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• “The In-Between” by JustAWriter1984

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  12 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • mileven - Relationship
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & The Party
  • Byers Family
  • Wheeler Family - Relationship
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Robin Buckley
  • Mileven
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper and Mike Wheeler are Cute
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Deserves Happiness
  • Heartbreak
  • Post Season 5
  • Post-Canon Fix-It
  • Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Obsession
  • Slow Burn
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • 1980s
  • Hawkins (Stranger Things)
  • Portals
  • Dungeons & Dragons References
  • Mike Wheeler Deserves Love

  Summary

  Twenty months after Eleven’s death and the destruction of the Upside Down, Hawkins has moved on. Everyone seems to have figured life out.
  But Mike Wheeler hasn’t. Moving on from everything that happened — from her — feels impossible.
  When his grief turns into obsession, Mike begins to think that Eleven didn’t die. Instead, he chooses to believe that she vanished into something else entirely.
  Could he be right? Has El been alive this whole time? And if so, how is he even going to bring her back?

  Language:

  English

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