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1. Always Have, Always Will by madeindaydreams

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   13 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Will Byers's Epilogue Boyfriend
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • POV Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • College
   • Post-Canon
   • Making Out
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Underage Drinking
   • Miscommunication
   • Paintinggate Mention
   • Lettergate Mention
   • MWTFDYD Mention
   • Mike Doesn't Realise His Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Happy Ending
   • mike is stupid
   • Mike Realises He's Stupid
   • Talking About Feelings
   • eventually
   • Confident Will Byers
   • Pathetic Mike Wheeler
   • TW: Carlton
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield and Mike Wheeler Beef
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Friendship
   • Mike kisses another guy
   • Just once then he has a crisis
   • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler Bonding

   Summary

   Mike didn’t have any plans for his future apart from following his best friend to college so that everything could stay exactly the same between them.

   But when it doesn’t, when Will meets new people, or more specifically, a new person, Mike realises just how far from okay he is with that. And it may just lead to him realising some other things that he’s feeling too…

   Or
   Mike and Will move to College, Will gets a boyfriend, and Mike gets very, very jealous

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