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After the events of season 4, close proximity forces Mike and Will to confront their feelings for one another. Secretly dating, the boys navigate how to love each other in a world that denies them the right to. Note- I will not be writing in depth homophobic scenes, as they serve no purpose in this story. They will be loved, accepted, and supported.
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“Mike,” Will breathes.
Mike looks up, his lips hovering over Will’s collarbone. In Will’s eyes, he sees fire. Hunger. Desperation. He kisses Will’s collar, slow and soft. He wants the hunger to remain. He watches Will’s eyes close and hears a low hum of pleasure. Taking this cue, Mike shifts so that he is facing Will, his knees between Will’s legs. He kisses his shoulder, then neck. Mike looks at Will for permission to continue. Will’s eyes are still closed, head facing the stars.
“Love,” Mike whispers. “Look at me.”
Will’s brilliant green eyes open, hunger blazing. He kisses Will on the mouth, now, deep and wanting, hands on either side of his face, pulling Will toward him. Will accepts the kisses, accepts Mike’s wandering tongue, accepts his bite.
Take more. Take all of me. Take whatever you want. I’m yours.
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Holly Wheeler has been missing for three months. For two months, she's been presumed dead.
Well, Will Byers won't have it. He believes the police completely botched the case, making a terrible false accusation for murder. And he needs to save Holly to save the love of his life, to make him happy again.
Or at least figure out what happened to her...Or: Byler as agggtm
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- Part 1 of A lost Boy's Guide to Murder
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During the summer of '85, the kids discover that Will is still connected to the Mind Flayer. At the same time, Billy starts acting weird and Max is unsure if she is safe at home. Nancy and Jonathan discover the nasty truth about the Mind Flayer and nearly meet their end. After an argument with Mike, Will goes missing again as he gets stuck with Robin, Steve, and Dustin in a secret Russian base below Starcourt Mall. Having upset both Will and El, Mike tries asking Lucas for help to win them back. As El spies on Billy, she realizes something is seriously wrong. The kids, Jonathan, Nancy and Joyce work to figure out where Will and Dustin are and how it all ties to the upside down.
TLDR: Fix-It-Fic for ST S3-5
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- Part 1 of Stranger Things S3-5 rewrite
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In Hawkins, Indiana, they call Eddie Munson a freak because of his loud mouth, his heavy metal music, and his late-night Dungeon Master theater. It’s a perfect smoke screen. It gives the town a reason to hate him on his own terms.
In reality, the "freak" label is a vicious, intimate whisper that has followed him since Uncle Wayne pulled his five-year-old body out of a violent Kentucky cabin. Born at home in an Appalachian holler, Eddie completely escaped the non-consensual medical knives of the 1960s, growing up whole, willowy, and lean
Now it’s 1983. Eddie is a freshman just trying to navigate the sensory nightmare of high school, his monthly cycle, and the quiet, bittersweet knowledge that being himself is always going to make him the freak no matter where he is.
This is a heavy, gritty, hyper-detailed multi-generational pre-canon backstory and slow-burn Steddie romance. Holding nothing back on 1970s and 1980s real-world grit.
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The (Hints In The) Stories I Write by slowburnfirelily
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Aug 2026
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In college, Mike Wheeler, the English major writes stories he hopes to publish one day. As he evolves, and meets new people he begins to write about romance and is completely oblivious to the hints he subconsciously places in his stories. He begins to grapple with a feeling of uncertainty; as though he is missing something. As he comes to new realizations throughout Christmas break, he finds it incredibly hard to keep his cool surrounding the idea of missing his shot at love.
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you asked me to stay (I always will) by honeyblossomx
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Aug 2026
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“Well for starters you’re bright red and a horrible liar and secondly, I’m sitting right on top of you Mike, I can feel it.”
“Oh, uh….Sorry.”
“It’s okay, it happens to everyone. Now tell me, why did you scream ‘Shit.’?”
“Oh, um well, you kinda explained it yourself..”
“Oh! Well I guess bestfriends think alike!”
“Yeah!” he tells Will, then mutters under his breath “Bestfriends…”
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It’s September 1989, baby.
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers finally leave Hawkins for NYU: Will for fine art, Mike for biology on a pre-med track he swears is a “compromise.”
New York was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, it turns their “friends—no, thanks—best friends” truce into something impossible to ignore.
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A romantic tragicomedy about living as broke-ass students in NYC in 1989/1990, becoming adults and finding their people. And they make out AND date, of course.Set during the AIDS crisis. Because you don’t get to be queer in New York without it in the room.
But they’re going to be okay. Promise.Comments are always appreciated!
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The Byers were only supposed to stay with the Wheelers temporarily.
Mike doesn’t see why they should leave at all.
After everything Will’s been through, the least he can do is make sure he has a place to stay—even if that means sharing his room again.
Mike’s pretty sure it won’t be weird.
Probably.
OR: Sharing a room with your best friend shouldn’t be a big deal.
Mike is about to learn that it might be.
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High school brings many new challenges to the Hawkins Boys, trying to balance friendships, commitments and the chaos of high school social life. However... For Mike Wheeler, one old struggle seems to have returned to him. As it seems the former protection of his Middle School bully's suspension is now, of course, null and void now that they have both entered High school. So Miss Krane is back, and she remembers Mike Wheeler. Just as much as he remembers her. But they have both changed quite considerably, and perhaps their relationship might become something more.
New Chapters Every Saturday!
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Mike Wheeler is destroyed after Will Byers leaves for NYU. He is dejected and does not have the courage to tell anyone about his true feelings for his childhood best friend or to reply to any of the letters Will has sent him over the year. Will comes back to Hawkins for summer break and Mike finally has to confront his fears.
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The war is over. Vecna is dead. Hawkins is finally quiet.
The Party is planning college, apartments in New York, and the future they fought so hard to have. For the first time in years, everything feels... normal.
Then Will receives a phone call from his mother.
One letter. One drunken mistake from California. One little girl he never knew existed.
Suddenly, the future he's dreamed of with Mike is thrown into question.
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Will Byers thought surviving monsters would be the hardest part of growing up. He was wrong.
🔞= smut in the chapter
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Mike just wanted to hide. He didn't mean to grab porn from the bttom shelf of family video he was just hiding from Billy.
But then the camrea flashes and Mikes life now belongs to Billy Hargrove.
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it's just not my year (but i'm all good out here) by Wonderlander090
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Aug 2026
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Karen Wheeler doesn’t know much anymore, but she does know this: Something is wrong with her daughter.
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Nancy’s journey into queerness and self-acceptance, detailed through the eyes of her mother.
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How to Get Your Best Friend to Fall in Love With You by paperandpulse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Aug 2026
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Mike Wheeler realizes he’s in love with his best friend. Naturally, he does the only reasonable thing: he creates a plan to make Will fall in love with him.
Unfortunately, falling in love is a lot easier than following the plan.
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Legend has it an invisible red thread connects two souls destined to find one another, no matter how far apart they may wander.
Nancy and Steve have spent years testing that theory.
Somewhere between a reunion, a lost sweater, and a second chance, they finally discover they weren't moving away from each other after all.
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When Nancy is kicked out of her apartment, she finds an advertisement to a nearby place looking for another roommate. To her surprise, Steve and Robin live there together...with Robin's girlfriend Vickie. Complicated feelings on all sides ensue, and soon it becomes apparent that honesty might be the only policy that saves lives in the end. Title is from a poem that I wrote.
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An entire Stranger Things season 5 rewrite with every single scene.
Byler, Lumax, Jancy, Jopper, Henderhop, Rockvickie, Creelby
mention on Mileven, Stonathan if you squint, Stancy, Ronance, Bob and Joyce. Mostly platonic.Major character deaths, happy ending with a sprinkle of bittersweet.
I try to focus on all characters and ships, but my heart is leaning into Byler, so I focus a little bit more on Byler.
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February, 1991. Mike Wheeler is nearing the end of his sophomore year at the local community college in Hawkins, Indiana. While the rest of his friends have seemed to move on with their lives, he remains stuck in his childhood bedroom, spending all of his free time slaving over his novel and reliving the traumatic memories from the Upside Down. Nearly every night, he is plagued with vivid nightmares of Eleven's disappearance. The only relief he can find comes from writing unsent letters to Will the Sorcerer. When his childhood best friend makes plans to stay with him during spring break, Mike's dreams shift dramatically, centering around Will instead of Eleven. As he rekindles his relationship with his best friend, he must figure out what it all means. Is his brain just processing things, or is it something more?
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Everyone in Hawkins knows how things are supposed to work. Alphas lead, omegas follow, and people grow into the roles they're meant to fill. Mike is expected to present alpha, just like his father. Will Byers is expected to present omega, just like everyone assumes.
But expectations have a funny way of being wrong.
When Will presents alpha, Mike begins to realize that the rules everyone built their lives around might not be nearly as reliable as they think.
STATUS: Currently undergoing rewrite and new content posted as of 8/15/26