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“Will, how is it possible that you cool things off for Mike without even being there?”
“What? I don’t—” he starts.
“Yeah, you’re like his cooler,” Dustin adds. “When you don’t come out with us, Mike just sits at the bar and mopes.”
“I do not!” Mike shouts.
“And when you do come out with us,” he continues. “Mike spends half the night checking on you. And he’ll tell whatever girl he’s talking to that he needs to go ‘check on his roommate,’ and he ditches her.”
“Will, don’t take this the wrong way, but you’ve totally been cockblocking Mike without even doing anything,” Lucas teases.
“Come on, don’t be a dick, Lucas,” Mike grumbles.
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After a months-long dry spell, the party agrees to help each other get laid, and a misguided Will dedicates himself to being Mike's anti-cooler. Then, a drinking game gone wrong puts Mike and Will in a precarious situation where they must kiss or risk losing the game, and a panicked Mike accidentally says something a little too revealing about his feelings, much to Will's surprise.
loosely based on the events of New Girl 2x15, Cooler
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"What exactly are you calling for, Nancy?"
There was a moment of silence before she continued. "I'm living in Paris—for work. I can't… they won't let him leave the country, and I can't move back fast enough for it to matter."
Will felt his face pale. "What about your parents?"
"They don't want anything to do with him, not after—"
"Yeah, I heard. What about…"
"Will, there's no one else. I've tried."
"Nancy, I can't… I can't just—"
"Please. I wouldn't be asking if there was another option."
Will bit the inside of his cheek. "Okay."
Or: Mike is on house arrest for 6 months and has no choice but to stay with Will, even though they haven't spoken in two years.
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07 Jun 2026
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Being a part-time superhero doesn’t solve Will’s problems; instead, it adds to them. As Cleric, he’s forced to deal with his egotistical know-it-all of a partner, Paladin. As Will, he’s stuck hopelessly pining after his best friend. He’s honestly not sure which is worse.
One thing’s for sure, though — he needs a change. In one of his weaker moments, Will comes up with a plan: get over Mike by getting under someone else, someone he knows he won’t fall for.
Maybe Paladin is good for something, after all.
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- Part 1 of I Need a Hero
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You Were on the Run, so You Took My Last Name by epilogueboyfriend
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Will touched his cheek in concern. “You okay, Mike?”
Mike managed a jerky nod. “Yeah, fine. You’re just…” He broke off to clear his throat and finally lifted his hands to place them on the small of Will’s back. His skin was smooth and warm. Mike’s thumb moved with the dip in his spine, tracing along the curve. “You know.” Hot and on top of me.
Will smiled, pleased at that. “I do know,” he said loftily, and Mike got the sense he really did, and frequently used it against him to get his way. “But I like it when you tell me.”
Mike wakes ten years in the future, a successful novelist and in a committed relationship with Will.
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Mike turns around and sees Will standing in the middle of the hallway and stops.
"Hey," he says. "Can I help you find something?"
His voice in person is slightly different from the radio. This is the version before the edit. Louder, and a little breathless from arguing, and entirely unaware of how often Will had listened to him.
"I'm here about a logo commission," Will says. He sounds, he thinks, almost normal. Even with his brain operating at half-capacity.
Mike's eyebrows go up in surprise. "We're getting a new logo?"
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college radio dj mike x art student will
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never let you slip away by kellogsfrostyflakes, waveyspaces
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2026
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"We get it, you're hilarious. Now take these off, please, so I can go home."
"Sorry, man," Lucas says, shrugging. He stands from his spot on the floor to come to Max's side. "But it was getting bad. You've been weird since Stacey's party."
Or: Mike and Will refuse to admit what happened last Friday, and the Party has the perfect solution. 24 hours handcuffed to your best friend shouldn't be so bad, should it?
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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“No!” Mike exclaimed, “Holly, I’m not marrying him!”
“Why?” Holly whined, as Mike tried to walk away. She threw both arms around his legs and sank to the floor, sitting on his feet so that it was extremely difficult to walk.
“Because,” said Mike, trying to free himself from her grip by shaking his legs. She only held on tighter.
“But he’s so amazing,” said Holly, as Mike shuffled his feet slowly when he realised she would not be relinquishing her hold on him anytime soon. He dragged her into the hallway so he could put on his coat. “He’s the best, most incrediblest, most fantastic babysitter in the whole world! You should marry him!”
Or; Will Byers, well-known as an outcasted freak at Hawkins High, is Holly Wheeler’s babysitter, and perhaps the loveliest person Mike has ever met.
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“You’re insane! I can’t just write something as obvious as that. What if he figures out it’s me?”
”Um, then you get a super-cute boyfriend who you’ve been in love with for, like, as long as you’ve known him?” Vickie blinked at him, arms crossed over her lanyard. “I don’t understand the issue, why don’t you just… tell him?”
”The issue is that he could hear me, Vick.” Mike emphasised. “He could hear me, and realise I’m actually a loser, and ride away on the back of that dumb jock’s motorcycle-”
“C’mon, Mike,” Vickie interrupted his rambling with a teasing sing-song tone, bunny teeth glinting past her pink lips. “Valentines is a day for the brave. Besides, what’s the worst that could happen?”
Or, four times Mike Wheeler sends the cute art teacher a candy-gram for Valentine’s Day, and the one time he doesn’t need to.
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29 Apr 2026
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This was sooooooo sweet and soooo funny. Like literally started crying from how cute and in love they are in this. Like biggest smile on my face and filled with glee:)))))
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Mike quickly gets off Will and covers himself with a blanket to hide the evidence.
In hindsight, pinning your gay best friend down on your bed wasn’t the smartest thing to do. Especially, when you end up accidentally grinding against him.
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Mike has an overwhelming urge to find out more about Will's type in guys - some feelings and boners get revealed in the process.
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14 Apr 2026
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Max's eyes dart between Will and Mike, studying them with thinly veiled amusement. She turns to Lucas and nudges him with an elbow. "Was it really this obvious?"
"Yep," Lucas sighs. "The whole time."
Max snorts. "Oh my god. When I get back, nobody is living this down."
Or: Will has seen a lot of things in the past few years, but the arrival of a friend from ten years in the future is… unexpected, to say the least. The ceiling opens up and spits out a twenty-six-year-old Max Mayfield, and the definition of possible expands again.
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- Part 1 of what i know now
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Mystery Work
Part of stfuterfs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by troii
14 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
really cute, mikes' spiraling jealous thoughts were a treat
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Public Bookmark 267
Mystery Work
Part of stfuterfs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by troii
14 Apr 2026
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loved this one to bits omfg. truly truly delightful.
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Public Bookmark 322
Mystery Work
Part of stfuterfs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by troii
14 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
this was so fucking funny and in general just a really good time. like I had a blast reading this
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Public Bookmark 133
Mystery Work
Part of stfuterfs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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13 Apr 2026
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I love time travel tropes soooo much. This was so good
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Will could not help the question that burst from his lips, it had been ricocheting around his brain like a stray tennis ball and was simultaneously causing him the most excitement, distress and exhilaration he had felt in his entire life.
“Are you my husband?” he blurted. Mike blinked in surprise.
“What?”
Will lost his nerve slightly. He wondered if he had been horribly wrong about this, and maybe in this strange timeline he was just a friend staying over and maybe he’d made a mistake and the daughter wasn’t really his daughter and—
Will faltered. “Um, I — well, I just thought you were — I mean, you are my husband, right?”
Mike looked very alarmed. He was staring at Will as though he had grown a second head.
“Obviously…?” he said, “Are you feeling alright? Did your mom make you try her D-I-Y coffee again?”
When nineteen-year-old Will Byers wakes up to find himself in his forty-three-year-old body, he must—with no experience whatsoever—play the part of world-renowned freelance painter, father of two very troublesome teenagers, and most strangely of all: Mike Wheeler’s husband.
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Bookmarked by troii
13 Apr 2026
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I’m sooo enamored with this fic. Fills me with such joy
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there's a hundred girls who could take my place by sunrue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2026
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"I really don't want you to call her, Wills."
There was a prolonged moment where they just stared at each other, and Michelle wasn't thinking about anything else. The music, the people, stupid fucking Charity. It was just Willow and Michelle, as it always had been.
Eventually, Willow sighed, giving into Michelle's demands as she always seemed to do - as Michelle always did for her. "Okay, Mimi. I won't call her."
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Four times Michelle pleaded for Willow to say no, one life-altering conversation, and one time she pleaded for Willow to say yes.
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31 Mar 2026
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This was sooooo good. Loved literally every single scene. Loved Willow in this. Michelle was jealous AF. Genuinely was about to cry from either heartache or joy. Really well done
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My Heart Starts to Wonder by Averageinternetperson123
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Apr 2026
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In the spring of 1987, Dustin and Will started spending a lot more time together, thanks to how often their friends seemed to ditch them.
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26 Mar 2026
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This is such a good time. I’m having so much fun reading this. Genuinely a blast. Byerson is so cute in this
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Mike Wheeler's Guide to Not Getting The Guy by the_heliades
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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‘You better,’ Max says, ‘any man who puts up with a two hour long—’ ‘It was twenty minutes!’ ‘—panic attack in a bathroom, talks you down from it and still gives you his number over two years later deserves at least a call back.’
Mike shrugs. ‘Maybe?’
‘But,’ Will’s weak, thready voice breaks through the chatter of their friends, ‘you don’t date guys.’
‘Oh shit,’ Dustin says, but it’s like Mike is hearing him underwater as he looks at Will.
Mike is confused, he can hear the blood rushing in his ears as he blurts out, ‘Will, we dated for, like, a month and a half.’
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Didn't know they were dating fic where Mike dates Will Byers, is gently let down and broken up with by Will Byers, and tries to move on from Will Byers. Will thinks that Mike's just finally letting himself be happy in New York City.(Mike Wheeler, in fact, does get the guy. Eventually.)
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Dating apps aren't Mike's thing, until he finds out Will is using one. He can't let a bunch of trashy guys go after his best friend; he'll just make a fake account to scope out the situation. What could go wrong...or right?
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Mike creates a fake persona on a dating app to unknowingly flirt with Will.