I Once Believed Love Would Be (Burning Red)

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• I Can Go Anywhere I Want (Just Not Home) by Fall_Down_The_Rabbit_Hole

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  03 Sep 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Robin Buckley
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Sam Owens (Stranger Things)
  • Cathy Owens (Stranger Things)
  • Dr. Kay (Stranger Things)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Lives
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Friendship
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
  • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
  • Three Waterfalls (Stranger Things)
  • Hawkins (Stranger Things)
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug
  • Song: my tears ricochet (Taylor Swift)
  • Post-Canon Fix-It
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler Friendship
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug

  Summary

  Dear Mike,

  I am coming home.

  It is my turn to be brave now.

  Love,
  El

  ___

  For 961 days, Mike Wheeler has grieved the life he lost. For 961 days, Eleven has hidden from the truth of her past.

  A fateful reunion in the small, not-so-ordinary town of Hawkins will awaken unburied ghosts - which return with a vengeance to bring this tale to an end.

  The tale of the Storyteller and the Mage.

  Series

  • Part 1 of I Once Believed Love Would Be (Burning Red)

  Language:

  English

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