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never let you slip away by kellogsfrostyflakes, waveyspaces
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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"We get it, you're hilarious. Now take these off, please, so I can go home."
"Sorry, man," Lucas says, shrugging. He stands from his spot on the floor to come to Max's side. "But it was getting bad. You've been weird since Stacey's party."
Or: Mike and Will refuse to admit what happened last Friday, and the Party has the perfect solution. 24 hours handcuffed to your best friend shouldn't be so bad, should it?
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21 Jul 2026
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The only other person Mike tells about his newly discovered feelings for Will, is Max, for some reason. It’s late at night when he calls her, impulse taking over, and he whispers into the dark about forbidden feelings and first loves. But instead of the stunned silence he’d expected, she only laughs, for a long time, bright and sparkling through the phone line, and Mike can’t even find it in himself to be mad.
“I’m just glad you’ve finally come to your senses,” she says, once she’s finally calmed down.
“What?” He asks, because he doesn’t have a clue what that’s supposed to mean.
“It’s just, I think that everyone knew before you did,” she says, but her voice catches in her throat like she’s stifling a giggle.
It takes Will moving away to college for Mike Wheeler to finally, finally realize some things.
All he has to do now is wait for Will to get back.
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21 Jul 2026
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Mike clears his throat loudly, dragging Will’s attention back from his thoughts. He snaps his eyes up to him, observing the look on his face which lies somewhere between a ‘I’m ready for a gate to the Upside Down to open and swallow me right now.’ and ‘I’m deeply sorry for what I’m about to do next.’
Oh no.
He’s about to do something really stupid.
Or, Mike kisses Will in front of the Party. Naturally, he has to kiss everyone else.
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21 Jul 2026
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"“Lucas talks about you all the time. He just forgot to mention that the pictures don't really do you justice.”
Will just laughed, shaking his head, trying to play it cool despite the sudden warmth in his cheeks. “Sure, Mike. I’m sure you tell every person in a five-mile radius whatever they want to hear to keep your guest list full.”
“You're definitely special,” Mike said without missing a beat, leaning his forearm against the counter next to Will, closing the distance between them. “But if you’re worried about my sample size, feel free to ask around. I don't usually look at anyone the way I'm looking at you right now.”
Will raised an eyebrow, letting out a soft huff. “Oh, please. I bet you have that exact script memorized for your pledges during orientation.”
“Ouch. Harsh,” Mike teased, a dimple flashing in his cheek. “I’ll have you know I’m completely improvising. You just happen to be very inspiring.”
“Is that your way of saying you’re out of practice?” Will shot back, a sharp, playful glint in his eye.
Mike let out a low chuckle, clearly loving the pushback. “Far from it."
AKA Mike is the President of PIKE and Will gets convinced to finally go to a frat party
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21 Jul 2026
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we dance under the moonlight, and then the morning comes by rainb0w_sprinkles
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jul 2026
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“Will…Will…”
Mike’s groans and the squeaking of his bed continued getting louder and more frantic until, suddenly, they stopped.
The room fell silent, Mike’s heavy breathing the only sound, and Will became intensely aware of his own breath as he heard Mike start to stir.
Even though his heart was pounding in his chest, and he felt like he was about to pass out from lack of oxygen, he forced himself to control every inhale, every exhale, slowing down to an almost painful pace, desperate not to give Mike any indication that he was awake.
Faintly, he heard Mike sit up and speak to himself under his breath, “Shit. Not this again.”
Again!?
Will listened intently to every movement Mike made as he got out of bed, walked across the room, and opened a drawer. He heard the rustle of fabric and the soft snap of an elastic waistband, and his cock throbbed with renewed force as the realization hit him.
He came.
He came from dreaming about me.
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Mike has wet dreams about Will in their shared dorm room, and Will gradually coaxes him into making them a reality.
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20 Jul 2026
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An anonymous writer starts writing in to Will and Robin's queer gossip/advice podcast, 'Dear Dorothy', for help on confessing his love to his best friend. Will tries to offer advice on how best to go about it, aided by his own similar experience being in love with his best friend, who coincidentally is acting really strangely...
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OR: Five times that Will unknowingly helps Mike attempt to seduce him and the one time he knowingly does.
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20 Jul 2026
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“Do I really have to do this?” Will asks, for what is presumably the millionth time. He lost track a while ago.
“Yes,” Max replies without hesitation. “You’re unbearably lonely.”
Will drops his jaw, offended. Sure, he might not have the most entertaining love life, but he wouldn’t go that far. He’s happy where he is. Content. He doesn’t need a guy to fulfill him. “My loneliness is completely bearable.”
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Will reluctantly joins a dating app at his friends’ insistence. He doesn’t have much hope, until he’s messaged by a dork who likes rocks.
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17 Jul 2026
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“I’ve been thinking about what you said.” Mike swallowed.
“I said a lot. Remind me what do you mean.”
He wanted to scream, the way he teased him when he clearly knew what Mike referred to. Fuck it. Worst thing was he said no. I just had to ask. “When you went off my lap and we were both fucking hard.” Mike noticed Will flinched at the tone in his voice. “When you leaned over to me.” Now Mike leaned toward Will’s ear. “And when you said.” He started to whisper, “You know I can help you with that.”
Goosebumps formed on Will’s neck.
“I’ve been thinking about that all evening.” He took Will’s earlobe between his lips. “I know you did too."Coming home from college for the winter break, the party meets to catch up, drink and have a fun time. In a game of truth or dare, Will has to give Mike a hickey, but in their drunken state they can't keep their hands from another and are turned on more than they should. After heated nights together, Will proposes to be friends with benefits, which definitely never brought anyone in trouble before...
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17 Jul 2026
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Will and Mike are insanely competitive. Incapable of losing or letting the other win, it comes up in quite literally every aspect of their lives – whether it be one-upping each other while playing games, or drinking with their friends, or even arguments, neither side is ever willing to give up until it gets too tiring to keep going.
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Will thinks for a moment, biting his lip and picking at his fingernails, before looking at Mike with a mysterious glint in his eyes. There's a rosy tint to his cheeks, and Mike has to stop himself from leaning over and biting them.
“Do you want to play Mario Kart again tonight?”
Mike and Will play video games. Just for fun. Totally, totally not as an excuse to get naked.
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16 Jul 2026
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“Listen, we aren’t together.”
She looked around the 3 bedroom home, the one that he shared with Mike for strictly work reasons.
She looked back at him hands on her hips raising a brow.
“Be serious” she said sitting down.
“Mike was just trying to help out” He shook his head as he flung himself onto the couch beside her.
“He publicly kissed you.” Max deadpanned.
“Just to help me out of a bind!”
“People don’t do that”
“Mike apparently does”
“Entertainment weekly named you cutest couple”
“I know” he shut his eyes and rubbed his temples.
“It wasn’t supposed to go this far”
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Everyone knows that Mike and Will have been basically married for 12+ years except for them.
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- Part 1 of Everyone Knew: A Silly Byler Tale
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15 Jul 2026
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“Okay, Max will kill me if I don’t ask. Are you and Will finally together?” Lucas asked pulling out of the drive.
"Move!" Lucas honked his horn at the paparazzi blocking their way.
Mike closed eyes, “I don’t know; not exactly” the words and uncertainty in them physically pained him.
“You share a mortgage, how do you still not know?”
Mike only shrugged, “maybe it’s just not in the cards.”
“About 100 photos and 20 articles would suggest otherwise. Care to explain or is today going to be full of awkward silence?” Lucas quirked a brow.
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Mike’s feelings for Will for the past 20 years are uncomplicated how he’s handled them on the other hand is absolutely insane.
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- Part 2 of Everyone Knew: A Silly Byler Tale
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15 Jul 2026
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Will blinks. Mike is looking at him with an amused look on his face, wide-eyed and a little pink across the bridge of his nose, and God, okay, Will wants to–
“Um,” he says instead. “Huddling? For warmth?”
“For warmth,” Lucas echoes, and then looks back at Dustin again. “Huddling. For warmth.”
“Like penguins,” Mike offers, and then rests his head on Will’s shoulder like this is supposed to be helping, or something.
Will Byers and the harrowing experience of being snowed in with your mom, your almost-stepdad, all of your friends, and your (kind of) (secret) boyfriend.
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14 Jul 2026
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Mike laughs helplessly. What else can he do? “Okay, well, when you say it like that it sounds insane.”
“It is insane!” Will runs a hand through his hair, still visibly stunned. “Mike, we haven’t seen each other in twelve years and now you’re somebody’s father?!”
“Pretty much, yeah.”
Or, Twelve years after losing the boy he loved, single dad and bestselling author Mike Wheeler runs into Will Byers at his daughter’s library story hour and realizes some people never really leave your heart, no matter how much time passes.
Or or, Mike learns how to say I love you and mean it this time.
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13 Jul 2026
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“I mean, it’s like when you flip a coin to make a decision. You think you don’t know what you want, but the moment the coin is in the air, suddenly you know exactly what you’re hoping it lands on.”
“So, what were you hoping it landed on?”
“You.” Will says quietly, then abruptly clears his throat. “I mean, what I’m trying to say is— I’m… glad. That fate put us together.”
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A compatibility survey pairs Mike and Will together as college roommates. It goes as well as can be expected.
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12 Jul 2026
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'cause i always had a vision of us standing like this by nomdeplume08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jul 2026
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“We're not getting back together.”
Will frowns, even though his traitorous heart does a happy dance at the thought. “Surely you can't have screwed up that bad.”
Mike shakes his head. “Will,” he says. “I broke it off."
Interesting.
Will is, without any doubt, fully awake now.
The story behind "To make out? To date".
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07 Jul 2026
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red light, yellow light, green-a-light go by goldenasteri
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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IAN! @poppytuft: someone write fic where they all go to the party that night after their campaign and mike and will make out in the bathroom bc Will says I hate your hair like this. please let me fix it. and he’s running his hands through mikes hair and he goes oh. OH. don’t give a fuuuuck
IAN! @poppytuft: Dustin henderson kat stratford ten things i hate about you dancing on the kitchen table moment while mike and will are dry humping in the bathroom. Who cares anymore
IAN! @poppytuft: I'm doing it myself
(or: the party DOES go to Stacy’s party, and mike and will get so gay off that vodka)
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07 Jul 2026
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swallowing my faith, to better buy my bliss by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2026
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The music was growing louder. “Will?” Mike called. Nothing. Again. He shuffled down the hallway, stopping in his tracks when he reached Will’s open door.
Will’s very open door.
Mike first noticed the expression painted across Will’s face. Exhilaration. Restraint. Pleasure. His cheeks were flushed pink, his head thrown back to reveal a blooming bruise at the base of his throat. His lips were parted in a silent gasp. His eyes were squeezed shut. His biceps were tensed against his tee-shirt and Mike followed the muscles down to his forearms, down to his wrists, to the fingers of his right hand curling tightly in the hair of-
The hair of another guy. A shirtless guy with a freckled back. On his knees.
Bowie’s tender prose rang out across the room.
Will opened his eyes, gaze meeting Mike’s dumbfounded one.
“Get out.” Will bit out, eyes glittering with something Mike couldn’t place, and Mike’s stomach dropped.
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Just before graduation, Mike walks in on Will with another guy. This leads to tension... and exploration.
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06 Jul 2026
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Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have been dating in secret for months.
The problem?
They're terrible at keeping secrets.
What starts as a relationship known only to the two of them quickly spirals out of control when Nancy and Jonathan walks in on them making out. With every accidental discovery, Mike and Will become more convinced that Hawkins might actually be incapable of keeping a secret.
As college approaches and the future gets closer, the boys find themselves navigating first loves, awkward conversations, supportive friends, protective siblings, embarrassing interruptions, and the terrifying reality of letting the people they love know who they really are.
A story about being found out, being accepted, and realizing that maybe the people who love you were always going to stay.
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Mike and Will need to be more careful of where they make-out.
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06 Jul 2026
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I never dreamed I'd meet somebody like you by itwashisfaulthedidntlikegirls
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Christmas 1989 and Will and Mike are finding it increasingly harder to hide their relationship.
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01 Jul 2026
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Will’s mouth dries out as his gaze instinctively drops to where Mike’s legs are spread obscenely wide, practically taking up the whole couch at this point. Through Mike’s baggy sweatpants, Will can just barely make out a bulge, soft, but still startlingly obvious now that his attention has been called to it. He just barely fights the urge to fall to his knees, to crawl into the inviting space between Mike’s legs, and take Mike’s cock out to see how big it really is. He wants it in his mouth, on his lips, undoubtedly heavy and thick and ruining Will for anyone else.
Mike makes a comment about how well-endowed he is and Will can't stop obsessing over it.
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01 Jul 2026