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• A Life Between Two Names by PaladinsDefender

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper (Mentioned)
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers
  • Steve Harrington
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Derek Turnbow
  • Robin Buckley
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Thanksgiving Dinner
  • Thanksgiving
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Hurt Mike Wheeler
  • Family Reunions
  • Memories
  • Grief/Mourning

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,247

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Comments:

  28

  Kudos:

  43

  Bookmarks:

  8

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• Happy Birthday Mike (Mileven one-shot) by PaladinsDefender

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  09 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Mileven
  • Sad Mike Wheeler
  • Sad Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Stranger Things 5
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt/Comfort

  Summary

  He closed the door to his dorm.
  Thank God… finally, some silence.

  He checked the time: 9:47 pm. Good. There was still plenty of time before his roommate came back from the party. A perfect moment to retreat into himself for a while—to give life a brief pause for evaluation, to simply catch his breath in the middle of all this relentless rushing.

  He set the letters he was holding down on the desk. Four of them. From his mother, from Nancy, from the Party. Three more had arrived yesterday. Birthday wishes.
  His birthday…
  He had turned another year older. Physically. Spiritually, he was still that sixteen-year-old.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Mileven (one-shot)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,907

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  10

  Kudos:

  32

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