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while you're still here (i don't want to count the days) by skolioza
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2026
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“Well, maybe you should drive next time, if you’re such an expert!” Mike whines, jabbing Will’s side with his index finger.
Will yelps and smacks Mike’s hand away. “As if you’d let me drive, or just lift a finger in general.”
“I let you do plenty of things!”
“That’s so kind of you. Thank you for letting me.” Will shakes his head, but he fails to hide the smile blooming on his face.
“Why, you are so very welcome, my liege.” Mike snickers, his nerves finally settling down now that they’re back to their usual squabbling. “I can be reasonable.”-or-
In exactly one week, Will Byers is leaving Hawkins for college.
Mike Wheeler is handling this development very normally.
Unfortunately, "very normally" apparently involves becoming physically incapable of spending more than five minutes away from Will at a time, aggressively avoiding any discussions of the future, and slowly failing to keep his hands to himself.
How long can he keep pretending everything's fine?Bookmarked by echo1050
28 Jul 2026
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"While the words linger in his mind, slipping into all the corners that had been laid bare for days, he comes to a painfully frustrating realization: Mike Wheeler is the solution to all of his problems."
After a particularly disastrous first meeting, Will is convinced his neighbor is nothing more than an arrogant asshole with zero regard for anyone but himself. He's also pretty sure that, unless he's incredibly unlucky, he'll never have to deal with him again.
But Will Byers has never been particularly lucky, and when the partner assigned to the competition that might be his only chance to attend the master's program of his dreams turns out to be that very same neighbor... things get complicated.
As if that weren't enough, everything gets even messier when his sister falls in love with his best friend.Bookmarked by echo1050
27 Jul 2026
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Will’s world just got tilted on its axis, and here is Mike, expecting him to be normal about it.
Then again, is this so different from what they usually do? Isn’t this just them in yet another shape? Best friends, in whatever way they both need.
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“Thank you, Alpha,” he mutters.
“You’re welcome, Bunny.”
Mike and Will are best friends.
They always have been.
Except for when they weren’t.
They don’t talk about the time when the Byers-Hoppers lived in Lenora, when their pack fell apart. Those memories live quietly inside the walls of their cramped New York apartment, waiting for someone to tear down the wallpaper.
Instead, Mike and Will keep toeing the line of what they’ve built together.
Best friends.
How much can those two words carry before they collapse in on themselves?
Or: A dual-timeline story of Mike and Will growing up and living together in an NYC apartment. The term "best friends" gets thrown around a lot. Neither of them knows what it means.
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20 Jul 2026
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Will Byers had done everything in his power to survive. He left Hawkins and never looked back, burying his ghosts to take a job teaching at a local shelter for troubled boys. He carefully interred every single shred of his past just to keep moving forward. And it was working. He was forgetting - he was finally, blissfully, numb.
That, until a new writing teacher starts working at the same shelter, threatening to ruin every progress Will had ever made.
Or: an entire year of: Bylearner! Angst! Slow burn! So much pain! So much love!
"Every time I make you cry, it starts raining," Mike states quietly. His voice is barely audible over the roaring downpour, but it cuts through the thunder like a blade.
"Only the times you've witnessed," Will says in return, his voice barely a whisper.
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26 Jul 2026
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SHOW ME.
Will looks up from the notepad, eyes wide and blown. “Show you?”
Mike nods, small but undeniably firm. Dead fucking serious.
“Mike, you—” Will takes a quick breath to try to recalibrate his false confidence. His voice drops, feathery and intentional. “You want me to show you what a guy’s mouth feels like?”
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Mike takes a 7-day vow of silence to win a bet. Will does everything in his power to make him break it.
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26 Jul 2026