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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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“You guys have gotten really close.” Mike tells her, trying to make conversation but unable to really hold a steady tone. Instead it comes off condescending. “Will’s allowed to have more than one friend, you know?” Robin replies, and Mike cannot believe her right now. Seriously, she comes in here out of nowhere and thinks she knows Will better than Mike? “I never said he couldn’t.” Mike shoots back. “Plus, are you guys seriously just friends?” Mike says, his eyes narrowing. And again, Robin's eyebrows shoot up. “Very much so, just friends. Like, the emphasis on very is almost comical-” Robin laughs nervously and quickly shuts herself up. “But, why would it matter so much?” Robin continues, a different look in her eye. “It doesn’t matter.” Mike says. “I was just asking.” Any and all forms of tears that might’ve been on Mike’s face are gone now, because he's strictly just annoyed. “Look, I promise you we’re just friends. Sometimes… you just need someone to go to for other things. He’s still your best friend, Wheeler.”
- ⋆˙⟡ Post-Sorcerer aftermath, Mike's POV. Taking care of Will as they're mostly backed into a corner with everything. With a side of Robin noticing what Mike's oblivious to.- Language:
- English
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- 16,562
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 185
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08 Jan 2026
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Will's been acting— strange, Mike thinks. He's caught Will skulking around the house like he's got lead weights attached to his ankles, watched his eyes blink listlessly without a hint of light in their irises, heard his voice go so raspy Mike wasn't sure he'd been speaking at all. Mike can’t help but worry.
He doesn’t look too good, either; clammy skin, pale, ashen face, hollowed cheeks like he’s hardly eaten in days. Will's acting half-dead already, and the world's not even close to ending yet.
Mike, on the other hand, is being slowly tormented by a strange monster with fangs long enough to spear him through. These two things— Will's strange behavior, and Mike's impending doom— may or may not be related, but Mike's got to figure it out. One way or another.
(Or; Will puts his life on the line to keep his friends safe, and nearly loses it entirely. Mike does all he can to bring Will back— and, in the process, brings them closer together than ever before.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,189
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 280
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- 2,312
- Bookmarks:
- 531
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- 41,195
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04 Jan 2026
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palms and fingerprints are stained all red by sapphosfreckles
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2025
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“I always knew you were…”
“What?”
“Magic.”
Jesus. Now it was Will’s turn to blush.
There are snowballs, and then there’s… that.
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After the fight at the MAC-Z, Will cleans the wound on Mike's cheek in the radio station bathroom.
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03 Jan 2026
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i’d love to see me from your point of view by unidentifiedblackthorn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2022
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Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.
“I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.
“Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”
“Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”
Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”
“Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.
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Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.
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- Part 1 of nobody's ever loved me like you do
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,191
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 462
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- 21,402
- Bookmarks:
- 3,784
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- 225,415
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03 Jan 2026
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The Right Idea by candlelitheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
09 Jul 2022
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“Yeah, you said that but I’m having trouble understanding.”
“What’s there to understand?” Will asks him.
Mike contemplates, then says “Why you’re so quick to defend me.”
Oh, he’s so fucked. Beyond fucked, even. If there’s such a thing.
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01 Jan 2026
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At some point, Mike had come up with a plan that he thought was pretty genius. Every time Will had a nightmare, he would quickly wrap the boy up in his arms before his friend even had a second to protest. He would hold the boy until he fell asleep and, often, they would wake up in the same position. He did this in the hopes he would not only comfort his friend, but also make him feel less embarrassed about his nightmares.
Before he could lose his nerve, Mike laid back down on the bed, opening his arms wide; he hoped Will had adjusted to the darkness enough to see his movement.
“C’mere,” He blurted.
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Or, Will wakes up from a nightmare and Mike helps in the best way he knows how: Cuddles. Which would be fine, except for the fact he's been trying to hide his feelings for his best friend since the moment he touched down in California.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,305
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 73
- Kudos:
- 6,011
- Bookmarks:
- 657
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- 64,427
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01 Jan 2026
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Of course Will is here. They take care of each other. It’s what they do.
or: Mike and Will, through the years and in between the lines of friendship and something more.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,326
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 221
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- 8,647
- Bookmarks:
- 1,770
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- 96,977
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01 Jan 2026
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It isn’t before Will is inside Mike’s two-bedroom apartment for the first time that Mike realizes a part of him had expected the world to implode as soon as he stepped past the threshold, as if Will’s presence in Mike’s apartment would trigger some sort of ancient curse or something.
The world doesn’t implode. But it’s a strangely sobering feeling, having this person who used to know everything about him, who used to practically live in his house, eye the wall decorations and the furniture with none of that age-old familiarity.
Or: Five years after the Byers family leaves Hawkins, Mike and Will rediscover each other within a small apartment in New York.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,943
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 112
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- 1,287
- Bookmarks:
- 296
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- 13,280
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01 Jan 2026
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Mike feels a little or a lot, never controlled and always one extreme or the other. It’s visible in the way he snaps at his friends when he gets too angry or too upset, and it’s audible in his relentless stutter that appears when there’s attention on him. It’s laced in the lies that he grinds out through his teeth, claiming that he’s fine, and it’s in the fight to appear as though he’s swimming gently through a body of water when in reality he can’t keep afloat.
His feelings are like waves, gentle or all consuming as they rise and fall with the tide, and nothing drowns him quite like Will Byers.
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mike falls apart one drunken night. will helps piece him back together.Bookmarked by InkBySam
01 Jan 2026
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It was easy for Will Byers to fall in love with Mike Wheeler.
The trouble came when he had to pretend it wasn't real.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 189,454
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,649
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- 20,912
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- 4,557
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- 739,657
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01 Jan 2026
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Mike’s voice made Will jump as he returned to the room, the latter turning to face him, who was now clean and wearing pyjamas, but holding another set in his hands.
“I- I figured all your clothes would be back in California, so you can wear mine… if you want? Feel free to have a shower too. It’s been a while since you’ve been able to have one.”
(Or: Will Byers stays at Mike Wheeler's house after returning to Hawkins, and needs some clothes and a bed... why not share with the boy you've been in love with for years?)
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01 Jan 2026
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,825
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 166
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- 6,126
- Bookmarks:
- 1,704
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- 121,505
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01 Jan 2026
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“Do you want to go home?” He questions, leaning close and voice soft, and Will pauses, before nodding again. Mike lets out a breath, and lets his hand press against Will a little more firmly when he starts to sway in place again. “Okay, let’s go.”
Then he looks up and is met with smug faces, and Mike flushes when he realizes his own hypocrisy.
“I don’t talk like that,” Max recalls, voice high-pitched and overly girly and – Mike definitely doesn’t talk like that.
According to everyone in his life, Mike has a voice reserved just for Will. He tries to figure out what that says about him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,959
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 296
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- 17,918
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- 3,111
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- 146,873
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01 Jan 2026
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,371
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 1,189
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- 7,550
- Bookmarks:
- 1,768
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- 126,665
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01 Jan 2026
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“It’s a good thing,” Will reassures, and his thumb swipes over Mike’s cheek. Mike thinks he might explode. “It means you’re nice to look at. Artists would love you.”
Mike’s heart feels like it’s about to burst out of his chest. Will is still looking at him, and he swallows, throat dry. “Yeah?”
Will’s own face reddens, like he’d just thought about what he said. “Yeah,” he answers, and Mike grins.Living in a shared apartment with Will is all Mike could ask for, except for the part where he keeps thinking about kissing Will in the middle of their kitchen.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,645
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 148
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- 5,930
- Bookmarks:
- 1,303
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- 64,447
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01 Jan 2026
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Will raises his eyebrows. “Is that why you came in here?” he repeats, looking back down at the blue flannel. “To ask me about the weather in Lenora?”
“Kind of,” Mike says, and then, “well no, not about the weather specifically. I just– I wanted to talk to you.”
“Oh.” And Will looks a lot more surprised at this, actually, than the idea that Mike might have just wanted to come to his room to make small talk about unseasonably frigid California winters. “Okay. What about?”
“Anything.” The response is embarrassingly immediate. “Everything. I don’t know. I missed you.”
Hawkins, 1986. The world is ending, there are too many people in Mike's house, and to top it all off, he and Will have some things to talk through.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,728
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 603
- Kudos:
- 9,806
- Bookmarks:
- 2,761
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- 212,749
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01 Jan 2026
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“I'm trying my best.”
“I know.”
“At everything.”
( The world makes clay out of Will and he doesn't want to be put back together, just held. This time he lets himself have it.)
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01 Jan 2026
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Who wouldn’t want a best friend with benefits during the apocalypse? ;)
(Don’t look at Mike and Will…)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,606
- Chapters:
- 10/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 148
- Kudos:
- 768
- Bookmarks:
- 78
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- 27,482
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01 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,632
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 14,188
- Kudos:
- 197,266
- Bookmarks:
- 30,279
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- 2,664,457
Bookmarked by InkBySam
01 Jan 2026