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The Wheelers are having a yard sale and Mike is losing con points.
Is there a song that can pull you back from being strangled at a yard sale? Maybe the one the Ghostbusters used to animate the Statue of Liberty.
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Will surprises Mike during his shift at the medieval family fun center.
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The sorcerer debate rages on at the Squawk, but Mike is fading into silence.
It matters.
Will takes control of Mike's fate, his own powers, and his future.
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Graduation day fades into lasagna night, and Mike’s carefully guarded feelings go down the wrong way.
Or, comfort food, crushes and commissions.
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“We haven’t done this since middle school,” Will says, voice barely above a whisper.
“Huh,” Mike whispers back. “Yeah, guess not.”
A couple years ago, Mike read a National Geographic article about a phenomenon called the polar night. In the farthest north and south regions of the globe, there are weeks, sometimes months depending on how close you are to the poles, where the sun does not rise above the horizon, plunging the world into a perpetual nighttime. Living in such conditions, the article had explained, can affect one’s circadian rhythm, heighten issues with concentration and energy levels, and cause a spike in depressive symptoms among local populations. Some resort to using light therapy lamps to mimic the daylight.
It was only after the Byers moved away, all those years ago, that Mike began to understand what the prolonged absence of the sun can do to a person.
The Upside Down is gone, and everyone has made it out unscathed. In the aftermath of the not-so-end of the world, snowballs turn into avalanches. Sometimes it just takes time.
or: Mike gets into Brown, Will gets into RISD, and the friends-to-???-to-lovers slowburn that ensues.
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02 May 2026
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In a desperate, last-ditch flail of an effort to salvage the situation, Mike grabbed Will’s arm.
The silence veered from heavy to charged. All of Mike’s attention surged into his hand. He felt like the entirety of his consciousness was suddenly located in the place where his skin touched Will’s.
What the fuck, thought Mike for the second time in ten minutes.
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After first using his powers, Will falls unconscious—and stays that way. Refusing to leave Will's side, Mike reflects on the last year and a half while he waits for Will to wake up.aka mikewhatthefuckdidyoudogate, FEATURING: wound cleaning, bed sharing, disco, Jealous!Mike, queer literary analysis, & the most horrifying eldritch specter of all (gay panic). Canon compliant through S5 Vol 1.
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AU, slow burn, fluff, angst. Enjoy.
The nofin was still struggling, fighting the vicious waves to breathe and call out in it’s ugly, guttural tongue. Will couldn’t speak it, but he’d observed enough nofins for long enough periods to know this one was calling for help. Will broke the surface, using the waves to conceal himself and looked around. The ship was still moving, getting further away from the member who’d fallen overboard. Didn’t they realize this one was missing from their pod? Hadn’t they seen it fall?
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Maybe Will decides that enough is enough, and lets Mike go. Maybe whatever persists between them dies slowly of benign neglect, until all that remains is shared trauma and dead memories that don’t mean what they once did. Or maybe he just never hears Mike’s voice again. He shudders.
But what if it's not too late?
Too late for what?
What do you do when the world fails to end? If you’re Will Byers, you build a life. If you’re Mike Wheeler, you build a tomb.
It’s been a decade since El disappeared, Mike is still trapped in his own head, and no one knows how to talk about it. Then, Mike does something impulsive, and sets in motion a chain of events that will cause Will to question everything he believes - including about himself.
Or: A story about grief, love, fate, freedom, and the things that hide in the dark (and maybe the light, too). This starts slow, but bear with me; I promise it doesn't go where you're expecting!
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- Part 1 of Nature and Supernature
Bookmarked by Lenora_Borealis
27 May 2026
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Byler classic, absolutely epic. An awkward re-falling in love story with a whole universe as a backdrop.
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The summer after graduation, Will learns how to move on, and Mike learns how to live with change.
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