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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Aug 2024
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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never thought I’d let a rumour ruin my moonlight (well, somebody told me you had a boyfriend) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Apr 2024
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“It’s your hand.”
Mike recognises Will’s hand, the scar on the back of it, the callousness of it caused by all the years of holding a pencil - or a gun lately - everything that Mike would know anywhere. It’s Will. He doesn’t know who the owner of the other hand is, though, a much more slender one, the one which thumb presses to the inside of Will’s hand on the paper, the long fingers wrapping themselves around the familiar wrist.
“It’s just a drawing.”
Will is defensive, looking down at his lap and biting the inside of his cheek. Mike can feel his heart practically fall to his stomach, the unpleasant, familiar thought of he’s not yours making him freeze in his place. Will is defensive, this isn’t just a drawing. He likes someone.
“You have a crush.”
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Will draws his hand interlaced with another one. Mike is definitely not losing his mind about it.
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I keep biting my tongue just to keep you here (made you wait for someone I could never be) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jan 2024
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“He’s special to you.”
El says softly, her eyes fixed on Mike’s as if to watch the shame drown away from his face just for a second, just for the involuntary softness that’s always there, when Will is mentioned.
“You’re all special to me.”
Mike replies, trying to hold onto the line that keeps his heart bound in strings, not letting anything from the depth swim to the surface. He decides it’s just not worth denying anymore.
“You’re all special to me but he’s Will.”
Mike reiterates and sighs, looking to the side and defensively tensing his shoulders to prepare himself for the daggers that are sure to come after the confession.
Admission of guilt, in a way.
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the leaked s5 video and what I think happens during the elmike talk scene
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be that attached (to the person I'm holding) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 May 2023
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Will thinks he’s dreaming. Mike decides to think it’s because of Will’s fever, when the idea of his best friend being convinced it’s more likely that he’s imagining it than for Mike to touch him makes Mike’s stomach drop uncomfortably.
“Sleep, Will. I’m here, I’ll always be here.”
Mike takes advantage of the half-unconscious state his best friend is in and lets his heart spill just a little, just enough for a few drops of what he feels for the boy in his arms to drop and land on his tongue.
“Love you.”
Will mutters, right into Mike’s chest, right over his heart - making it stop beating for a few long moments, when Mike’s world drops on its axis.
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Will is sick and confesses to Mike while out of his mind due to the fever. Mike has a breakdown about it.
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I picked the petals (he loves me not) by mikeslawyer for paladintayr, afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2023
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The thing is - Will is dying. He’s dying and he doesn’t care.
“I’m in love with him.”
He waits for two encouraging nods - not in the slightest surprised, as he reluctantly notes. Will wonders if there’s a chance that Mike doesn’t know. That he’s not aware how far gone and in love Will is, how he could give fifty reasons, if asked, why Mike should choose him. How he looks at the beautiful girls around - at El - bitterly questioning if they, too, would make Mike a painting. Like Will did.
“I’m in love with him and it’s killing me.”
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Will Byers, coughing up flowers and Mike Wheeler, trying to get Will to believe him.
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i'm afraid of the truth (but i'm so in love with you) by mikeslawyer
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Mar 2023
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Lucas looks a little hurt. "But you could have told us it happened?"
Will resists the urge to bang his head on the table. Probably wouldn't help his case.
"I mean, I couldn’t really— it was—" He looks at Mike, gives a tiny shrug and a head shake, something subtle enough to be not picked up on by the rest, hopefully. A hail-Mike. A please find a way to help me out of this lie.
And Mike Wheeler, he does know how to answer a call.
"It was me," Mike says.
Will gets caught up in a lie about not being a virgin. Mike decides to help out. This surely will not spiral.
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call me when you get a second by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy), wayward_sherlock
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Aug 2024
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“I have to go, actually,” he says finally, though the expression on Mike’s face plainly tells him he knows he’s lying, and had expected the response before it came. “Like, now. Preferably.”
“Oh,” Mike says, decidedly disappointed but not exactly surprised as Will tosses a twenty onto the bar and hops out of his seat in one fluid motion. “Oh, well- wait, Will, hang on, I want to talk to you-”
“Yeah, well,” Will huffs, adjusting the collar of his jacket, “thanks, but I’ve actually had quite enough of hearing about what you want for one lifetime, so. I think I’ll pass on this one.”
OR: two boys, ten years, and a hell of a lot of drama
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- Part 1 of still got it
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27 Jun 2024
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here is a plea (from my heart to you) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Nov 2022
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We should talk more about this – us, anyway.
They don't talk about it, because Will doesn't want to. He simply gives into the hope that lies in his ribcage and fantasies about how it would've felt if Mike had meant it that way.
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- Part 1 of byler by depeche mode lyrics
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15 Feb 2024
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Mike grabs Will’s hands and tangles them with his own, blinking up at him through his long, dark lashes. His eyes are endless. Solid black, like the night above them. So shiny that Will can see himself, tipsy and happy, in the reflection. “I want to be stuck with you,” Mike whispers, like it’s a secret. “I don’t ever want to leave.”
Will sucks in a sharp breath, squeezing his hands. “Then don’t,” he whispers back, punched-out and honest. “Stay.”
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Senior year in Hawkins. Will and Mike figure some things out.
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29 Jan 2024
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"Daniel came in this afternoon," Will starts, looking up at the painting of the party so he doesn't have to look in Mike's dark eyes.
"I remember," Mike interrupts in agitation. "I wish he'd try to burn the place down just so I could ban him."
"Right.." Will continues, with a great amount of hesitancy now. "Well, he asked me on a date. A movie date, tomorrow night, and we're going to get dinner. But I didn't think that was safe, so he suggested we bring someone so we look like a friend group, but it would have to be someone we trusted and I trust you, so I guess I'm asking if you'll go on a date with me?"
Will pauses his rambling, breathing unevenly and waiting on Mike's answer. The other boy sits up slowly, keeping his back to Will and looking contemplative, if a bit unreadable.
This was his chance for a real relationship, a chance for all those teen firsts he'd never had, and he knows he can like Danny. He's not going to blow his chance.
/OR/ Will gets asked out on a date, and asks Mike to come along to make it less obviously a date to outside people. Ft. Dramatic 17 year olds, rain fight parallels, jealous Mike Wheeler, and unrequited affection (but its not between byler)
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02 May 2023