Not Just Background LuMax
LuMax / Mucus works — and Lucas or Max-centric fics where their bond is given real narrative weight and never treated as background. (Majority of the works are completed but some are not)
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In the glittering halls of Hawkins High, Max Mayfield reigns as the untouchable queen of popularity, her red hair and sharp blue eyes masking a turbulent past. Once an inseparable part of 'The Party'—a tight-knit group of middle school misfits including Mike Wheeler, Jane 'El' Hopper, Will Byers, Dustin Henderson, and her lingering crush Lucas Sinclair—Max's life flipped when her mom married billionaire CEO Nigel. Thrust into a world of luxury and snobbery alongside her jealous stepsisters, Clare and Kourtney, Max adopted a prissy, snooty facade to survive. But beneath it burns the fiery, witty girl who never truly left. When a high school group project forces her back into the orbit of her old friends, especially the perceptive Lucas, who sees through her bullshit like no one else, Max's carefully constructed world unravels. This slow-burning tale of love, loyalty, and self-discovery explores the chaos of identity, the pull of unconditional friendship, and the steamy tension of rekindled desire. Amid drama, humor, and heartfelt confrontations, Max must choose: cling to her gilded cage or embrace the authentic life—and love—that's always been waiting.
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Lucas and Max after that fatidic night. How they heal and how their love only grows stronger.
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What happens after you save the world?
Life goes on.
Still Here takes place in the space left behind—after the final battle, after the noise fades, after everyone is supposed to be okay. Friends drift in different directions. Some learn how to wait. Some learn how to survive. Some keep reaching for someone who might never come back.
Set in the aftermath of the finale, with moments reaching back into the months that followed, these vignettes trace the quiet, unfinished work of living after everything has already happened.
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LuMax Collections (Lucas Sinclair/Maxine "Max" Mayfield) by faeinthearchives
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2026
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"You're so annoying." - Max.
"And yet you still came back." - Lucas.Love, for them is never simple.
It is sharp edges and soft hands, silence and noise, leaving and staying all at once.
It is found in glances across rooms, in almost touches m in the things they never say out loud.Here is a collection of moments where they fight. They stay. They learn how to love each other anyways.
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hey, that's me and i want you only by heartofwinterfell for cherylbombshells
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Most of the box, though, was taken up by photographs. Some were held together in stacks by a loose rubber band. Others hung solo. A few were underdeveloped, others taken up mostly by a flash of light. Some of them had no people. A lot of them had so many people, it crowded out the frame. The same people kept appearing, over and over again, often with new haircuts and better clothes. Mostly, it was two people, sticking their tongues out, smushing cheeks, flipping off the lens, smiling wider and getting older, together.
[or, a future in polaroids.]