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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Alternate Season 5.)
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24 Jan 2026
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At the top of the basement stairs, Mike thinks about the epilogue he laid out for himself.
Will finds him there.
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03 Jan 2026
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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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02 Jan 2026
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“I want us,” he says, “to have a really good year. To try. Do you think you can do that? If not for you, then… for me?”
The New Year’s after graduation, Will and Mike make a joint resolution - and 1990 comes with revelations for Mike. (Canon compliant. Post S5-epilogue.)
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02 Jan 2026
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The conversation moves on after that, because Lucas suddenly wants to talk about a new movie he wants to rent from Family Video, but Max is still thinking about Mike. Mike and his twisted, warped version of protectiveness.
She keeps her eyes on the both of them for the rest of the night, just out of curiosity. Which is surprising, because Mike Wheeler, of all people, has never made her curious before.
Until now.
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OR: will's got a new boyfriend and mike’s fucking jealous oh shit!!!! hope it doesn't awaken anything in him!!
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28 Dec 2025