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    “What’s your first name?”

    Will looked up at him, sure that he was glaring. “Why does it matter?”

    The boy’s smirk was so sharp, pink and dangerous. “Because I want to know who I’m up against.”

    Between ivory walls and dust-covered bookshelves, Will Byers throws himself into an academic rivalry with the arrogant boy in his Philosophy class. He doesn’t understand why Mike refuses to hate Will as much as Will hates him.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    What did he think, really?

    What did he hope to find in the arms of a Mike Wheeler who's suddenly comfortable enough to go to gay bars in New York? That he was just going to have sex with his first love, who's gotten even prettier than he was six years ago and realise, oh, actually yeah I'm definitely over you?

    Yes. Yes, that was what he'd hoped. That's exactly why he'd taken Mike up on the offer, goddammit.

    But he can't face palm hard enough to leave a mark right now, because as he mentioned before, Mike is naked, lying on top of him, gently kissing up and down his neck, still warm and sticky inside him. He can't face palm, because he was wrong, and being wrong has never felt so right.

    aka after the best hook up he's ever had, will tries to convince himself that mike is still a jerk. mike proves him wrong with aftercare and a surprising confession

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    08 Mar 2026

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    The screaming is unusual.

    Will’s nightmares rarely announce themselves like this. They usually arrive quietly, in the form of a locked jaw, trembling limbs, a desperate, instinctive commitment to silence. His fear is usually swallowed and choked back, even in slumber.

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    Or, Will starts screaming in the night. Of course, Mike is there to comfort and protect him. But that’s just friendship… right?

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    This is my love letter to Byler. Who in my heart end up together no matter what. It’s an exploration of genuine emotion, care, shared trauma and love in a friendship and how that can develop into something more. Something they’ve both waited a long time for.

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    03 Mar 2026

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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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    25 Feb 2026

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    An anonymous writer starts writing in to Will and Robin's queer gossip/advice podcast, 'Dear Dorothy', for help on confessing his love to his best friend. Will tries to offer advice on how best to go about it, aided by his own similar experience being in love with his best friend, who coincidentally is acting really strangely...

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    OR: Five times that Will unknowingly helps Mike attempt to seduce him and the one time he knowingly does.

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    11 Jan 2026