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For the past two years, Micheal Wheeler hasn't usually let himself feel things.
Obviously, he has feelings. He loves his friends, he likes El, he appreciates his family. But he’s been hiding that feeling for so long that he almost forgot it existed.
Almost.
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Continues immediately after the events of season 5 episode 7. Basically the finale, but written by someone who actually cares about queer representation. Mike did NOT deserve that absolute assassination and I WILL be doing him right.
In other words, a fix-it fic based on my last byler theory on my YouTube channel (@i.dontknowhowtodance, the period is IMPORTANT), in which we get a Mike-central finale where byler is canon. I do want to clarify I only watched the finale once and I refuse to watch it again so I might get some plot points wrong but you guys don't care anyway because no one likes the finale.
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- Part 1 of Smalltown Boy Universe
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25 Feb 2026
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The Possession of Mike Wheeler by das_tapfere_schreiberlein
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Apr 2026
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After Will‘s coming out, Michael slowly realizes that he might be his mysterious Tammy. He confesses his love to Will before they go into battle.
Everything almost went perfectly and Vecna seems to be defeated. Until Mike starts to have nosebleeds and loses tracks of reality. It's up to Will now to find a way to save Mike and the rest of the party with his newly found powers.
When he enters Mike's library-shaped and very confusing mind, he finds a lot of things he was never supposed to see but can he also find Mike in there?
This is where the true final battle begins.
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24 Feb 2026
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Turn Away, Run Away (Crying to Your Soul, Crying to Your Soul) by Yui_Kuromori
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 May 2026
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(...) "you pick a place to hide, anywhere at all. Think of one.”
At his prompting, Mike thought for a minute. If he was asked for a place to hide…well he couldn’t think of anything but his basement. Still air, soft blankets. El.
Mike’s eyes burned.“Yeah okay, I picked one.”
“Alright, then I ask some questions. Try to find you. You only give me yes or no answers.”
Mike shifted in his seat, “Okay.”
“The idea is to delve in where your brain goes when it wants to hide,” he explained, “what it finds safe, familiar or innovative.”
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Something clicked in Mike’s brain, like he suddenly remembered the answer to a test.
“I’m not hiding.”
He said before he could stop himself. Dustin’s arms tightened around him, before he pushed Mike away, just enough that he could look at him in confusion.
Mike blinked, mind suddenly clearer, what was he saying-“I’m not hiding, I’m looking for something.”
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In which Mike Wheeler fights his way to a happy ending.
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23 Feb 2026
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He heard the rapid steps approaching them from one side and security from the other. Even in the commotion, he tried to cover Will’s frail body from the threat, his arms finding their place enveloped around him tight as he chanted his friend’s name, who was still violently spasming. He didn’t even want to look, far too scared to face the same monsters El had ended with a year ago.
Will is possessed by the Mind Flayer and admitted in the lab, Mike helps him escape. Even if it means following the Hive Mind that controls his best friend from the Upside Down. He just loves Will, in whatever form he comes.
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24 Feb 2026
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Standing in the yard dressed like a kid (the house is white and the lawn is dead) by CC (Sp0n6e)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Feb 2026
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Mike likes to think everyone cares about him like how he cares about them. He always makes sure he’s there for them—their protector, their paladin, and he knows they’re always there for him…
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There are many times Mike gets hurt by both the people he loves and doesn’t and no one helps him and one time his family and friends finally notices.
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24 Feb 2026
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One of Max’s hands returns dutifully to his back, the movement a direct contrast to what comes out of her mouth.
“You were, like, a really shitty boyfriend.”
“Holy shit, Max,” he mumbles, because nobody is allowed to say stuff like this to him anymore. Not even her. It’s some unspoken rule the party developed traitorously behind his back. “How drunk are you?”
Mike and Max get drunk at Stacey Albright's party and have a heart-to-heart on the bathroom floor.
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- Part 3 of time after time
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24 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler’s Journey to Himself (and Will Byers’ Heart) by purpledisaster
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Mar 2026
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Mike Wheeler hates his life. Luckily for him, none of it is real.
In reality, he’s possessed by Vecna, who has trapped his mind inside a dream and refuses to let him go without a fight - while Mike’s friends are left to face Vecna on the outside.
Mike realizes the only way out is through a maze of his own memories, where every path leads, for some reason, back to Will. And when Mike makes Vecna angry by carving out his own paths, even the memories begin to rot into nightmares.
There’s only one thing Vecna can’t fully silence. Will’s voice, leaking through the cracks of the mind prison.
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24 Feb 2026
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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved by swiftinski
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Mar 2026
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In which Vecna takes Mike rather than Holly, and instead of distracting him with pancakes and dress-up in the Creel house, Mike wakes up in 1995 in a New York apartment with a suspiciously unclothed Will.
(Loosely inspired by that one infamous glitch in the matrix reddit story where the dude dreams a whole life, stares at a lamp a little too hard, and wakes up mourning a life that never existed.)
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24 Feb 2026
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Since the events at the star court mall, Mike has been unable to shake the feeling of emptiness. Through writing, drunk nights with friends, and smoke-filled conversations with an unlikely Steve Harrington, Mike learns to live with his depression. This is all until Will Byers demands an explanation from Mike, now, he can’t keep his secrets anymore.
Or: Mike Wheeler is only happy when he’s high or with Will. Which is better?
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24 Feb 2026
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Tom won't let Gatsby take anything that belongs to him.
Previously posted on ff.net
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19 Feb 2026
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handle me with care in this life (we can live it out again twice) by subliminalpsyche
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Mar 2026
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Mike doesn't remember much of the final battle against Vecna, but he quickly finds out nothing is as it seems — and it hasn't been for a long time.
Or a post-S5 volume 2 fix-it fic where monsters are lurking around an abandoned Hawkins, Vecna is nowhere to be found, and Mike has no idea how they can stop the world from ending.
***On pause***
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15 Feb 2026
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When memories snow by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
28 Feb 2026
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"'This is the Wheeler household, -Micheal speaking' Who is this?"
"YES!"
A voice rang out from the opposing end of the line, it struck Mike oddly enough. He was just in a mood from this call now his heart was beating and he couldn't quite think straight– the voice continued rambling onto something but Mike can't comprehend not till he hears "IT is back, Rich'" with heavy breathing following.
Mike scrambles- lifting his hand moving it back and forth from the back to his palm before just spitting something out. His head was splitting, spinning- god who knows?
"Just uh- call back in 10' —my head is, I'm sorry Eds'!"
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Distantly, a boy would be quite unable to handle his emotions anymore, "Richie- fucking Tozier!"
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or, how's we say Pennywise comes back just before Mike leaves for Lenora and thus the double life saga begins..
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15 Feb 2026
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"Mike could reason a lot away.
He'd been having nightmares since the day Will went missing, and headaches and even nosebleeds were symptoms of sleep deprivation and stress, both of which weren't exactly uncommon occurrences in his life. He hadn't heard any clock, and he thinks he'd know if he'd been hunted by a monster from another dimension - probably.
But Mike was also not a complete idiot - usually - and he was good at recognising patterns.Most damming of all, all of this had stopped practically the second he left Hawkins.
This fucking town."
Aka my rewrite of season five, featuring Mike being vecna'd and very slowburn very angsty Byler.
How long will it take Mike to tell someone he is being hunted and psychologically tortured by an interdimensional monster?
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15 Feb 2026
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Mike would never admit this to anyone, but… he was drowning.
Or, Instead of Holly being taken... it's Mike.
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13 Feb 2026
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The storm over Mike’s head brews. The gray clouds darken to black as if something’s burning—but there’s no smoke. The ground trembles beneath him, quaking with anger. Overhead, a tornado forms, churning in the sky.
More than one—a dozen, maybe more—tornadoes form all at once. Mike lets out a cry, not sure if it’s rain or tears streaming down his cheeks. The downpour grows heavier, blurring everything into gray, while the earth shakes harder beneath him. More tornados spin into existence. Strangely, it feels like a weight is being lifted from his shoulders, as if this storm—no, this disaster—is somehow soothing.
Or after season 2, with the heightened/extreme stress and the pores from the tunnels. Mike awakens his powers, being the first mutant on Earth in X–Men terminology. This can be a fix–it or some kind for the next season maybe…
(season 3-5 rewrite feat. platonic mileven and will overthinking and getting jealous over nothing)
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- Part 1 of beaming Mike Queeler some depression
- Part 1 of Apocalypse/Apex AU
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13 Feb 2026
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Empty Victory - Are you sure its over? by Gh0stly_r3ita
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler, left alone and stuck in the past, starts to question his sense of reality as everything he takes as reality begins to shift and change around him.
Hes alone, now. Writing shitty stories in his parents basement, having drifted away from the rest of the party as he refuses to move on from the past, even though everybody else seemed to of gotten over it all easily..
People change, right? That's all thats happened.
Nothings wrong, he tells himself. Nothing at all.
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Mike Wheelers a dumbass who got vecna'd & half of season 5 wasn't real
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13 Feb 2026
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At once, all of the pieces come together, and Mike isn’t sure he likes the shape they take. It’s like someone has taken a ball of red string into his brain and begun connecting years of memories he has worked so hard to ignore.
The painting. The red string reaches for another memory: El’s letter from that spring. All the shared looks that were meant only for the two of them. That day in the rain. Each shoulder bump. Every unnecessary brush of the knee.
Crimson yarn stretches into the recesses of his mind: The way Mike would always sit just a touch too close. The way Will would always let him. How lost Mike felt the year Will was in California. How he could never find the right words to say. The weird feeling Mike got in his chest when he saw Will at the airport, and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. The worst week of his life, back in 83’. "If we both go crazy, at least we’ll go crazy together, right?"
The string loops back around and grabs one final piece of the puzzle: Tammy motherfucking Thompson.
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Mike’s junior year begins with an avalanche. This is what follows.
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13 Feb 2026
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In the aftermath of the battle, Will tells Mike he's in love with him, then asks for space to move on.
Predictably, Mike doesn't handle it very well.Or; Will needs time, and Mike needs Will.
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12 Feb 2026
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my hands fit here better anyways. | byler by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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Will Byers and Mike Wheeler have been talking recently. Mike hadn't expected it, really. Longer talks on the phone, more planning, less of the Party. Mike didn't pay much mind to it. Maybe Will just wanted company. He wasn't complaining.
It started getting different when Will got touchy. Will was the type to keep to himself, and Mike hadn't expected.. this.
He has no clue what's going on or why everything he felt 2 years ago is hitting him straight in the face. He still doesn't know what it is.
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09 Feb 2026
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This world is only gonna break your heart (or fix it) by bylerforever_always
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Feb 2026
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And Will…
Fuck. Will. His sweet, precious, innocent, beautiful Will.
or Conformity Gate is real
or Mike gets Vecna'd but doesn't know and finds himself in a world where he loses Will, the love of his life and his friends as heads to college. Meanwhile, Will, El and the others figure out how to get Mike back to the real world, while time is slowly running out
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09 Feb 2026