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Will wishes he could take a mental snapshot of their life now and somehow send it back to his teenage self. Just to let him know that he's going to have this: their bed, and their shitty shoebox apartment, and Mike, who has a screwed up sleeping schedule, and who leaves his dirty clothes anywhere but the hamper, and who kisses the corner of Will's mouth when Will is doing the dishes, and who wants to do things with Will—the things that made Will so scared and miserable for wanting them at sixteen. Mike, who is completely naked, propped up on the elbows, and looking up at Will like he hung the moon.
Will's twenty years of deep happiness and acceptance told through the series of firsts.
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- Part 2 of Some Marvelous Experience
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“That can’t be comfortable,” he said as Mike finally dropped onto his towel beside him. At his questioning glance, Will nodded vaguely to his chest— which, at that point, was nearly visible through the wet, transparent fabric. He did not think about it.
Mike followed his gesture, looking down at his shirt. “It’s… hell, actually.”
“Why don’t you just take it off?” Will asked. That was, evidently, the wrong thing to say. Mike’s lips pursed— an expression that he only pulled when someone ticked him off particularly badly. He always tended to tone it down whenever Will was at fault for it, like he didn’t want him to notice. Will always noticed.
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Mike refuses to take off his shirt at the lake. Will would like to know why.
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19 Jul 2026
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After dating El for three years, it should feel right – she’s his first love, just as he is hers. The problem is, every time Mike’s eyes meet Will’s, he realizes just how badly he wants him, instead. Suddenly, everything he's been doing for the past three years feels utterly and completely wrong.
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mike wheeler tries to get will byers to remember their 'code language' they made when will was nonverbal, will remembers, he remembers everything, but admitting that felt like handing mike a piece of himself he tried so hard to bury.
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19 Jul 2026
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Will can’t even bear turning around to see how Mike’s feeling, and that never happens. But he knows the urge to talk to Mike about everything will come back to greet them soon, just as long as they survive this car journey.
“So, Michael,” Karen says, “Still not kicked that nail biting habit?”
They’re not going to survive this car journey.
aka karen invites mike and will over for christmas, but mike still hasn't told his whole family about his relationship, even after a year of them definitely not-so-platonically living together. maybe it's time.
title from 2000 Miles by The Pretenders
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- Part 2 of domestic 90s byler
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16 Jul 2026