Heyy, so I think everyone really needs a pick-me-up right now, so I will be presenting three of my favorite Mike Wheeler fics. All of them have some Byler in them but it's really, really far from the focus and they truly centre on Mike and give time to his relationships with other people too. Enjoy!
Before I Sleep by Magicaleigh:
Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.
Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
cosmonaut. by ghostshaming:
Sometime in the formless dark before breakfast, Mike Wheeler vanishes.
A comprehensive guide to navigating parallel dimensions, disrupting the fabric of reality, and deciding to save yourself.
White Room by Azarinka21:
It was a matter of minutes. Minutes that could have changed his fate, that could have averted the fast-approaching disaster that was coming straight at Mike Wheeler. Minutes that were wasted because no one noticed his disappearance. And so he was left alone, with something new and dangerous in his veins, a scream in his head, and only one goal: to get out of here.
Or: Mike Wheeler is dragged to the Soviet Union by the Russians, gains powers, and does everything it takes to survive. Everything.
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