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    “We’ll always be here,” El replies kindly. “If things are ever confusing, remember that, okay?”

    Mike swallows the lump rising in his throat. His hands shake with vulnerability. The room feels a bit suffocating, but he can’t tell if it’s from fear or love.

    He thinks it might be love.

    He meets Will’s gaze. He sees an entire galaxy in his eye.

    “You came back,” Will says simply. “You came back to us, and that’s all that matters.”

     

    Season 5, but things don't go as planned. In fact, Mike learns that reality can fall apart in the blink of an eye, and promises are the only thing that can stitch it back together.

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    28 Feb 2026

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    NOVEMBER 6TH, 1986

    In the three years since Will Byers went missing, the town of Hawkins has been under constant threat of the creatures from the Upside Down. But now, eight months after Vecna has ruptured a giant rift through the town of Hawkins, that threat is about to reemerge. Unaware of Vecna's true plans and trapped under a military quarantine, our heroes will not only be forced to face the greatest evil from the Upside Down, but also overcome impossible odds, in order to save their town, and each other, one last time.

    Written in a SCREENPLAY format, this fic operates as a diverging conclusion for the final season of Stranger Things.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    “Missed you,” Neil whispers, cupping Andrew’s face between his palms.

    Andrew doesn’t respond because he has a hand down Neil’s pants, and “I missed you too” might snowball into “I wish you’d stay” and “sometimes I miss you so much I don’t know what to do with myself,” and that starts a conversation he’s not sure he wants to have right now.

    Or ever.

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    Andrew has never particularly cared for love songs. Neil might just change his mind.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    Mike pushes into his hands, but Will keeps him still.

    "Ask again," he says. Because he's greedy, and he wants Mike to want him.

    He stares at Will's mouth. "Please."

    "Again."

    El is gone.

    Will tries to figure out how to move on in New York, and Mike follows him. Their apartment is haunted not by ghosts, but by the two of them.

    Or: Catastrophically traumatized boys cling to each other and accidentally figure out how to be close—too close—while moving through their grief.

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    23 Jan 2026

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    There’s something wrong with Will.

    It started three weeks ago, almost four. Will had woken from some sort of nightmare and, instead of seeking comfort in Mike the way he usually would, he’d rolled out a sleeping bag from the closet and chosen to sleep on the floor.

    No one believes Mike, except for Joyce. But even she doesn’t understand the full extent to which something is wrong with Will.

     

    Mike understands, though. Mike has been paying attention.

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    17 Jan 2026