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• Loose Ends by Blocks3000, FISHY123

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  18 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Robin Buckley/Vickie
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Erica Sinclair & Lucas Sinclair
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Kali Prasad
  • Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
  • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Holly Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Erica Sinclair
  • Derek Turnbow
  • Kali Prasad
  • Vickie (Stranger Things)
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • no beta we go crazy together
  • Stranger Things 5 Re-Write
  • Minor Plot-Twist
  • mileven broke up after season 4
  • Period Typical Homophobia
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Bisexual Steve Harrington
  • Gay Mike Wheeler
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt/No Comfort
  • Loss of Parent(s)
  • Everyone Needs A Hug
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Dustin Henderson is Bad at Feelings
  • Slow Burn
  • Coming Out
  • Rivals to Lovers
  • First Kiss
  • Getting Together
  • Awkward Flirting
  • painting gate
  • Idiots in Love
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Jealous Mike Wheeler
  • Romantic Tension
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Confessions
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Minor Character Death
  • Loss of Limbs
  • Canon Typical Violence
  • Gore
  • mentions of child abuse
  • I Fucking Hate Lonnie Someone Kill Him PLEASE
  • He Isn’t Actually in the Fic That Long But Still
  • Happy Ending
  • use of the f-slur
  • Y’know What Fuck it They're All Queer
  • Heart-to-Heart
  • Found Family

  Summary

  What if the final season of Stranger Things played out differently?
  What if it went a little closer to what the fans hoped?

   

  More tags (ran out of room):
  More of a character-focused rewrite than a lore-focused one.  
   They call El Jane

  Trying to get chapters out weekly or bi-weekly.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,211

  Chapters:

  5/?

  Kudos:

  11

  Bookmarks:

  2

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