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    Will wasn’t sure how they even got the idea to start kissing, all of them, but once the cleric ran his hands through Mike’s messy hair, playing with the curls that were shorter than his paladin’s hair, and tugged a little bit harsher to see more of Mike’s throat and leave pinkish red bites there, it escalated from there on very quickly.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    The last time he’d stood this close to the edge, Will had been gone, he’d thought he was dead. Nothing had mattered anymore, except protecting his friends, keeping those he had left safe. He hadn't wanted to live then, not without Will. He didn’t want to live now. Not because Will was gone—he was just across town in Mike’s room, probably not thinking about him or where he was for even a second—but because he didn’t deserve to. Because he was wrong, because he was sinful, because he didn’t matter, because nobody needed him and they never had. He’d just wanted them to need him because he’d needed them.

    All he ever did was hurt the people he needed. Why would anyone ever need him? He was–

    “Mike, where the hell are you?” Will’s voice latched a tether around his chest, pulled him back, pushed down his younger voice, silenced Troy and James.

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    It's October 1986, the Byers have been living with the Wheelers for 3 months now, and Mike can't sleep through the night, waking to nightmares and struggling to reconcile his growing awareness of his feelings for Will with the expectations of everyone around him. It all comes crashing down around him very quickly and suddenly (though it was a long time coming).

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    09 Mar 2026

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    Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
    White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
    Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
    He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
    Fuck. Not now. Not again.

    Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.

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    02 Mar 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    say gex byler

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    28 Feb 2026

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    What Mike is trying to say is that if it’s between him, or someone he loves, he will get them to safety while taking the blow meant for them. He will let the bomb go off, and he will take the claws to his chest. He doesn’t care if the price is his life, as long as they are safe.

    So when he hears Holly’s screams from upstairs, Mike doesn’t even give himself a chance to think before he’s grabbing the knife he has beside him from cooking in the kitchen and racing towards Holly.

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    22 Feb 2026

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