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I Didn't Know There Were Wizards in California by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
10 Jul 2022
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Will ignores a timid reply from his classmate, his focus fully on this strange interloper that could be his best friend’s twin.
Evil twin, as Dustin would say, his voice low and incriminating. Ultraman type shit. Will considers relaying the situation on their upcoming weekly call to make the current situation less unsettling.
The guy is cautiously smiling back now – a reflection of Will’s unconscious expression at the thought of Dustin’s clarification – and it doesn’t falter, even once Will loses his amusement. Instead, the grin widens, almost too big for his face and definitely too big for Mike’s usual range of expression. His eyebrows rise above the rim of his lenses.
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- Part 1 of Belonging to Your Dreams
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17 May 2026
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: A buzzy post-vol 1 fic in which Will finally grows more confident, only for the hivemind’s possession to take it all away again. Mike may be the only one who can bring it back. And the two of them might be the only ones who can save the world.
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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17 May 2026
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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06 May 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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06 May 2026
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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27 Apr 2026
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A gunshot wound leaves Will fading in the back of a rattling vehicle in the aftermath of the Mac-Z battle. They have to keep him awake somehow, and some truths only come out when it’s almost too late.
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21 Apr 2026
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“Yep!” Usopp says, before he can consider the wisdom of lying to a witch or fairie or whatever supernatural creature takes the shape of a frowning boy with yellow oven mitts. “I’m a... a prince, actually.” He cringes, but it’s too late to call back the flustered words, so he has no choice but to commit to the story. “I’m on a mission to greet all my loyal subjects. And, um, collect taxes.” He points at the plate. “One loaf of bread should cover it, for now.”
The boy laughs: a startled sort of sound, like he wasn’t expecting something so loud to come from his own body.
“You’re not a prince,” he says, and Usopp’s face flames, “but I’ll give you the bread.”
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While foraging for food, a starving boy stumbles across a lonely prince in an abandoned watchtower.
or. an usosan rapunzel au for the fall season.
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14 Apr 2026
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The problem started when he and Usopp were split up.
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13 Apr 2026
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I can't let this go (I fight with you in my sleep) by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Mike had been so close to losing him. So close to Will never waking up. So close to the world ending, not because of Vecna, but because Mike couldn’t imagine living in a world where Will wasn’t.
And Mike felt sick with it. Felt ill with how vividly it still lived inside of him. Felt broken by it, like something had cracked open inside him that night and never healed right.
He pressed his shaking hand harder against his chest, as if he could calm the frantic rhythm beneath. As if he could hold the pieces of himself in place.
Will was alive. Breathing. Healing. Laughing again. Will was downstairs right now, probably asleep, probably curled up in that stupid warm blanket of his, safe. Will was doing better than ever.
And Mike?
Mike was slowly falling apart. Quietly. Secretly. Piece by piece.
💕💕💕💕
After getting accidentally locked in the Wheeler basement, Mike and Will pass the time with board games, shared snacks, old movies and conversations they’ve been avoiding for far too long. As fears surface and walls come down, Mike realises that healing doesn’t mean being fearless… it means not being alone. A quiet, tender fic about love, recovery, and choosing each other.
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20 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler’s carefully assembled armor is chipping away. The helm that hides his face and every expression he wears is crumbling to dust at his feet.
He’s about to do something stupid, anyone in the Party can tell.
“... he was just my Tammy.”
Who the fuck was Tammy?
Or, Mike Wheeler and the terrifying ordeal of being seen without his heavy armor— and truly understanding what it means to be Mike the Brave.
(A post-volume 2 Mike Wheeler redemption)
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15 Mar 2026
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Vecna merges his mind with Will's (just like he wants to merge Dimension X with the Right Side Up) and then installs Will as the final puzzle piece in his wormhole clock. With the rest of the group locked in a battle at the Hawkins lab in the Upside Down, Mike is the only one who knows what's happened; all by himself with no plan, can he find a way to get Will back before it's too late?
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In which Will is the key, Mike is the heart, and gay kissing saves the entire known world.
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13 Mar 2026
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“We’ll kill him,” Mike speaks the words like a promise. “And then we’ll spend the rest of our lives forgetting he ever existed, okay? We’ll be happy.”
“Yeah.” Will breathes, squeezing his eyes shut to keep away the tears. He wants it more than anything, but dread curls heavily in his stomach, and the lie makes him feel even sicker. “We’ll be happy.”
Or
Will knows Vecna needs to die. And if he needs to die with him, so be it.
Or
There are actual consequences to Will’s connection to the hive mind, and he actually does very useful shit with his powers.
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08 Mar 2026
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let me steal this moment from you by smoosnoom (moonsooms)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Oct 2022
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Mike moves in his bed, and Will's eyes stay firmly on the ceiling. "I feel like we barely know each other anymore."
And Will can't argue with that, so he replies, "What do you want to know?"
There’s a long lapse of silence, and then –
“Can you come up here?”
In the wreckage, Mike and Will spend a series of nights together.
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- Part 6 of fix-its
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01 Mar 2026
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where did you go? (i should know, but it’s cold) by wolfecoded
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Mar 2025
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After the Mindflayer is banished from Hawkins, Will distances himself from the people who care about him most. Mike wants to know why.
When Mike witnesses one of Will’s all too-common nightmares, secrets are spilled and hearts are broken— then, eventually, pieced back together.
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24 Feb 2026
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(I'm Gonna Give) All My Secrets Away by sunsetreservoir
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Dec 2025
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"I want you to tell me something you haven't told anyone before."
Will took a moment to process the words, but all he could come up with to say in response was, "What?"
"These confessionals always sucked because I knew no matter what I said, I was being judged," Mike explained. "There wasn't someone I trusted on the other side." There was a beat where, for a second, Will was sure he could hear Mike's heart beating. "But we trust each other." It wasn't a question. Will liked that. Liked that Mike still thought of him that way. "So maybe if we just lay it all out on the line, not having to even see the other... maybe we'll get back to how things were."
"But... we already know all of each other's secrets." Will was sure his tone gave away the obvious lie.
"Not anymore."
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Will and Mike are tasked with scoping out Roane Cemetery Church for clues, and the awkwardness between them can't be ignored any longer. Unsure of where they stand, Will and Mike decide to each choose three things to share with each other that no one else knows. The last one could change everything.
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16 Feb 2026
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“You are good at that.” He mumbled. “Words, you know.”
“No, you are the good one at that.”
“No way. I always mess it up when I talk.”
“You don’t.” Will said. “I understand you either way.”
Except maybe he doesn't, because when Mike suddenly kisses him, Will knows it just must be a fluke.
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16 Feb 2026
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“Dude,” Lucas says lowly, pulling Mike aside after Will leaves. “What the hell’s your problem?”
“Huh?” Mike blinks in confusion. He feels a bit dazed, his thoughts as slow as syrup.
“You didn’t say anything!” Lucas hisses. “Will just came out to us, and you didn’t fucking say anything!”
“Oh shit, I didn’t?”
Lucas wears a familiar expression like he’s torn between pulling his hair out or punching Mike in the face.
“I swear to God, Mike,” Lucas threatens. “Find Will and tell him you accept him, or I’ll beat the shit out of you.”
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09 Feb 2026
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Mike is the one who finds Will.
or: in the wake of it all, Will doesn't remember, Mike develops a stress ulcer, and some things get worse before they get better.
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08 Feb 2026
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“Come back here!” Mike pleads.
“I can’t,” Will replies weakly, and he’s sure his voice isn’t strong enough to travel. Mike inches closer, like those few centimeters would make the difference.
“I’m jumping in then!” And then he’s wringing the shoes off, hastily kicking them behind his back.
On the eve of the final battle, Will is drawn to the lake by an unknown force. He tries to cut everything short and free Hawkins on his own, but Mike just won’t let him go.
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04 Feb 2026
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“Will?” Mike whispers. “What—” he trails off. Dustin and the others are shouting over the walkie, all their voices overlapping in panic, but Mike’s only listening to Will.
“Use it on me.”
Will shifts on his knees, his grip on Mike’s arm tightening like he knows Mike is dying to run. He places the knife into Mike’s hand.
“At the military zone, I felt like I was burning when they hurt it. It has to work the other way around, right? It’s a hivemind. If you hurt me, it should weaken all of them.”
Or: in a moment of panic, Will convinces Mike to hurt him to save the Party. In another moment of panic, Mike kisses him to keep him conscious.
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04 Feb 2026