is it romantic feelings or is it cabin fever? (post epilogue! elmax)
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there's nobody, daughter, not anyone (left for me to believe in) by Magnus17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Iceland is cold. It's the name of the country but Max's heart is colder and she's looking for the only person who she knows can warm it up.
The redhead is the only one who knows El faked her death and after waiting for the signs for 4 years, she finally gets them late one night after watching the Soviet Union fall in '91 and her California apartment's lights flickering, which leads her begging her once "dead" best friend at her Icelandic farmhouse to come home.
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Max crashes out, reunites with her best friend, and El confesses something Max has never known since the day she woke from her coma.
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raised in the cold (wish i could do what i'm told) by Magnus17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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Tension still exists even after El agrees to come back to Hawkins with Max. In the two story cabin, surrounded by snow, the smell of spruce burning and the slowly disappearance of the Northern Lights, the two women are alone with this churning feeling.
Max stands by the fireplace, El distracts herself in the kitchen, with the fireplace being the only thing that burns hotter than either women's love for each other. While Max continues the argument, El flirts with her, and their dynamic that they've known for many years up to that point, completely changes.
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What's the best way to relieve four (maybe even five or six) years of tension; making out by the fire with her long standing crush would be El Hopper's answer!
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