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If you kissed me now (I know you'd fool me again) by Lemonnaise
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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Will kneels in front of the fire, eyes ablaze in the firelight and energy buzzing through his bloodstream, ticking further and further towards the tips of his fingers, until— Fwshh. In about three seconds flat, the previously pink, soft boar now lies golden-brown and firm to the touch, sizzling slightly as he swipes an egg-yolk brush over the crisp skin.
“Did you just fireball our dinner?”
Will twists in his position, blinking up at Mike, “Yes.”
Mike stares back, bewildered yet enraptured, “Okay then.”
Will just smiles. Small, secret. Special.
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Mike can't stand the cold, Max has grudges against the Royal Chamber Choir and Will reminiscences over his favourite time of year.
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14 Feb 2026
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literally the greatest cleradin + dnd party fic ever oh my days
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take me to turn to, and babe, i'll make you stay by bylerdontcry
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2026
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"Found you," Mike repeats, like twice wasn't enough. "Come on, let's go home.. You shouldn't be here."
Anymore. In general.
I don't wanna face the world in tears
"Or what?" Will hiccups, squinting at him. "Who said you could— Could decide where I go?"
Please think again, I'm on my knees
"Who said you had to— Had to find me?"
No one did, Mike wants to say. No one has to, because I'll find you anyways.
or, hours after they fight, Mike picks Will up from the bar
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10 Feb 2026
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when will you realize? (vienna waits for you) by pink_and_gold
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2026
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“Do you think,” Will swallows hard. “If you could go back, knowing everything, you’d choose to love her again?”
“Yes. Not—not because she needed me, but because—I don’t know. If I didn’t love Nance, I wouldn’t be here. I’d still be dickwad Steve Harrington who peaked in high school.”
Will laughs, gentle. “You were a dickwad.”
Steve hums agreement. He considers something for a moment. “What about you?”
“What?”
“Your Tammy. Knowing what you did now, would you go back and love him all over again?”
“Yes,” Will says instantly. “Of course.”
“Why?”
Will looks at him then, so earnest, still so young, so full of love to give and so willing to give it away.
“Because it’s him.”or:
Steve Harrington and his thoughts on the end of the world, love, and Will Byers.Bookmarked by microsoftmad
08 Feb 2026
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YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY STEVE AND WILL YAYAYSGW
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ego death at a new year's eve party (fate's got a funny way, baby!) by sapphicwithapen
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Feb 2026
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“You didn’t tell me Will had a boyfriend!”
Shit. Mike felt his own jaw drop without even realizing it.
“No, he doesn’t,” Max said, but it came out more like a question than anything. And then she looked over at Mike, who was horribly red in the face and was suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to reconnect with nature after this. “Wait. Does he?”
OR: Mike gets jealous at a party, accidentally reveals that Will has a boyfriend, and neglects to tell anybody that he's the boyfriend in question.
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- Part 3 of byler? i hardly know her!
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05 Feb 2026
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literally the sweetest thing. im getting cavities. fuck
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Will finds himself wondering, sometimes, if his mark matches Mike’s. He thinks it must, really—he can’t imagine wanting to spend the rest of his life with anyone else. Mike’s cool and strong and brave and funny. His hair flops down over his forehead and his eyes bore into Will’s soul, always so steadily intense. He doesn’t cry when he scrapes his knee. Instead, he just gets back up.
Will thinks that if Mike isn’t his soulmate, something is seriously wrong with the world.
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everything is the same, but will & mike are soulmates. so really, business as usual.
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sa pag-iisa, madadama ko naro'n ka, sa isip ko'y kasama ka by bylerdontcry
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jan 2026
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"Ah, yes," he deadpans. "Our brother, Jonathan 'pink ruins my aesthetic but I won't explicitly say that or I'll sound like a snob' Byers has a hot pink shirt with printed white stars in pattern all over it."
She continues to stare wide eyed at him, if possible going even wider. He starts to lose his faux annoyance from confusion.
"What?" he asks. "Is it my shirt or—"
"Our brother," El cuts in, eyes the size of saucers. "You called him our brother."
Will doesn't get it. "Cause.. he is? Our brother."
or, Will and the echo of his sister
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18 Jan 2026
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literally the greatest wondertwins fic ever not clickbait
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12 Jan 2026
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“Everyone acts like getting to “third base” or “sealing the deal” is proof of your love for your partner. It’s not like that.
It was never about that. Not for Will.”
Five times someone thought they were “Doing It”, and one time everyone got the memo.
FUCK THE DUFFER BROTHERS. HERE’S HOW YOU WRITE A GOOD GAY LOVE STORY.
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07 Jan 2026
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Whom does a god worship?
Every year, the cleric kneels before the flowers and utters his prayers for the dead.
Every year, the paladin looks on, and he remembers.
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23 Dec 2025
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i am sick. ill. i will die. what the hell /vpos
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I don't wanna fight the tide by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2024
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The air in Hawkins was clear, clearer than it had been in a long time. Yet for Will, it had never been harder to breathe. Every breath felt like sucking in glass, cutting up his lungs and leaving the taste of blood in his throat. It's like he's surrounded by thick honey, each step an effort, each inhale a challenge.
It didn't take Will long to realise something was wrong. Not with Hawkins, not with the Party. No, this was all Will.
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After the defeat of Vecna, Will gets sick. Really sick.
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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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- Part 1 of we all have a hunger
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19 Dec 2025
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fellas is it gay to cover your best friend in blood and yearn
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Any other superpower would have been better, really. Fire-wielding, telekinesis— even growing an extra arm would have been preferable to mind-reading.
Will hates his newfound powers, and he hates the constant headaches that come with them, and he hates the weird thoughts and feelings he never even wanted to know about in the first place that constantly invade his mind. He hates it all, but he can’t escape his own brain— so short of removing his head entirely, what can he even do to change it?
But— thankfully— with a little help from his friends, and a lot of pain from Mike Wheeler, Will learns to control his telepathy— and, maybe, learns a little too much from his best-friend-slash-lifelong-love’s intricately confusing mind.
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18 Dec 2025
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will reading minds fic is something i didnt know i needed but i love it
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“I'm trying my best.”
“I know.”
“At everything.”
( The world makes clay out of Will and he doesn't want to be put back together, just held. This time he lets himself have it.)
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Will stirred sleepily to the sound of voices and a heavy weight beside him.
“Whazup?” he mumbled, lifting his head off the pillow and blinking in the darkness.
“Shhh, it’s fine,” replied Mike’s soft voice, breaking through the stillness that had followed Will’s muffled question, “I’ve got this one. You can go back to sleep.”
Mike and Will take turns staying up with Holly, who has begun to have nightmares about the monsters in Hawkins. Things take a curiously domestic turn.
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12 Dec 2025
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really adorable fic i love holly and will’s dynamic 🥺🥺
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“Hey, hey, it’s Mike. Um, sorry, is — is Will there?”
There is no answer for a minute, drawn out so long that Mike almost thinks the call somehow disconnected despite the lack of a dial tone. He pulls the phone away from his face, looks at it as if that’ll give him any clarity on the matter, and lifts it back to his ear. “Hel—“
“Uh,” Jonathan finally says, somehow more awkward than Mike, “It is Will.”
Mike nearly drops the fucking phone.
Five times Mike and Will shared a phone call throughout the years, plus one time they didn't have to.
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10 Dec 2025
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literally the best fucking byler fic ever made oh my god its so good. fuck
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Kiss the skin from my lips (If it makes you feel good) by Dmimisouls
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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Mike knows he should be worried about his hospitalised Mother, Holly being missing, Nancy crumbling - even himself. But the world narrows to the boy in front of him, to Will, beneath his childish Star War’s blankets.
Or, Mike is supposed to be on watch, but he gets distracted.
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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Will raised an eyebrow at his friend's antics, then dropped his eyes to where he knew Dustin had reached a hand out towards him.
“This summer, we stick together. You and me, Byers.”
Will grinned, taking Dustin’s hand and shaking it. “You and me, Henderson.”
A rewrite of S3:
The night Dustin gets back from Camp Knowhere, he brings the Party up to the highest point in Hawkins to set up Cerebro. He thought that his friends would be excited to have him back-- even if it wasn't the most entertaining to sit on a hill and talk into a radio with no response, he thought they would at least wait for him before going home. He thought it was going to be the best summer ever.
Instead, he finds himself and the one friend that didn't leave him, Will Byers, intercepting a weird Russian transmission.
And, well... if he couldn't have the best summer ever, at least he and Will would have an eventful one.
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Mike lets out a frustrated groan and knocks his head back against the seat—like Hopper’s the one being cryptic here.
Mike’s voice cracks slightly when he repeats, “He hurt Will.” More urgent this time. More desperate.
“Okay. I get that,” Hopper says slowly. “But it doesn’t explain why—”
Mike cuts him off, sharp. “If Will didn’t tell you, then I’m not telling you.”
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When Hopper gets a call about that damn Wheeler kid, he's pissed. Until he realizes what exactly he's dealing with.
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“I don’t think that it has to mean that you’re into guys,” Lucas says. His words are accompanied by a casual shrug, and said in the tone of someone who has clearly already given this subject some thought. Will doesn’t know what to do with that information. Jump from a building, maybe. “I mean, we’d all get flustered if Spider-Man carried us in his arms.”
Mike points to him enthusiastically. “Thank you, Lucas.”
Dustin looks between the two of them, his eyes narrowed.
“...Would we?”
“Sure,” Mike concludes. “He’s attractive. That’s not a weird thing to think.”
Will just barely resists the urge to bang his head against the table. He feels Dustin’s eyes glued to his burning face, and sinks even further down his chair.
In which Mike tells Spider-Man that he has a crush on his best friend, and Will jumps to some very wrong conclusions.