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“I think about how El and I should’ve stayed broken up that summer. How different things could’ve been for everyone if I just knew when to quit.”
“When to quit what?”
“Pretending to be someone I’m not.”
Will straightened. His eyes grew darker, and he shifted on the floor, scooting closer. “And who are you, Mike?”
Mike let out a shaky breath, his hands rubbing up and down on his thighs. He felt the heat of the moment take over him, his palms breaking out in a small sweat.
“Yours,” he whispered, scooting closer. “I think I’ve always been yours.”
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For Mike, his feelings for Will started with a guitar. In reality, these feelings blossomed before Mike understood what love was.
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a lesson in coasting: an idiot's guide to gay allyship by michael j. wheeler by cinnamoncider
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 May 2026
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“So, I’ve been thinking," Mike throws his head back into the sofa’s head rest. “You know how I talk about girls all the time?”
The pencil in Will’s hand freezes for just a moment, something Mike wouldn’t have been able to tell at all if he wasn’t staring right at Will’s hands to avoid his gaze. “So?”
“Well, I’ve been thinking, right?”
Will looks up, but Mike isn’t looking back at him. He’s picking at a loose thread on the couch cushion. “What, about girls?”
“No,” Mike shakes his head, “about boys."
Will nearly chokes on his tongue. “You’ve been thinking about boys?”
or, mike conducts an uncomfortably elaborate semester-long personal inquiry project on how to be a better straight ally to his gay best friend. for educational reasons only. obviously
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“Will, how is it possible that you cool things off for Mike without even being there?”
“What? I don’t—” he starts.
“Yeah, you’re like his cooler,” Dustin adds. “When you don’t come out with us, Mike just sits at the bar and mopes.”
“I do not!” Mike shouts.
“And when you do come out with us,” he continues. “Mike spends half the night checking on you. And he’ll tell whatever girl he’s talking to that he needs to go ‘check on his roommate,’ and he ditches her.”
“Will, don’t take this the wrong way, but you’ve totally been cockblocking Mike without even doing anything,” Lucas teases.
“Come on, don’t be a dick, Lucas,” Mike grumbles.
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After a months-long dry spell, the party agrees to help each other get laid, and a misguided Will dedicates himself to being Mike's anti-cooler. Then, a drinking game gone wrong puts Mike and Will in a precarious situation where they must kiss or risk losing the game, and a panicked Mike accidentally says something a little too revealing about his feelings, much to Will's surprise.
loosely based on the events of New Girl 2x15, Cooler
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For two months, Will chases rumors, following Mike’s trail from one backwater world to the next, until the trail leads him here: a freezing, ash-choked planet at the edge of the Rim, and the hope that Mike is waiting at the end of it.
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Will and Mike turn sneaking around into a twisted routine, convincing themselves that whatever happens in the dark doesn't actually count.
Or: Ruining a friendship is easy. It's the rebuilding that might actually kill them—or finally make them honest.