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Billy Hargrove hit Mike just a little bit harder, Max woke up just a little bit later and Mike Wheeler had always had shitty luck. He gets drugged, hauled to Russia and jabbed with so many needles that he doesn’t know where he began and the needles ended.
But it’s not so bad (He’s lying, it fucking sucks) at least he has the boy in the bed next to his, and relatively regular mealtimes and- Yeah, he's having trouble coming up with anything positive.
He just wants to go home, but the doctor and this strange new thing in his chest isn’t going to let him. That’s fine, he’ll just have to get himself out.
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TLDR: Mike Wheeler gets taken to Russia, gets powers and has to figure out how to get himself the hell out of there without killing himself or getting killed first.
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- Part 1 of Mike Wheeler, the boy that you are
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08 Feb 2026
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It's been three years, and everyone seems to have moved on except Mike Wheeler. Stuck in the same routine, days blending together over and over. He's opted to accept his fate, but some feelings can't stay repressed forever.
As he grapples with his demons he realizes escape is an option, leading him down a twisted road of memories past. Reliving each trauma reminds him, however, exactly why he was choosing to conform all along. If Mike can escape his repression and Vecna's curse, he just might rewrite a love story they've heard before.
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28 Jan 2026
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Nothing ever happens to Michael Wheeler. For as long as he could remember, nothing bad ever happened directly to him. Bad things happen around him all of the time, but nothing ever happens to Mike Wheeler.
Or: the fic where Mike discovers he has powers and gets Vecna'd in season 3!
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- Part 2 of NHMW
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22 Jan 2026
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you took my heart (i was sleeping..well not really) by monachopsis_22
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore, despite living under the same roof. Will is avoidant and spends most days in the basement, and Mike has never felt so alone.
Then the power goes out, and Mike desperately wants to understand what went wrong, and to know what that damn painting means.
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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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15 Jan 2026
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“Mike? C'mon, wake up!”
Mike felt shivers down his spine. Breathed in, breathed out. Okay, he thinks to himself. Okay. You’re exhausted, and hallucinating your ex-best friend screaming your name. That’s perfectly normal. That’s fine.
Eighteen months after everything ended, Mike Wheeler is failing to write a story about a paladin who waited too long. Then Will's voice starts calling to him from the void, and Mike has to relive every moment he was too blind to see what was right in front of him.
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14 Jan 2026
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“When I saw you… there. From the Demo’s perspective. You were gonna –” Will’s voice breaks, and Mike’s fingers twitch where they rest on the fabric of Will’s jeans. There’s no conscious thought process, but he gently rubs back and forth. “I thought of you,” Will whispers, breath catching slightly.
“Of us. When… um, when we first met, and you asked me to be your friend. I thought of that and… you know. It happened."
Mike’s eyebrows lift. Me. I did it. “Oh.”
Will glances and seems to realise all at once how much he just revealed.
aka after their graduation dnd game, will and dustin persuades everyone to go to stacy's house party. mike is not exactly in the mood, and wonders if drinking will help everything that he's feeling right now. what could go wrong? what could go right?
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13 Jan 2026
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Mike doesn’t leave the house much anymore.
After Eleven’s death, he sleeps through the day, writes through the night, and pretends he isn’t falling apart.When Vecna traps Mike inside a dream world, it begins to bleed into his memories—childhood moments, old wounds, and things he’s spent years avoiding.
As the dream fractures, Mike is forced to confront grief, fear, and the person who keeps appearing at the center of it all.
Some truths are harder to escape than monsters.
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Vecna traps Mike in a dream world, and Mike has to face what he’s been running from. Which might just be his love for our very own Will Byers.
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10 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler never lived his life, the closest he came was writing stories he never dared to live, leaving him with nothing but regrets. But maybe this isn't destiny.
A fix-it-fic based on the finale and conformitygate
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10 Jan 2026
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i don't believe in coincidences (do you?) by naming_the_stars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Eventually, Will pulls away, and Mike lets him. They’re both panting. Mike searches Will’s dark eyes for something, for anything, then his brow furrows.
“Why are your eyes brown?”
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The Duffers ruined my favorite characters, so I rewrote the epilogue from Mike’s point of view, and I made him very gay (as God intended) and fixed everything.
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10 Jan 2026
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The Time In Between Us (and the Bridge that we Built) by aversive5599
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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"I-I don't know what Vecna showed you but I promise you, no version of Mike can ever hate any version of his Will. I am your Mike, Will. Yours. The Michael Wheeler to your William Byers. The Paladin to your Sorcerer. Mike the Brave who belongs with Will the Wise. If I am the heart of the party you are mine." Mike's voice breaks but he continues,"So please, please fight this. Please remember and come back. Come back to me."
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A canon fix it where the canon story is Will's Vecna vision that has been used to trap him. So now the team must prepare for the final battle to uncover the secrets that have plagued them for years and Mike must finally come to terms with his feelings for his best friend. A retelling and fix it of sorts on how I think Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 and the ending should have gone because a) the plot actually REQUIRED a Byler endgame b) the fans had much better theories than whatever I was made to watch.
Diverges after Season 5 Episode 5
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10 Jan 2026
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.
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09 Jan 2026
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things have felt so weird since the upside down was destroyed, nobody notices it but mike wheeler. everyone sees to be so 'perfect' now but him but he's never understood why or even gotten close to figuring it out until the day of graduation. mike is talked into going to the party anyway and finds the alcohol is liquid courage that makes him someone that hes...not supposed to be and mike creates a new memory and finds out about a lot others.
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06 Jan 2026
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Give it a hundred years (it won't go away) by nocturnobook
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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The first time Mike feels something is wrong, he's in a black void of his mind, empty except for water lapping at his feet and Eleven standing in front of him, saying tearful goodbye. She’s telling him she loves him, her eyes begging for him to say it back to her. I love you... it would be so easy to say it - he managed it before, even when the context was different, so why is it still such an impossible word for him? It doesn’t feel right, like his teeth clamp down harder than ever to prevent him spilling the truth that’s been hiding in his heart. The void is in his mind, possibly, and all he sees is the black emptiness around him, and he hopes there aren’t any monsters lurking in the dark, just past their line of sight.
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06 Jan 2026
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Frozen without your touch, without your love by Siriuslybetterthanyou
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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Vecna traps Mike Wheeler inside a vision built from his deepest fear: being left behind.
As Mike fights to survive a future where he is no longer needed, Will Byers is forced to confront the truth he’s kept buried and say the one thing he never thought he’d be allowed to.
Sometimes love is the only thing strong enough to pull someone back.
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06 Jan 2026
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"The story I can't tell" [A Byler Oneshot] by Hermi03
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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„And the storyteller? What about him?”, Will asked into the room, out of the blue. Looking at Mike with that intense glance.
“The storyteller keeps telling stories”, Mike answered after a moment. “Stories inspired by his friends. One day, he hopes their tales of grand adventure will spread far and wide across the land, so all can know about their great bravery. Even when there are stories he can never tell…”.Just that Will didn't let it slide, and after years of keeping it all inside, Mike walls break down and he learns to tell the story after all.
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06 Jan 2026
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But that was the problem. Everyone moved on. Everyone. Mike was lost by himself. The only one still grieving.
Nancy left the house after getting a job. Lucas and Max went to the same university together in another city. Dustin went to another. Will... Will went to another. What Mike predicted that day they were playing DnD all came true.
Sometimes it was suffocating. He wanted to turn to people he loved for support. Although his mother and Holly knew of the horrible fate of Hawkins, it wasn't the same. He missed the Party.
He missed El.
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In which, Vol3 is actually Vecna's curse.
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- Part 1 of conformitygate
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06 Jan 2026
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Suddenly, everyone’s eyes are white.
The sky has this red tint that makes Mike look up in disbelief.Then, theres this weird static sound that comes from apparently nowhere -
A familiar voice calls out his name.
- MIKE! WAKE UP!
It’s Will.
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06 Jan 2026
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A man undercover (but you tore me apart) by The_Poptart_Cat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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Mike’s head is spinning. He doesn’t know why everything feels so intense all of a sudden. He’s always liked Will. They’re friends, best friends. Best friends like each other. That’s what makes best friends. But best friends- it hurts him in the depths of his soul to say that and maybe it always had- aren’t like Will and Mike. He keeps his arms tight to his sides as the heavy realization settles in.
The worst part is just how much goddamn sense it makes. The way El’s kisses left him empty when they were together, so he chased after the feeling he knew he should have. The way his stomach twists after seeing Will get too close to anyone that isn’t him. The way Mike couldn’t admit tell El he reciprocated her feelings when they were together. It’s all because Mike Wheeler is-
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After the events at the MAC-Z, Mike realizes two things: He’s gay, and he’s in love with his best friend. He won’t admit that though. Not until he has to.
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05 Jan 2026
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you've got this spell on me by andiwriteordie for messrsbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Mar 2023
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“And you,” Will deadpans, trying to ignore the way his heart is racing in his chest, “are literally under a spell right now.”
Mike grins, wide and dopey and so stupidly lovestruck. “Yeah, I am,” he agrees, and it’s far too flirtatious for Will’s liking, “I’m under your spell.”
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Mike gets hit by a spell that causes him to fall in love with Will. Naturally, chaos ensues.
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04 Jan 2026
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After the last Battle and Hawkins is safe, everyone lives their life back. Despite all the trauma they went through they still have each other to aid the painful memories, however Mike went through it differently than the others. His last memory about Eleven haunted him with guilt and despair. Hopper has tried to talk over with him, but it's easier said than done. As the others find their own path -Mike tries to ease his pain by writing a book about his journey, but he drowns further into his depression. Will is being asked by Nancy to help them out in bringing Mike senses back. The Byers brothers back to Hawkins and spend their time in Wheelers like the old time.
or Mike is making a novel to be the memoir of their journey, but getting more depressed. He was soothed by Will and he encouraged him to start his own journey (with him) outside Hawkins.
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03 Jan 2026