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At seventeen, Mike Wheeler falls in love with the new kid. They spend an entire summer doing everything together—except admitting how they really feel. Six years later, Will Byers moves into a summer sublet only to find the one boy he never managed to get over living down the hall.
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14 Jul 2026
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Summer Love
At seventeen, Mike Wheeler falls in love with the new kid. They spend an entire summer doing everything together—except admitting how they really feel. Six years later, Will Byers moves into a summer sublet only to find the one boy he never managed to get over living down the hall.
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Will used to know how to create things. Now, at thirty-three, everything feels stuck.
His studio hasn’t been touched in years. His body no longer follows the timelines it once promised. The life he spent a decade building ended in a way he still doesn’t quite know how to recover from.
He tells himself he has time. It doesn’t feel true—but it’s easier than thinking the alternative.
He doesn’t expect anything to change. He definitely doesn’t expect someone to walk into his life and change it.
Especially not someone younger— someone who looks at him with something dangerously close to adoration.
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01 Jul 2026
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“... I want you to bitch me, Mike.” His eyes dart between both of Mike’s. “...Please?”
Mike makes a noise that almost sounds like a groan, but it’s swallowed up by the sound of movement. All of a sudden he’s in Will's space, maneuvering his head to the side to gain access to his neck. To his scent gland.
He seems to suddenly realise what he’s doing, as if his body moved without his permission. “Uhm. Like–” His breathing is heavy, “Like… Right now?”
Will never wanted to be an alpha. There might be a way he can change it, but... He's going to need some help.
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it’s 2010.
myspace still matters, and will byers spends most nights doomscrolling instead of sleeping. college would’ve been lonely if his roommate wasn’t constantly yelling into his headset at some douchebag called mike wheeler - alt-boy musician, internet pretty boy, and apparently the most irritating person alive.
at least until mike sends will a friend request.
what happens when lucas sinclair’s childhood best friend can’t seem to stop messaging him?
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23 Jun 2026
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I can feel the angst coming 9
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"Crashes destabilise an individual's brain chemistry, making it difficult to assimilate into normal society. They exhibit concerning levels of anxiety and, in worst cases, perish painfully. Crashes require elaborate and extended periods of aftercare to restabilise the brain."
In a world where d/s-types are determined by genetics, The Party is tasked with rehabilitating a skittish sub. As head Dom, Will Byers is facing an uphill battle with Mike Wheeler, a submissive suffering the effects of a crash. They will both need to navigate new territories, build trust and somewhere along the way, they might fall in love. Maybe.
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"Do you seriously just let him control you like that all the time? You're not his fucking dog, dude."
Max calls it control.
Will calls it trust.Because it's not just that Mike takes care of him.
It's that Will starts to lean into it, he craves it.And when he realizes Mike needs it just as much, needs to be praised, to be relied on, to be everything... Will decides to stop resisting.
After all, if Mike wants to take care of him...
who is Will to say no?OR
After nearly a year of living together, Mike and Will somehow stumble into a full-blown dom/sub dynamic before they so much as kiss or admit they're in love.
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dancing in the dark (just about starving tonight) by willbyersaugust
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 May 2026
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“Will. I can touch you. Let me.”
He doesn’t have a plan. When Will rolls his eyes but nods, he lifts his hands, surprised to see that they’re shaking. With a breath, he places one on Will’s face, thumb landing right under his eye, cupping his jaw. The other lands on his shoulder, holding firm.
He lets his thumb linger there, swiping gently. “See?”
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Art School Confidential by cyclogenesis (addictedkitten)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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In which Mike moves to Indianapolis after his first semester of college, rents the apartment next door to Will, and gets a job as a nude model in Will’s life drawing class, and then Will has to deal with all of that. (This is an ongoing process.) Featuring a domesticity speedrun, life in a university district in the early 1990s, mutual care-taking behaviors, baffling vegetables, Mike wearing a shirt with a kitten on it, and The Cure haunting the narrative.
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Nearly two years after graduating from Hawkins High, Will Byers had what he’d always wanted. Control. He’s in charge of his life day in and day out.
Mike can’t sleep, write, or do much of anything, really.
Mike didn’t show up to the airport last summer, and Will didn’t come back to Indiana - until he found himself on the Wheelers’ doorstep at Christmas.
In which Mike and Will haven’t spoken in over a year, and neither of them quite know how they ended up on a road trip back to California as roommates.
Or, with a little bravery, some interference from friends old and new, and a whole lot of butter, Mike and Will might actually stand a chance of being honest with each other and getting what they want.
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15 bucks says we know by the end of junemy stalker
Whoa someone’s confidentdustin
you guys are not seriously betting on thisdustin
how bored are you????el
Verydustin
fine 10 bucks says nothing’s going on between them and you’re all insanemy stalker
Are we bad people for betting on thisdustin
probablyOr: The party (and some special guests) place bets on whether or not Will and Mike are together.
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Mike and Will share a room. Mike hooks up with girls here. Will has a boyfriend. Nothing about their semester together has been normal, and the air between them is impossible to ignore.
One night, drunk at a party, Will says things he can’t take back. The next morning he remembers nothing. Mike remembers everything.
But what if to love your roommate and best friend of fifteen years is to go against everything you’ve ever believed—or at least pretended to?
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Knock knock knock
“Jesus Christ! Hold on,” he mumbles, floating down the steps. He flicks on the porch light and yanks the door open. “What the hell are you–” He freezes.
For a moment, he really does believe he’s dreaming. You know, given that not a single fucking thing about this situation makes any goddamn sense. Because on the short trip from his bedroom to the front door, Mike made a list in his head of all of the people that could potentially be on the other side. It was a rather abbreviated list, to be fair: The cops. Nancy. His landlady, Freida. That one drunk guy he occasionally gives a cigarette to if he happens to be smoking on his porch when he walks by.
But it’s not any of those people. It’s Will. A year older, soaking wet, shivering with a waterlogged duffel bag slung over his left shoulder. Yeah. He’s dreaming. Because he had spoken to Will on the phone not even ten hours ago. He was about to go on his three year anniversary date with his long term boyfriend in New York City.
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Will needs some space from his boyfriend, James, and for whatever reason, he decides to take that space at Mike's townhouse in Boston. Mike is going to be so normal about it.
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Almost three years into being roommates at college, Will starts to notice that Mike is willing to do anything for him... like, literally anything. He decides to test Mike, to see how far he's willing to go just to make Will happy.
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"Clean it."
"What?" Mike deadpanned, sock starting to soak from the spilled coffee on the hardwood. "I-"
"You’re gonna get on your knees, and clean it.” Will smiled, “Isn’t that what you want? So I can tell you just how good you’re being for me?”
Fuck.
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Mike has a praise kink and Will starts to notice.
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a series of (probably) unrelated explicit byler fics. whether mike tops or bottoms he’s always pathetic i can promise you that
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You Burn Inside My Memory So Well (You're Caramel) by Hevaann
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2025
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“Look,” Will says, turning fully on the pallet to face Mike, one hand reaching down for the rough wood to find purchase and ground him. “Do you-, do you want to show me. Like-, like want to practice?”
Mike’s eyes widen but he doesn't say anything.
“Sorry, stupid idea, just wanted to help.” Will is trying to gather the words back up from the air between them and into his mouth.
“I never thought it was stupid.” Mike says, so quietly it's not much more than an exhale. “I suggested it first.” He adds, like it's a secret.
Will grips the pallet harder. “Show me. I really do want to help.”
Mike bites his lip a sec, and Will thinks he's going to say no, but then Mike's darting forward and pressing his lips firm and quick against Will’s. It's barely a kiss. Not romantic. Not enough to leave a scar. Will bleeds anyway.
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Or: Mike has been kissing Will on and off since they were seven. How are you supposed to recognise an avalanche when you are drowning in snowballs?
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Mike decided since this would be the last summer the whole party was together before leaving for college, they should do something different - something special...
and so The List was born.
Set in the summer of 1989, straight after the series finale. All seasons canon.
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
Series
- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?