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• The Choices We Make by GoingwiththeFlow22

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • No category
  • Work in Progress

  13 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Will Byers
  • Dr. Kay (Stranger Things)
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Soulmates
  • Slow Burn
  • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale

  Summary

  Set a month after S5 ends. El survives and grapples with her choice to isolate herself from her friends/family. Old enemies will return and El will have to decide what risks are worth taking.

  Language:

  English

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  104,006

  Chapters:

  25/?

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