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“So you’re saying,” says Will, “that we’d…”
“Have sex.”
“Right. That. Once a week, for twelve weeks. And then what?”
“And then back to our regularly scheduled programming.” Or it’s amazing, and we keep doing it forever, Mike thinks but narrowly manages to keep to himself.OR: After their mentors tell them they need more life experience to improve their art, college roommates Mike and Will agree to start up a short-term friends-with-benefits situation. Also, they’re going on dates all around NYC. But not like, date-dates. Artist Dates. Don’t worry about it.
(a.k.a. Byler use The Artist’s Way as an excuse to bang)
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19 Jun 2026
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Mike finally looked over at Will. "Would you ever do it?"
Will sat up slightly, becoming more confused the further the conversation continued. "Friends with benefits?" Will asked, still trying to process what Mike was asking him.
"Yeah."
“With who?” Will asked softly, his heart booming against his rib cage.
“With me,” Mike said casually, like he hadn’t just shifted Will’s entire world.
Or: Mike and Will agree to be Friends with Benefits while on Summer road trip. What could possibly go wrong?
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19 Jun 2026
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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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07 Jun 2026
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There are three things Will and Mike learn on a random afternoon after high school graduation:
- Teen magazine quizzes are way more intense than expected.
- They are wildly unprepared for college.
- Taking advice from anonymous “fever confessions” is a terrible idea.Unfortunately, they only realize the third one after they’ve already started acting on the first two.
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Will and Mike accidentally read a very inappropriate teen magazine and decide the best way to prepare for college is to practice being less inexperienced… on each other.
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05 Jun 2026
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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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03 Jun 2026
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“You do like it,” Mike teases. “I can tell.”
“Obviously,” Will huffs. “You know what I like.”
Mike does. What a surreal feeling it is, to be the one who knows what Will likes. What makes him blush, or shy away. What turns him on. To be the only one who knows these things.
“Yeah,” Mike says softly. “I know.”
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Will becomes the patron saint of pretending to sleep with guys to help them come out of the closet. Mike isn’t exactly thrilled with the situation.
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01 Jun 2026
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"So after being with her for years, you couldn't even tell her you loved her when she needed it the most?" Will spat back at him.
"I kept looking at her and seeing you. God you look so much alike, whenever I was with her, I kept thinking about you."
"No, don't put this on me. It's not my fault you couldn't tell Jane you loved her," Will replied. "Not even when she was killing herself to save us."
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Will wished it had been him instead of Jane.
So does Mike, but in an entirely different way.Bookmarked by LexiReads22
01 Jun 2026
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It’s New York City’s hottest summer on record, and Mike and Will land the perfect post-grad serving job in one of the city’s finest restaurants. They’ve got loads of cash tips, two shiny new college degrees, a cigarette in each hand, and the whole city at their fingertips.
What starts as a sex joke written on an order ticket evolves into passing dirty notes with no goal other than embarrassing each other in front of customers. The sneakier, the filthier, the more absurd, the better.
Sometimes I think Chef should put you on the menu. You already look good enough to eat. -M
You’re so fucking greedy, I know you would devour me. -W
The lines of the joke blur when their smoke breaks in the alleyway start heating up into something else entirely.
Or: Mike and Will can only ask for what they really want when it’s in note form.
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29 May 2026
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"I wanna test something."
"Test something," Will repeats. Mike perks up a little sitting up on an elbow, like he thinks Will is finally getting it. Which he's not, for the record.
Mike's words come quick. "Yeah, just to see. Nothing too crazy. Not even like last night necessarily. Or not not like last night. Just smaller. Simple. Like earlier today, in the living room. You know wh—"
"Like your kiss with Jane," Will interrupts.
"Yes. Exactly."
Or: It's January 1992, and Mike and Will are college roommates, teetering on the edge of becoming something more. Mike drunkenly kisses Will at a bar, the night before Jane returns after five years of being presumed dead. Will convinces himself everything is fine, this is life returning to the way it was supposed to be. But Mike won’t stop kissing him.
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26 May 2026
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I Don't Have to Sell My Soul (He's Already in Me) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2026
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After ten months of being together and a brutal fight where Mike and Will both aim where they know will hurt, Mike leaves the Wheeler's house in the middle of the night leaving them both with broken pieces of what they were.
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A complete season 5 re-write/fix-it following TSTYK with a primarily byler focus set October 1989. While there are a few scenes/concepts from s5 that will appear, this is not just s5 rewritten to include byler.
Multi POV
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- Part 2 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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16 May 2026
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The summer after graduation, Will learns how to move on, and Mike learns how to live with change.
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11 May 2026
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into the deep end (take me with you) by sunkissedlover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jun 2026
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Those protective instincts kick in and Mike can’t help himself as a crazy, irrational idea takes root in his mind.
An idea that has absolutely nothing to do with seeing Will practically naked in a speedo two nights a week for an entire year. Nope. Definitely not.
“What if I joined the team with you?” Mike blurts, reddening.
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Will and Mike join the Hawkins High swim team in their senior year, spend waaaay too much time together in teeny tiny speedos and one thing leads to another at the pool…
Setting: Post Vecna-defeat (except El lives because she deserves a better ending, just like our boys do), their final year of high school but I’m aging them up to 18 because the content is explicit. (I head canon that the total devastation of Hawkins resulted in their normal high school trajectory getting delayed because that makes more sense than what the Duffers did.)
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06 May 2026
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Once, there were no collars. Omegas lived as they pleased, not as prey.
Will remembers that. Sometimes, he even remembers hope.
Now there is only the hunt.
If you're an omega, you run until your feet give out—or you're caught and broken.
Will runs.
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05 May 2026
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Mike reached down and grabbed something. He was seated on the edge of the bed, curled towards him with his knee resting near Will’s pillow. He had a carton of freshly washed and cut fruit in his hand. “I already went to the grocery store and got, like, a million things. We could probably shelter in place here for a month and a half.”
Mike said it in a way that was not remotely sexy, but it still made something in Will’s stomach heat. He almost felt like purring, kneading his hands into the mattress with satisfaction. [My alpha got that for me. My alpha is making sure I’m healthy and hydrated. My alpha is taking such good care of me.]
A record scratch went off in Will’s head. Christ alive, Mike was NOT his alpha.
(A/B/O AU… And they were roommates!)
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05 May 2026
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The water ebbs around them, slow and tranquil, but the storm raging inside Will is anything but.
All he sees are Mike’s eyes as he closes the gap. A drop of water rolls down his neck, disappearing into the naked line of his collarbone.
“Say no if you don’t want me to,” he murmurs. “Push me back.”
Or, Will gets swept into Mike’s irresistible pull after a single night that changes their friendship forever. Late night talks turn into even later night kisses, friendly nudges to intoxicating touches, and the creaking of bedsprings now means something other than the return of Will's nightmares. Each new change blurs the line between friendship and something more, and as Will struggles to stay afloat through Mike's confusing storm, he starts wondering what it is exactly they are - and whether he'll sink for good in trying to find out.
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02 May 2026
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22 Apr 2026
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Mike grins so widely that he displays each one of his baby teeth. "Open it," he says. "It's a card. I made it for you."
When Will gingerly peels the birthday card open, Mike’s uneven handwriting is displayed across the page.
The p’s in happy are backwards, the y wobbly and curled at the end, and the k in Mike is also flipped the wrong way. The word birthday is etched in their kindergarten teacher’s steady print, and it seems like she'd also added the punctuation for him.
Happy birthday, Will!
Love,
Mike WOr: Will Byers' birthdays from age six to adulthood, told through cards from Mike.
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19 Apr 2026
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Desiderium by calmb4storm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
10 Mar 2026
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"Mike."
A smile blooms on his face, more a reflex than a reaction. His voice is familiar, one Mike hears every time he finds himself back on the frozen swing set.
"Hi."
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March, 1991. Mike hates college, hates Indiana, and hates feeling so alone. He hates the void in his chest, the gaps in his mind, and most of all, the crushing weight that something isn't quite right, and hasn't been for years.Jonathan seems sure Mike's spring break visit to New York will help him. Mike isn't so sure. Especially since he's dreams of the boy on the swings are growing more frequent.
And more real.
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Sequel fic to "Disconnected." Can be read as a standalone, although some references may be missed.Series
- Part 2 of Disconnected Universe
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10 Apr 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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04 Apr 2026
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"But he didn't act like this last time when..." Max's voice trailed off. Even she couldn't say it out loud.
Last time when El disappeared. Last time when El sacrificed herself. Last time when El died right in front of them.
"Last time was different," Lucas cut in.
"Yeah," Will nodded thoughtfully, "We were younger. And they weren't dating yet, of course Mike reacted differently."
"No," Lucas snorted, "that's not it. He was just... kind of busy."
"With what?"
"You."
Or: After the final battle, Mike starts acting strange and stops being a proper alpha of their small but fucked-up pack, so the Party decides to push him where his instincts have always been sharpest — taking care of Will.
Or: Will is the first male omega in Hawkins in 20 years, and despite the Upside Down and all the horrors now finally over, he can't find HIS place in this new world where he's kinda taken El's place.
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03 Apr 2026