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"If you got a second chance, no matter how crazy the circumstances, would you take it?"
"Yes"
"Me too"
At 16, Mike and El were torn from each other as El went into hiding from a resurgence of Brenner's project. Seven years later, Mike had finally moved on. But a chance occurrence on a New York City train throws them together again at the best and worst possible moment, completely changing their trajectories.
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26 Mar 2026
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In which Mike Wheeler, president of Hawkins High’s AV Club, falls for El Hopper, Hawkins’ resident punk outcast (and secret telekinetic). They meet in detention. The rest is history. // an 80's high school au
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26 Mar 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)
04 Jun 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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16 Mar 2026
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I've been afraid of changing (because I built my life around you) by tempestandwhirlwinds
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jan 2026
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It happens almost too fast for her to be afraid.
As soon as El hears the tires popping on Hopper's truck, she knows the military has caught up to them. She unlaces her arm from Mike's, and as soon as the truck jolts with impact, she rolls out of the truck, hitting the ground hard, almost exactly at the border between the Upside Down and the Right Side Up.
She wants to scream at the cruelty of it all. Just as she accepted hope, it gets ripped out from beneath her, dreams shattering like porcelain under her feet.
Kali was right. Happiness isn't how the story goes for someone like her.
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Mikes' theory is wrong, but El survives the collapse of the Upside Down anyway, ending up trapped in the world where they killed Vecna less than an hour ago. Stuck in a foreign world with no way back, El wallows in misery before deciding to get revenge for Papa's program and open up another wormhole for her to come home. Because she was the one who created the Upside Down in the first place, so why can't she do it again to get back home?
And Mike, after accepting his grief for the first time in 18 months, learns there's nothing in the universe strong enough to get between El and her happy ending.
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07 Mar 2026
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Let us go then, you & i by timetaker (VincereDiem), VincereDiem
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 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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25 Jan 2026