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All Will could feel for Mike was pity.
Mike's grieving and Will took one look at him— pale and gaunt, dying and on the verge of following El, and Will took matters in his hands and decided to fix him. Maybe there was love in it. A small, shrivelling thing that remained from his former feelings for him. He never thought Mike's going to cling to him instead.
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10 Jan 2026
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In 1983, Mike Wheeler jumps off the Quarry and survives.
In 1987, Mike is in the Upside Down, caught in the thrall of Vecna's torment, and he falls again, this time, without Eleven to catch him, and with his friends and family too late to save him.
Will jumps after him, wraps him in his arms, and makes peace with his death if it means he dies with the boy he loves. The Quarry, barren of water in this realm, is just rocks and dirt, and as the floor rises up to crush them, the world goes black.
They open their eyes in 1985.
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- Part 25 of Mike Wheeler suffering
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06 Jan 2026
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I Will Follow You (Into The Dark) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Sep 2025
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Maybe One is right; maybe Will hates him, wants him dead. Maybe Will lied that night, months ago, when he promised Mike that he would never join One willingly, no matter what the bastard was telling him in the seemingly endless nightmares that plagued him. When he tried to make Mike promise that he would do whatever it took to end this, no matter what happened to Will in the process.
Mike wouldn’t make that promise. He just promised Will, in his own head, that if it came down to it, neither one of them would die without knowing the truth. And Mike can’t breathe right now, let alone form the words out loud, so instead, he begins to tap on Will’s hand. Familiar dots and dashes, determined to keep his promise.
I, he taps, unable to hear anything over the roaring in his ears.
Love, he taps, watching One move Will's mouth through blurred vision.
You, he taps, and something in those brown eyes flickers, just for a moment.
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In which Will is possessed by One and Mike figures, if he's going to die, he might as well pour out his heart anyway. (Spoiler alert: he doesn't die.)
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04 Jan 2026
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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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.