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Mike Wheeler has spent four years writing a fantasy story about a paladin and a sorcerer. A metaphor about his late realisation that he's in love with Will Byers.When the group gathers for a reunion in Hawkins, Mike and Will meet again after years of no contact.
Mike realizes he should feel happy for Will now that he has a boyfriend, but instead, he's falling apart even more.
Then Will finds his folder.
The truth Mike has been bleeding onto pages for years. And everything Mike has been hiding crashes into the light.Or: A story about breaking and healing. About loving someone from the moment you understood what love was, even when you didn't have words for it and about the courage it takes to let yourself be saved.
Or: Mike Wheeler's journey from "definitely straight" to "catastrophically in love with my best friend" to ''healing through love''
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28 Feb 2026
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Will lifted a hand, pushing it to Mike’s forehead— "Are you sure? We should at least tell my mom. She could help figure out if this is an upside down problem, and maybe it could help us out in crawls-“
“I’m not cursed.” Mike cut in, his eyes held a glare that he didn’t mean. He didn’t want Will looking into him, he didn’t want Joyce, or Hopper having to spend a constant amount of time with him.
He wasn’t Max. Max had a reason to be upset, her brother had fucking died in a ‘mall fire’, what did he have to be afraid of?
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au where mike is vecna’s original victim, and he still needs him
aka im rewriting the finale
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28 Feb 2026
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“I didn’t break the cup.” He said more intently, picturing the mug whole and unbroken, the radio station logo that was plastered on the side uncracked.
And as he willed it, it was.
He blinked and the glass was gone like it had never been there, and there was a whole coffee mug sitting on the table in front of him when he looked down. It was sitting on the table like it had never left, the wet pool of cold coffee from before was gone and in its place was a rich brown cup of coffee, steaming lightly in the nighttime chill.
“What the fuck?” Someone said, disbelief coloring their tone and all Mike could do was stare downwards, a fresh wave of blood leaking from his nose.
“I didn't break the cup.” He echoed himself emptily, words a tad disbelieving.
He looked up then, taking in the stunned and worried faces that were surrounding the table and by proxy, him.
He pressed his fingers to his nose, eyes slipping downwards to look at the wet red that stained his fingertips and looking back up.
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28 Feb 2026
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a game of spin the bottle gone wrong
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28 Feb 2026
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i had some help (it aint like i can make this kinda mess all by myself) by ikykwhoiam
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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Mike didn’t know when Steve Harrington became the person he relied on. Heavily.
Maybe it was the way Steve hovered around Dustin like a worried mother hen with shocking vocabulary. Maybe it was the fact that he kept throwing himself at Upside Down disasters armed with nothing but a bat and misplaced confidence all for the sake of just helping. Or maybe it was because Nancy Wheeler had broken up with him.
Somehow, all of Nancy’s exes became significantly cooler once she had dumped them.
Whatever the reason, Mike had started moping at the Harrington house.
A lot.
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Or... Steve is like an older brother to Mike and instead of helping him constantly he seems to be distracted by a certain someone's older brother.
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28 Feb 2026