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Max is dead.
“She’s brain-dead,” Dustin mumbles, correcting them, as if that makes it better.
Or, Alternatively,
Max is in a coma after Henry Creel's rampage, and it's making everyone fall to pieces. They're forced to pick each-other up, and, in the time of the apocalypse, Mike learns to lean on other people.
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Eye See You by ItsYaBoiClarence
Fandoms: The Testaments (TV Series), The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
12 May 2026
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Even more selfishly, Garth felt that he probably knew her the best out of anyone. He’d grown up alongside her and had been given permission to watch her. Nobody else took the time to try and learn her habits, learn who she really was. It was second nature to care about her so much, he convinced himself. It had nothing to do with his own personal longings for a different kind of life, one where he wasn’t so alone.
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Paula is cruel to Agnes, and Garth is there, like he always is.
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13 May 2026
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Will takes a moment, hands clenched into fists at his sides, to rest his head against the grain of the wood and close his eyes. Here, with the solid weight of the door to ground him, he evaluates the facts: the war is over, Vecna dead and gone for good this time. Max is awake, reunited with Lucas and El at last, who both rushed to return to their places at her bedside the moment they knew. The rest of his family is upstairs, the rest of his friends alongside them, alive and mostly well and rejoicing in the fact that a years-long nightmare has finally reached its conclusion. It’s a night for togetherness, for celebrating hard-earned victories, for finally looking ahead instead of back over their shoulders.
It’s also a night where Will almost killed Mike.
In the midst of their final stand against Vecna, a possessed Will nearly strangles Mike to death. In the basement bathroom of the Wheeler's house after their victory, Mike and Will confront the aftermath.
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10 Jan 2026
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sit & stay by ninesunrisedogs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2023
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Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.
(or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)
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01 Jul 2024
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After Mike unwittingly stumbles into a series of interpersonal bombshells, he immediately sets out to find Will so he can find out what, exactly, that painting meant, and why Will lied about it. Unfortunately, Mike is obsessively obstinate and relentless to a fault, and he'll go to the literal ends of the earth to get the answers he needs.
Or: Mike and Will's Apocalypse Romcom Spectacular
(Formerly known as We Will All Go Together When We Go - see beginning author's note for more info)
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- Part 1 of To Hell and Back Again
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01 Nov 2022
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“I think we should pretend to date,” Robin says.
“What?” Steve sputters.
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13 Aug 2022
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OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD HELLO