19 Bookmarks by Jim_Gapperman
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Two years after her disappearance, El calls for Mike to come home.
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- Part 1 of gently, gently
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23 Jan 2026
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Four years after disappearing from the world, Eleven has learned how to live in silence. Far from Hawkins, far from her family, far from Mike, she has built a quiet life in a forgotten corner of the map, carrying memories that never stopped hurting — or loving.
As the world begins to change and the Cold War shows signs of weakening, long-held certainties start to crumble. On the other side of the ocean, Mike turns his pain into words, writing stories about everything they lived through… and everything that was left unfinished.
Between memories, distance, and a hope that refuses to fade, two separate paths begin to draw closer once more. Because some stories don’t end — they wait.
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23 Jan 2026
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We're Still Figuring It Out (the answers can come tomorrow) by madeer789
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Sundays are for training, waiting, and stealing moments where no one is watching. As El pushes herself toward an ending that never seems to come, Mike tries to remind her that she’s more than a time on a stopwatch.
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- Part 1 of Between Training and Tomorrow
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23 Jan 2026
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While Mike Wheeler's and El Hopper's trips to Europe could not have been any more different, they both found themselves, on their final day, in the very same space: lonely, dejected, and just ready to go home. Yet by a few absolutely ridiculous twists of fate all of those feelings are about to change.
A Mileven Meetcute.
Based on the real life headline: "Airline Mistakenly Books Strangers in Same Room With Single Bed"
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20 Jan 2026
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Sophomore year at Hawkins High School begins for Eleanor Hopper and Mike Wheeler, with one being a popular and pretty cheerleader and the other being king of the nerds and AV Club president.
Even though they are divided in social groups, they grow to be extremely attracted to eachother. The only question being: can they figure eachother and the challenges of high school out?
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20 Jan 2026
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Michael Wheeler, has built his reputation on control—over his stories, his deadlines, and the newsroom of the Daily Planet itself. New hires are distractions. Temporary.
Jane wasn't supposed to matter.
But after one disastrous tour and a punishment neither of them asked for, Mike finds himself forced to share his reporting role with the last person he wants watching his work. Jane is observant, relentless, and far less impressed by his reputation than everyone else.
Rivalry turns unavoidable. Collaboration turns volatile.
And Metropolis doesn’t wait for anyone to catch up.
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20 Jan 2026
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The thing is, El has never understood the concept of personal space. Since she came back in 1984, ever since she integrated in their lives so smoothly and so warmly, Mike has had to get used to the fact that El treats distance with him as a personal insult.
To lose her then was to lose a beautiful, wonderful, magical, tragic mystery from a little week of his childhood; to lose her now would be to lose his own heart.
Or, seventeen-year-olds dealing with love. Set just before Season 5, ep 1.
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- Part 6 of 353 days
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20 Jan 2026
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El Hopper moves to New York to live a normal life. She fails at it almost immediately.
Very loosely inspired by Superman. SuperEl AU.
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19 Jan 2026
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“It’s like something’s been on your mind for a while and you’re not—you’re just keeping it to yourself.”
Her throat works. “Am I not allowed to do that?”
She doesn’t mean to sound defensive, but the words come out like that anyway. Mike blinks, a little surprised and she can’t blame him for it, but the gentleness of his voice doesn’t fade. “Of course you are,” he says with a nod. Never one to deny her anything.
It sends an aching pang through her chest. He’s always on her side, puts her above everyone else—including himself. He has shown it to her time and time again, proved to her repeatedly that nothing is more important to him than she is. And that—that worries her.
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19 Jan 2026
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So Many Foreign Roads (For Emma, Forever Ago) by writeyourheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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He reaches for the glass of wine again. He takes another swallow. And then—
It happens. It’s nothing. It’s a flicker, a second, a feeling at first. The hair at the base of his neck feels like its been grazed, electric and immediate and impossible—so, utterly impossible. Because he hasn’t felt this since—since—
Mike readjusts in his seat, just a little. Fingers brush his, feather light. And then the world tilts, and he’s swallowed into the darkness. He hardly has the time to breathe before he looks up and sees her. Not a hallucination, not a stranger on the street with the same hair, or the same style. Her.
El.
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In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in Reykjavík—El finds Mike's published book and builds the courage to take it home with her.
In the Spring of 1993—somewhere in New York—Mike cannot seem to adjust to life without her.
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19 Jan 2026
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“You cannot let yourself be a victim of these ungodly beings. Do you understand me? They are born with darkness, and they will die with darkness. They would not hesitate in snapping your neck. Just like their kind murdered your mother.”
Prince Michael hates witches, so much so that he runs his kingdom’s Witch Hunt every two weeks. However, when he encounters a young mage named Jane during a hunt in a forest near Lover’s Lake, his entire world view collapses, and he hunts for only her - Realising his anger is replaced with an emotion similar to yearning.
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19 Jan 2026
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I’ll be your morning-bright, good-night shadow machine by thiccpecans
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler is, in every sense, a shell of the person he used to be. Days melt into years, success arrives without feeling, and the book deal he once longed for does nothing to fill the space inside him. Only El’s absence still maims him—persistent, potent, impossible to ignore. But then, she appears to him one night, in a vision that feels far too real.
Or, El accidentally pulls Mike into the void after years of estrangement and they, slowly but surely, become one again.
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19 Jan 2026
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A story of belief and of love that is unwilling to fade, of a storyteller and his mage that are eternally bound together.
Beginning immediately after the events of Season 5, after the completion of the Party's final D&D campaign. Though the world has moved on, Mike still believes Eleven is somewhere out there, alive. Like he did years before, he takes to calling her over the static. And El listens.
"I choose to believe. I have to believe. If I gave up believing now, what was any of this for?"
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19 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler never stopped loving Eleven. He never stopped carrying the guilt of what he couldn’t save. When his nearly finished book refuses to let one character go missing, Mike realises the truth: you can’t write your way around grief.
A trip to Iceland, once a promise whispered between them on a rooftop, becomes something more than travel. It’s a pilgrimage. A love letter. A chance to say all the words he never got to say.
Amid waterfalls, northern lights, and memories that refuse to stay buried, Mike must decide whether love is something you move on from…or something that asks you to follow it, even into the unknown.
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19 Jan 2026
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one day we'll meet again (in the light of my love for you) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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El runs and she keeps running until she's about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It's not a happy life, but she's content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike's safe, he's not happy, not by a long shot. He's living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost... of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he'll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they'll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share... and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
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19 Jan 2026
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The Vanishing of Michael Wheeler by TheShadowsOnTheWall
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2026
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Stranger Things 5, but if Mike was taken by Vecna instead of Holly.
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- Part 4 of Stranger Things Fics
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19 Jan 2026
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The Mage and The Storyteller by FangirlingStrangerThings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jan 2026
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Because to me, their story is not over. The Storyteller has one beautiful story he needs to write and his Mage to find.
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19 Jan 2026
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It has been 4 years since the Upside Down was destroyed and with it the girl Mike loved more than anything. The theory that she survived and is living in peace keeps him going, inspired to write her story disguised as a simple fantasy novel. He stays in contact with the party that has been spread out, but he is alone most of the time, spending his days at his typewriter.
El has managed to find peace in Iceland, making new friends and living without the threat of captivity under a different name, but something is missing in her life ever since she said goodbye to the boy she loved more than anything. She always thinks about her previous life in Hawkins, writing letters to them that she will never send.
One day, El walks into the bookstore and notices a familiar name on the cover of a bestselling fantasy novel. "The Storyteller and the Mage" it was called. And this version had the happily ever after they both had wanted.
Maybe it was still possible. Maybe Mike could write the ending after all. El just did not know how possible it was.
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19 Jan 2026
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El Hopper was dead.
Every version of her she had been, who she had become, who she never would have the chance to be if it hadn't been for them, was gone. She was dead. Or at least, that is what she needed them to believe.
El lost everything that night in November. Her family, her friends, and the love of her life. The future that should have theirs, that she had always known they would never get the chance to have. This is the story of the years that follow, a story of how she survives. How they both survive. A story of love lost, of a love enduring. And a love that will help them find their way back to each other.
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19 Jan 2026