Themidnightiris
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“You kept my painting,” Will says. Sure enough, there’s the heart on Mike’s shield, just as red as the day Will painted it. It was Will’s heart that he painted, maybe. It was also Will’s heart that he pulled out and molded into the lie he thought Mike needed to hear, halfway between Salt Lake City and a secret government bunker in Nevada.
Will’s heart is in his throat now, and in Mike’s hands, and on Mike’s wall, framed and carefully displayed.
They stand there in silence for a minute, Will on one side of the room and Mike on the other and too many years of radio silence in between. The quiet is so heavy it’s like a weight on Will’s chest, crushing him, applying pressure—but to a wound or to a bruise, he doesn’t know.
“Will,” Mike says. “Why are you here?”
(or, will has some realizations and a lot of hard conversations, and not every loss is forever.)
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- Part 3 of boys in bars
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23 Jul 2026
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“What did you mean, ‘we’re not friends anymore’?” Will demands.
“Oh god,” Mike says faintly, because he can’t think of a single other thing to say.
“It’s Will, actually,” Will says. “Or maybe you forgot that in the five years since you last bothered to speak to me before you sent me this.”
He unfolds his arms to brandish a crumpled envelope in Mike’s face, and he knows without even looking at his own handwriting on the front exactly what it is.
(or, the summer after all his friends graduate from college, mike writes will a letter to say goodbye. predictably, nothing about this goes as planned.)
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22 Jul 2026
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wrestling with the demons (moving the party forward) by adesiredeffect
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jul 2026
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“It was at the hospital,” says Will somewhat defensively. “He wasn’t just going to snatch him in front of so many other people.”
As if they’ve been administered simultaneous shocks, Nancy and Mike shoot up. “The hospital?”
Dread creeps into the back of Mike’s mind.
He could open his mouth and tell them, but… He hasn’t seen Mr Whatsit, he reminds himself, there’s hardly anything to tell. The hospital had only seemed empty for a moment. He hadn’t lifted from the ground and started bleeding from his eyes.
Besides, their local expert on the hive mind seems sure it’s Derek he’s after. And when Will’s got a feeling, it’s usually right.
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Mike and El break up. Mike doesn't know how to tell anyone, so he doesn't.
Will's in love with Mike. He knows not to tell anyone, so he doesn't.
Then the thirty-seventh Crawl goes wrong, and Vecna strikes right at the heart of the Party.
a byler-centric, st5 rewrite with an ensemble cast
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22 Jul 2026
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"Listen," Will stalled outside the front door. "I have to tell you something."
"Are you okay?" Dustin immediately asked.
"Did Mike bring a girlfriend?" Jane wondered, eyes wide with curiosity.
"No, he brought a child," Will stated, voice falling flat.
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Or, Summer of 1995: The big reunion. Will is recently single. Mike brings his child. Everyone asks the same question: Who did Mike Wheeler have a baby with, and how did Will Byers miss the memo that Mike is gay?
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20 Jul 2026
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"I’m scared that I’ll never change. That I’ll always be Bunny."
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An epistolary fic in which Will Byers navigates his first relationship, a budding friend group, the pressures of minor online fame as an artist, and family woes in the week leading up to college graduation.
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- Part 3 of the bunnyverse
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17 Jul 2026