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    "It's complicated," Mike says.

    "Well, make it less complicated!"

    Dustin throws his hands up. "Yeah, are you guys dating, or are you fighting? Because there's no way you're just friends anymore."

    Will opens his mouth. His eyes are wide and a little scared, and Mike doesn't like it, but he looks back anyways.

    His brain is doing the thing where it moves faster than he can follow it. Two options, Dustin said.

    Will's mouth is still open. Mike thinks about fighting, and his brain slams shut. Nope. He thinks about everything Will said four days ago. If those are the only two options, Mike already knows which one he's picking.

    "We're... dating," Mike says.

    Or, Mike Wheeler decides that fake dating his best-friend-turned-hookup is a better option than losing him.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    "I just need you to know," Will says quietly, and he makes himself hold Mike's gaze, "that if something happens - if I hurt you, or anyone else - it's not because I wanted to. I would never want to hurt you, Mike. Never."

    The words hang between them, loaded with more meaning than Will intended.

    There's a pause where all Will can hear is their breathing echoing against the storage closet's walls. The hum is more distant now, buzzing in the back of Will's mind, but the uneven inhales coming from in front of him sound louder. The breath tickling his nose (because they really are that close) feels realer.

    Mike's eyes are still darting across Will's face, and Will can feel him inhale sharply. "Will, why are you so convinced you're going to hurt someone? What did Vecna show you?"

    Everything, Will thinks. He showed me everything. Showed me killing you over and over until I couldn't see anything else.

    Somewhere between slaying interdimensional eldritch horrors, exploding an entire dimension, and risking their lives countless times, Mike and Will find each other.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    After a night that nearly destroyed him, Mike Wheeler is placed in a psychiatric facility, left alone for the first time since everything spiraled out of control. Alone in a place meant to “help,” Mike Wheeler faces the voice in his head and the weight of his own self-destruction. Then he meets Will, a fellow patient, and slowly, they begin to navigate trust, friendship, and perhaps something even more.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    When Jonathan Byers goes missing, Hawkins turns fear into rumors and grief into gossip. Steve Harrington is trying not to be the kind of person who feeds it. He’s also trying to get Nancy Wheeler to look at him like he’s changed.
    So when Nancy mentions Jonathan, Steve makes a choice he can’t take back: he tells her they were friends.
    It should’ve been a harmless lie—something vague, something that would fade the moment Jonathan came home.

    But Joyce Byers finds a stack of photographs Jonathan took of Steve, and suddenly the lie stops being a crush-driven flex and turns into a lifeline Joyce clings to with both hands. With Robin Buckley helping Steve keep his story straight and Nancy pulling them into a frantic investigation, the three of them become an unlikely detective team chasing leads the police ignore.

    The deeper Steve digs, the less he cares about impressing Nancy… and the more he can’t stop thinking about Jonathan—about the boy behind the camera, the quiet moments Steve never noticed, and the dangerous person Jonathan might be hiding from.

    A Stonathan fic inspired by Dear Evan Hansen.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    After the events of I Like Jane For You, the public reacts to Rozanov and Pike as secret friends.

    Conveyed through text threads, social media, and news articles.

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    14 Feb 2026