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there's a world outside your darkened door by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Apr 2026
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Mike plans the post-grad road trip in secret—maps, routes, marking places he thinks El will like. But once they leave, none of it really matters.
They don’t rush, because for once, they don’t need to. For the first time in her life, El gets to stop, breathe, and see everything she’s been missing.
And Mike? He’d drive forever just to see her smile.
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05 Apr 2026
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Pulling back to look at him, she rested her hands on his chest, while his settled to her waist to keep her close. She looked down, then back up at him. There was something she was holding back. “There is something I,” her eyes fluttered down again, this time to where her hands rested. “That I need to tell you.”
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Another Mileven post-finale reunion, this time with a little twist.
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12 Mar 2026
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Eleven embarks on the sweet journey of her first pregnancy alongside Mike, becoming first-time parents together. Between morning sickness, laughter, and sleepless nights, they are forced to face fears they didn’t know they still carried... Only to discover, along the way, small moments of happiness: hands intertwined over her growing belly, promises whispered in the early hours of the morning, and the certainty that even if they don’t have everything figured out yet, they have each other.
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07 Mar 2026
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El learns to express how she feels word by word about the kind boy she met in the woods when they were only twelve. A fluffy story about my favorite couple.
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- Part 1 of Words to Love By
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06 Mar 2026
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“Hi,” he began, his voice quiet, barely a whisper. He cleared his throat. “Hi, Terry. I’m Mike. Mike Wheeler.” He paused, his eyes tracing the lines on her face. “I’m Jane’s boyfriend.” He swallowed hard. “Well, I was. I am. I don’t know.” He shook his head, frustrated with himself.
Terry just rocked. “Breathe. Sunflower. Rainbow…”
“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry I have to be the one to tell you this. I’m so sorry I have to tell you at all.” He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, his hands clasped together so tightly they shook.
“Jane— she— she died.” The words came out in a choked whisper. “Two years ago.” His throat closed.”
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Mike goes to tell Terry that Eleven is dead and learns she might not be.
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05 Mar 2026
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There’s that feeling again. An overwhelming feeling of rightness and belonging, simply because he is with her. Her golden-brown eyes are sparkling in the sunlight.
“Being here with you is better than anything I could’ve dreamed of,” she says.Mike and El reunite. Despite the years and the distance, some things haven't really changed at all.
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- Part 1 of We're Not in Indiana Anymore
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04 Mar 2026
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Takes place 2 years after the series finale. Eleven is living a desolate existence in Iceland, while the rest of the world believes she met her demise with the destruction of the Upside Down. El made this heartbreaking choice to keep the others safe, something she was made to believe could only be achieved with her demise. Until the day she's found, by people who bring a message - a message that her friends and Hawkins is once again in danger. Forced with a decision, her freedom or saving what she cares about the most. However, all is not as it seems. Soon, El finds herself once again battling a familiar threat. This is a dark, emotional slow burn.... but as history has shown time and again, after every storm there is light. Mature themes. Dark storyline, which hopefully leads to a happy ending? Mileven
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27 Feb 2026
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He loved her at twelve. He loves her at twenty. It was never just a crush.
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Mike has loved his sister Nancy’s best friend, El, since he was a kid. What started as a boyhood crush grew up with him. Despite what everyone said, some feelings don’t fade, they just mature. She was always written into his future.
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25 Feb 2026
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climbed a mountain (and i turned around) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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its july of 2009. everybody is back in Hawkins for a family reunion, and thirty eight year old el can’t believe this is her life.
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07 Feb 2026
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Three months after the Upside Down is destroyed, the kids gather in Mike’s basement to play Dungeons & Dragons.
El doesn’t fully understand the game but she understands Mike, the quiet moments, and what it means to finally live instead of survive.Bookmarked by StrangerStilinski
28 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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20 Jan 2026
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….For The Happy Days On The Other Side Of This by QuakeingThunder
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jan 2026
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With the Upside Down gone, El and her friends can finally find some peace and start to live their lives once again. El can finally live the life she deserves. An AU where El gets to be with everyone in the Epilogue
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18 Jan 2026
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From first kisses to learning about love, El experiences all of her firsts with Mike.
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15 Jan 2026
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all my dreams mean nothing without you by mermaidpromises
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jan 2026
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Eleven survives by disappearing.
Mike survives by believing.
Or, when a dream blurs the line between hope and grief, Mike sets out to find the girl who has always been his home.
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14 Jan 2026
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After the fight is over, the adrenaline fades, but the weight of survival doesn’t. In the quiet that follows, Eleven and Mike cling to each other, finding comfort, grief, and love in the aftermath of almost losing everything.
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12 Jan 2026
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After eight years of absence, grief, and quiet survival, two lives shaped by loss continue forward on separate paths—one through words, the other through silence. Set between Hawkins and a distant land of waterfalls and wide skies, this story explores longing, fate, and the kind of love that refuses to fade, even when distance and time try to erase it.
Told through moments of memory, waiting, and gentle hope, it is a story about learning how to live again, finding home in unexpected places, and trusting that some connections are never truly lost.
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12 Jan 2026
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Writers block sends thirty-four year old Mike Wheeler to a far away land in search of waterfalls, and he discovers the impossible.
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07 Jan 2026
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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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07 Jan 2026
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Where were you my whole life (I believed) by Kat0kake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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This fanfic is based in 1992, 3 years after the core 4 graduated, aka where the finale ended. This is inspired by Mike’s theory for Eleven (Jane) and about their reunion after 4 1/2 years.
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06 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)
06 Apr 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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06 Jan 2026