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At a sleepover in Mike Wheelers basement, Mike and his friends decide to have some drinks and play a game; spin the bottle. What Mike doesn’t know is that they chose this game specifically to get Mike and his best friend Will together. He will soon learn that he may not be so hopeless.
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waking thought, sweet dream, and my everything in between by aviannabuckley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jul 2025
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The grass underneath them was slowly dying due to the toxicity as they got further and further towards the cabin. “It feels different this time.”
He felt Mike falter slightly beside him but they continued to walk together. Will could feel his burning gaze on the side of his head but chose to ignore it. “Different how?”
Mike turned to him slightly but Will couldn’t find it in himself to meet his eyes, staring straight ahead at the wooden door. “Like it’s the beginning of the end.”
Or where Hawkins turns into a living nightmare and Will and Mike are still internally dealing with their feelings for each other.
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After Vecna attacks, the Byers are back in Hawkins and are staying with the Wheelers! El is in Holly's room, Jonathan’s in Nancy's room (with the door open 3 inches), Holly’s staying in her parents room, Hopper and Joyce are in the guest room, and Will is in Mike's room. All is going as well as it can with inter dimensional monsters all over the place. However a problem does arise when Holly develops a little crush!
This was just going to be one chapter, but I like to split the story up, so all the chapters are pretty short.
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Hawkins has been put in a complete lockdown following the infiltration of One through the bleeding of the Upside Down into the Rightside Up - while the train of Mike’s thoughts have been unleashed ferociously upon himself. Confusing thoughts and ideas - especially involving that of his best friend, girlfriend, and a particular painting - have pushed him somewhat distant from Will Byers and the others in the party. Through the months of quarantine, however, he attempts to strengthen the bond he shares with his first ever companion in order to protect him and the fate of the world from the grasp of Vecna - all the while navigating the halls, academics, and heartbreaks of his hectic junior year of high school.
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Why would you lie to me about this? by Mynameismorganandishipbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jun 2025
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Mike finds out about the painting. Both points of view. Waiting for Season 5 is going to kill me.
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- Part 2 of Byler (Stranger Things)
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Will and Mike basically being oblivious with each others feeling while Lucas and Max have to suffer through it.
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The summer before her junior year, Eleven has an accident as she dives into a lake and hits a log in the water. She injured her C4/C5 vertebrae, and she's now quadriplegic. On top of that, she realizes she can't use her powers anymore.
Max, who survived Vecna's attack thanks to Eleven and who is now recovering from her own injuries, tries to be there for her, as her girlfriend.
They both try to manage their new life and understand how it changes their relationship and their world. Eleven's friends are there to support her through her adaptation, and she slowly learns to live again.
Or: Eleven becomes quadriplegic and Max and her friends help her accomodate.
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- Part 1 of Commissions
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Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! by InsrtName
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jun 2025
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"And then California put so much distance between us all, and it's like. It's like I never grew up. Does that make sense? Like you've all moved on and have your own lives now, and I'm still the kid that needs to be protected."
Mike nods.
"Yeah... shit, I didn't even realise, I'm sorry."
"No, it's fine—God—Don't apologise, you're the only one treating me like a normal human being!" Will punches his shoulder playfully.He pauses, retracting his arm and bringing it to fidget with his other hand, looking down at them like he wants to say something else.
"I just wish... I could be more at ease around them. The more they treat me like a kid, the more I feel like I need to act like one."
He looks back up at Mike, biting his lip as if debating adding to that statement. Mike gives an encouraging smile."I wish I could be more like you."
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Mike and Will bring out the best and most honest parts of each other by pretending to be in love, for a game of course.
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Mike wouldn’t imagine his first school dance with anyone else but Will.
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- Part 3 of stranger things
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grew up under yellow light on the street (putting too much faith in the make-believe) by winter_olde
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 May 2025
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Life beats Will black and blue and then kicks him when he's down, and it never stops; each time he thinks it's over, it comes back for more.
And the worst part is Mike can't protect him. He can't stop any of it. He couldn't stop Lonnie. He couldn't stop Troy. He couldn't stop the Demogorgan. And now, now he can't stop these visions.
He's useless, and he hates it. He's a Paladin, a knight, a guardian, so why can't he protect his Cleric?
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A byler-centric season 2 au where Will has an even harder time than in canon and Mike figures everything out a little bit sooner. Everything changes.
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Max isn't present as she talks, her eyes zoned out and recalling the smell. Recalling the instinct to flee, the instinct that danger was near and she needed to either prepare to fight or run. Fight or flight, over a smell she didn't even recognize, but inherently knew. She knew what she was smelling without having smelled it before. And she knew she needed to get far away.
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Boys in Hawkins start turning up dead and the kids get pulled into the mess. Mike Wheeler is the one to find the first victim, catapulting him to the top of the cops' list of suspects, who seem hungry to blame anyone they can, regardless of evidence. Max and the group are roped in, determined to get to the bottom of things and to prove Mike's innocence. With the help of our favorite young adults, of course.
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if he don't die young (he'll probably just ride away) by lu_marii for meganbloomfield
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2025
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Hawkins is crumbling, but Hopper still patrols. Mike is tagging along with him this time, when Vecna strikes, and Hopper has to try to keep Mike alive -- until Will and El arrive, and then love confessions abound.
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"Please!" As though he could ever reach Mike, Will jumped, fingertips not even nearing the rubber of Mike's converse. "Please! I love you, Mike, you're the heart! Do you remember when we met? When you came up to me on the swing set and asked to be my friend?"
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or: Hopper and Mike are an underrated duo, Mike needs to be Vecna'd in season 5 (and I say this out of love), and I truly believe Will and El's voices together are the only thing that could pull Mike out of Vecna's grasp.
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What Died Didn't Stay Dead (You're Alive In My Head) by Byler_Things
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jan 2025
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Just Mike and Will being in love <3
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Will Byers returned to Hawkins after five months to a lot of drama; Hawkins was split in four after some monster-goopy creature, called "Vecna", invaded Max's mind and made her blind and dead - but Eleven used her powers to revive her, but now she's in a comatose state.
Point is - there's a lot of shit going on in Hawkins. Though, Will Byers never thought he'd be in the centerpiece of it. Two weeks after returning, he found Dustin crying about some guy named Eddie, who died in the Upside Down. Dustin explained how he was such a good guy, but was blamed for something he didn't do, just because he liked DND - like Will.
That's when Dustin said something that would change something for Will Byers.
"He ran a DND club called Hellfire with me and Mike, he was a nerd like you."
Mike was in a DND club? Will remembered, standing in his house before he moved, Mike promising that he'd never join another a DND club, and he joined, without even telling him?
With the relationship between them already being strained, this made Will even more upset. He loves Mike, and he does this...BULLSHIT to him?
What the fuck is Will supposed to do now?
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Needle in a Haystack--Stranger Things Lesbyler by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2025
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Willow Byers believes she has her life pegged. That is, till she meets the girl who throws her off-schedule.
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Mike & Will (who else decodes you?) by cloudyskye1529
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2024
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His thoughts wander with his fingers across the spines of novels in half decent shape considering how many times they’ve been checked out. Mikes eyes catch a faded light green spine. A mix of dread and curiosity fill his stomach as he removed it from the shelf and grazed his fingertips over the words carefully written in neat handwriting on the front.
Do You Dare…?
“Yes.” is his first thought. His breath feels locked in his lungs, his interest is officially piqued. He opens the notebook.
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Dash & Lily AU where Will writes the notebook to find another queer person in hawkins, and he succeeds! he just didn’t expect it to be his best friend who he’s trying to get over.
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The Wheelers are having a Christmas party but Mike is only allowed to invite one friend (obviously Will Byers). When an annoyingly persistent girl takes Will's first kiss under the mistletoe, Mike loses it. In Mike's opinion, Will's first kiss has been ruined. There's only one way to fix it ... a re-do first kiss! Just as an "experiment" of course. Purely scientific reasons! (No other reason...)
tldr: Jealous Mike is jealous. Byler re-do Will's first kiss
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stranger things + coraline bc i couldnt get it out of my head and i need some sleep 😑
basically everything goes down like in the show and will gets kidnapped and el fights the demogorgon and stuff except the party have ZERO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON
um and mike moves away and el and hopper also move away because trauma and the bad men and stuff (probably between st1 and st2 bc i just can't erase all those byler moments .-.)
idk if this is making sense but yeah
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“I need you.”
Will’s expression grows more stunned. “What?” he breathes, voice barely above a whisper.
His instincts tell him to take it all back, but the way that Will’s looking at him with those sorrowful, questioning eyes weakens him. And he’s been stupid for many, many years, so what’s a little more stupidity?
aka a s5 speculatory mike wheeler-centric fic about his internalised homophobia and a lot of moments where he's not so clever about his feelings with will
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Jane nodded confidently, a smirk lifting her lips. “It’s about damn time you faced your fears, Wheeler. Welcome.”
Mike rolled his eyes. “Welcome where?”
“To the unknown!” She shouted— and shoved him into the trees.
Mike Wheeler and his best friend, Jane Hopper, find themselves lost in the middle of a winding wooded realm known as the Unknown— a fantastical reflection of the world they call home. With the help of individuals vaguely familiar to them, their trip home begins. Lurking in the woods, though, is a menacing shadow that will do anything to prevent their return…
An Over the Garden Wall AU
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