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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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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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Bookmarked by chitanda_82
01 Jun 2026
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Byler god on tt told me to, and they wrote my will is good (i think) so it’s gonna be good.
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"It's for you."
Mike startles, blinking when Will pushes the box even closer to him.
"You got me something?"
Will tries to shrug it off. "Just something small. Early six-month anniversary gift let’s say, or at least part of it. The rest will come later. Now open it."
And he does open it, but it’s not a comic book or action figure like he expects but a collar and a custom one at that. But with how the last few months have gone—pining secretly and determinedly not talking about the puppy thing from Halloween—maybe this is what Mike needs. Maybe what they both need.
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- Part 2 of Puppy Mike
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17 May 2026
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Bated breath waiting for this to complete, I don’t know what to do with myself.
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But it wasn’t a monster that came out of the trees. It was a person. A boy.
Mike froze.
Then he was spotted, and the boy stopped in his tracks; with skillful movements, he quickly slung the rifle off his shoulder and pointed it at Mike’s chest. Mike raised his hands while trying to keep most of his weight on his left leg.
“Whoa. Hey,” Mike said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tip of the rifle. “Just hold on. I’m not—I’m not going to hurt you.”
Or: A crawl gone wrong left Mike stranded in the Upside Down. Hurt and alone, Mike stumbles upon someone everyone told him was dead.
Will Byers was never found Au
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Bookmarked by chitanda_82
27 Apr 2026
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Um one of THE byler fics
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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Bookmarked by chitanda_82
26 Apr 2026
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I should get on this