let him face it alone, even as Will tries to push him away.
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28 Mar 2026
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Mike points between them again, eyes bright now with unmistakable fascination. “You’re literally the same person.”
“Mike.”
“That’s so—”
“Creepy,” Will finishes.
“Weird,” supplies the girl at the same time.
Mike grins. “Awesome.”
[Or: The one where Willow shows up, and everyone learns a thing or two about universal constants.]
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- Part 2 of parallel hearts
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19 Mar 2026