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Your Destroyed Castle (Along With Both Our Hearts) by 0oglyMoogly
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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Mike can't sleep. He's always slept well in Castle Byers. Maybe it'll still feel like Will is still there.
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Does forgetting something means it never happened? It sort of feels like it, but Owens said that the memories are meant to come back, right? Whether he wants them to or not, they’ll start to trickle in until he’s drowning in them. He doesn’t want to remember, of course he doesn’t, but doesn’t he deserve to know what he’s been through as if he’s actually been through it? Even worse, what does it mean if his memories don’t come back? He’s just too weak to handle them, too fragile to know what to do with himself. How long until he forgets everything else? What happens when he forgets himself?
Will Byers and the frustrating fallibility of human memory, pre s1-5
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No one knows what goes on in the Upside Down by EMU_1016
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Dec 2025
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Basically Mike and Will are together with no one else around in the Ulside Down. They both decide to revisit Castle Byers until Mike does something that catches Will of guard.
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Will finds out that Mike's been visiting Castle Byers ‐ or what's left of it - in his absence. He doesn't really know what to make of it.
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inspired by this amazing art by kidovna!!
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The last time Will saw this drawing it was crumpled and ripped in half, thrown on the ground at Castle Byers before he took a baseball bat to the place. It should be covered in dirt, swept away by the wind or damaged by the rain, but it’s here in Mike’s sock drawer. It’s been carefully taped together, but the rip is still visible. Some of the colors bled through, blotched by rain or tears. When he lifts the drawing to inspect it further, Will finds that beneath it is a photo which has also been taped together. It’s from Halloween 1984.
“Hey Will, I was think–” Mike’s voice cuts off when he reaches the open doorway. His gaze is on Will’s hands before he looks up and their eyes lock.
or, part two to bury the castle
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- Part 2 of m + w
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It’s Not My Fault You Don’t Like Girls! by MarimbaMama
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2025
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Will and Mike’s fight in s3 ep3, rewritten (they don’t brush the incident under the rug and the Mind Flayer is secretly watching it go down with a bucket of popcorn)
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Let's go out tonight because our home is falling apart by Mister_stargayzer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Dec 2025
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Jonathan left his room, quickly to avoid any unwanted attention and opened the door to his brother's room. As soon as he closed the door, the smell of spoiled milk hit his nose and he struggled not to gag. Will was sitting curled up on his bed, surrounded by pillows and blankets. He was trying to cover his ears to stop the yelling, but it clearly wasn’t working. His shoulders were shaking as he hesitantly made eye contact with Jonathan, eyes misty from unshed tears and something in him just broke.
Before he could even think, he was across the room, scooping Will up into his arm. He was still a little coherent at this point and instantly began soothing, “Hey buddy, you alright? Don’t worry, you’re all good. How about we start building Castle Byers now, like we talked about? That could be fun, right?” His scent glands were working overtime trying to produce the nicest, most calming scent, not realising that it was changing into something new by the second, the scent of sweet peppermint filling the air around them.
Or, Jonathan presents as an omega the night Lonnie leaves
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Mike:
When a door opens, one closes. For Mike, both doors stayed open.Will:
When an artist has a muse, they are often close to the artist. Mike is Will’s closet friend. -
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It had been a couple of months since the Fourth of July, and the Byers were getting ready to move out to California. While packing up the house, Joyce was shocked to discover that Will had destroyed Castle Byers.
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Hawkins Homes: Aftermath of the Apocalypse! by aceoflanterns
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2025
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“Hello and welcome to the home renovation series no one asked for,” says Mike, facing the camera. It might be impossible for him to look more bored, standing with a pair of protective glasses shoved atop his head and lips twisted into something between a smirk and a grimace. “Hawkins Homes: Aftermath of the Apocalypse."
“Technically we agreed to it,” says his co-host Will, who’s wearing a pair of proper working gloves that are partially hidden with his arms crossed over his chest.
“That no one asked for,” Mike repeats, and Will sighs in the background.
aka the one where mike and will are hosts of a post-apocalyptic house renovation show. hilarity ensues.
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- Part 9 of we've seen stranger things teehee
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When Mike yelled, “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls,” Will can’t help but remember that night in the basement, all the tears, all the honesty, all the fear he never meant for Mike to see.
Will runs. Mike chases.
A storm, a mistake, and the truth neither of them are ready for.
The missing scene from 3x03. The rain fight, the aftermath, and everything they never said. -
not common sense but I’m haunted (by people who’ve left, so you scare me to death) by mikeslawyer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Nov 2025
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“Like El.”
The words are so quiet, so unmeant to be heard that if Mike was any less perceptive, he wouldn’t catch them.
“Exactly like El. Maybe even cooler, because she was trained and you - you had no idea you could ever do that. Super cool.”
Mike refuses to unpack the weird, rotten feeling forming at the bottom of his throat at comparing them. He swallows around it until it lands in the darkness of his soul with a thud, leaving nail scratches on the shame already packed there.
“Oh.”
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Will has powers. Mike is a little bit of an idiot about it, until he isn’t.
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Chapter 14 is (FINALLY!) up! Enjoy 😃
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WILL (quietly): Are you… in love with me?
MIKE (shocked): What…? Why… why would you ask me that?
WILL (getting scared): Y-you're not, are you? Oh god – is it true? Am, am I… am I delusional?
MIKE: No! No. Will – Of course I'm in love with you. Why would you even have to ask? You know how much I love you…
WILL: You do…? Really? They said it wasn't true. That it was all a dream… That I'm… (slowly) not… really here.
MIKE: Who said that?
WILL: Are you real…?
MIKE: Of course I'm real. Who said that?
WILL: The Lost Souls. They said I'm one of them. They said I died in the Upside Down. Or… I'm… going to. Soon. I dunno.
MIKE: Well, that's bullshit. What do they know? (insistent) Will. You are here. (He cups Will's face in his hands.) And I love you.
WILL (welling up): Promise?
MIKE (nodding): I promise.
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Will and Mike are finally, happily together and ready to take on the world. But now, a terrifying dream, a mysterious phrase, and a looming threat lead them to uncover secrets buried long ago – secrets that could change everything.
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Mike never wanted Will to be alone, not because he was weak or couldn’t handle himself. Because Mike knew that as long as he was there, he could throw himself between Will and any semblance of danger — self-preservation instincts out the window — and protect the person he needed more than anyone.
Which ended up including protecting Will from Mike’s own heart.
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or, Will is unconscious, stuck in a trance from Vecna. Mike reads a letter that he wrote soon after Will moved to California, but never sent.
Mike finally lets his heart want what it wants.
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It’s weird seeing Castle Byers like this: half-standing, split open, abandoned. Will never told Mike what happened, but he knows. It’s his fault. This is physical proof of how Mike Wheeler destroys everything.
or, Mike misses his best friend and finds something in the ruins of Castle Byers which brings up repressed feelings
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- Part 1 of m + w
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happy cute little domestic one shot collection
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Will Byers has always felt like a mistake but then someone chooses him and he thinks that's enough, because he accepts the love he thinks he deserves and he never thought he would deserve anything. But things happen, and he will learn that he deserves more than what he has been taught to believe.
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Four months after our favorite boys have returned to Hawkins, Will has a nightmare. Thank God Mike is there to calm him down...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >He glances back at Will, realizing that the change in subject was one of Will’s expert attempts at deflection from the question earlier. Focusing on softening his words, and pushing a bit more tension out of Will with his hand which is now trailing much closer to the hem of Will's sleep shirt - he restates his question.
“Do you wanna talk about it?”
The question makes Will tense up, his shoulders raising and head lowering as if he were trying to hide inside himself. After a few moments of the only sound being Mike's palm caressing his back, Will breathes out long and slow and finally looks up.
“Yeah, I think I do.”
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- Part 1 of A Classic Nightmare Fic
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“Mike, seriously, when can I open my eyes?”
“We’re almost there,” Mike said softly.
“This better be good,” Will grumbled. Mike swallowed anxiously, but said nothing in response.
“Okay, stop here,” Mike said as they neared their destination. He took a deep breath and took his hands off of Will’s shoulders. “Open.”
Will’s eyes blinked open, and it took a moment for them to adjust to the sunbeams streaming through the trees. It then took another moment for his brain to catch up with what was in front of him.
Castle Byers?
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Mike’s life in Hawkins feels unsteady without Will. Letters, visions, and the haunting presence of Vecna force him to confront feelings he doesn’t yet have the words for.
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"He's lost his best friend, the one person who has always understood him without asking, the one person he can trust with the things he can’t say to anyone else, the one person who can turn even his darkest days into something lighter.
Will…The thought catches in his chest, sharp and unyielding.
The feeling is foreign, pressing heavier and deeper than anything he’s ever known.
And it terrifies him."