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If I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places. . .
Mike Wheeler can't make a deal with God, but he can make a deal with Vecna.
Mike swaps places with Max.- Language:
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17 May 2026
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This Byler series is inspired by a lyric from “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call” by the Bleachers. Chapters are fully fleshed out with feelings, yearning, and very much written with my whole heart. Expect non-traditional Mike Wheeler characterisation, internalised homophobia/LGBTQIA+ themes, religious guilt, and plenty of pop culture references.
Pls enjoy, and take note of the time stamps :)
Listen along ⛨ with this byler Playlist from Mike the Brave's POV.
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05 May 2026
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Mike regrets not grabbing a second jacket.
The air in the Upside-Down tastes like church confession-booths. Murray's van is freezing, and his skin feels like it's burning, like one of those Sunday-school devils, horned, red and evil, are crawling under his epidermis and scratching at his nerves with a pitchfork.
Time stamp; Stranger Things Season 5, Episode 7 (The Bridge)
Author's Note: This is the sequel to “to the tempo of your uptight”. Highly recommended to read part 1 first. Cannot be read as a standalone.
(Part 2 of 3 of a ST S5 Rewrite, Mike Wheeler POV)
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- Part 2 of don't you?
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04 May 2026
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The second funeral is worse than the first one.
They’re standing around the same plot of dirt, lowering another small coffin into the ground, throwing more yellow roses in the grave. There’s no crowd of people in the second funeral—no Jennifer Hayeses to fake cry over a boy she barely knew, no Lonnie Byerses to smoke cigarettes in the corner and snuff them out on the priest’s podium. There was hardly a priest at all, this time around.
He thinks it’s for the better. Mike doesn’t think God deserves to guide Will to his afterlife when He couldn’t even guide him back to Mike.
There’s blinks of moments between before and after. Before Will was lowered, and after it.
Mike barely feels any of it.
(or, the one where will byers never makes it home after 1983, and mike wheeler feels like a piece of him never did, either.)
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- Part 1 of love vs. fear
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20 Apr 2026
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A sharp crack tears through the air. Mike flinches back, staring down at Will's lifeless body. He gets one last look before the ground is giving way beneath them, and all at once, they’re falling.
A shrill cry tears from Mike’s throat as he finds himself flailing through the open sky. A sharp crack of lightning shutters in the distance. Will's limp corpse contorts, dropping faster than he can. He’s screaming, unimaginable terror ripping through his body. He writhes, reaching for Will, crying the boy's name.
He’s falling, plummeting through a destabilized upside down and there's nothing he can do to stop it. He’s going to die.
Mike reaches out, eyes squeezed close. He tears the watch from Will's wrist, seconds before colliding with the Exotic Matter.
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Colliding with Exotic matter as the Upside Down collapses in on itself sends Mike hurtling through time. He’s given the chance to save Will before any of this starts.
But he can’t seem to get it right. Reliving moments throughout the years, helpless to warn Will. He just wants to keep him safe. Why can’t he keep him safe?
He’ll do this again and again until he gets it right. He won’t lose him again.
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05 Apr 2026