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watching through windows, you're wondering if i'm okay by elsaclack
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Oct 2017
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The whole house is quiet, the echoes of Billy’s barbaric screaming long-since faded away, but when Mike closes his eyes and inhales deeply enough, he could swear he still smells the faintly tangy scent of whatever that gel was in El’s hair, the one that filled his lungs when he breathed her in. He can still feel the heat of her against him, the way her heart beat so hard and wild against his chest, the way her nails dug into his shoulders through his sweater when he’d hugged her as close and as hard as he could. He can still feel her, alive and breathing, real and there, even though it’s been a couple of hours and he’s had as many brushes with death in that time. The anxiety still bristling in his stomach roars and doubles over on top of itself, threatening to buckle his knees and bring him to the floor for a moment.
It’s the memory of those headlights flaring to near blinding proportions that keeps him steady on his feet. There’s no way that was anything but Eleven.
The aftermath of the group's collective brush with the Mind Flayer and his army.
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04 Jan 2026
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crushed velvet and winter sweats by everybreatheverymove for
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Oct 2019
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“What are you thinking about?” Mike asks her.
“Nothing.”
(Your hair. Your face. That soft hand-knitted blanket upstairs and the sweater you wore a few years ago.)
“What, you’re not thinking about how boring this stupid party is?” He asks, glancing around the room, “I am.”
(Maybe El can convince him to ask his mom if they can escape to the basement, just for a little while. Maybe she can convince him to take her upstairs, lock his bedroom door and just be.)
Prompts: Christmas & Presents.
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- Part 2 of two hundred words (or a thousand more)
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04 Jan 2026
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By finally letting her in, Mike felt like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders, like the bottle he’d dissolved himself to fit smashed open and there’d been nothing to spill out but his love for her. There’s nothing she could need that he wouldn’t now be ready to give. But Eleven hasn’t said a word about it outside of a quiet “I heard” and her apparent need to kiss to forget — She’s done nothing to hearten him or quell his fear that it might have been too little, too late.
“Do you-” The question has been eating at Mike for three days, and he’s not sure how he can ask it without breaking his own heart in the process. The thought alone is excruciating. “I- you- you still feel the same, right? About me, I mean? Like, you still-”
You don't love me anymore?
Prompt: A quiet moment in Mike's basement in the aftermath of Season 4. It's Eleven's turn to open up.
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04 Jan 2026
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“I need to talk to you.” This is probably the most they’ve talked about something other than school or chores in forever and they’ve barely even exchanged ten words. “About… everything.” This is important though, Nancy considers, so she powers through the urge to pull a dirty sock from the hamper and throw it at him just because.
It might feel like they have forever right now, but there’s a war raging outside. “I need you safe, Mike. The easiest way for him to get to El is through you, so I want you to be careful.”
OR Nancy informs Mike of her fears after Vecna's nightmarish vision. She worries for him most of all.
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04 Jan 2026
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Nothing is going to stop him from seeing her — his girl with the gentle smile and unruly curls. He’s always going to return home to her; or at least, for as long as it takes for them to build a home together.
mileven week, day one: "long distance"
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04 Jan 2026