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"What are you doing here?" Mike's face dropped as his eyes slid from El, past Max, and over to Will, "And what are you doing with them?"
"Shopping," El said with a blank expression on her face as Max smirked and added, "This is their new look, what do you think?"
"You know she's not allowed to be here. And Will, how could you just run off like that, we were worried!" Mike glared straight at Max despite the fact part of what he said was directed at Will.
"What are they, your little pets? El can't leave the cabin, and god forbid Will strays more than three feet from your shadow, despite the fact you were completely ignoring him!" Max snapped right back.
Or... A rewrite of Stranger Things starting at season 3 placing Will in El and Max's storyline, allowing Will to receive the support he needs to grow more confident in himself. Meanwhile, Mike considers what it might mean for him that he's more upset that his best friend ditched him to hang out with someone else, than he is about his girlfriend breaking up with him.
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- Part 1 of We could be heroes
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- English
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- 108,065
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- 5/9
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29 Jan 2026
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The demogorgon does not die quietly. It dies inside Will.
In the aftermath of the Mac-Z attack, Will Byers realizes that fighting back awakened something he never knew he had. The power that answered him is not something he understands. It refuses to stay quiet.
Vecna left him alive. The military watches too closely. The Upside Down presses closer to the surface.
And somewhere beneath it all, something has been waiting for him to answer.
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- English
- Words:
- 139,891
- Chapters:
- 22/?
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- 518
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25 Jan 2026
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(Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy by Phoenan (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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Set Post-Volume 1.
Mike and Will are taken by the military who take a special interest in Wills powers. While Will is subject to experimentation, Mike does everything he can to keep Will safe.
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Orphaned and discontinued.
Original work is titled Please Please Please (Let me Let me Let me) and is I Mikes POV
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24 Jan 2026
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On November 6, 1983, Will Byers vanished. On November 12, he was rescued by the wrong people.
Sometimes he wondered if he’d have been better off staying in the Upside Down.
A Season 1 AU in which Will is not saved, he is simply taken from one hell to another. At Hawkins Lab, his new prison, he endures unthinkable torture and develops skills he never could have imagined. With every day that passes, he finds himself wondering if he will ever be rescued. Back at home, his friends and family continue the search. But after years pass and still no news, their hope is dwindling. Only a fool would keep holding out.
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- English
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- 102,941
- Chapters:
- 32/32
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- 390
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- 185
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22 Jan 2026
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Now, Mike had almost three extra years' worth of memories, including the revelation and inevitable acceptance of his feelings for his best friend and the subsequent aftermath of said best friend’s heroic sacrifice.
“No, no, no, NO! I just got you back! Please, please, Will, please–I can’t lose you, not again! WILL–”
He remembered the two girls placing their hands on his shoulders, Kali’s sympathetic grip and El’s agonized clench as they gazed down at their adopted brother.
Now, here he was, the summer it all started going too wrong to right.
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After Will sacrifices himself to defeat Vecna, Mike is sent back in time to the beginning of season 3 to prevent any more tragedy
Now, he'll do whatever it takes
For Will.
(thank you all for following along!)
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- Part 10 of stranger things
- Part 1 of All the time in the world
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- English
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- 34,080
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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- 1
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- 579
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14 Jan 2026
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Hopper’s many attempts at bonding with his youngest unofficial stepson over the course of their first year in Hawkins.
Sometimes it goes well, other times he’s trying to see if he’s unlocked his daughter’s ability to glare someone (Michael Wheeler) to death.
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- English
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- 7,846
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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11 Jan 2026
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High school hasn't been easy for Will Byers. He’s had to live with the emotional scars of a loveless father and supernatural worlds, as well as the physical ones from the hands of the bullies that make his everyday existence hell. One night, when he's looking for some peace and quiet Will comes upon one of them.
Sparks fly and Mike and Will can’t stay away from each other. Yet, there are things Mike isn’t saying: about his past, about his family, about his peculiar friendship with Troy. Things aren’t always what they appear to be, and loyalties born from violence will be rigorously tested.
Will, Mike, Troy centric.
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- Part 1 of Demons of Change
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,365
- Chapters:
- 39/39
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08 Jan 2026
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A Glimmer of Light Refusing to Fade by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Dec 2025
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When the Byers move to California, Will is lonely, bullied, and struggling with his mental health. When Mike comes to visit, he notices that something is off, but doesn’t know what’s wrong or how to help while his best friend feels so far away even though he's physically there. However, maybe Mike finds the answer after they are brought closer than ever after El is abducted by the government and they end up facing capture, interdimensional monsters, torture, the past, their own feelings, and attempting to prevent the apocalypse. (Post-s3, rewriting s4, and predicting s5).
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- Part 1 of The Glimmer Series
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- English
- Words:
- 439,044
- Chapters:
- 150/150
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- 6,145
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02 Jan 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,632
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 13,681
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29 Dec 2025
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The Victorious by youcantseeus
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
25 Jul 2025
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After the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta are quickly forced into a marriage and pregnancy by President Snow. Katniss remains in District 12 until their child can be born. Meanwhile, Peeta is sent to the Capitol where he is forced into prostitution.
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- Part 1 of The Victorious Universe
- Language:
- English
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- 316,053
- Chapters:
- 42/?
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- 1
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- 1,704
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20 Apr 2025
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-This is the last book of the series LIAB, please go read the other two books before this, or you will be very confused-
Zuko has been taken by the Earth Kingdom army to who-knows-where, and Sokka is determined to get him back.
But he can’t do it alone.
With Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors by his side, Sokka is headed to Ba Sing Se to find Katara and Aang so they can go rescue his fire bender.
Things aren’t as easy as he had hoped. Corruption, lies, and unknown horrors await them inside the city’s walls. None of this is helping Sokka’s mental well-being.
Hakoda and his men face a problem of their own as Azula approaches with the intentions of making it rain fire.
Sokka and Zuko will both find themselves having to reintegrate back into a life they thought they left behind, with people they hardly remember. It isn’t easy for anyone, especially when they don’t recognize the person standing in front of them.
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- Part 3 of Leaving It All Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 547,510
- Chapters:
- 26/32
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27 May 2023
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After the events of War Crimes, Sokka and Zuko have escaped Zhao’s warship and are fleeing across the Earth Kingdom. As well as unfamiliar terrain, they have to navigate their shared trauma, work out where they fit into the war, and their place in each others lives.
Sokka is aware that being friends with the enemy is going to bring complications, but he probably should have guessed that being friends with Zuko in particular, was going to be a bit like dunking your head repeatedly into a bucket of angry Fire Ferrets.
Katara is also grappling with the confusion of befriending an enemy, something that doesn’t prove as difficult as she had expected with the bond of shared, furious grief bridging old wounds. (Learning a new way to look at her bending doesn't hurt either)
Azula, struggling with the Fire Lord’s mistrust, encounters a few nasty surprises and has to make some difficult decisions. Luckily, she is a great deal better at making sensible choices than her brother.
Her father may have made a slight tactical error.
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- Part 2 of All's Fair
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 602,802
- Chapters:
- 47/?
- Collections:
- 5
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- 11,260
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- 12,262
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04 Apr 2023
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your hands protect the flames (from the wild winds around you) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
25 Mar 2021
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He can’t stop it. Aang sees it happening, but there’s nothing he can do. He hadn’t even expected Zuko to be there, though maybe he should have, because Fire Lord Ozai is his father and he would want to keep his son safe during the eclipse - if they were anything like family should be.
But they aren’t, and it's not him that Ozai’s lightning strikes.
It's Zuko.
(aka, zuko joins the gaang during the eclipse)
discontinued, sorry.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 20,869
- Chapters:
- 4/?
- Collections:
- 5
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- 295
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12 Dec 2021
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So yeah, she likes Zuko. Fucking sue her. She didn’t know him Before, like the others. The only Zuko she knows for herself is the one who’s way too easy to rile up, who carried her around and took Aang all the way to some ancient ruins and found some dragons with him. She likes that Zuko.
She likes him even more when she finds out about the Underground Rumble tournaments.
(three perspectives on the 'Zuko's Our Friend Now' Situation)
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- Part 12 of first rule of earth kingdom fight club...
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26 Oct 2021
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Honor Bound (Podfic and text) by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid, Stardust_Steel
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Jan 2022
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‘…H-how am I still alive?’ Zuko thinks.
Sokka flinches back. Whoaaa, how in Spirits name did Zuko project his voice like that? Sokka didn’t even see him move his lips.
As if he can hear Sokka’s thoughts, Zuko turns his head to look directly at him, eyes bewildered.
And this is where Sokka realises something is very, very wrong.
Two minutes later: “No way!” Sokka shakes his head wildly, just as prince jerkbender across him curses. “I’m soul bonded- To him?! No way! That’s just spirit mumbo-jumbo!!!”
-or, through some freak Spirit accident involving Zhao, the Avatar, and the continuous joke that is both their existence, Sokka and Zuko have been soul-bonded and mentally linked. Neither of them are particularly happy with this.
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- Part 9 of Zuko is loved
- Part 2 of Avatar: The last Airbender podfic
- Part 10 of podficcer's favorites
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 58,726
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 1,231
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- 4,761
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- 103,392
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20 Oct 2021
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this is a gift (it comes with a price) by WitchofEndor
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Jan 2021
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There is a ghost on the Wani. But the crew have grown used to - even fond of - Prince Zuko. And no matter how many times General Iroh tries to gently explain the boy’s predicament, tries to suggest that he might attempt to move on, Prince Zuko can always be found watching the sea.
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There is a prisoner in the palace.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,560
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 30
- Comments:
- 1,300
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- 11,120
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- 3,507
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- 121,344
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07 Jul 2021
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Prince Lu Ten of the Fire Nation is an earth bender.
Prince Lu Ten of the Fire Nation is dead.
One of these two is a lie.
When a young man unwittingly steps into a tea shop in Ba Sing Se, the fragile life he had worked so hard to build is suddenly shattered by the one he thought he left behind forever.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,008
- Chapters:
- 12/?
- Comments:
- 595
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- 2,764
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08 Oct 2020
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Prince Zuko was born on the new moon in the dead of winter. Bad sign, silently whispered scared servants. Bad sign, his mother's heart clenched. Bad sign, scoffed his grandfather, the man who ravaged the world for decades and gathered power and wealth like dragons, whom he once ordered to slay. Born without the presence of Lord Agni or even his sister, Lady Tui, prince was a weak babe without firebending spark in his eyes. His father, a cruel man hiding fierce flame in his eyes and cold chunk of ice instead of heart, was ready to kill him for this. But the absence of spark that was used to be in the eyes of all members of the royal family for many centuries wasn't the only difference between Zuko and others.
The boy's eyes were golden, a piercing bright color so intense that even the almost inhumanly light amber of royal family's eyes seemed to be dull in comparison.
For the young prince, this will be both salvation and curse.
/Or au, where Zuko, born with golden eyes, can see the future at the cost of his own pain and suffering./
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,407
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Comments:
- 337
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- 2,196
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- 591
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- 37,313
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08 Oct 2020
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Another age swap AU. There's probably dozens of these, but hey, two cakes, right? Aang is sixteen. Zuko is twelve. Katara is fifteen and Sokka is fourteen.
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05 Oct 2020
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when you are fully known and loved, you have a home by overcomewithlongingfora_girl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Sep 2025
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Zuko finds his place in the Gaang. It's not easy getting there, but in the end it's so, so worth it.
Will be updated (mostly) on Wednesdays!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 80,171
- Chapters:
- 25/?
- Comments:
- 1,968
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- 6,039
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- 1,424
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- 135,086
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21 Sep 2020