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Five years ago, Mike Wheeler destroyed the only person he ever loved with a rejection he told himself was mercy. Now he's an NYPD officer drowning in debt and self-loathing. Will Byers is Manhattan's art-world darling, brilliant and beautiful, hollowed out from the inside, slowly killing himself in ways no one bothers to notice.
When a Mafia money-laundering case turns Will into the only living witness, Mike is assigned to protect the person he once swore to cherish and then shattered with his own hands.
It was only when a bullet buried itself in the chest of the one he loved most that Mike finally understood how merciless fate could be, teaching him the meaning of love at the exact moment it demanded the ultimate price.
But can a heart that has been broken ever deliver mercy to the one who broke it?OR: Mike hasn’t been afraid of dying since 1989. Will has a patron, a penthouse, and a drinking problem nobody asks about. A mafia case forces them back together. The bullets aren’t the dangerous part.
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27 Jun 2026
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Will found it adorable how much Mike resembled a labrador in his behavior, moody, attentive, and loyal; almost like he was Will's guard dog. Will blushed at the thought as he took the bag from Mike and slung it over his shoulder. Their eyes found each other again, when Will was already in Dreamland, and he felt like an open book. He would have to defuse the situation before he threw himself into Mike's arms.
"Good boy." He joked, adjusting and fiddling with the strap on his shoulder. Will had to do his best to distract himself, and soothe his rampaging heart. But Mike didn't laugh, he moaned.
What?
Or, Will and Mike move into a duplex apartment together. Mike is like a clingy puppy, and Will learns how to use that to his advantage.
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25 Jun 2026
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The one where Will Byers goes missing for three days, but there isn’t a monster or an evil alternate dimension.
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A coming-of-age, SLOW BURN story following the party from ages 12 to 16 (loosely following the original Stranger Things timeline, but without the supernatural elements).
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25 Jun 2026
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Will Byers has slowly lost his memories over the years due to the lingering effects of Vecna. So Mike Wheeler, the storyteller, reads to him, hoping that their story, might guide Will back to himself. Back to him.
or: A slow burn friends to lovers that starts in college and follows them through the years, with kicking your feet and giggling moments, angst that burns your chest, and yearning that will have you taking a lap around your room.
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25 Jun 2026
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A different kind of understanding begins to expand in Will’s middle, disconcerting and terrible. Something that no person should feel, ever. Something that he feels regardless. A fucking certainty that being killed would be better than whatever comes next. Because the killer presses his knife to Will’s throat once more, fits it into his open wound in an act that could read as mockery, or a slow, torturous continuation, but when Will winces, nothing happens. The silence kills him, hurts him and revives him all in one toxic cycle. Then, the knife is pulled back… Sheathed again.
And the killer reaches for Will’s hands… slow… languid… the time’s on his side and the Byers house is not alive.
He grabs them. Laces their fingers and moves them above Will’s head. It stretches Will’s body off the stairs--
And in, the killer leans, and in a distorted voice, whispers--
“I can love you, Will.”
Thirteen vicious murders in Hawkins almost lead to a fourteenth. Will was supposed to die on that night. He interested the killer for reasons that are hardly as simple as they're made to seem, and the story of why Mike wants Will has its roots in what happens when love and obsession meet.
Bookmarked by Mary201015
25 Jun 2026