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Mike never should have asked the question—now he knows the answer.
It's loud, unavoidable, and happening a few feet away—Will is finished waiting, and he's decided to be cruel about it.
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12 Jul 2026
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i never knew my name until you spoke it from your chest by piecesofsunlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jun 2026
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When Mike first filled out the paperwork, he didn’t know if anything would come of it. He’d just arrived back in Ithaca after a spring break visit to the city. His neck was stiff from the weird nap he’d taken on the bus. It was snowing, in April. He didn't even have any friends to call up and announce his return, unless you counted his roommate, Jeremy, who greeted him with an indifferent head nod and a “hey, man” when Mike spilled through the door of their dorm room, shaking melting snowflakes out of his overgrown hair.
He trudged across campus the next day, past dirty iced-over snow drifts that seemed like they might never melt, and knocked on the door of his advisor’s office.
“If I wanted to transfer to another school next year,” he said, fidgeting with his backpack in his lap as he sat down in the squeaky vinyl-backed chair, “how would that work?”
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13 Jun 2026
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we're nothing (and nothing will help us) by sunkiss3d
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Dec 2025
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In a world full of mind-possessing creatures and alternate dimensions, the fact that it’s nature that finally gets them is, if nothing else, ironic. Mike and Will are the one constant in a world where nothing ever stays the same. Maybe that’s why the universe never did manage to pull them apart.
Until, of course, the earthquake did.
Alternatively, Mike and Will are trapped at the Palace Arcade after an earthquake strikes Hawkins. They indulge in their last chance to make things right.
Bookmarked by oceanique
26 May 2026
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This is such a painful ending that I’ll probably never read it in full again, but it’s a beautiful fic and I’m glad I read it. If you can tolerate a sad ending, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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“I'm glad you're here.”
Mike sniffled.
“I don't want to leave.”
Will's hand reached out, wanting to brush the hair away from Mike's forehead, but it fell short, stopping by his shoulder. He squeezed it lightly.
“You don't have to leave,” he whispered instead. Then, quieter: “Please don't leave.”
Mike and Will find comfort in each other, trying to hold on despite the ghosts of their past haunting their lives.
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19 May 2026
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“I don't know. I've never felt the instinct to… uh…”
“Jerk off,” Mike suggests.
Will winces. “Between Vecna, everything that happened to me in Upside Down... I suppose things like this affect every aspect of your life. So I've never found it particularly… er, appealing.”
Mike finds it almost natural to smile at that choice of words. To make Will feel less out of place, he shifts even closer. His knee grazes Will's chair. Will flinches.
“But you tried,” Mike deduces, slowly.
Will insists on keeping his gaze down. “Yeah.”
“‘Cause you…” Mike follows the contours of Will's jaw with his eyes; if he can’t see it on his face, he hopes to catch a reaction from the rest of his body. “Because you want to.”Or: Will is having a tough time coping with college anxiety which results in constantly snapping at Mike. Mike offers a best-friendly helping hand.
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04 May 2026