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Hawkins High Class of ’89 was the first time nerds and jocks became friends, cliques forgotten. Everyone knows it started after the town recovered from being split in four.
Fewer people know it started with Will Byers and Chance Lawson’s secret relationship.
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Three times Chance and Will schemed to dismantle Hawkins High’s social hierarchy so they could spend more time together—and the one time the party caught on to Will’s newfound love.
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21 Feb 2026
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: Yet another buzzy post vol 1 fic where Will grows more confident, Mike short-circuits over it, and they save the world together !!
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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20 Feb 2026
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what if i told you (none of it was accidental) by novalore
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2026
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“I always thought Mike was a little too intense with Will, honestly,” Lucas shares, fingers tapping the table absentmindedly.
He hears Max scoff, and Jane’s little giggle from the side that he turns to them and raises his brow to question their reaction.
“You clearly weren’t looking enough Lucas” Max says, Jane nods in agreement and Lucas looks at both of them in disbelief before giving Dustin a look of ‘Are they serious?’ And only gives him a shrug back, also not clearly understanding what the two girls were saying, because he was also pretty sure that Mike was a little (read: massive) obsessive/possessive/protective over Will.
“What I’m trying to say is, Mike might be intense with Will, but Will was the one who conditioned that, like a little puppeteer running a puppet show” Oh. Oh. Sweet? Innocent? Kind Will? Grooming Mike to be this Mike?
“Like a puppy” Jane adds.
or in which for the longest time Lucas has always thought that Mike Wheeler was the one with the unsettling obsession towards Will, but one conversation with Max has him spiraling and digging from his pre-pubescent memories.
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19 Feb 2026
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18 Feb 2026
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I’m so insecure (Never knew that love did this) by Sooniechan
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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“Building a castle for your love?” Micheal smirked, delivering a pat on Mike’s back that almost sent the boy flying off the couch. “Marvelous! You certainly are me. Will shall surely love a castle.”
“Uh, it's a fort. Not an actual castle.”
Micheal ignored Mike. “William and I will help you. There will be no universe where we aren’t meant to be together. Our souls are connected, no matter where we are.” He smiled and the scars on his face looked less threatening. That must be how William sees Micheal. A mop of messy curly hair and a wide cute smile.
“You’ll help? Because I want to fix Castle Byers for Will.”
“Certainly. Demogorgons are roaming your woods, William will accompany you while I can stay here and distract your Will.”
“Okay, okay.” Mike nodded his head and grinned. “Deal.”
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Paladin! Mike and Cleric! Will accidentally appear in Hawkins and find out their counterparts are not together! So they decide to play matchmakers and help a struggling Mike Wheeler to confess to Will.Bookmarked by deathtothereader
18 Feb 2026
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“Well, this sucks for Dustin,” Will jokes as he slips the shotgun off his shoulder and pulls a shell out of his jacket pocket, loading it in. “First he misses my magical powers, now he’s gonna miss this.”
Mike laughs in response. He watches as Will hefts the shotgun up, making sure the butt is sat snug against his shoulder. Will’s eyes narrow as he lines up the gun with the generator, and Mike feels butterflies in his stomach at how self-assured he is with it. He sees Will take a breath in then slowly exhale, his finger pulling the trigger.
or: Mike and Will get their turn in the Upside Down to confess.
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12 Feb 2026
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love like a lead pipe (the cold and callous type) by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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“Does it need to be like ceramics last semester? Do I need to drop you off and pick you up at the door again like a fucking preschooler?” Will shakes his head as best as he can, a whimper escaping from his lips. Mike grips his jaw tighter. “Speak.”
“N-no, Mike.” Yes, actually, Will wants to say. He liked it when Mike did that last semester, walking him to and from class like Will’s big, scary guard dog. Sometimes, if Will was lucky, Mike would wait in the hallway during his class, clutching some mass market paperback, spine cracked and curled in on itself. Even big, scary guard dogs have owners, Will would think as Mike stayed put for him.
In which someone asks for Will’s number and it makes Mike murderously angry.
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12 Feb 2026
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Alpha Mike and Alpha-to-Omega Will adventures.
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08 Feb 2026
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— in which the party did not know that will has a boyfriend until he suddenly showed up during spring break.
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31 Jan 2026
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"Oh, right. You're not my Mike."
"…huh?"
Will sighs, moving his hand back to his chest, settling it comfortably under his chin.
"I thought you were," he continues, like what he was saying made any sense and he wasn't talking about Mike to Mike like they were two different people, "for a moment, at least. But my Mike doesn't look like you. Doesn't act like you."
or: after the fight at the MAC-Z, Will can feel his bones breaking even though they're completely fine and gets fed a heavy dose of painkillers that might as well function as a truth serum too.
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30 Jan 2026
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You never knew you needed Ryers / Bozier until you stumble upon in. by Kkiesthetic (lowkeyks), lowkeyks
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Dec 2025
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30 Jan 2026
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In between days by webofdreams89 for DotyTakeThisDown
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
28 Feb 2025
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Will fed his coin into the payphone and punched in the familiar number for the Tozier-Kaspbrak residence. It rang twice before a strangled voice asked, “Hello?”
“Eddie?” Will said breathlessly. “Ed?”
“Will, is that really you?” Eddie asked. Will was gutted when he realized Eddie was crying.
“Will?!” Richie yelled in the background. “Is that him?”
“Guys, it’s me,” Will said. “I’m here.”
“Will, we went to your house and there were fucking bullet holes and police tape everywhere,” Eddie frantically said. “We thought you were dead!”
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29 Jan 2026
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“Come to NYU,” he says. Mouth moving before he really knows what he’s saying, what he’s offering. Thinking not about Mom, or Mike, or the ghosts of this town, but of himself, and what he wants. “With me. You and Lucas. Let’s all go. I’m sick of Hawkins.”
(or: will byers and the art of moving on.)
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27 Jan 2026
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and do you feel like you should by tellthatbrokebitch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2022
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Will Byers has a big heart, his mom always said. He loves and he loves and he loves. He gives it away because it’s too much to be contained inside one small human organ, too full to bursting. It’s always been this way, his whole life, giving away love; to crying girls in sandboxes, to loud boys on swing sets, to uncaring fathers who yell and break things and force him to change, only to leave anyway. By the time he realizes the love isn’t infinite, it’s too late to fight his nature, and his heart bleeds out, year by year, until he’s drained and tired and empty.
He cries into his hand and wonders what will happen to him when he’s truly empty. Wonders if that day is rapidly approaching. Wonders if it’s already here.
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a hypothetical s5. they're back in hawkins now and will's friends and family are ignoring him. meanwhile he's having dreams he can't remember and everything feels like it's falling apart
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- Part 1 of remember, you lost me
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26 Jan 2026
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All Thanks to the Power of Love (No, Really) by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2024
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The zombie apocalypse hits, and Steve and Robin sacrifice themselves for their friends. And then they’re zombies, semi-self-aware, shambling around the mall, inexplicably never hungry, understanding each other better than the other zombies ever could, and inadvertently rescuing a girl named Max.
The mall isn’t safe for her, so Steve and Robin leave to find somewhere that is, and they might just find their way back to living again when they run into people who thought they were dead.
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The zombie apocalypse hits, and the love of Eddie's life is a beautiful, idiotic, self-sacrificing asshole that lied when he promised to give Eddie another kiss when they met again. And then he’s trying to keep himself together while setting up a base, keeping a gaggle of reckless fourteen-year-olds alive, and fighting against the resignation of his friends.It all comes to a head when he takes Dustin on a walk and they hear a girl scream. When they reach her, they can only watch as the girl is saved by a heart-breakingly familiar zombie. A zombified Steve and Robin that don’t eat them on sight is already more than they could have ever hoped for, but they soon discover that the two are a lot less dead than they seem.
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26 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheelers Unexpected Adventures by Nymphadoragreenleaf
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2023
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Mike Wheeler and his struggles with time travel.
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25 Jan 2026
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The Hawkins Cheer team is in desperate need of a replacement, and Will Byers seems to be the perfect fit for it.
OR
cheerleader will byers being the whole basketball team's gay awakening
(currently on-going, update on a daily basis!)
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24 Jan 2026
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Oh my god it got abandoned this life just isn't fair
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23 Jan 2026
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Fear in your heart, Love in your veins by DigitalMoriarty
Fandoms: IT (2017), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2018
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There are two facts about soulmates. You can feel their emotions in a special place in your heart and you can find them if you follow the tug in your soul.
Richie's been feeling his soulmate's fear for far too long and he's going to go fix whatever is going on. Because clearly someone has to. (he just hopes it's not another clown)
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22 Jan 2026
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“We are more similar than you realize, Will. Both of us were...sensitive children. We were different. Seen as freaks. But we are special. You are special.”
Will takes a shallow breath, tries to swallow his nerves. He speaks flatly. “And?”
Henry blinks, seemingly surprised by Will’s coldness. “I chose you that day, you know.”
And Will sees himself, small and alone, riding his bike through the darkness. He sees the silhouette of something tall and not-human. He sees himself crashing his bike. Running home. But the creature unlocks the door. It follows him into the shed. It gets him.
“It was you,” Will whispers, a hand coming up to the back of his neck. The monster that took him. The possession. The visions. “It’s always been you.”
(or the one where will’s connection to the upside down is a crucial part of season 4 instead of him getting sidelined, and how it changes everything)
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- Part 1 of darker in the day than the dead of night
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19 Jan 2026