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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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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)
18 Aug 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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13 Jan 2026
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It couldn’t be. It would have to be a miracle. Not that she would be anywhere, but that she would be here; running the front desk of some random hotel in the middle of basically nowhere; a last-minute stop on his trip around Iceland.
Mike never once thought that the moment his heart started beating again would be like this. But there was lavender in the air, and that’s how he knew. It was always El’s favorite.
In which they find each other again under, possibly, the strangest of circumstances. Or: Mike happens to find El, by chance, in an Icelandic B&B. Post-finale fix-it.
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13 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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Mike Wheeler left Hawkins to escape the ghosts of his past. He didn’t expect to find one in a Swiss café.
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