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“I’m selfish, El,” Mike blurts, his thumb rubbing circles at the small of her back. “I don’t like other guys looking at you the way I look at you.”
El’s expression softens, a look crossing over her eyes that tightens his throat. He’s relieved that she’s not put off by his selfish, possibly possessive, attitude. “I know,” she says with a light nod. “But I don’t think they look at me the way you look at me.”
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22 Feb 2026
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one day we'll meet again (in the light of my love for you) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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El runs and she keeps running until she's about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It's not a happy life, but she's content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike's safe, he's not happy, not by a long shot. He's living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost... of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he'll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they'll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share... and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
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15 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler has always tried to do the right thing, especially for his friends. That strategy has led him to dating Will Byers, his best friend, but keeping promises has started to feel heavier than they should. Then Max drags a new girl, El Hopper, into their circle. Quiet, sweet, and unassuming, El has a way of drawing Mike in that he can’t resist, even when he knows he should. Every glance, every laugh, every accidental touch threatens to unravel him, and suddenly being faithful feels impossible. {AU College Fic}
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12 Feb 2026
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It’s the kind of lonely summer you get when you live in a small town and there’s nowhere for you to go.
It gets less lonely when you find another person left behind too, there.
She knew Lottie, as a teammate or some classmate, but never the way she learned to know her this summer.
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LottieNat doing strip poker ft. Nat being an idiot (ofc)
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09 Feb 2026
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Needless to say, there was an unspoken rule around camp— when the rain clouds start to hover, take cover.
(Melissa came up with that one herself. It hadn’t quite caught on yet.)
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a rainy day turns into shauna catching a cold
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08 Feb 2026
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what if i can't close my eyes without you in my head? by sumsflowers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler can only fall asleep with El's face pictured in his head - no matter the circumstances.
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03 Feb 2026
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I’ll be your morning-bright, good-night shadow machine by thiccpecans
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler is, in every sense, a shell of the person he used to be. Days melt into years, success arrives without feeling, and the book deal he once longed for does nothing to fill the space inside him. Only El’s absence still maims him—persistent, potent, impossible to ignore. But then, she appears to him one night, in a vision that feels far too real.
Or, El accidentally pulls Mike into the void after years of estrangement and they, slowly but surely, become one again.
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01 Feb 2026
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He needs her, he wants her, he loves her.
The story of how he realises each.
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- Part 1 of the tales of short stack and string bean
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29 Jan 2026
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“It’s like something’s been on your mind for a while and you’re not—you’re just keeping it to yourself.”
Her throat works. “Am I not allowed to do that?”
She doesn’t mean to sound defensive, but the words come out like that anyway. Mike blinks, a little surprised and she can’t blame him for it, but the gentleness of his voice doesn’t fade. “Of course you are,” he says with a nod. Never one to deny her anything.
It sends an aching pang through her chest. He’s always on her side, puts her above everyone else—including himself. He has shown it to her time and time again, proved to her repeatedly that nothing is more important to him than she is. And that—that worries her.
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26 Jan 2026
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Instead of El sacrificing herself she and the party head home back to Hawkins, also where Mike and El low-key go straight home and make out.
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25 Jan 2026
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if we're unmade when the stars fade by everybreatheverymove for kingmaker
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2019
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The last thing she expects to see that night is a rain-soaked, sobbing seventeen-year-old boy stood on her front doorstep. But he's there; her boyfriend with the unruly hair, her favorite person, her Mike Wheeler.
"Mike?"
"I had a dream."
Prompt: Raindrops on eyelashes & the creak of leather.
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22 Jan 2026
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so i got emo and wrote some experimental prose
basically, mike wheeler gets to keep his girl. small snapshot moments in the weeks after the finale.
this assumes the truck was never stopped, and nothing else happens in the finale. they won and go home lol
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22 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler never stopped loving Eleven. He never stopped carrying the guilt of what he couldn’t save. When his nearly finished book refuses to let one character go missing, Mike realises the truth: you can’t write your way around grief.
A trip to Iceland, once a promise whispered between them on a rooftop, becomes something more than travel. It’s a pilgrimage. A love letter. A chance to say all the words he never got to say.
Amid waterfalls, northern lights, and memories that refuse to stay buried, Mike must decide whether love is something you move on from…or something that asks you to follow it, even into the unknown.
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22 Jan 2026
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Ever since that day, almost two years ago, he has thought only one thing.
He should’ve gone with her.
On the night of Joyce and Hopper's wedding, Mike crashes out and is forced to leave, only to find himself reliving his worst nightmare over and over again.
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20 Jan 2026
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The thing is, El has never understood the concept of personal space. Since she came back in 1984, ever since she integrated in their lives so smoothly and so warmly, Mike has had to get used to the fact that El treats distance with him as a personal insult.
To lose her then was to lose a beautiful, wonderful, magical, tragic mystery from a little week of his childhood; to lose her now would be to lose his own heart.
Or, seventeen-year-olds dealing with love. Set just before Season 5, ep 1.
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- Part 6 of the mage and the storyteller
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19 Jan 2026
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Eight years later, Mike Wheeler returns to Hawkins for Thanksgiving. Caught between what he has written and what he has yet been able to write, Mike has no choice but to find a way forward.
Now, on a journey that takes him from Chicago to Hawkins—and onward to Iceland—Mike must move forward knowing that everything in his life is owed to the girlfriend he lost ten years ago
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18 Jan 2026
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So Many Foreign Roads (For Emma, Forever Ago) by writeyourheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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He reaches for the glass of wine again. He takes another swallow. And then—
It happens. It’s nothing. It’s a flicker, a second, a feeling at first. The hair at the base of his neck feels like its been grazed, electric and immediate and impossible—so, utterly impossible. Because he hasn’t felt this since—since—
Mike readjusts in his seat, just a little. Fingers brush his, feather light. And then the world tilts, and he’s swallowed into the darkness. He hardly has the time to breathe before he looks up and sees her. Not a hallucination, not a stranger on the street with the same hair, or the same style. Her.
El.
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In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in Reykjavík—El finds Mike's published book and builds the courage to take it home with her.
In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in New York—Mike cannot seem to adjust to life without her.
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18 Jan 2026
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It was the eleventh year since the last events in Hawkins, and Mike went to see a movie.
or: Accurate headcanon of Padmé/Eleven, surprising Mike didn't kill himself and went to watch it.
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13 Jan 2026
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Mike and El’s midnight walk turns stormy, and Mike is flashed back to the moment he met the most important person in his life.
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11 Jan 2026
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You don't need to save me but would you run away with me? Yes by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2026
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After everything, they found each other again. And now, in a life of ordinary days, Mike and El explore the extraordinary simplicity of living a life full of love
Follow Mike and El through a series of snapshots from their life together after they reunite.
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09 Jan 2026