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Will wasn't exactly present with the Christmas spirit. It could be because of his new routines that it was the first Christmas as a whole family or whatever was going on with him and Mike. All Will knew was that his friends were his saving grace
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Will invites the party over for Christmas Eve, and he gets angsty and jealous about Mike. -
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Will wishes that, out of all people, he could love someone other than Mike Wheeler.
Sadly, you don't always get what you wish for.AKA
Will is hopelessly in love with Mike. Mike is afraid of his feelings. Max is a genius.
THEME SONG OF THIS STORY: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY BY BABE RAINBOW
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sing us a song (you’re the piano man) by birthofv3nus
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jul 2024
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Will watches as the pitter-patter of the keys paves a looping cobblestone road ‘round every nook and cranny of the room. It’s an old melody, vaguely jaunty and severely melancholic. Will has heard it everywhere and nowhere, a jukebox of unraveling intrigue. It’s magical.
The man that’s playing isn’t too bad either.—
au where Mike is a pianist & Will is in awe of him. They connect through music.
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"Will has a list of things he doesn't do anymore. Will doesn’t stay out after dark. He doesn’t ride his bike around town like all the other kids. He doesn’t play Dungeons and Dragons. He doesn’t draw Will the Wise. He doesn’t react well to flickering lights. He no longer listens to The Clash. And he can’t think about Mike Wheeler. "
Or the fix-it fic where Will finally gets over Mike
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- Part 1 of Night Shift (Will Byers Story)
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if you could see my thoughts, you would see us by no_flocks_given
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Sep 2023
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As soon as the door creaks open fully, the boy jumps back, clearly not expecting anyone to be in the room. His eyebrows furrow together slightly, as if in thought.
“Oh, wait. You’re the guy from earlier, right? Sorry, I forgot to ask your name,” The boy trails off, eyes flicking from the floor to Will’s face.
“Uh, yeah, I am.” Will replies, blinking repeatedly as if that would clear his head. “I’m Will.”
“Hi, Will,” The boy says, voice gentle. “I’m Mike.”
Will can feel his heart stutter in his chest, in the way his name sounded when the boy - Mike spoke. Lips curling around soft syllables making a simple name like ‘Will’ so… infatuating.
“Hi” He replies, slowly and drawing the syllable out for too long. Mike doesn’t move, he hangs in the door frame, waiting.
“I can leave, if you need the room” Will offers, his shoulders dropping slightly.
“What?” Mike asks incredulously, shaking his head. “No, no. I was just kind of looking for a place to be alone. But I’m assuming you are too, so maybe…maybe we could be alone together?”---
or, a friends to lovers, meet cute inspired, college au with #1 wingwoman max
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He’s too close, too handsome, too real. And Will wants to cry because the shield has almost completely collapsed.
“Mike,” he says or begs, he doesn’t know.
Mike stares at him and he has never looked so serious.
“I really want to do this with you.”
The shield breaks. Will feels his mana bar diminish by hundreds of points. He's out of it. It will take weeks to recharge, months even.
“Now?” he wails and he hates how frail he’s sounding. -
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Will had suffered through the bi-weekly critiques in Painting 101 this whole semester. They were brutal from the start, but he kept himself going off the moderate compliments he got from some of his nicer classmates. Now he wondered if they’d just pitied him from the start. Some dumb kid from the ass-crack of Indiana decides to come make it big in art school in New York City? Everyone had heard that story before.
Will had just hoped he would be the outlier who really managed to achieve it. Now he felt like an idiot for even considering it in the first place.
But the TA in his British Literature class might turn out to be his saving grace.
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The butterfly effect. It starts with a new school year, a new friend, a charming smile, and a blossoming relationship. A year later, it comes to a head on Halloween in a desolate forest well past midnight. It's cold, and the world feels like it's crashing around them as Mike and Will yell at each other until their voices grow hoarse.
I suck at summaries so long story short: Byler angst, pining and 'unrequited love' (it's requited.)
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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.
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at least i keep his eyes in my life by significant_ace_nnoyance for booksandpaperss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jan 2023
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It was always the same subject of conversation. Michael Wheeler had stolen redcoat cannons. Michael Wheeler had been hired by Washington right on sight. Michael Wheeler was the genius of a generation, the greatest writer of the American Revolution. Michael Wheeler was a nobody, a know-nothing, a boy in man’s boots.
Michael Wheeler would never be satisfied.
Will could understand that. That feeling of never being filled, never being enough. Of wanting more from life than what it could give.
Not that he had given it much thought.
He hadn’t.
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Or, two boys lock eyes across a hazy ballroom and begin a night of secrets, sacrifice, and the journey of finding something more than just enough—a Byler Satisfied AU.
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looking pretty in your makeup (kiss me, see if it sticks) by eldritchgoats
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Nov 2022
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this moment reminds el of when they were younger, the first week of her life, when she met mike and lucas and dustin. when she was hiding in mike's basement like a stray dog he was feeding. when she was so, so scared but her friends made it better, even when they didn't like her. when mike taught her what the word friend meant.
their roles were reversed, back then. mike spent a lot of his time comforting her. he'd sit next to her, talking away, and suddenly she wouldn't feel so alone. she wouldn't feel like a monster, or a weapon, or a freak. she'd just be a kid.
el doesn't think she'll ever be able to fully repay mike for everything he did for her. she used to try, thinks that's why she stayed with him for so long even when it was getting really bad. but she's realized that love isn't a transaction. she doesn't owe anyone anything.
but she wants to give this to him. she wants to help. because she loves him, and that's a choice she's making.
(or: gender crises are best served rare, but we also serve well-done.)
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This is no wolf.
It’s much too large, its fangs much too vicious, its stature much too terrifying. It’s an animal from legend, a monstrous canine that shames even the direwolves that Mike’s read about in paleontology books. No, this is a beast of nightmares, one that would rip and tear apart even the mightiest of warriors in old myths.
Taking a step back, Mike numbly thinks that he himself has stumbled into some sort of bizarre fairy tale.
He is Red Riding Hood, and this wolf is the monster that will bring about his demise.
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Or, Mike Wheeler disappeared from his family's household in Minnesota due to a wolf attack two years ago. One year ago, he came back to them in Hawkins Indiana, where he met his Party and the Losers Club. Now, he hopes that he can survive the turmoils of high school and balance being inhuman on top of that.
OR, haha werewolf fic go BRRR
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Will Byers just graduated from UCLA and decided to travel after college in hopes the change in scenery will help reignite his passion for art (and, not to mention, help him find a permanent job). Mike Wheeler leaves Hawkins after his parent’s nasty divorce during his senior year of high school. He winds up working as a farm hand for a few years before moving again to California and becoming a bike tour guide in wine country. They meet on a sunny morning in June.
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Mike sighs, looking down at his hands. "I always thought I would end up with someone more similar to me, you know? Someone I can talk about, like, hobbies and music and stuff with, without them visibly losing interest halfway through.”
You have more in common with him than El, says the voice in Will’s head. He wonders, briefly, whether it would be weird to shove his face back into the pillow and scream.
Will is definitely not qualified to be giving out any relationship advice. For one, he's never actually dated anyone before. Second, one of the people in said relationship is his sister. And third, the other person is the guy he's sort of in love with. There's no possible way this could backfire. Right?
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“You’re not boning, though, right?” he says, suddenly. He doesn’t know why he feels such an urge to bring it up again, as if the thought of Mike boning is not something that is CODE RED #1 at the top of Will's list of things to absolutely never think about. But also. Look–
“What? No, of course I’m not boning,” Mike splutters, turning a violent shade of scarlet, “how would I even hide that from you, I’m with you all the time–”
And then he falls silent, so fast that Will gets tonal whiplash from how fast Mike just went from saying boning over and over again to just clamping his mouth shut and staring at the wall across from them.
Will's trying his hardest to make it through fall semester in one piece. Unfortunately for his degree, he's being haunted by maybe-feelings for his best friend (metaphorically), and also a maybe-ghost with rather abysmal fashion sense (literally).
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Mike thinks back to the painting Will gave him, rolled up and placed carefully in his dresser drawer, because for some reason it felt too wrong to hang it up on the walls with everything else. Too intimate. Like Will had made it for his eyes only. Or, apparently as everyone else thought, some mystery lover in California. And then he thinks about Will dozing off on his bed, and saying I think I’m in love with you all soft and slowed down from the inertia of sleep, and that’s right about when Mike starts to feel seriously lightheaded. He leans back against his bed and focuses very hard on taking deep, even breaths.
Mike contemplates his feelings for Will Byers, partakes in a concerning amount of swooning, and learns to drive. Sort of.
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“Are you still thinking about her?”
Mike furrowed his eyebrows.
“Who?”
“Eleven. Do you miss her?”
Where was this coming from.
“Of course I miss her. I’m worried for her. We all are,”
“I mean,” Will pauses. Although Mike can’t see his expression from their position, he’s spent enough time over-analysing every one to be able to tell Will was trying to figure out how to word something. “Do you miss being her boyfriend,”
This only confused Mike further.
“Well, we’ll still be friends after this, I hope.”
”Well, yeah but…” Will continued. Mike waited patiently.
”You must know how it feels to want… more than friendship,”____
Or, Mike and Will talk about crushes and Mike gets jealous, until he runs into Will in the corridor and everything becomes clear.
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"after a scream-filled two and a half hours, the credits finally rolled. will peeked over mike's chest to see eleven rubbing her eyes, still clutching max's hand, as the two stood up and made their way out of the basement. mike had told everyone where everyone was going to sleep a while before they started watching the hell that was the shining, so will assumed that's where they were going. he himself pulled himself off of mike, who was smiling softly at the boy before him. if you asked anyone looking in, they would have told you mike looked absolutely and utterly 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯."
or, the party celebrate will being free from the shadow monster with a two-day sleepover. what could go wrong?
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Four Things Will Byers Learned In Hawkins, Indiana by JadeMage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jul 2022
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Will pining in my warped aftermath of Season 4. Some good Byler >:)
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When the California crew stops for a rest at a motel, Will meets a stranger that dishes out some love advice he didn't know he needed.