Basically the title. I know im six months late to hoping online but that finale, ouch. I'm looking for friends!!!

Also here's a gift, this is one of the best fics I read:

i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache)

by sunsetozier

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75851656/chapters/198415166?view_adult=true#bookmark-form

Mike “Athletics? I Don’t Know Her” Wheeler (insp)

bonus:

If my bookmarks are public, just go through and go nuts xD But I'll put some here!!

The first HAS to be I could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier OFCCCCC

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75851656

One of my favourite fics of all time for sure! Mike is kidnapped by Vecna and has a very bad, not good time, and Will is super protective!

The next is, of course, Cosmonaut by Ghostshaming. This fic means so much to me! I've read it a thousand times and written my own spinoff. After season three, Mike suddenly finds himself in a strange new world where he died in season one.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20809436

Then, Something Is Wrong With Mike Wheeler by The_Bees_Want_Arson , is one of my fav fics atm! It's fluffy and angsty! Currently ongoing, but it gets updated pretty frequently. In fact, while you're reading that, just check out everything else The_Bees_Want_Arson has :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75317246

Vampire Mike supremacy

I'd get him to swap our places by AnixetyRiddenEmo is also really good! It's a Max and Mike S4 role swap and super angsty!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41008227

Judith's Head by basaltdyke is also super good! Post-canon, Will sees Mike kissing a random guy in a bar, and has a whole spiral about it. After that, it's very Mike angst, currently ongoing, but I love it!

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.

Or,

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.

─┉─ • ─┉─

i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier:

Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen. From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed. This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.

will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.

Just for a second, I remembered myself by Romanoff_mylove:

Mike has finally made it as an author. But writing about your own past can get complicated, especially when fans start to draw conclusions that point Mike in the direction of the person he's been writing about all along.

And living life is hard. Especially when you're doing it all on your own. But grief and love are a lot more similar than you might realise. They both tend to wake us up from the monotony of our lives.

OR: Mike has a horrible time, which somewhere along the way turns into a wonderful time.

feel unready (for my love) by wayward_sherlock:

Mike has a plan. It’s November ninth – he’s not sure how he knows, but he does – so El will be here, at the quarry. Mike knows that Vecna’s not expecting him to actively try to relive one of his worst memories, and that’s how he knows El will be there to get him out, to save him. She always is.