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A paladin escorting his party north discovers an escaped mage hiding in the woods after violently tearing herself free from the cult that imprisoned her for years.
Starved, traumatized, and carrying terrifying power in her veins, Eleven is exactly the kind of magic Mike was raised to destroy.
Instead, after he insists his party take her in, the road stretches onward and her existence slowly dismantles everything he was taught about magic, corruption, and faith. Somewhere between shared campfires, whispered prayers, and the quiet terror of learning to trust each other, Mike finds himself falling for the very thing his order would condemn.
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searching for something, there you were by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Apr 2026
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After Dart escapes the AV room, Max reluctantly helps the party search for him, still annoyed at being shut out from their talk. However, instead of finding the little monster, Max finds something entirely different. A girl.
She wasn't what Max was looking for, but leaving her suddenly feels impossible.
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What if El had found Max in the gym first instead of Mike?
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Mike doesn’t need much out of life. A job that pays the bills. A place to come home to. Most importantly, El safe and within reach.
That’s it.
So when he has to leave for a week to help his family move out of his childhood home, he tries not to think about it too much. They’ve never been good at being apart... but it’s only seven days.
Until she suddenly stops answering the phone. The longer the silence stretches, the more certain he becomes that something is wrong. By the time he gets home, he’s already bracing for the worst.
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there's a world outside your darkened door by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Apr 2026
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Mike plans the post-grad road trip in secret—maps, routes, marking places he thinks El will like. But once they leave, none of it really matters.
They don’t rush, because for once, they don’t need to. For the first time in her life, El gets to stop, breathe, and see everything she’s been missing.
And Mike? He’d drive forever just to see her smile.
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He loved her at twelve. He loves her at twenty. It was never just a crush.
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Mike has loved his sister Nancy’s best friend, El, since he was a kid. What started as a boyhood crush grew up with him. Despite what everyone said, some feelings don’t fade, they just mature. She was always written into his future.
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Lucas would follow Mike into the depths of hell and out into the unknown. He's known this since the day he met him.
Somehow, he didn't think that included following him to Iceland with nothing but Mike's coke fantasies as proof.
Max is going to kill him.
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28 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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05 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler and Jane 'Eleven' Ives were best friends; best friends who occasionally slept with each other.
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16 Feb 2026
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come along, baby, we better make a start by Xenodochy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Apr 2026
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Not many people move to Grundarfjörður. People tend to notice when someone does.
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El and Mike build a life together at the base of three waterfalls. Everyone in town has their own opinions on this.
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28 Feb 2026
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everyone who knows me, knows i love... by everybreatheverymove
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2019
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a Mileven modern high school!AU: Not much of a popular girl in high school, El Hopper is surprised to find herself the center of attention of the entire senior class when — after forgetting her cell phone in the girls' locker rooms — her private, totally intimate texts with a contact known only as 'Waffle Boy' are posted all over the school. It doesn't take long for rumors to start spreading, and soon enough everybody is trying to unmask her mystery boyfriend. The cheerleaders think he's a jock, the jocks think he's a college guy, and the potheads claim they don't care but they've secretly got a wager on it being a teacher. Even her dad is trying to get in on the action, putting his detective skills to the test and eyeing every single teenage boy who comes within five feet of her. Only, his identity isn't much of a mystery at all, and her friends can only keep a secret for so long.
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16 Mar 2026