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Immediately post-Season 4, the gang are catching up and reuniting at Hopper's old cabin. Mike, who's been on the edge of a panic attack for the past few days, excuses himself to get some 'fresh air'- unbeknownst to anyone but Joyce, who still isn't fully up-to-date on the Vecna situation. After about 30 minutes, the group notices his absence and are immediately concerned. They can't find Mike anywhere in the surrounding area, but they find the exact thing they were dreading; a small gate.
Mike finds himself in the Upside-Down, but the circumstances are strange. Vecna is nowhere to be seen and the area around him is completely barren. It's an elaborate plot to torment Mike with his greatest fears; forcing him to relive his own worst memories with his family and friends by his side.
How much could one kid have to hide, anyways?
Third-Person Limited with Alternating P.O.V.'s
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“Can I hug you?” he repeated, voice smaller now. He desperately hoped that Will would say yes.
He didn’t want to, but he held eye contact with Will for as long as it took Will to search his expression. For what, Mike didn’t know, but after a long moment, Will finally nodded. “Yeah, Mike, you can hug me.” And Mike didn’t hesitate to haul Will back to his feet so he could hug him properly, full-bodied and chest to chest.
“I’m so sorry, Will,” he murmured into Will’s hair. “I’m so sorry.”
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In which Mike and El decide to end their relationship in favor of being friends, he punches Troy Walsh, and finally allows himself to feel what he feels for Will while they work on patching up their friendship so that maybe, someday, he can be brave enough to ask for more - not necessarily in that order. A bit of a prequel to the first fic in the series, though they can be read as standalones.
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- Part 4 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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Someone's Out There Waiting (Come Back To Me) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2025
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“She’s alive,” he mumbled to himself, barely noticing El cleaning the remaining blood from his face and sticking a bandage over the cut.
“Yes,” El agreed absently. “Lucas, I need your help.”
This is what finally caught Lucas’s attention, enough to fully draw him back to the present. El had never asked for his help before; he’d never imagined that she would ever need it. She quite literally had telekinetic superpowers, not to mention Mike’s unwavering support even after their breakup and Will’s steadfast presence as her adopted brother. What could Lucas possibly do?
“My…help?” he managed.
“I have an idea,” El said, stronger now, more firm. Something flickered in her eyes. Doubt, maybe, or perhaps fear. She continued anyway: “I think I know how to get her back, but I need you to help me.”
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In the six months since Max fell victim to Vecna, Lucas notices changes in his friends' relationship, El piggybacks into Lucas's head and brings him into the mindscape with her to find Max, and they find her in the midst of her memories, safe from Vecna but unable to escape on her own.
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- Part 3 of You're In My Head (And I'm In Yours)
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There was a chittering noise from the left. The soldier whipped around, pushed Erica bodily behind him and aimed his weapon at the dark space between two houses. He was breathing heavily, she noticed. Maybe he was a newbie after all, then.
While on patrol through Hawkins, a year after the world started to end, Erica is abducted by a soldier. Good thing she can count on her teammates to rescue her.
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Ronance are Max's parents post season 4 taking all the help they can get from the Party and their families to stay afloat.
Written by account holder: Rainey (Rae)
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When Vecna is healed after his encounter with Nancy, Steve, and Robin, he knows that there is only one way to destroy Eleven before she can intervene in his world domination.
And that is Mike Wheeler.
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- Part 2 of Love Me Like You Do
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Eleven and Will visit Max while they're still in Hawkins. Mike is missing. These days, he always seems to be missing.
or: deleted scenes of “back to my dying town.”
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- Part 2 of pretty please
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Max wakes up every day in a perfect world, where everything is peaceful. And every day, she notices small cracks in the perfect world.
She keeps seeing someone in her dreams, keeps humming a strange, unfamiliar song.
And then, someone's little sister stands right in front of her in this strange world, pulling her out of this haze.
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In July of 1985, Max had told Lucas that she didn’t have a favorite color, but if she had to pick one, if her life depended on her picking a favorite color from the rainbow, she’d pick purple.
She’d pick a sort of purple that wasn’t quite lavender, she’d said. Something just a little bit darker, maybe, she’d said. Not really a violet, just something a little darker than the light of lavender.
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It's the same color Max's lips were now.
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After the Demodogs attack Hawkins Memorial Hospital, the scattered Party seeks refuge in the WSQK basement, but safety doesn't last long.
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- Part 1 of We're Too Young to be Hunted
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not a lot, just forever/intertwined, sewn together by literallycassie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jul 2025
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Mike stumbles into the bathroom, locking the door and flicking on the light with a groan of relief slipping through gritted teeth. His vision blurs a moment, so he allows himself to slink down onto the floor with a sigh, hand clutching his stomach. Pain sears through him, merciless waves that leave him lightheaded. He closes his eyes
His eyes finally open moments later, squinting at the brightness of the room around him. He twists himself awkwardly in an attempt to sit up.
“Let me help,” a gentle voice says.
Will’s face hovers over him, brows furrowed with concern.
or: mike gets wounded and will takes care of him, except something isn't quite right...
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Max wrote her goodbyes when she thought the end was near. Now, with her in a coma and the world still broken, her friends turn to the words she left for them. They aren't ready to let go. Maybe the letters will help them hold on.
a collection of the letter max wrote her friends, and where they were when they opened them.
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Dark. Empty. Silent. Alone.
Max has no idea where she is.
How did she get here?
Where even is ‘here’?Is this what death looks like?
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“Tommy?” A voice startles him and he sucks in a ragged breath, but doesn’t turn. He doesn’t need to. He knows that voice anywhere. There’s a clatter as Steve moves through the rubble.
It’s only once Steve is beside him, tentative as he reaches out to touch Tommy’s shoulder, that Tommy turns to face him.
“Steve…” His voice sounds raw and wet. He didn’t even realise he was crying until he spoke. “Have you seen my parents?”---
Tommy's plan was never to go back to Hawkins, but when he sees news that a huge earthquake
has devastated his town he finds himself doing just that. He goes back only to find his home
destroyed and his parents missing and unreachable.
Completely lost he finds comfort in Steve, a friend he thought he'd lost for good. Slowly
rekindling what they had and more, Tommy realises something deeper and darker is going on in
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"It's not really over, is it?"
"No. But for now, we're okay. That's more than enough."The sky is clear and stars are bright. The fence feels hard against her back, but Max cares little. She snuggles closer to Lucas, resting her head on his shoulder. His arm circles around her, and the world settles into place like the final piece of a puzzle.
Two weeks ago, she died in his arms. Twelve days ago, he sat beside a hospital bed, his eyes haunted by something darker than exhaustion; she found herself stranded on a vast, empty beach, the wet sand clinging to her clothes.
Some wounds run deeper than physical scars, and the path to healing isn't always what we expect.
My attempt to continue the story in season 4 and give it a happy ending.
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And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? by mentalhealthneeded
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Feb 2025
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Part 2 to You Will Find Moonlit Nights Strangely Empty (Because When You Call My Name There Will Be No Answer)
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After Lucas explains what he saw in his vision, El decides to have a go at finding Max.Instead, she is face to face with her best friend who wants nothing to do with her.
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- Part 2 of The Party Hauntings
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[podfic] sailing softly through the sun (in a broken stone age dawn) by reena_jenkins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jan 2025
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El paints her nails, Max's nails, and Steve Harrington's nails. Steve teaches her that maybe people aren't normal or different species or anything at all except human.
Max painted her nails once, a deep burgundy red. That had been nice. El thinks she liked the blue more though, the way it shimmers in the right light. It looks like magic, almost (if magic had a colour that wasn’t abyss black and water for miles). She hopes Max doesn’t mind that she prefers blue, fumbles halfway through the second coat when she realises Max is — She feels bad for preferring things that didn’t happen with Max.
Still, she likes the blue. The way it glitters deep like car paint reminds her of Max anyway. Complex and hidden, like those smiles Max has when she’s trying not to. Blue always reminds her of Max, even though maybe red or orange should. She wonders if it’s that blue room with those blue lights where she took Max’s heart and squeezed —
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and the world has changed, don't you find it strange that you just went ahead and carried on? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2024
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How could you possibly move on from something so Earth-shattering?
It's been months since Vecna split Hawkins in four. With the Byers-Hopper family moved back to Lenora and Max still stuck in her coma, the Party has fallen apart. There's nothing they can do to fix the Upside Down situation, but how do go about your life normally always being aware of something so wrong?
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Consumed by guilt over Max, Eleven pushes her powers past their limits, causing a violent nosebleed. As her body begins to give out, she's forced to confront the painful truth: some battles can't be won, no matter how hard she tries.
Goretober Day 7 + 8: Nosebleed + Sacrifice.
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- Part 5 of Goretober 2024
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It had been excruciating, waiting for Max to wake up.
Lucas would be haunted forever by that night in the Creel House, an awful mix of tears and blood leaking down Max's face as she struggled for breath in his arms.
He didn't save her. He failed her.
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The party defeats Vecna once and for all, and Max begins the most harrowing journey yet. Recovery.
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To Mike’s relief, Lucas decided to match his tone and lowered his voice, but that relief quickly washed away with his next words.
“You know, I really thought you of all people would understand.”
What? What the hell is he talking about?
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Mike demanded.
Lucas released an exasperated sigh. “It means that I thought you would at least understand what I’m going through, with what’s happened to Will and all.”
Mike froze at Will’s name, at what Lucas may be implying. “What does Will have to do with this?”
“I’m just saying- you know what, forget it.”Or:
Mike and Lucas get in an argument which leads to a much needed discussion.