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Will Byers would like to think he’s a smart person.
But, as he is sitting, shell shocked, on the Wheeler’s cushy basement couch, squished between a dumbfounded El and an uncharacteristically quiet Mike, Will Byers feels like the dumbest person in the world.
I’m cursed.
Two words. Two sylables. And Will feels like his whole world has been flipped on its axis once again. -
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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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first fic kinda nervous
It’s 1987 and Will and Mike are staying in a large military bunker in Hawkins, forced to sit on the side lines as Eleven tracks down One, finding comfort, and a halt to the loneliness in one another.
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Everything went wrong really fast.
Mike Wheeler never liked the plan in the first place, but he had no say in the matter.
Mike thought he died, but then he's back in a certain basement during a DnD campaign back in the year 1983.
What is going on? Mike really had no idea, but if he has a chance to change somethings, he will.
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November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.
Together, even across dimensions, right?
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Will should’ve realized this sooner. The fifth anniversary of the start of all of this, the day he was taken, was just four days ago. It passed by harmlessly.
That should’ve been a warning sign.
Now Will is paying the price for his naive, yet blissful, ignorance as he dangles between the balance of his two worlds.
One of home, one of nightmares.
El's grip on his bloody hand is tight as she tries to pull him from perdition.
Looking up, he can see El’s face flushing with strain, her limbs shaking. She’s tired. They’re both exhausted. After everything she's done in the past few days, he knows she's spent. Her powers can’t–
She can’t save them.
Will can't be saved this time.
But he can save her.
He inhales, taking in his last breath protected by a night of blanketed stars and faraway brown eyes, and exhales.
Will let go.
And he falls away from Eden.
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(Please Don’t) Say You Love Me by mentally_unstable_bee
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Sep 2025
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When the end of the world is happening, you tend to ignore all your feelings, but that’s a little hard when the beast you’re fighting uses your trauma to kill you. Surely that won’t happen to any of them. (Right?)
All of Mike’s repression finally catches up with him and he is forced to either face it and grow, or keep hiding and die. Neither is a fun option.
TW: Swearing (other trigger warnings will be placed by chapter)
Updating bi-weekly(?)
My cousin got me back into Stranger Things and Byler. She’s the only reason this fic exists so shout out to my cousin! -
Yes, we're lovers, and that is that by black_starrrr, chiinesesatellite
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Sep 2025
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“I apologised for being bullshit and..” he trails off and Mike wants to ask him - was it obvious, all along? Had it been obvious to everyone else, that he wasn't actually in love with El? And for how long? He doesn't want to think about it, just the thought makes his stomach twist with guilt.
"And what?”
Mike decides to tell him. He wants Will to be the first person to officially know that he and Eleven have broken up - for good. He doesn't know why, but he thinks Will will appreciate the closeness of it.
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It's been two months since the ending of season 4, when Eleven decides to break up with Mike. Not long after, Will and Mike are made to share a bedroom, so they can free up some space in the basement, where Will and Jonathan had previously been staying. With Will returning to Hawkins, his connection to the Upside Down is growing stronger, and Mike will do anything to keep Will safe - even if that means confronting his own feelings towards Will.
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Mike’s life in Hawkins feels unsteady without Will. Letters, visions, and the haunting presence of Vecna force him to confront feelings he doesn’t yet have the words for.
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"He's lost his best friend, the one person who has always understood him without asking, the one person he can trust with the things he can’t say to anyone else, the one person who can turn even his darkest days into something lighter.
Will…The thought catches in his chest, sharp and unyielding.
The feeling is foreign, pressing heavier and deeper than anything he’s ever known.
And it terrifies him."
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Waste A Moment (It's Only Love) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Sep 2025
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Mike’s love for Will was a weakness they couldn’t afford anymore.
He was thinking this as they left his old room, descended the staircase, flashed their intention to leave through the kitchen light and received confirmation from Joyce and his mom. He was thinking this as they stepped back out into his garage, where he finally opened his mouth and said, “Am I too late?”
Will, a few steps in front of him underneath the lone garage light, turned. “What?”
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Where Mike and Will get stuck in the Upside Down and somehow, that's not their biggest problem. Mike's timing, however...
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Vecna cursed Mike and ends up helping him discover his feelings for Will along the way while showing him his past memories.
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- Part 5 of Byler one-shots
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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. -
safe by babygirlmikewheeler (winchestered_again), winchestered_again
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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mike wants his body back, is that too much to ask?
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Mike, Will, and The Party prepare for Vecna's final stand. Mike is too busy surviving his father's abuse to try anything, and his mental state declines quickly, leading to things no one will be able to forget.
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- Part 2 of of course it isn't just me!
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how David Bowie pierced through the veil of death and saved the day by aangazonprime
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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Will is cursed by Vecna. Mike watches the blood pour from his eye sockets, witnesses the otherworldly snapping of his bones. The love of his life, dead in his arms.
But then the scene changes. Every guilty memory of Mike's regarding Will replays in technicolor detail.
Mike can't change the past. But Vecna should know better than to play with his food.
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A slice of life story about literally all the characters being themselves until a new teen shows up. Something seems off about him, but what is it? Also, is Vecna really gone? The group of teens do their usual shit, with Steve being the mom of course, as the adults also do their usual stuff. Will they survive?
Byler is endgame, or does one of them die? Or do they die together? -
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“Deep down,” Vecna says, “you know that you deserve to die.”
“You’re a terrible judge of character,” Mike Wheeler drily replies. “Also: go fuck yourself.”
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In a world where Nancy dies in the battle of Starcourt Mall instead of Billy, Mike straight-up refuses to acknowledge that he’s possessed, El correctly assumes that everyone around her is an idiot at all times, and Will just really wants to know why he keeps getting that prickling feeling on the back of his neck.
Vecna has absolutely no idea what he’s in for.
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When Vecna is healed after his encounter with Nancy, Steve, and Robin, he knows that there is only one way to destroy Eleven before she can intervene in his world domination.
And that is Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 2 of Love Me Like You Do
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Love From the Other Side (I Guess You Can Say Things Are Getting Pretty Serious) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Steve said. “I tried to make her wait until you woke up, I really did.” He tossed something in Mike’s direction, which Mike caught without thinking. “Happy birthday, by the way.”
Mike blinked. He’d completely forgotten, between Holly going missing, frantically searching for a way to get her back, and being possessed by Vecna himself. “Uh, thanks,” he said awkwardly, running a hand through his hair and looking down at what Steve had tossed at him. It was a Kit Kat bar. His favorite. He wondered how Steve knew that.
“Oh, right!” Robin darted forward and hugged him before he could react. He met Will’s eyes over her shoulder, but Will still had a hand covering his mouth and his expression was unreadable, aside from the red on his cheeks. “Happy birthday! There’s a surprise waiting for you in the kitchen. Anyway—mind reading. Totally a thing now, right?”
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Through "the power of best friendship," as Robin puts it, Mike and Will develop a telepathic connection when Vecna tries to take Mike. Neither of them are really upset by it, especially when it gives them the opportunity to finally destroy Vecna once and for all.
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- Part 1 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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El stood behind him, illuminated in the pale light of his flashlight. She was panting- had she run all the way here? Mike’s stomach twisted suddenly. What was going on? She should be far away from here- she’s supposed to be with Will-!
“Mike,” she said again. “I need to talk to you.”
“Now? El, c’mon, it’s not safe for you- wait.” He paused, his heart rate accelerating before he could even process his thoughts. “Did something happen? To Will? Is he okay-”
“Will. Of course you ask about him.”
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Mike runs into Eleven in the woods while on a mission, but something doesn't seem right. In fact, things couldn't be going worse, especially not when she asks about Will, about their past, about why Mike has been *lying* to her...
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Season four re-write but Mike is the main character and takes the place of max in many aspects.
also hopper never goes to Russia and the byers stay in Hawkins.Series
- Part 5 of Mike wheeler angst
- Part 1 of right where you left me (series)
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Mike frowns.
"Will, why would you say that?"
Will blinks, his face expressing confusion for a moment before smoothing out. All traces of what makes Will Will leave him, and Mike is left staring at the calm surface of a deep lake with turbulent waters raging just beneath its surface.
"Hm, you're right. Let's try that again."
Mike Wheeler blinks, and he's staring up at his bedroom ceiling.