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IN THE DARKNESS I WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU by authorsacat
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2026
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Mike Wheeler thinks Hawkins is haunted as shit.
Will Byers is back in town.
It only makes sense to go around ghost hunting and maybe, just maybe, falling in love with your best friend.“So it’s settled then. We like each other and we’re ghost hunting.”
“Yes.”
“That’s a phrase I never thought I’d say.”Or: Mike and Will are definitely not just ghost hunting.
Or: Post-college life sucks.
Or: This really isn’t about ghosts…Bookmarked by That_a_e_l
14 Jul 2026
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“Will, this isn’t about me,” he responded, a little bit too blunt for his own liking. “We don’t know if Max is going to wake up. Let’s focus on that.”
“Lucas, she wouldn’t want you to–” Will began, but was quickly cut off before he got the chance to finish.
"Don’t speak for her like she's dead!" Lucas snapped, voice raised and full of agitation. His nerves were well and truly frayed from the sleep deprivation, meaning that his temper had been considerably shortened. "Because she's not. She's not. She's still in there, I know it."
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When visiting Max in the hospital, Lucas and Will have a long overdue heart-to-heart, soon realizing that they understand each other a lot more than they initially thought they did.
(or my attempt at compensating for the lack of fics about this underrated gem of a friendship)
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13 Jul 2026
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Everything I Ask For (That's All) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2025
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Something Will had always known about Mike, long before they gained the ability to read each other’s minds, was that Mike could be a bit of a brat.
Something Will had always known about himself was that he was very much okay with it.
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After defeating Vecna and taking some time to get their lives back on track, Mike and Will move to Indianapolis and make a home of their own. If they pick up a stray dog on the way, well, neither one of them is complaining.
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- Part 2 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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13 Jul 2026
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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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13 Jul 2026
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Will hurriedly took a drink, but his eyes never left Murray.
“You’re the kind to break your own heart in order for those you love to be happy,” Murray added. “You work hard, you pour your everything into those around you, into what you love, until there’s nothing left for you. Nothing left to give yourself.”
Mike snapped. “Alright, old man, that’s enough!”
“Don’t even get me started on you,” Murray interrupted Mike, making him jerk back slightly. “You think you should live that life, you think that’s the ideal, normal, safe life, but really… you’re lying to yourself. You wanna fit in, you wanna be normal, but really, you know you’re far from it, and you can’t accept it because it means losing that safety and having to face the reality.”-
Or the one where Murray reads Will and Mike like open books, all while taking care not to accidentally force them to reveal anything they aren't ready to. After all, he was never given the option.
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- Part 7 of valiantallie's Stranger Things fics
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